The counties also supply corps for transport and supply and
cadet bicycle corps, and there is an extensive medical organization, including regimental doctors, dressing stations, ambulances, and hospitals. The democratic basis of the system is shown in the rule by which the enrolled men nominate their section leaders, the latter electing their company officers, who in turn choose their commanding officer, subject to the approval of headparters. There is an Ulster Signalling and Despatch Riding Corps which serves the whole province, which has four hundred motor-cars and two hundred motor- cyclists at its disposal, and has established a complete system of communication by flag, lamp, and heliograph all over the province, and Volunteer post offices are already working in conjunction with it. While the training of the Volunteers is in the hands of ex-Regular and Volunteer commanders, the administration and finance are entrusted to County Com- mittees. Finally, the Military Correspondent estimates the number of rifles available at eighty thousand, consigned, for
the most part, in parcels of five, to selected men, so that wholesale seizure would be impracticable.
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