RECRUITING IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2367, 25 January 1915, Page 7

RECRUITING IN BRITAIN

: WELLINGTON MAN'S IMPRESSIGNS, . ' ■Writing to Mr._ Harold Beauchamp, ;Mr.' Fred; Eaybittle, of Wellington, who l is at present in the Old Country, :says much that is interesting and in- : formative respecting the war and prevailing conditions in England. Writing from Glastonbury, Mr. Haybittle says: "We hear a lot about 'Why not stop football ?' 'Let us have conscription,' '■What is the Government doing?' I prefer to recognise that Kitchener, 'Churchill, ' Asquith, Fisher, French, Lloyd George, and even the Opposition with Bonar Law at its head, know much better what is going- on and what is necessary than the man in the street, and I rest content in'the knowledge that if Kitchener finds it necessary to enforce compulsion, then, compulsion will become a predominating feature. These men know better' what is going on and what is wanted than the mere amateur and alarmist, and if we require Japan's help, Kitchener will see to it. The people of England, I feel confident, are hot so alarmed and have not the war craze on their minds in the-same degree as the overseas Dominions. ' With those one meets in. the clubs and private house the war is just about alluded to, and certainly does not obsess everyone to the obscuring of all other interests. "The impression in London is that unless eome wonderful interposition of Providence, scourge, or epidemic, or something that is enshrouded in the mysteries of the future of a startling character that we'can only wonder at and speculate upon, happens to shorten the duration of the conflict, it is going to be a two or three years' struggle. We aro quite certain in our minds tnat come reverses and dark days the Allies are going on to the bitter end, terrible though it may be, and 1 suppose and believe the same feeling permeates tho German Empire. At the present time, in 6pite of what our papers in their optimism may say, the Germans are as sanguine of ultimato victory as ourselves."