The National Reserve, and small blame to them, are strain-
ing at the leash, and asking why they are being forgotten when everybody else is being employed—they are all trained men, with half of them in full bodily vigour, and, best of all, with serious war service behind most of them. It is naturally galling, but they must for the moment be content to stand by to serve their country. Of one thing we can assure them positively. They are not being forgotten by Lord Kitchener and the War Office. The military authorities may have been sceptical about the value of the National Reserve in the past. They are so no longer. They fully realize that they have in Classes I. and II. a national and military asset of the highest value. We do not doubt that when they have made up their minds as to the best use for the Reserve they will take action. Meanwhile we must ask the country in general, and the National Reservists in particular, to remember that up till the end of this week the War Office has been uncommonly busy with the general mobilization, and the raising of the new Army. What they have accom- plished has been literally magnificent.
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