7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 19

We may add that in the course of his speech

Colonel Seely estimated the numbers of the National Reserve as "more than 170,000 men." The information which we have been able to arrive at, owing to the appeal by the Editor of this paper, is that during November these numbers have been very greatly added to. When the returns come in at the end of the year it will, we venture to say, be found that there are at least 200,000 men, and probably a good many more, in the Reserve.