26 OCTOBER 1901, Page 3

We have always felt indignant that the Government speakers have

not been more eager to defend the new Yeomanry from the attacks made upon them. Lord Stanley, however, speaki g on Thursday at Liverpool, did, we axe glad to note, defend this much-maligned body of men, who have been doing excellent work in South Africa, It appears that out of sixteen thousand five hundred, only three hundred and ftfty were sent back by the military authorities as "incom- petent and inefficient," and "the wastage in maimed, sick, halt, and blind was 60 per cent. lower than that t.f the Regular troops."