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THE SUN, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1U14. ENGLAND TO FORCE HER MEN TO FIGHT FOR FLAG Why Compulsory Mili tary Service Is About to Be Inaugurated in England Rather Than Conscription---- Great Demand for More Men ll- I'. CI'M'IFI-'Jl-OWK.V GHKAT HIUTAIN Is confronted to-ilay by the necessity of adopt ing between now and Murch ona of tlirco roiirsaa, namely thp In auguration nt a .lystem of bounties to men who cnllet, conscription, op p1o universal compulsory military service. Lord Kltclipncr, I 'rem lor Aiqiill)i anil thp other Ministers of the Crown have announced that another million man aro urgently roqulrcd for thi army and that the rcenforcomont of tho latter to thin extent In a matter of absolute and immediate necessity. They will bo wanted oven In thp sompwhat Improb-a-ble event of the wnr belnfr brought to a sudden cloo by thn outbreak of a popular revolution In Germany. For Great Dritnln ennnot expect that her oioims In connection with tho restora tion of peicu and with the mibsesjuent Inavltablo reconstruction of the map of the world Trill reccrlvo due consideration unless ahe has at her command an army nufllclently large to give duo n-eltfht to her demands. If thn war, ax Lord Kitchener and other experts seem to anticipate, con Inue.s throughout tho greater part of next year the additional million men will Ih still moro imperatively needed to fulill KnKlanUfl i-olemn obllgat.ons tu her nlllcf, and above all to de fend tho honor of tho flag and tho I Tolled Kingdom from tho horrors of forcbtn Invasion of an !n anion HUo that which haj converted tho fair und prosperous land of Helglum into a. scene of appalling ruin, desolation nnd horror. Thu fact of the matter Is that the appeal of Lord Kitchener and of tho Government for tho additional million men. has received a very unsatisfactory reeponao and that the recruiting has fallon off In the United Kingdom nnd Ireland to a very alarming degree. It would !) too much to pay that the patriotic enthusiasm which led so many tens of thousands to volunteer fur ser vlce In the army liaa died on:, But It cannot be denied that tho demand upon British patriotism has only touched certain classes In KrurUind. Until now tho response to tho sum mons of the Crown has como almost exclusively from tho highest and tho lowest classes, from the titled and un titled nr.stocracy of Great llrltaln and Ireland nnd from the working musse". There has been little or no sign of real patriotic endeavor on the jiurt of '.he rich and moderateiy allluent middle classes, that Is to say of the Wither and lower bourgeoisie. The list of officers killed and wounded contains an altogether abnormal proportion of names belonging to the grandest nnd oldest house of Kngland. Scotland, Ire. land und Wales, and In wonderfully many instances tho name of the dead is followed by the moving words, "an only son." As for the rank and tile, not only the t trained soldiers who were already under nrrrn at the outbreak of the war, but also the recruits who aro now being used to fill up thn gaps made by the j fallen and by the wounded, have shown a pluck nnd endurance, an abso-1 lute fearlessness, a stetullness uuder lire and a level heudedness and disci-, pllno that have amazed both their al-1 lies and their foes. They, llko their) officers, richly deserve al! tho sincero j praM that has leen meted out to them ' liy Lord Kitchener, by Field Marshal j Sir John French, nnd by tho French , Gcncrallsjlmo Joffre. Hut every day , that passes their numbers are being diminished by the enemy's bhella and I bullets and the men are needed to fill the pips thus mudo In their ranks. It If Idle to e.xpect that these losses hould to repaired by thn elements of I th population who have furnished 99 , per rent, of tho recruits, both In the . commissioned and non-commissioned ranks. It Is unfair that the aristocracy end the working clashes should atone bear the burden of tho fray and of providing for the defence of tne I'nlted Kingdom nnd Ireland front a visitation ; en the part of tho Germans such as that from which Helglum and tho north, eastern regions of Franco nre now suf- I ferine, Itecourso of some