BRITISH RECRUITING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2358, 14 January 1915, Page 6

BRITISH RECRUITING

OFFICIAL APPEAL ISSUED BY POST

London, November 26. To every household in the kingdom has come, an envelope "Ou His Jlajesty s feervice." It contains concise enlistment information, rates of Army pay, pension, and allowances for wives and families. It contains also a form to be filled with the names of male persons in each household, betwen 19 and 38, who are willing to .enlist for the period of the war, and a letter, reproduced ill facsimile, wherein Mr. Asquith, Mr. Boner Law, and Mr. Arthur Henderson (president of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee) make the following appeal .

"There has been a generous response to the appeal for men for the now armies, but the number of recruits, though large, does not nearly meet tho nation's need. In order t-o maintain and reinforco our troops abroad and to complete tho new armies which we hope within a few months to throw into the field, we need all tho best the nation can give ue of its youth and strength. "If we are to repair, as far as may be humanly possible, tho innumerable wrongs inflicted on our Allies, if we nro to avoid for ourselves the ills they have suffered, if we are to maintain for our children all that we hold dear—honour, freedom, our very life as a nation—we must fight with the courage and endurance which won for us the struggles of tho past. , "Every man, therefore, who is eligible will ask his own conscience whether, in this emergency, it is not his duty to bold himself ready to enlist in the forces of the Crown.

"The difficulties and dangers which confront us have never been so great; we await the issue with confidence, relying 011 tlie spirit and self-sacrifice of our feilo.w-counti-ymen to 'prevail."