4 NOVEMBER 1911, Page 19

The Regulations will no doubt be minutely criticized. At present,

however, no one who is interested in the formation of the Reserve should press objections in regard to details. The essential thing is to go forward with the work of forming the registers throughout England. At present the county which is most ahead with the Reserve is Surrey. There the numbers have reached 4,000. If other counties do as well as Surrey, and, as we have often said, there is no reason why they should not do even better, the National Reserve ought to number in all some 320,000 men, or as many as the whole of the Territorial force. In this body at least 100,000 should be in Class A and 150,000 in Class B.