kind, there- i fore, mut bo had to tho higher and lower bourgeoisie of the- i'nlted King dom, who have heretofore manifested ! u dlscllnatlnn not only to respond to the all to arms, but even to suhmit to any fontrlbutlon to the national expenses In connection with the strugglo now In I iTogrej-s, It is to thef-e middle clases of Gre.M i llrltaln. Insular, narrow minded and -rlf sufficient, that Hudyard Klp'.lng re- fcrred when ho wtoIp of the "flannelled fools at the wicket," and tho lato Lord Iloberts had them In mind when in itho very last public address that ho de livered In F.nglnnd, Just a few days be. for ho died at the nge of 82 years, omonc Ms soldiers In France, ho con- demned so vigorously thoe who gave, themselves up to golfing, cricketing, I foottnll anil even less manly pastimes at a moment when the country needed the service of every man whom It could get. Americans returning from Hnsland. while enthusiastic In their commenda- ion of the spirit of self-sacrlllce dis played by the highest and lowest classes In volunteering for service and lu giv ing their lives and their blood for their country, are 'ouil In their expressions of nmazoment a: th Indlff. rs-nce shown by the moro or less will to do middle classes In I Inula ml, w lio still lloek In iindlmlnlshi d hordes to all the places of in and out door popular ntertainrmn', and are Just as much Interest! .1 in their selfish pursuits and hobbles as If Great llrltaln wele at peace Instead of being In tho throes of the greatest war of her history: n wnr which has brought hw within sight of a foreign Invnslou, and which Is compelling her to light for her national existence and Indepen dence: a war In which til" vety life und future of the empire are at sink" The bnurg'olsln of France and of p glum, of Austria and of (lenn.it v, luuc ail responded nobly to the demands Warts, upon their patriotism. No- so that of arcut llrmiln, the most smug, complacent nnd narrow minded bniir genlsln that there is In thn world, who may lip Mid to exceed In supeillclnl re wpcctablllty. In canting hypocrisy, and aUiVn all In vulgarity, the people or the same clars In all othrr parts i,r II,.-rlob. How is one to reach these middle classes of Great llrltaln and to Induce them to fulfil the duty which they owe to their country for ai: the Inestimable benellta which they njoy as citizens thcrtof? To them a bounty can hardly be Mild to offer on Inducement, They are too well fed for that. The only means of dealing with them Is through the Introduction of con'i'!ptlon or of universal military service, nnd the Gov ernment has alnndy Intimated that It will have recourse to el. her one or the other between now and the beginning of spring. All the money needed for this addi tional million of men was voted by the IIoue ef ("mninons. nfter remarkable speeches by Fume Minister Asqulth and Chancellor of the Kxchequer Lloyd George. In which both empliaflzed the fact that the war was likely to last a long time, since "we are lighting an enemy who cannot offer any terms that we can accept without his sustaining a smashing defeat." nnd In which they called attention to thn fact that, al though Great llrltaln had already two million men under arms, another million were needed without delay. Their demand for m,,re men Is nil the mure telling In that It may be aiil to have coincided with the dramatic death at thn front. In France, of that grand old soldier and popular hero, Lord ll'berts, who eer since the be ginning of the war has labored Inces LIFE IN THE HOSPITAL THIS Journey from Havre to Itouen is. like alt the Jotirnejs taken In the war country, a tedious affair, ft used to be said that only Americans and fools travelled llrst class In France; but one Is obliged to travel that way now, for the other compart ments are given to the soldiers and you are forced to go as the Government wills. Tli- same Is true of the hotels; the worst are filled with troops, tho bert are ghen to thn hospital work, and thn.se remaining ate rarely comfortable or reasonable In price. Tho trains crawl along, stopping at the autocratic will of some military otllclal. and explanations nro neither asked for nor given. As one of the police said, "I'eoji'.e are mighty