THE NEED FOR A SECOND ARMY.
[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR." j SIG,—Do not some of your correspondents, like Mr. F. R. Cave, in last week's issue, make an error in writing as if we were a nation of laggards ? He quotes approvingly the Morning Post when it sneers at our forty-five millions send- ing "a few divisions into the field." Surely he forgets the thousands and tens of thousands who man the Fleet—on deck, at the guns, in the engine-rooms and stokeholds. But the recruits for the Army are rolling up all right. I write from the neighbourhood of the Clyde, where the despised "foot- ballers" build the battleships and liners which keep up our food-supplies. Only to-day I found a recruiting officer in ecstasies at the material that was passing daily through his hands. And, mind you, these men, voluntarily enlisting, will stand their ground. Not a few have already passed through the ranks of Regulars or Territorials, and know what they are about. And has not Lord Kitchener told us that seventy battalions of Territorial regiments have volunteered
for foreign service am, Sir, &c.,
KEEPING COOL.
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