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Mr. H. G. Wells writes to the Times: At the outset of the war I made a sugges. tion in your columns for the enrolment of all that surplus of manhood and patriotic fooling which remains after every man available for systematic mili- tary operations has been taken. My idea. was that comparatively undrilled boys and older mon, not sound enough for campaigning, armed with rifles, able to skoot straight with them, and using local means of transport, bicycles, cars, and so forth, would be a quite offective check upon an enemy's scouting, a danger to his supplies, and even a force capable of. holding up a raiding advance, more. particularly if that advance was poor. in horses and artillery, us an oversous raid was likely to be f suggested, too, that the more enrolment and arming of the population would have a powerful educational effect in steadying and naifying the spirit of our people. My proposals were received with what scomed oven a forced amusement by the " experts. I was told that I knew nothing about warfare, and that the Germans would not permit us to do any thing of the sort. The Germans, it soema, are the authorities in these matters, a point I had overlooked.. They would refuse to recognize men with only. improvised uniforms, they would shoot their prisons-not that I had proposed that my irregulars should become prisoners and burn the adjacent villages. This seemed to be an entirely adequate reply from the point of view of the export mind, and I gathered that the proper role for such an able-bodied civilian as myself was to keep indoora while the invader was about and supply him as haughtily as possible with light refreshments and anything else ho choac to requisition. I was aleo reminded that if only men like myself had obeyed their energy upon the production of regulation I write is exposed to the clumsy editing armies should cease. The gathering off and delays of anonymous and apparently expert adive and worked in the past for these will go on anyhow, there are irresponsible officials Bo practically I national service and the general submis unlimited men ready for intelligent am doing nothing, and a great number sion of everything to expert military direction Now that the shortage of of people are doing very little more. concentrated upon. direction. these troubles would not have supplics and accommodation has been The authorities are arison. There would have been 10 remedied the enlistruout sluices need only the creation of an army numerically vast, surplus of manhood and everything would have gone as smoothly and as well be opened again. The rank and file and for the rest they seem to think that for England as the Press Censorship.

of this country is its strength; there is the chief function of government is Their available energy and. no need, and there never has been any inhibition. For a time I was silenced. Under war uced, for Press hysterics about recruit ability is taxed to the atmost in main- conditions it is always a difficult question: to determine how for it is better to obey ing. But there is wanted a far more taining the fighting line, and it is sheer poor, or even bad, directions or to vigorous stimulation of the manufactum greed for direction that has led to their criticize them in the hope of getting of material if only experts and rich systematic thwarting of civilian co-opera botter. But the course of the war since people would turn their minds to that tion. Let me warn them of the borodom

It is the trading and manufacturing class and irritation they are causing that correspondence and the revival of

war against the idea of a raid by your Military Gor that needs goading at the present time. is a people's war, a

It is very satisfactory to send troops to militarism it is not a war for the respondent provoke me to return to this discussion Frankly, I do not believe France, but in France there are still greater glory of British diplomatiste, great numbers of able-bodied trained officials, and people in uniforms. It is in that raid and I think we play the Frenchmes not fully equipped. It is our war, not their war, and the last thing German game letting our minds dwell

we intend to result from it is a per- our national duty and privilege to be upon it. I am supposed to be a person the store-house and arsenal of the Allies manently increased importance for the of feverish imagination, but even by lashing my imagination to its ruddiest Our factories for clothing and material military caste I cannot, in these days of wireless of all sorts should be working day, and telegraphy, se

aproperly equipped night. There is the point to which German force, not even so trivial a hand-enthusiasm, should be turned. It is just ful as 20,000 of them, getting itself with as heroic and just as useful to the A sions upon British soil. I cannot even guns, motors ammunition, and provi- country to kill yourself making belts and boots as it is to die in a trench. But our 500 a mero landing of infantrymen. I organization for the enrolment und believe in that raid even less than I de utlization of people not in the firing line. in the suggested raid of navigables that is still amazingly unsatisfactory. The bas darkened London. I admit the risk convenient alternative to enlistment as a of a few aeroplane bombs in London, but combatant at present is hospital work I do not 000 why people should be But it is really far more urgent to direct and energy tow to the subjected to danger, darkness, and incon- venience on tecount of that one-in-a-production of war material. If this war million risk. Still, us the trained mind does not end, as all the civilized world does insist upon treating all unenlisted hopes it will end, in the complete victory civilians as panic-stricken imbeciles and of the Allies, our failure will not be upon frightening old indies and indiren through any shortage of men but through tial people with those remoto possibilitics,

a shortage of gear and organizing ability. and as it is likely that these alarms may It will not be through a default of the oven lead to the retention of troops in people, but through the slackness of the England when their point of maximum governing class.

