'EVERY MAN WE CAN POSSIBLY PUT UP'

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 8

'EVERY MAN WE CAN POSSIBLY PUT UP'

An officer in a well-known London Territorial .Regiment writes as follows from Flankers :~"The strain 011 us all for the Inst !il days before we came to this rest camp has been awful. I cannot understand anybody at home, who claims the nanio oi man, and is physically fit, who does not take a part in this dreadful war. It will take every mail :we can possibly put up and enormous numbers of guns and shells to knock out the Germans. By not coming, forward they are only prolonging the war, and causing the enormous casualties wo are suffering. We out hero aro doing our best, and how we have managed to hold our own lately God only knows. Tho men aro simply, wonderful—splendid. The way they go forward cheerfully, knowing that they aro likely to be blown to pieces any moment, is little short of marvellous. The effect of shell fire is most horrible, even when the shells do 110 harm, and it is a marvel that any of us has any nerve loft. However, let us hope that the country and.the Government will rise to tho occasion and help us beat the Germans out here instead of in England."