The chief details of the plan for increasing the provision
of officers may be summarised thus. The minimum standard of training for an officer is to be a year's attachment to a Regular unit. If, however, a man has served with credit for two years in the Cadet corps of his public school, he will be let off four of these twelve months. If next be serves for a couple of years in his University corps, he will be let off another four months, and can thus become a Reserve officer by only serving for four months with a Regular unit. The Reserve officers, when they join the Reserve, will get an outfit costing about £40, an initial payment, and a retaining. fee. Those who are liable to mobilisation will get an annual retaining-fee of something like £50. The officers will engage from year to year. Here, at any rate, is a part of Mr. Haldane's scheme with which we can express ourselves as in hearty agreement.
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