Second Edition Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 86, 17 March 1916, Page 6

Second Edition Great Britain

THE MORE MEN MOVEMENT APP EALS #Y L&RDS D£RBY AN D UnICTD PbFW AsSOOTATJOIf. ; .March 15,. . Lord Derby'said he intended to remain in the War Office as long as he could to assist Lord -Kitchener. His pledge, which was tho foundation of the recruiting scheme, had contemplated some exceptions to the rule for ™?S^ffiß^iJS^'il?^§^^ ! i^^ ! ' 1 but Lord D&rby said "he viewed with great anxiety the large number that had been exempted owing to their occupations, and . : th> authorities were now' reviewing the lists of munition workers and others who had recently entered the ''exempted' 1 occupations. Cabinet was taking the matter so seriously that he thought they would get the number ttf■ -trhriiarried required. The Germans would not wait while we were putting our house in order, and he hoped that by November he would get sufficient young men without putting the married men into the field, but that was not a pledge thai the marne/l.men woufd never to Tight!' He considered that every man ought to do • something for his country. Lord gretted that durmg*ae ! 'rhohtli Ins fears had been realised. The original estimate of numbers required had been exceeded, ,of March showed Unit' it "was necessary to call up more-groups earlier than it had been hoped to do. He endorsed all Lord Derby had; said. He. had not any doubt that the single men were avoiding military srvice; they would be brought in, but it would take time, **»;.«- the ...meantime* the War Office needed trained men, and he hoped that any appeal made to married men would not fall on deat ears. The should place patriotism and the na- , tional cause before everything.