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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2328, 9 December 1914, Page 8

Recruiting to supply Auckland* quota.for the reinforcement draft of the Expeditionary Force is proceeding rapidly. Several hundred men have already volunteered at the'various centres in, the. district, the general physique and type of the volunteers being very high. A number of men have also volunteered for service in Samoa in order to relieve those at present quartered thero who wish to go to tho front. "When the final selection of the volunteers is made, those selected for. service will complete their training at Trentham. .• ■. 'Air. Charles Richardson, of the. firm of. Richardson and M'Cabe, has returned from.a lengthy visit to the Old Country. Mr. Richardson was .at ■Liver-., pcol en Tpute to America when tho war broke out,- and luckily cancelled his arrangements, as a week or two later it was difficult to secure a berth from America ou account of the large number of English and Fro'nch people who were returning to their.respective countries. Business in London was seriously, .affected for a few weeks after the outbreak of war,!but before he left, early.in October, business had almost returned to normal conditions. One of the sights of London now was the thousands, of-foreigners, mostly Belgian refugees, which peopled the parks. No other regiment in''any. existing army •undergoes such Spartan training as tho French' Foreign Legion, of which - a detachment is. now in the .fighting line. .When at their headquarters, Sidi-bel-Abbes, the legionarjes' are marched off -for- occasional training trips of 300 miles or more, in continuous ' daily stages of 24 miles, with only five minutes' halt every six miles. In Russian schools pupils are allowed to chooso between learning French and German, and 70 per cent, choose dnr. .mail.