. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. THE REVEILLE irk I 1 hear the iramp of ihousandjAnd of armed men the hum ;Lo [ a nations ho^ts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum—Saying, Come,Freemen, come !Eire your heritage be wasted. said the quick alarming drum. Let me of my heart take counsel :War is not of Life the sum ;Who shall slay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall ? But the drumEchoed, Come 1Death shall reap the braver harvest, said the solemn-soundmg drum. What if. mid the battles thunder. Whistling shot and bursti
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. THE REVEILLE irk I 1 hear the iramp of ihousandjAnd of armed men the hum ;Lo [ a nations ho^ts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum—Saying, Come,Freemen, come !Eire your heritage be wasted. said the quick alarming drum. Let me of my heart take counsel :War is not of Life the sum ;Who shall slay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall ? But the drumEchoed, Come 1Death shall reap the braver harvest, said the solemn-soundmg drum. What if. mid the battles thunder. Whistling shot and bursting my brothers fall around me. Should my heart grow cold and numb ? But the drumAnswered Come IBetter there in death united than in life a recreant—come I Thus they answered—hoping, in faith, and doubting a trumpet-voice proclaiming. Said, My chosen people, come!Then the drum,Lo I was the great heart of the nation, throbbing, answered, Lord, we come! GEORGE NEWNES, LTD., 8 TO ii SOUTHAMPTON STREET, ABUNDANTLY SATISFIED WITH THE ARMY HE Photo. KITCHENER OF KHARTUM. KITCHENERS ARMY AND THE TERRITORIAL FORCES The Full Story of a Great Achievement BY EDGAR WALLACE INTRODUCTION Kitcheners Army ! —a phrase whichmay well stand for a hundred years, and,indeed, may stand for all time as a sign andsymbol of British determination to rise to agreat occasion and to supply the needs of agreat emergency. It is not my task here todiscuss the military situation as it mighthave been, or to offer arguments for oragainst national service, nor yet to saywhether the recruitment of the first fewmonths of the war disposes of or makesinevitable a system of compulsory purpose of this volume is to place onrecord in a permanent form a chapter ofBritains history of which the people of allages who call these islands their home mayindeed be proud. The outbreak of war found all the nationsconcerned unprepared save one.
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