30 APRIL 1910, Page 3

We note with no small satisfaction the announcement that the

Surrey Veterans—that is, the members of the Register of Trained Men which has been brought into existence by the Surrey Territorial Association—are to assemble on the after- noon of Saturday, June 18th, on the Horse Guards Parade, and will be inspected by General Sir Ian Hamilton and addressed by the Secretary of State for War. It is very greatly to be hoped that the majority of the men on the Register will be able to find time to get to London for the parade. We feel sure that if the men thus become visible to the country, the nation at large will demand that every Territorial Association shall do what has been done by Surrey, and that Mr. Haldane's plan for a National Veteran Reserve shall be carried into practice.