While public attention has been rivetted upon Lidge, our professional army has been able to get about its business without tiresome icitude on the part of well-meaning friends, writes Major Redway in the "Globe" of August 18. Its business was, of course, to complete, its establishments in men and horses and to collect its war outfit from the mobilization sto:
The multiplicity of detail involve ed in this simple statement will hardly be realized by others than soldiers who lived through the stirring times of 1899-1900; and though ice those days our system and machinery have improved, the preparations are now infinitely more elaborate, and less time ha been available, But the work of the unit commander is only a preliminary to the work of brigade one divisional commanders, who have to assemble their formations after mobilizing their respective headquarters, which have no existence in peace time, The result has been to exhibit for the first time in the history of the British Army an organized field force complete "to the Fast.gaiter-button," which we have sent to the assistance of ou~ Continental allies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.