BRITAIN'S NEW ARMIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2246, 4 September 1914, Page 5

BRITAIN'S NEW ARMIES

STEADY RECRUITING

HEAVY ENROLMENT PROCEEDING

London, September 2, There are many indications of a boon* in recruiting. In Loudon the number of recruits on Monday was a record. Hundreds in Manchester were unablo to obtain mcdical examination, and marched in procession to tlio Town Hall and complained of the delay. Tlio London Scottish Second Battalion now numbers 750. A third battalion will probably be accessary. Hundreds of the City of London volunteers wore obliged to joiu outside battalions. At Newport 583 recruits joined oa Monday, making a .total of 2561. Manv companies are offering generous concessions to enlisting employees. Soma grant full pay during sorvico, A West Country bishop has inaugurated a movement for a Footballers' Legion. Thero is a movement among ex-publio school boys and university men to raise five battaliois, increasing eventually to twenty. A hundred recruiting centres have boon opened throughout- the United' Kingdom'. . , One London centre enrolled 150 men In thfi first tour, Ijord Kitchener haa

• approved tie first battalion being a | taciied to the Middlesex' Regiment. j .IOLSTER VOLUNTEERS TO BE'USE f ■;; (Reo.-. September 8, 6.15 p.m.) • London, '. September 2~ i IheWar-; Ofhco-has approved of Eohem6"'for employing- tlie Ulster Vo .unteers.—("Timos"'and 'Sydney "Sun . Services.) ' . * 60,000 MEN ENROL. SECOND. .-AfiMY COMPLETE' IN" A ■ ' FEW DAYS.. ; . ; >•> . • (Reo.' September 4, 1.40 a.m.) i■■■■■■ •' ' ' London, September• 3. . ■ Since Monday sixty , thousand joine Lorcl Kitchener's. second! airiiiy of. hundred'tktiusftttd;.,.lt.'i9'.exw»ted,tha £ ; ,Kcr,uiting;;will be .completed ,in ; a fe' : : days"-. - ~.S .' • ' The ; Football Association proposes t . 'place its. grounds at tlio War Office' : ,jlisposal, and arrange for • well-know b public' nien 4o addressvthei players an spectators on match days, also to ope: '• recruiting . stations in. the adjacen I . ' grounds . .•