. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. the normal river overflow into a dozenlittle subsidiary streams each makinj; forone of the new emergency recruiting stationswhich were being opened all over the new tone came to the tents, a new intona-tion, a suggestion of Public School andUniversity. Kitcheners .\rmv was gain- of I^ondon, one saw these eager recruits attheir work. On the sacred lawns of theInns of Court, whence the pedestrianswere warned in time of peace, squadsmarched and manoeuvred. You saw themswinging through the city, alert an
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. the normal river overflow into a dozenlittle subsidiary streams each makinj; forone of the new emergency recruiting stationswhich were being opened all over the new tone came to the tents, a new intona-tion, a suggestion of Public School andUniversity. Kitcheners .\rmv was gain- of I^ondon, one saw these eager recruits attheir work. On the sacred lawns of theInns of Court, whence the pedestrianswere warned in time of peace, squadsmarched and manoeuvred. You saw themswinging through the city, alert and cheer-ful, wearing their civilian garb, withoutarms, uniform, or equipment, shaking them-selves into the mould in which heroes arecast. Day and night the work went on. Everyminiature rifle range was commandeered bythe military. New little ranges came intoexistence in the most unlikely spots. Insome cases they were to be found in thegloomy crypts of churches; these they did, a great amount of quiet space,were utilised to train the men in firing: and Kitcheiiers Army -J. A RECRUIT RECEIVING INSTRUCTION IN RIFLE-SHOOTING. niming. And even as the recruiing ofliceabsorbed its tliousands, other tliousandscame; the congestion grew heavier, thoughnow the streams of recruits moving intobarracks had swollen until they were verit-able rivers. Half the passengers by thetrains which moved out of London north,east, south, and west were men of Kit-cheners Armv, men who, perhaps, a weekbefore had been sitting in their officeswaiting for such news of the war as theycould secure from the newspapers, with noidea of themselves forming part of thegreat brotherhood which was engaged inthrusting back the enemies of civilisation,and who now had a deeper and a more realjoy in the knowledge that thev were assist-ing in the great and splendid work. What the Employers Did. Some businesses were whollv denuded ofmanagers, clerks, and emplo\ees. But though it might spell ruin to the patrioticem
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