THE CALL TO ARMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1319, 3 November 1914, Page 4

THE CALL TO ARMS.

Recruiting la England is being sliimtlated by the speeches of public meu, writes a London newspaper correspondent. In an hour like this one realises that, after all, there are some big men left in England. All the unpreparedness and all the mistakes of hurried preparation are forgotten in that thought, Mr Asquith’s speech at Guildhall was a really noble call upon the nation. A night or two ago I heard from Mr Winston Churchill and Mr F. E. Smith two of the finest speeches I have ever listened to. Their effect upon a huge audience was electrical. Lord Curzou, perhaps the greatest,of British orators, is going up and down Eugland with words of fiery eloquence for the inspiration of all of us. That was a wonderful phrase of his the other day—the phrase of a great orator —“Belgium will rise from her ashes, the scars obliterated from her body, a crown of immortal glory upon her brow,” lu lesser measure of power, perhaps, but with equal enthusiasm, troops of speakers are out and about. This country is in the right mood. No one has ever seen it quite as it is. For one proof of that we have only to take a turn round the recruiting stations of London. For another proof of it we already vision the form and figure of a British army of a million trained men.