ANXIOUS TO ENLIST

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2302, 9 November 1914, Page 7

ANXIOUS TO ENLIST

QUEER ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE /•-. LONDON "TIMES.'.' ' 'What' is known as the "Agony Column"'(the personal advertisements), in the London Times" is always interesting to Tead, but has became ckrably so during the war! There are inany advertisements from young men who profess their willingness to enlist and from others who, unable to ' go offer to fill the places of those joining the. Expeditionary-Force; • Hie Christchurch "Press" has unearthed the following samples— A gentleman, aged 29, unfit for aotive service, offers his gratuitous ser-: vices as chauffeur to free a chauffeur willing to enlist—"preferably to a doctor or someone to whom a car is necessary."; "A public school boy, forced to sacrifice situation, on enlistment, would ho deeply grateful for assurance of employment on his return." • "A public school and ex-O.T.C, man, aged, 30, 9. years'on a Canadian ranch, is anxious to enlist, and aska whether anyone will contribute £3 weekly to support his family while on service." Another advertiser anxious to join the forces for service abroad,; "desires' a loan of £200 (no'.security available) to provide for the old folks at home*" In another advertisement there is a plaintive appeal for some patriotic lad.v or gentleman to make a Territorial a loan of £5' to enable him io buy his clothing before going on foreign service. In yet another a patriotic person is sought to pay the. rent of the advertiser's offices for six months to enable him to join the Army. Another advertiser asks for a patriot "who will make it possible for a'gentleman, 25, good physique, rider, and swordsman, to enlist by givin« his wife £150. .... , .