. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. men of England to a sense ofmodesty rather than to a desire to shirk. A few days after the announcement hadbeen made in Parliament that the BritishArmy was to be so enormouslv increased,there appeared on every public vehicle inLondon a neat placard to supplement theofficial posters which at that time werecovering the windows of post offices andpublic buildings and were occupying largespaces in the columns of the dailv saw this appeal in long blue and red merce—the appeal was working. Yoi*could not
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. men of England to a sense ofmodesty rather than to a desire to shirk. A few days after the announcement hadbeen made in Parliament that the BritishArmy was to be so enormouslv increased,there appeared on every public vehicle inLondon a neat placard to supplement theofficial posters which at that time werecovering the windows of post offices andpublic buildings and were occupying largespaces in the columns of the dailv saw this appeal in long blue and red merce—the appeal was working. Yoi*could not get away from it. It was flashedupon the screens of picture theatres; it ap-peared on some of the boards before thetheatre doc^rs; it was on the tram tickets; itwas pasted on the windows of private-houses; it appeared imexpectedly in the-pulpit and on the stage; it was printed inneat little characters upon leaflets; itsprawled largely upon the gigrmtic posters-with which private enterprise co\ered whole-facias—Your King and Country needyou. Young men came up from their homes ta. strips fastened to the wind-screens of taxi-cabs ; you saw it on a larger scale plasteredto the sides of the motor-buses, so that nomen could enter on his journey citywardwithout receiving an appeal which for atime he honestly regarded as being appliedto somebody else ! It took some days for the leaven to in these days the recruiting offices werecrowded. A great throng surged into New-Scotland Yard; enormously long queuestilled with the youth of the City made theirway to the recruiting office. One could notwalk through a prnicinal street withoutpassing little self-conscious parties beingmarched down to the nearest railwaystation to entrain for the depot of someregiment. But large as the crowd was, it was, gener-ally speaking, made up of that class ofwhich the rank and file of the Armv hadaways been formed, with here and there asprinkling of a better type of man, andalthough there was no pe
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