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There were three of us who stepped for ward together to interview the recruiting: sergeant on the Horse Guards Parade ono a boat-builder from some Thames-sido yard, another a clerk, rather pale, from a City oface stool, and myself. Half a battalion of the Grenadier Guards, in full marching order, had just passed by on their way to the front, and after they had gone the parade looked suddenly desolate, and one felt a little forlorn. One khaki sergeant strolling about was the only military symbol left. There was not even a Union Jack to be seen over the recruiter's marquee, but looking up, one caught sight of the wireless installation on the Admiralty roof, and that restored the thrill of suggestion. The rest was businesslike and grey.

The voice of the recruiting officer, broko in on these thoughts. "Don't want to stop at home and guard railway lines," ho was saying to the man before me.

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THE GERMAN VIEW. NATIONAL ATTITUDE TO THE WAR

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Yesterday morning my turn came and The doctor was a large man, bronzed, cheerful, and alert, which was somewhat in company with a dozen others. I came to surprising, for he had been inspecting Woolwich. Here the plain is dotted with recruits steadily for six hours, be told me, many camps of twenty or more tents,FROM THE TIMES” SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] and at times the work had its drawbacks.where the gunners of the new army are to begin their training. With one blanket ONE IN FIVE REJECTED.

apices ve sleep ten in a tent, and are too full of good spirits to notice the minor discomforts of the new life. Indeed, they amuse us.

Little cubicles partitioned with canvas serve as dressing-rooms, and from these in turn the reurnits step for medical inspec tion. The number rejected by the doctor is about one in five, a very satisfactory result when

one

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It is easier here in Holland than it is in England to get at the point of view from which the Germans look at the war. There are a number of them in Flushing

the present moment. Some are refugees from Belgium, some come litm the Fatherland on business, and every day at the station there are still sure to one or two waiting to meet their daughters arriving by the boat from schogle and boarding houses in England.

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APPLICATIONS FOR AGENCIES IN remembers that in nothing in particular. But he told me he

was guarding the camp towels. see," he said, "we only have two towels in this camp, and the blooming fold gunuers over here have only got one, so when we hangs our towels out to dry I have to watch 'em."?

ordinary peace times nearly one in three is rejected. The doctor is very thorough in his work. The only physical qualifica tion on which he is not quite se strict now As long as you have enough molars to chew biscuit and beef," he says, that will do." Then he tests the sight of each eye separately, measures you, punches you in one or two places, sounds.

is teeth.

GOOD FOOD,

However, the food is good and plentiful. plenty of meat and potatoes for dinner,

On one point they are all agreed They are absolutely certain what the sylt of the war will be. This afternooniired officer who fought against Francd in 1870 was discussing the inevitable snocet in one of the public rooms of this, otel.

you, and so, if you are lucky, passes you To-day there was salmon for breakfast, Win!" he exclaimed, "why, of course

as it for service.

marching drill, and a lecture at which wo were told how a soldier should behave himself. In the evening we play games and have camp sing-songs.

if. i wint every knowin

have been undertaken, a vas diligently fostered) the war would never

walts-upstairs to-swear you in. He pro- get up at six o'clock and turn in at halt The belief is ingrained in the nature of records of your fate by which in some been six parades, at which we are learning(and the men by whom it has been War Office pigeon-hole you will henceforth be identified. If you have had any previous service in any armed force it must now be disclosed. Also, here are a few other points on which the Government Have requires understanding about you.

Are you you ever been imprisoned? willing to be vaccinated! And, finally, are you willing to serve for the period of the warl

Well and good. I satisfied a paternal Government on all these points, and Swearing with up-lifted hand to defend his Majesty, his heirs ad successors, in person, crown, and dignity, against all enemies, became at last a soldier of the King

PROUD MOMENT.

The whole process had taken about an hour, and already the world had # different appearance. There can be few prouder moments in life than the fest hour after the civilian who has been driven by a sense of duty unfulfilled to enlist finds himself a soldier.

