WANTED

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1916, Page 3

WANTED

i'o the Editor. ®' l '> —Every single eligible man witli red blood in Itis veins and tile love of justice in his heart is wanted to enlist at once. Let it not <be said of him that he waited for the crack of the whip of compulsion. Join hands at once and promise to go, be it next month or the month after that. Embrace the opportunity as a free Britisher and do not cudgel the brain for an excuse, for certain it is the law of this Dominion will pass compulsion within six weeks. Oh! then, my young countrymen, what will he your position? Think over it, I pray you. Delay do not, for your country and your race are calling' you. The word in time will pass around,'''Oh! you went when you were forced; you wore a coirscriptionist!" Do not, if possible, join that band, as the necessity has arisen, and Germanism must be obliterated for all time. A national danger for the existence and preservation of your race and the liberties of your people is threatened. Captain Allen, when speaking at the railway patriotic concert on Thursday night, referred, with pathos in his voice and indignation on his countenance, to several young men, not five minutes' walk from the theatre, who are hanging back. Now is the appointed time, arid fa" be it from me to cast any reflection on anyone, hut a national necessity lias arisen whereby the eligible single' men are called on first, and "stern words and strong representations for the issue at stake must be the phonograph sonir of the individual man and collective bodies oi recruiting boards. One hear* from the lips of many w'ho are endeavoring to enlist recruits that there are parents with independent means who are encouraging their sons not to enlist, and I have even hoard it whispered that sons have been threatened with disinheritance should they offer themselves. Again, the man at the corner, who is like the smoke which proves there is fire, says there sre to be found between Xev.' Plymouth and Urenui several well-off families who have as many as from three to six sous of splendid physique, and not Dne of them has enlisted. ' Now is their time to prove their apron-string days *rr ended, and they have reached manhood. They are wanted! wanted! wanted!—l am, etc., ( D. ,r. HUGHES, Member Recruiting Board, Xew Plymouth. 11