Last Saturday's papers contained a correspondence between Sir Howard Vincent
and General Turner, late Director of the Auxiliary Forces, which has made a painful impression upon all who care for the welfare of the Volunteers. Sir Howard Vincent, who has for thirty years taken a most active part in the Volunteer movement, asks General Turner to give him his reasons for resigning. General Turner in reply states that his request to be relieved of his office at an earlier date than that settled was made "as the only protest in my power to offer against a course which has been taken, and which I am convinced from experience is one very prejudicial to the well-being and efficiency of the Auxiliary Forces." General Turner also points out in his letter that the placing of the Department of the Auxiliary Forces under the Adjutant- General was a recurrence "to the old state of things which has produced more than anything else with regard to the Auxiliary Forces the terrible delay for which the War Office is so notorious." The confidence which General Turner has inspired in all sections of Volunteers will, we fear, make his letter a cause of the greatest uneasiness and disappointment.
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