But there are delays and they seem to the ardent recruit vexatious delays before the military training begins. The truth is that just in these early days so many men are enlisting that even the enlarged recruiting machinery can only absorb them gradually, and I found that I should probably have to wait a couple of days before being despatched to a training camp.

At a marquee on the Horse Guards Parade the waiting men draw their day's pay each morning, and near by on a notice board are placarded long lists of men, with the hours at which they are to attend at Old Scotland Yard for drafting the training camps. Over five hundred a day are being sent away from there, and most of us, while waiting, spend the time. watching the despatch.

There is a free-and-easy camaraderie. about us for are we not already fellow- soldiers in arms? Two things strike me as the result. of conversations with hundreds of my fellow-recruits. First, the burning desire they all have to go to the front as soon as possible; and, secondly, the very small proportion whe have joined because they are out of work. Mostly they seem to be men who have joined just because they could not hear to be out of it, and one hears on all sides of men with two or three brothers already in the Army, and who are soldiers sons. So the remaining son has thrown up civilian work to join. It is the call of their blood as well as their country that they have answered

The courtyard at the recruiting depot where we went teems with interest. Wives who want to know where they can draw their husbands' pay are frequent arrivals. I don't know what he baz joined, gir,” says one to the official in charge, "bat I think it's the Army Servants (meaning Service) Corps." Other callers are men who want to form recruiting depots of, their own in little villages. CARA All day long a hoarse voiced sergeant, whose vocal chords must be inade of east steel, stands on a chair and shouts the

Our uniforms are rather slow in coming, and one man has been waiting ten days for his regimental number, which he must before draw ng pay. The possess

a long way off, which Germans sem grieves us, but all we can do, by careful attention to training, to hasten our meet. sng with them we are enthusiastically doing-Daily Mail. S

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Led by Wilhelm, as you tell, God has done extremely well; You with patronizing uod Show that you approve of God. Kaiser, face a question now- This does God approve of you?

Broken pledges, treaties torn,. Your first page of war adern; We on feuler things must look Who read further in that book, Where you did in time of war All that you in peaces forswore, Where you, barbarously wise, Bade your soldiers terrorize, Where you made the deed was fine Women screen your firing line, Villages burned down to dust, Torture, murder, bestial lust, Filth too foul for printer's Ink; Crimes from which the apes would

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They underrate, if they do not actually despise, their foes. The Belgians 1 They are beaten already. As for the French, they are like a little boy who has been snarling for years at some one whom he

I need not quote the grotesquely knows he cannot tackle. Now he thinks inaccurate account given by this lady of he has found a big brother to help him, Germany's dealings with Russia and with and has gained a false courage. The France, in the days immediately preceding English? What is an army of a hundred the declaration of war. The thing that or two hundred thousand to the Kaiser's matters about it is that she, and no doubt huge forces But the Russians? Yes, most of her fellow-countrymen, believe the, the Russians are more numerous. They lies that have been told them, and that have armies of a million, two million, they scout as malicious inventions the perhaps three million men. But how English and French and Belgian and many of these are soldiers? Certainly not Russian statement of the case. 2 million.

quently they are united, she says, as one man in the resolve to defend their country, and the Social Democrats are heart and soul in favour of the war.

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She makes no allusion to the real cause.

of England's intervention--the wanton invasion of Belgium. For to her, and to

That is how the Germans are talking And they are as certain of their own superiority as they are of the feebleness of their opponents. They have, they tell you, siege guns of 42 ventimetres and even larger calibre, two shots from one of which will demolish any fort that ever was built. the writers of other letters that I have seen, it was not wanton. France, they The largest are to be kept in reserve for believe, was the aggressor, Franco the the English Fleet, which is to be pounded violator in intention of neutral territory. to pieces in the Channel somewhere. All that Germany has done is to forestall between Clatend and Boulogne. Their own French action from motives of self defence, Fleet, they admit, is smaller and less and the cause in which she is fighting is powerful. But it has not to patrol the the cause of freedom.

seas of the world, And in the meantime It seems to me important that people in it is reducing the British Navy, which

It is a national. never knows when or where a submarine England should realize that this is the or a torpedo-boat (or a mine) will turn true state of the case.