lucky to lie able to travel nt all." Itouen is more a,lc with t loops than Havr e, its hospitals for the moment less overcrowded, as them has been an ex odus of convalescents and the new pa tients have not come lu. One of the Kngllsh nurses who es corts mo about tells of the difference betwefn the French arid Ihigllsh hospi tals, a story heard many times hef re and confirmed by her statements. Heady in all other particulars at the moment of mobilization they may have been, but in regard to hospital cqulpm tit the French ot'tnlnly linve much to ,cnrn from fho Ilrltlsh, whose hospitals are models of system. Soap and water have never, perhaps, had the Minn, meaning to the French nation as they hav, to 'he F.ngllsh and in the ho.spltn s this distinction has been painfull evident In some of t o French military hospitals- -thosn owned arid carried on by Government funds llnulsh nurses have been callid n to establish ntder and i lean .in . o it 's stat mI, ami t'lls has t,n done ai a thninuvh w.ij Hint has paralyzed the 1'ict: b contlngen' unc 'eats evci whi re of inlslnltes In lied Cross muiinui'ine'it a train equipped for ton patients held up two days lie ausp un,v 3"ii patients were In. st-i I, il .n H. ti i.i u t .1 1 1 1 ' appointed it o.q,it,is ef vacair with a staff wait ing Weil; after wck for p.itl tits whle oiheiH wi r. .iven rowiled tie endless mid imnecessai'v di l:o in gi tllng sup plies and nni.M - w'.i.le tne course o Ilrltlsh ted tap, iniii wns wound and wound auinn. but, on the other hand, .vhen t'he iinni histni v nt ths nivanlza. tloii with Its ninny laiulllcatlons Is truthfully wiltttn and it Is realized that more slcl: and wounded have been liken care of already than the IiivikIiib. tint. ,s able to grasp, praise, unstinted p,n,n will have to lm given, Itonen's wonderful cathedral la Making cavalrymen santly to arouse the men of I'nglnnd to a sense of their military duties to their native land, and who for years strove In vnln for the Introduction of compulsory service In the army ns the only means of safeguarding the Inter ests of L'nglnnd In this present war of nations which he saw approaching. Few listened to him. His warnings remained unheeded. Ily many he wns regarded as the Victim of an obsession on the subject of compuNory service, nnd be was re peatedly criticised In this connection by tho press, and even on several occasions publicly censured by the ministers of the Crown for what they described ax his alarmist utterances. Yet his warnings have come true, far sooner thnn any one could hnvo Imagined. Men who bnxe passed the age of the I'salmlst, In possesion of their full mental faculties, and who are bringing to a close u career so eventful nnd 'so distinguished ns that of Lord Hoberts, sometimes become gifted in the gloam ing of their life with a wort of second sight. In this tense, that their vision extends far beyond the horizon of their fellow creatures, und that they are able to see into a future that Is still con cealed from ordinary ejes by a Nell of mslery. Uverybody now must le allze thai the great commander who was laid to re't by his sov reign and by his fellow countrymen In St. Caul's Cathedral on Thursday last, bcsldo Nel England's System of Housing the Wounded Far Superior to That of ---English Nurses Establish Order and Cleanliness in French Hospitals--Both Places Alive With Trcops point of interest, for theto is In the air the UllspoKen question, "W in i li in .oo lm sacrillcisi to German Kultur?" Hven th" eoliU' r.s who pass and looking up to its miin-riifli ent faend" ouch their cups, eeeiu to 1' asking this qmstion. Many of the Scottish soldiers .are here. Whole b.cjcle corps are starting out and oiinlde the casernes groups of men In khaki nnd men in the fain, mi rod and lntin form w par.ro giutips. it Is noted hero particularly that .n the inonicntH of leisure there is no Intimacy betw.cn the b"ldlers of the two nation1). Side by Nile they may tight In the trenches, sharing rations and ammuni tion, but there 1 no chasm so deep as that dug by different tongues, and they do not make, any great attempt to brldgo It, Ono young boy in tho hnspl'al visited, a ono tlmo member of a bicycle coriw, tells that his wholo battalion with