LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER ON THE YEOMANRY AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
[TO TIIE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."'
St,—Mr. Arnold-Forster in his letter in the Spectator of August 25th writes that my letter to you on the Yeomanry appears to him to be uncalled for and misleading. It appears to me, on the contrary, that it was called for, because the statement in his former letter with regard to the Imperial Yeomanry was so misleading that no one unversed in the subject could come to any other conclusion than that the late Secretary of State for War claimed credit for Mr. Brodrick's, scheme, to which that fine body of troops owes its existence. Mr. Brodrick and Lord Roberts instituted a "fixed establish- ment" of five hundred and ninety-six per regiment. This was not, as Mr. Arnold-Forster terms it, a "war establishment," and sundry regiments—e.g., Lord Harrington's and Lord Lovat's—had actually reached these numbers, and had to. be reduced when Mr. Arnold-Forster's "fixed establishment" was substituted for Mr. Brodrick's. No one wishes to dispute the late Secretary for War's claim to the credit, as far as it goes, of having reduced the establishment of the Yeomanry.—
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