Some light is thrown Dissatisfied upon the mental atti- Colonial Corps, tude of some of the South African colonial corps serving in the war by the war cor respondent of the "Daily News" at Pre toria. He does not go so far as to sup port Mr Bryn Roberts, M.P., in his charges against the Kaffrarian Horse and Brabant's Horse, but he shows clearly enough that there was a strong feeling among some ot the South Africans against being kept on active service, and he gives the reason for their discontent. Owing to the scale ot pay and allowance offered to Baden-Powell's Transvaal Police Force being considered in adequate, there were very few recruits, and the colonial forces were accordingly kept in the field to do the work which otherwise would have been done by Baden-Powell's men. "The Imperial Light Horse, mostly Johannesburg men, the South African Light Horse, and several corp3 from distant colo nies, came back to Pretoria under the im pression that their work was at an end, and the time come for a generous recognition of the great services they have rendered. The first-named, however, find themselves under the necessity of recruiting to make up for losses in action and for numbers that quit the ranks on expiration of their term of en gagement, which was for one year only. Those who enlisted in the spring of this year under similar conditions cannot com plain if they are held to the compact, but they naturally feel the hardship of it as handicapping them in the competition for civil appointments, which will probably be given to those who are on the spot, and ready to seize opportunities that may offer. It is too much to expect that these appointments will be kept open from purely patriotic mo tives for men who (remain in the field." When, therefore, Lord Roberts addressed all the colonial corps in Pretoria in the middle of October, with many compliments as to the value of their services and a most unmis takable "moral" that he wanted them a little longer, his reception was hardly en couraging. 'T have to ask you,'' he said, "to serve her Majesty a little longer. 1 have but few mounted men, and they are split up along the line. Therefore it is to you I turn. 