URGENT NEED OF MEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2494, 22 June 1915, Page 10

URGENT NEED OF MEN

BRITISH GENERAL'S STIRRING APPEAL. Brigadier-General Nugent, commanding the Hnmber defences, in a letter written at the end of April to the Sheriff of Hull, chairman of the Recruiting Committee, states that what we most need is a fuller realisation of the tremendous sacrifices which havo still to be demanded of the Empire before Britons and Frenchmen shake hands with Russians in tTie streets of Berlin. "The need of men," he writes, "is very real and urgent. As the weeks go by the urgency must, inorcaso, and unless the stream of recruits is maintained the supply of trained men must fail, perhaps at the crisis of the war. Sooner or later. I believo, every ablebodied man will be forced by public opinion and by pressure of circumstances to drop everything else and to work for the State either in factory ot in field. Optimism is a fine quality, bat the kind of optimism which persuades a man to lie in bod when his houBC is on fire in the hope that the man next door will put the fire out if lunacy. Better the healthy optimism which' realises that God helps those who help themselves and that no ono eke will."