THE SILVER MARKET.

VOLUNTEER CORPS ORDERS.

BY LET.-COL. A. CHAPMAN, V.D.

TROMOTION. 1-Gunner Bawford No. 2 Section Artif- Jery Battery is promoted Bombardier to date 5th October, 1914, Br. K. Haulerson reverts to. Gunner at his wwe request to date 5th October, 1914,

AWARD OF PUNISHMENT.

2.-1,333 Sapper H. W. A. Emberley, Engineer Co., 72 hours detention for neglect of duty at Lyemun on Saturday, 3rd. Getaber, 1911.

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up, to a state of nervons prostration, attitude that must greatly increase the This arrogant and boastful frame of fighting strength of the armies opposed to mind is, of course, very different from, and any tendency to discredit it, or the spirit of confidence with which the to assume that the Germans are instine- tively conscious that they are in the wrong, Allied nations and their Armies enter would be fatal mistake. They think upon the war which has been forced upon them, and is a distinct source of weakness nothing of the sort. to the people who indulge in it. But there is another factor in the psychological situation which is not so satisfactory from our point of view. These Germans are not

We subjoin extracts taken from Messrs. only sure that they will win. They are Mocatta & Goldsmid's circular dated convinced also that their canse is a just August 8then the one, and that the war is not of their.

The downward tendency in the pric making. To Englishmen that must seem of silver, mentioned in our last circular,

the next few. Sons or friends who serve your State, an incredible statement; but, from what hecame more marked

daya.

Tho fall throughout the week is chiefly doc to large arrivals from New York, THE GERMAN BELIEF,

where silver had accumulated owing to For instance, I was shown to-day a letter the risks of shipping, but this silver written by a woman professor at a German having been disposed of for various university to a friend in Holland which, coinage orders, both here and on the on the face of it, is a perfectly genuine Continent, the market has a steadier expression of feeling. The writer is appearance agnast at the horror of the war into which, The United States Covernment too has as she says, her beloved country has been passed a Bill authorizing the purchase of to be in favour of subscribing to the Civil dragged, in spite of all the Kaiser's efforts 10,000,000 ozs. for subsidiary coinage, which Frid the circular recently forwarded to to maintain peace. According to her the purchases, although likely to be spread, D.C.'e is hereby excelled. Any members immediate cause of the war is England's over long period, will infuse more wishing to subscribe must do so through the

confidence in the market that side even Ciril subscription lists. jealously of Germany's industrial pros should shipments to Europe become more perity and expansion, and her deter heult than they are at present, and the mination to smash it. Prae to get back further closing LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT. - has always been determined improbable,

Not that Iron Cross bestow But a Cross of Wood, and so So remind the world that you Hare made Calvery anew..

Kaiser, when you'd kneel in prayer Look upon your hands, and there. Let that deep and awful atain

From the blood of children slain Burn your very soul with shame, Till you dare not breathe that Name That now you glibly advertise God as one of your allies.

Tmpious braggart, you forget; God is not your conscript yet; You shell learn in dumb amaze That His ways are not your ways, That the mire through which you trod Is not the high white road of God,

Trolls,

To Whom, whichever way the combat We fighting to the end, commend our

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I have heard them say and from letters that I have seen, I know that it is the plain truth.

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Alsace and Lorraine. With that object in Silver business with India and China view she had persuaded the Belgians to remains quite at a standstill, and there give her a free passage through her have been practically no transactions, but territory. In motor-cars and aeroplanes a quotation came through from Bombay French vilicers have been allowed to survey yesterday, which is the first since the the unfortified and undefended frontier outbreak of war, showing an advance

from the previous quotation, between Germany and Belgium.

Officers on duty: Capt. Scott, Capt.

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