Odd volumes.

  • Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, 1845-1937.
Date:
[1898]
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    1898.] The Volunteers as a Fighting Force. rs in irsg in Britain who have retired frortt the regular army to Volun- t< < c \attalions thus reorganised. Local Interests must give way to IiuperialNieeds, and capacity for command olwome the only qualiti- lation for th^yhigher ranks. All /‘regular” offic^s retiring under ^fty should be req^(^^d, if resident ,n Britain, to join a%ranch of our my, and given the^ption of ilitia or Volunteers. Thi^ would 'immensely raise the Yoluni ^public esteem. i It has frequently been poinm '^but that the bulk of the Artillery is in parts of the country where if would not be likely to be requiyd& under any circumstances; buVthis fault could be easily renmdmd if the system of payment;H^e to be introduced. It may be urgpd^that the field of recruiting such a force would intgi^re with that of the Militia,/^f a preference were given foc^afarried men, and if a char- acter from the employer arut a residence in the recruiting an^ of the battalion were to be iiisisted on, this need not be tho/^se. The commonest ontary against all reform is that cqilnected with the increase of ex^diture. Un- doubtedly the 9>^ntenance of a great empire i^n expensive affair, but not so Mostly either to our pockets or/to our pride as the payment/of a heavy war indem- nity might prove. are to have a citizen army, us by all means have a good At present it must be ad- mm^ that, in spite of the almost heroicS^ertions of some of the individuskofficers, and notwith- standing tnfeu excellence of much of the materi^*^ the ranks, there does not exist iti the force, as at present constitfi^d, sufficient power of control to m^fc^it, as a military organisation, ww^ty of the best traditions of our C. P. Lynden-Bell.. Q