MR HALDANE SATISFIED.
At midnight on June 30 the Volunteer force, which has so long been an important factor in English _ national defence, ceased to exist. Now members of the old Volunteer corps have no claim on the Government for medals, for service in any capacity, for a share in any way in the defence of the country. Till Mr Haldane took charge tof the War Office the great complaint of the Volunteers was that they were not taken 6eriouslv. Mr Haldane took them seriously. The Secretary for War was contented with the result of his recruiting up to midnight on June 30. He had', he believed, obtained the best of the Volunteers, and had been more than justified in his estimate of the artillery. Three-fifths of the best of the old Volunteer force had joined. A large percentage did so only for one year, and (says the Daily Mail) there may be some troubl© a twelvemonth hence as to conditions of service.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25
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163MR HALDANE SATISFIED. Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 25
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