26 OCTOBER 1901, Page 3

The Daily Express of Wednesday is responsible for the statement

that the military authorities are preparing a scheme • for a reserve of Army pensioners, who are to be available for service up to fifty-five (why not sixty?) for home defence. In this way it is calculated- that some thirty thousand men will be added to our home forces. We are heartily glad to hear of the scheme, but would it not be better to go a step further, and adopt our plan of a general Home Defence Reserve formed out of all the trained men in the country?