Later in the evening Colonel Lambton and Sir Gilbert Parker
raised the question of the Volunteer Forces and the serious reduction in their number which has taken place. Sir Gilbert Parker advbcated a change which has often been advocated in these colurans,—viz., that the Volunteers should have a separate and appropriate organisation of their own. Sir Gilbert Parker did not contend that there should be two War Offices, as the writer in the Times suggested, but rather that there should be a separate Department in the War Office dealing with Volunteers, and also a separate organisation for the field. It seems to us that if for the Volunteers are substituted the Auxiliary Forces—i.e., the Volunteers, Militia, and Yeomanry—nothing could more make for efficiency than to group and organise them in an army corps system. Army corps are well suited to a force like the Volunteers, Militia, and Yeomanry, which are necessarily localised.
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