the exception of twenty-six was wiped out. "Wo held a house." ho explain? weakly. "It was at IVrnnne, bu. they got us." Then ii turns on eis side 'tnablo to say mort. for Kitchener's army Learning son nnd Wellington In fitting company, foresaw thu present war and Great Hrltuln's participation therein, and this very fact cannot fall to Impress upon the minds of the Fngllsh people his appeals for the Inauguration of com pulsory service In n manner far more I moving than when he was still among them and when his words fell upon deaf ears. There is a considerable dlffercnco lie. ( tween conscription and universal com- i pulsory military service, although tho i terms isru often confounded with one another. Indcctl tho viut majority of the organs of the Ilrltlsh press nppc.tr j to Inbor under the Impression that con- I senptlon Implies universal obligatory service, although they arf two en- tlrcly different th.ngs. ' Conscription means an enrolment that Is not unlversa., but by lot. It Is used by tlios.) few continental conn- trln of Kuropo which do not regard It wise from nn economic or pclltlcat point of view to deprive national trade and Industry of thu services of every able bodied youth In the land for thoe few enrs when the spirit of enterprise Is mot keen and the mind most apt to Imbue lts-lf with Information of a non military character calculated to prove of ue in a subsequent civ. linn career. Franco, for instance, which has nhol. Ishcd that conscription which she u.is the tlrxt to inaugurate In ITS', now compels every youth of 20 years of age CITIES OF ' In one of the narrow lanes of llmien Into whb b ono turns inad ertenily. a 1 lane ianonel by high stone w.,1 s. i .nc covered, oti see a regiment of llngli-h , solilierx p.isH ,i crowd of refugees on I their way to the Station Verte. They nro all the same color, the dust hu.. From the crown of their tr in caps to th" toes of their tan shoes the Unglisb , men are uniformed lu the sanm way im the rifnge.s. their clothes, their iinlr. : their facts b.ic become tho same t me of brown Hut such a dlirerence' line Is the llo color, the khaki color of Metory. the other the dii co'or of de I feat. So '111' pas to tbi high road. i inn cannot b'live Itouen without speaking of the churches. For besides the celebrated cathedral there arc many others, th-JM' of St. i itien. of Hon Se c urs, St. Vincent. St. I'.uri. e. Si. Maclnu. And Just as outside In 'lie btiy streets there Is an unceasing piocivsion of soldier's, so here m t )'! GotV, in- erl. rs t .i r s a eq-n uneii I ng Wounded Algerian sharpshooters in hospital to use the svord. who dors not happen to be exempt on account of medical tin Illness to Join the 1 itrmy or navy, enforcing penalties of the mont severe description In all cases In wh.ch a man h.-i.s evaded this duty to thn State. In fact a Frenchman who falls to prtsent hlmelf for military .ei4ce at the nge of i'O without having, been officially exemed on the ground of some serious medical defect become Ipso facto a deset ter, a criminal and an outlaw, liable to punishment of the iwvt drastic character. It Is the same with Austral-Hungary, It.il.v, Germany ikitd UiiKSla. ' (in the other hand In Spain. Holland, Sweden and Denmark, as well ns In the other Continental countries where con scription pivai s two-thuds of the male population are virtually exempted from mlll..iiy service. True, all have to pnsent thim-elMs to tne military au thor. ties on n aching the statutor.x age. Hut only 30 per cent, aro chosen, the , selection being mnde by lot. while thy others who luivo drawn fortunate nuin- j bers aro permitted to return to helr homes and to their purttlt, leaving. I however, their names at the nriou military ilepo-s. that In the event of an emergency such as. for Instance. th Invasion of the country and the defmt of the regular arms, they could be culled upon to Jo. u various rcg. merits. Tho run-' not ilij, on.i.