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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2843, 7 August 1916, Page 5

At a recruiting headquarters in Eng- '■ • land, a man who had pretonded for five minutes that he could not hear anything was given his discharge paper. He neized it eagerly, and as he turned his back the officer said quiotly, "Of oourse, you'll have to appear again." The recruit, his rejoicing suddenly changed to doubt, wheeled round perplexedly—and was enlisted. In another case a man who was ! departing with his discharge paper for deafness stood exposed when he turned at the sound of some coins whioh chanced , to fall on the ground just behind him. "I am afraid that tnpse who are soon to be called up will havo a rnde shock the language of the Army," says Corporal Lees Smith, M.P., writing to England from Franco. "It is no use beating about the bush; tho volume and virulence of tho swearing, at any rato out here, are b imply appalling. Thero ia so much of it that it ceases to mean anything. Men out here introduco an natli or two into each sentenoo merely by force of halit, and without intending to convey any meaning whatever. The habit is very infectious."