MORE MEN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 205, 6 October 1916, Page 4

MORE MEN.

Special Correspondent. WELLINGTON, Oct. 5. The suggestion made in this column the other day to the effect that an appropriate tribute to the New Zealanders who have fallen in the fighting that is going os in the western front would be the dispatching of additional troops to the assistance of the Mother Country and her Allies is being endorsed in several influential quarters. The “Dominion,” having pointed out that there are some 80,000 unenlisted men in the First Division of the Reserve, and estimated that at least 15,000 of these —a six months’ supply of: recruits—are fit for service, urges the Minister of Defence to consider the propriety of increasing New Zealand’s contribution to the great army that is aserting the cause of right and justice. “We believe,” it says, “it would be sound strategy for New Zealand either to increase her rate of Reinforcements substantially, or else to set the formation of an additional bodjr of, say, two brigades of infantry to be put into the field for the spring campaign of next year. ” Of course, the military authorities speak guardedly of this proposal, waiting for a lead from the Government, but persons who take a keen interest in defence matters and particularly in recruiting, believe that tlie additional men could be readily obtained, and that tiieir enlistment would be the finest possible reply to the suggestion of the enemy that the Dominions are growing weary of the burdens imposed on them by the war.