That a strong contingent of Volunteers be sent out.
7.

That a Yeomanry mounted force be despatched.
8.

That mounted corps be raised at the discretion of the Commander-in-Chief in South Africa.
9.

That the patriotic offers of further contingents from the colonies be gratefully accepted.
By these measures it was calculated that from seventy to a hundred thousand men would be added to our South African armies, the numbers of which were already not short of a hundred thousand.
It is one thing, however, to draw up paper reinforcements, and it is another, in a free country where no compulsion would be tolerated, to turn these plans into actual regiments and squadrons.

But if there were any who doubted that this ancient nation still glowed with the spirit of its youth his fears must soon have passed away.