. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. ctric spark : the retreatfrum Mons, and the jjublication of a storyin a newspaper which purported to be thatof a great disaster to British arms. It wasthis that stirred the imaj^ination and rousedthe conscience of our younij manhood. Itis true that the incident reported was not adisaster, though on first inspection it bore aresemblance to such. But the fact that itwas published and that it should have re- mid exercises of a promenade—and discussthis unbelievable thing, and there was time,too, for the real s
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. ctric spark : the retreatfrum Mons, and the jjublication of a storyin a newspaper which purported to be thatof a great disaster to British arms. It wasthis that stirred the imaj^ination and rousedthe conscience of our younij manhood. Itis true that the incident reported was not adisaster, though on first inspection it bore aresemblance to such. But the fact that itwas published and that it should have re- mid exercises of a promenade—and discussthis unbelievable thing, and there was time,too, for the real significance of the news tosink in. Vou can only understand the seemingapathy of tiie nation in tiie early days ofthe war (though the superficial observerwould see nothing to support the theory ofapathy in the huge crowds before the re-cruiting office) by probing into the Britishmind, and understanding something of itshopes and beliefs. We had found ourselvesallied to two great countries—two greatmilitary nations, one of which was capableof putting seven million men in the field,. Phoh-y. Record PressGETTING FIT FOR TIIE FRAY.—NEW RECRUITS IN THE FIRST STAGES OF MILITARY INSTRUCTION. ceived the cachet of theCensor, came in thenature of a was on a certain Sunday in .\ was one day to think over this ter-rible news of defeated British soldiersstraggling all over the countrvside inFrance; of beaten units, the remnants (jfwhat had once been great regiments, com-ing wearily into the little towns of thenorth of France, to tell their harrowingstory to a shocked correspondent. .\ wholeSunday in which men could w-alk up anddown the front—for it was summer time andthe summer resorts were filled with flan-nelled young men who found pleasure in the and the other four million men. We hadtalked of the Russian steam-roller army,which would slowly move across EastPrussia, spreading its millions like a cloudof locusts across the fertile lands of Silesiaand East Pruss
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