The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1916. DOING HER DUTY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 71, 29 February 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1916. DOING HER DUTY.

The final rally of Tiritish recruits to Lord Derby’s call created a remarkable impression abroatT, the extent of which is .shown by foreign press comments. In France, Italy and Russia, the papcr s republished pictures of the crowds of men waiting in long queues to take the oath, and to our Allies these were added proofs of British determination to see the war through to tho great victory the world desires. There can be no longer any suggestion that Britain is not doing her share of tlie great work of finding men for the trenches, now that, in this tune of dread stress, her cherished traditions ] have been put aside and conscription r agreed upon as the only method left, j The generous Allied tributes to the 1 magnificent services of the British » fleet are coupled now ,with grateful c acknowledgments of the heroic man- < ner in which the nation is facing the ; military problem. “Britain is not \ merely doing her duty.” one such i tribute says: “she is discharging her 1 obligations with superlative liberal- 1 ity.” In an article which appears in the “Revue de Baris.” M, Andre Chevrillon writes: “England’s war-machine ( is mounting up; every day that passes adds to its size. There you have the ' thing that frightens Germany most. 1 She is now at the height of her effort ; c she is still capable of hurting, but the ‘ wear and tear on her resources hs now r visible in everything. Her human ‘ fuel is running out at a terrilying I rate, and its quality is going down; v it is possible to calculate the date J 1 when the actual shortage will begin. 1 Mcanwbil - ', England’s strength is only in process of being got together—■silently, without vain words; and this silence, as anyone who knows England can say, is far more disturbing than ail the German tumult of hate. I he fourth million oi men Is being prepared. Strange, ridiculous, ‘amateurisch’ in such terms may the professionals ol Germany have dis- | missed the Derby scheme. Altai do <, they think to-day ol its success ? At 1 the moment, when iour-lilth.; ol their J own wounded have had to he sent hack j .

to the front, when the German people is talking of nothing else but peace, and believes that the war is nearing the end ; what must their feelings be at the spectacle of these five hundred thousand new volunteers raised in three days; of these crowds besieging the recruiting offices—in (lie sixteenth month ol 1 ho war!—of masses of men still pressing forward at two and throe o’clock n the morning, to raise their hands, ami, in hatches of ten to a hundred, to take the oath that makes them soldiers? The 12.U(H) or 15,000 factories that, according to

l<ord Kitchener, are turning out munitions for six million soldiers in the spring, the five millions of pounds sterling that England spends daily without visible effort; this is Fngland s force ; hitherto we have felt it ns latent and diffused ; now it is being transformed, day by day, into energy that is actual and real and disciplined lor combat.” Such a tribute from France shows how much Britain’s eflort is being appreciated by her Allies. It is for us in this small corner of tlie Empire to give freely of our best, in men and money to aid the Motherland m this time of her heavy obligations am] when every effort must be strained to crush for ever the hateful menace of Germanism