[To THE Erma or THE "SPECTATOR."3 Sta,—As n former member
of the N.S.L. (Bournemouth) and no an ex-officer of the National Reserve (later R.D.C.), I should like to tell you how pleased I was to rend your articles in your paper of January 4th and 11th. I had just read Lord HaHanes apologia in the Times, and wos hoping that some one who knew would reply, and I rather expected that this man would be yourself, so looked up your paper in the club here, and was not disappointed. I was unfortunately invalided out of the atItal Protection Company R.D.C. in November, 191G, after two years' service (Hampshire), with severe neuritis, so thought I would come back into the sun of Burma and see if I could release a younger man from the police here for military service (I having retired from this police on pension in 1907), and I was successful in doing so. I hope that the services of the National Reserve in this war will be recognized, and that the services of its organizer will not be overlooked. If you can give use any information on this point I shall he much obliged. One is so very much out of touch with the Old Country out bere.—I am, Sir, 4:e., A. CAMPBELL, Capt., Imperial Polies, Burma. Police Bungalow, Mayorga, Burma, February 17th.
[The organizer, or• rather originator, of the National Reserve does not desire recognition, and would certainly not obtain it even if he did desire it. Ho does, however, most earnestly desire recognition and the expression of national gratitude for the Reserve and those who composed it. It is a piece of ironic injustice that the smooth running• nay, automatic working, of the Reserve should have prevented such recognition. If the Reserve had required a huge effort to set it going in 1914, it would have had a huge advertisement. Because it went by itself no one noticed it'.—En. Spectator.]
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