A paragraph in Thursday's Daily Mail shows that the Colonial
officers and men who attended the Army Manoeuvres were much struck by the physique of the British troops:— "They think that all the forces might be better led, but they do not think there is a better soldier serving than the rank-and-file of to-day. Lieutenant-Colonel Mason, of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, remarked that the men could not be better. They are,' he said, the fittest men we have ever met. We are not in the same street with them. They are untiring marchers and are full of good spirit and courage:"
We trust that when the Canadians, men and officers, get back to the Dominion they will lose no opportunity of disabusing their fellow-citizens of the British Empire of the preposterous notion that Englishmen are decadent, and their Army a body of " wasters." As a matter of fact, at no time in its history has the Army been better trained or possessed of better human material.
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