Now so far as the enrolment of us goes, effectiveness is manifestly in France, it becomes necessary to insist upon the of the surplus people who are willing to ability of our civilian population, if be armed and to be used for quasi- only the authorities will pormit the amount of organization and preparation needed, to deal quite success fully with any raid that in an extremity of the German boldness" may be attempted.

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military work at home, but who are not of an age or not of a physique or who are already in shop or office serving some quite useful purpose at home, we want certain very simple things from the authorities. We want the military status And, in the first place, let the expert that is conferred by a specific enrolment. have no illusions as to what we ordinary and some sort of uniform. We want They need not be people are going to do if we find German accessible arms. soldiers in England one morning.

modern service weapons; the rifles of teh are going to fight. If we cannot fight years ago are quite good enough for the with rifles, we shall fight with shot guns, possible need we shall have for them and if we cannot fight according to Rules And we want to be sure that in the of War apparently made by Germans for possible event of an invasion the Govern the restraint of British military experts, ment will have the decision to give every military status by we will fight according to our inner light: man in the country Many men, and not a few women, will at onec resorting to the levde en masse. There will Given a recognized local organization turn out to shoot Germans.

Mr. Jas, Broth, of Market Square, be no preventing them after the Belgian and some advice it would not take a atories. If the experts attempt any week of General Baden-Powell's time, for Burghersdorp, Cape Province, wrote on pedantic interference, we will shoot the example, to produce a special training February 4th, 1914 Soon after land- I know that in this matter I book for us-we could set to work uponing in South Africa about three years ago, experts. speak for so suifcient a number of people our own local drill, rife prection, and I began to suffer most severe pains in the that it will be quite useless and hope-exercises, in such hours and ways as best region of the heart, which brought on Icualy dangerous and foolish for any suited our locality. We could also frequent attacks of palpitation; after remain organize the local transport, list local meals I was very seldom tree from head- expert-instructed minority to "tame." They will get shot, and their supplies, and arrange for their removal aches and an uncomfortable fulness in the

Finally, houses will be burnt according to the or destruction if threatened. established German rules and methods we could set to work to convert a number chest. I was invariably in a state of on our account, so they may just as well of ordinary cars into fighting care by lassitude, and became so exhausted and turn out in the first place, and get some reconstructing and armouring them and worried I was unfit for anything. shooting as a consolation in advance for exercising crews. And having developed Eventually I lost all inclination for food. their inevitable. troubles. And if the a discipline and self-respect as a fighting Agonising shooting pains afflicted me at raidore, cut off by the aca from their sup- foret, we should be available not only for night, especially between the shoulder "This went on for several months, ports, ill-equipped as they will certainly fighting work at home, in the extremely blades, and deprived me of sleep. be, and against odds, are so badly improbable event of a raid, but also for advised as to try terror-striking reprisals all kinds of supplementary purpose, as during which, try as I would, I could find on the Belgian pattern, wo irregulars a reserve of motor drivers, as a supply of no relief, until at last I was advised to will, of course, massacre every German physically exercised and half-trained use Mother Saigel's Syrup. The effects of straggler wo can put a gun to recruits in the event of an extended a few doses so relieved my sufferings and Naturally. Such a procedure may be standard, and as a guarantee of national restored my appetite to such activity that sanguinary, but it is just the common discipline under any unexpected stress. I knew I had at last found the right sense of the situation. We shall hang the Above all, we should be relieving the real remedy. My progress was of so speedy a officers and shoot the men. A German fighting forces of the country for the nature that fire bottles had the effect of raid to England will in fact not be decisivo area, which is in France and re-invigorating my whole system, and fought-it will be lynched. War is war, Belgium now and will, I hope, be in imparting the most desirable of all bless and reprisals and striking terror are Westphalia before the Springings-good health

At present we non-army people are games that two can play at. This is the

Similarly striking testimony could be fatent temper of the British country side, doing only a fraction of what we would furnished from thousands of one time: and the sooner the authorities take it in like to do for our country. We are not sufferers in the Old World and the New. hand and regularize it the better will be boing used. We are made to feel out of Mother Seigel's Syrup has indeed the the outlook in the remote event of that it, and we watch the not always very able world for its public.

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And whatever one may think of the occasionally permitted to carry a recruit are sometimes offered. The worth of forty possibility of raide, I venture to suggest to Cholmsford. If I try to use my pen years' reputation cannot be built up in the that the time has come when the present on behalf of my country abroad, where day or so these shoddy imitations only

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