The War Office abides by its decision to disband Section
D of the Volunteers. Only a slight mitigation has been introduced to the effect that each corps may retain ten members of Section D for special duties such as clerical work. Meanwhile the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps seems to us to be taking exactly the right line. It is doing all that it can to persuade men to undertake the higher obligations of Sections A and B. But at the same time it recognizes that there are many men who have already made themselves efficient Volunteers, but who find it quite impossible to pledge themselves definitely to the more exacting military responsibilities of Sections A and B. It hopes that these men will at least be formed into a Reserve. No one in this war has yet been able to say how many men would be wanted for any particular purpose. In every sphere of effort the number required has always turned out to be greater than had been expected.
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