6 OCTOBER 1906, Page 29

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIE,—As one of the

earliest professional supporters; of your experimental scheme of military training at Hounslow, may I be allowed to offer my congratulations to you and Colonel Pollock on its unquestioned success ? May I also express my gratification at your converson to the principle of compulsory training as the foundation of an army ? Mr. Haldane's expressed. desire to see "a nation in arms" is a political phrase, and of no value _until he adds to it the words "under the obligations of the law." We have too long been preaching the necessity of universal training and at the same time declaring that compulsion is impossible.—I am, Sir, &c.,

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C. H. BuovntLow.