RECRUITING IN ENGLAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 2, 6 December 1915, Page 4

RECRUITING IN ENGLAND.

Mr Horatio Rot tom ley. the editor of John Bull, in the course of a great recruiting appeal which was published in the Sunday Pictorial, says:— “It has been said that when great nations fall it is because a degenerate race intervenes between the class of people who created it and its latest population. Are you willing t< be classed as one of the ‘degenerate.-’—

whilst your Kmpire-lnothcis have come miles across the sea—from Australia, from Canada, from New Zealand, from South Africa 't Remember, you cannot be a member of the British Km pi re unless you are willing to discharge your primary obligation to the State—and that is to protect i,ts

shores against the enemy. You will wait till its shores arc threatened, vou sav Let such words choke you.

For then it.may be too late; and y: U had better read what the Germans have said as to what they will do if ever they succeed in obtaining a footing over hero. The most brutal outrages of Belgium will bo acts of 'refine-j merit compared with their reprisals on the British, U ave you a mother’, a wife, or - a sister ? Yes?' ! lieu .jump into khaki without a moment’s delay. Her life—her body—her’ soul are all at stake. Have you any tittle chiJ-’ dren. playing and laughing hi the sun to-day". Slip on your uniform, lest souk clay you have rt on your ence that it was you, as much a# Jdre Huns, who violated their sacred bodies, and impaled them on bayonets and sword's.”