Show STATUS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IF the british soldier is sit at all sensitive he will not be elated at the somewhat accurate descriptions of himself recently given by a special committee pointed appointed to inquire into his status the be average infantryman is delineated by the duke of cambridge as an only a few degrees removed from a physical imbecile he declares that he could oot not possibly mobilize the forces on short notice if an emergency demanded such euch a step half of the troops at the aldershot aldershof Alder shot encampment are un unfit fit because of youth and general in capacity for a day days dayis Is active service it was ironically admitted however that the troops stationed at home would in the event of invasion be a slight percentage better than nothing lord wolseley compares the army to a squeezed lemon so it cannot be conspicuously juicy Obe observing erving people in great britain have for years been commenting upon the changed condition of the britte troops troop those who visit tb tha country after an absence of years are still more forcibly struck with the difre difference rence in the caliber of the men now in the service compared with the bril british ish soldiers of fifteen twenty and twenty five years ago then they were werd as a rule robust muscular active and matured now an ibb observer server is impressed with the boy jab and inferior aspect of the rank and file ale of the infantry As a rule they do not present a soldierly appearance and especially lack jack the strong features indicative of hardihood and determination formerly characteristic of british soldiers there are of course a few crack regiments of infantry such as the that are up to the old standard 4 but ther the rule is the other way the military authorities are waking up to the situation and early reforms which will induce a more stalwart class of men to enlist will be I 1 inaugurated n a u gu rated the status of tb the e caval cavalry ry is still creditable although that branch of the army to Is not altogether as strong so far as relates to the caliber of the men as it ft was a quarter of a century since |