"MEN OF ENGLAND."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 8, 29 January 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

"MEN OF ENGLAND."

STIRRING APPEAL BY A FAMOUS GENERAL'S WIFE. Lady Maxwell, wife of Lieut.-General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell. D.5.0., wrote se-eral English papers as follows: " Men of England! You have heard the cry: 'England n?eds you!' yet you loiter still! You send off others to fight «r dio, but vou 'cannot make up your mind.'" Shirking discomfort, funking pain, dreading death! " Every man'in Germany, every man lin France, all—save the old, and tho I halt, and the ill. have risen at their country's call, and gone forth to prove Uieir manhood or to die. Will Englishmen alone 'sit by the fire and spin' ? " Must we feel ashamed to be Englishwomen when we see you skulking at home, watching football or cricket matches, lying on the grass in the sun, safe and secure—a.s you fondly delude yourselves—while the manhood of Europe is shedding its blood on the battlefields? Awake! Awake 1 If you will not answer to the bugle call, at least let the women's voices call you out to fight for us and for our children! I am a woman, alas! and I cannot go; but my man is gone, and had I sons I would send every one forth to fight for England's sake. " Will you let the Germans brand you as a nation of cowards? They have called vou a nation of shopkeepers! What then? But will you be scorned by a nation of waiters?" Yet the waiters have dropped their napkins and gone forth to fight! Won't the sturdy 'shopkeepers' put up their shutters and likewise prove themselves men ? Must wo women ask: 'Where is the manhood of England? Sleeping or dead?' ''