-i.on nn which them- lu i.erlelarli of the system of con scription were subsequently summoned to take service was during the Franco- ROUEN AND DIEPPE -ranee ' pn.ccss.on of weeping and praying wont- ri Candles nr burned by thousands. In every shrine, at evi ry station the Iron discs are itiveied with enndas anil hour after hour through the portals ! pass pale laced, black covered, sorrow ful mothers, sister, wims and sw et ' benrtis, 1 Dieppe, neater the coast and n neater i tho lighting line. Is another interes' j Ing and excited point. J lb to one sees for the llrst time hun dreds ot Titrro. Chasseurs d'Afrlquo and the .oiiaes, iuvnliihd hero on ac count of the mild climate, for the day? are sunlit and warm. I'eoplc promenade the .stuets without wraps and the sick sun thiniselves evirywhere. For i.,c time ImIiik one does not see any llngllsh soldiers, but that do, s not mean anything, for to-morrow the streets may be tilled with Iltitlsli troops and the ln'sp tals with the wound d, for so th. . hangm come, quite Inoxp icnbly. All th. part of 1M ppc whi h Is known i unm r v s ir, th ( asino. the 'hi, i' n i" di 1 1 tfn.iiihi so'inrc auto bus in Rouen. German war in li7u. Tn. wre.itr por tion of the s i called Southeas rn army of Gen. Uourbulil was composed pre cisely of those young men who hud been purmltrcd to return to their Iioiih s at tho time when they presented them selves for service, at the age of 2u, and who had only been summoned to tho colors after the defeat of Sedan and the invasion of Fr.ino by (be G. minus. There woio sonic 'JO.HOO im n lu nil. un der Hourhakl, and mole than su.iiiiu of them wvre so devoid of all ni.i.tnry trulnlng that tie y did not evi n know how to lire their rlib s or to tlx their bnsoiiits. while the mechni.lsm of the Chassepnt and the meaning of the vari ous words of reglriK ntul command were altogether beyond th. ir compn ': uslon. Quite naturally they Wire unable to offer any resistance :o the German army mull r Gen. von WetiUr and wer urlen line so many slim j, . r iss U'c border Into Switzerland, most of them without having even tiled n single shot, whllo Gen. Hourbnkl In d spntr made an at tempt to blow out his brains. It was the lamentable showing of this army of llourbaki thn1 contributed more than anything else to France's determination to substitute uiuwrsnl obligatory ser vice for the system of conscription which had until linn prewuud. Comparatively few peopli are aware, even In Uugl.ciil. that a sn . les of con scription law was In exi-tence in Grcit Hrltnln until the years ago. w h. n I; was legislnttd out -f e.iMence at the have been turned into hospital., the vll.as between either closed up for the winter or used as emergency wards. The Grand Hotel a one Is upon for the triivellop and that houses lnu of tho s.ck. .Most of the wounded nre from tho battle of the Als-ne, supplemented by hundreds down with tn uch diseases. The wounds of the patients are Iilght ful. One man has Inst both arm and a leg, several have lost arms, alw.iy.s the right iiriii. for the exposure Is on that side. Om. nun, dotlud all in black back trousers, long cape and a black bar. t lilts a ti-.i?! rful hand an, I arm from a Im.1i In which ho Is steeping li the hand, the s ze of one belonuing to n heroic statue, looks n,,t unl.l;,. l,r, IM7I- I thai has been exposed to ihe weather in i .1-H..I . ..i .. .. i oeinixeiv o inis no i eseni t an nci . c pt In vague mil lino, to the human hand Atiotln r patient has a sent where a bullet ploughed from car to chm, In one of the large hotel's. icmpu. rarily used for a hns-pit il. the salient dilteienco ls'twcon tin, Ilrltlsh and French hospital work is noted, Given a weekV time tho Knglish nurses would have converted th.. place into ver.-able wards, but here are bits of dusty bnc-.i-hrae lef! In place, laeo curtain- nnd other hangings Tin re inn idles of ,1,,, thin on the floor. A desk .m, M,nr ' nlllcers looking at documents are In the middle nf one of the sick looms, and the I curs,. have to work under great dls i iih.intag. nf confusion and disorder. The insignia of th.s on nut w.ipntt . t n ire a crutch and sling; one eanun; , pa s i half block .without sielng a 'sol , dicr wlti Ins aim In a white bandage ,r stipisu ling himself on ( rqjcli or ' st ck Several of the German wounded ex-pre-s 'Inmsehes ns bi lerlj oppivieil to ,. w it in-. i whi. h thej wen kii'iw.ng neither wli' thev were Unhung nor an, iMi-1 w loin, iheir onlv Infornmilon taai the 'ivere to be i-i Paris In a I'i w das." one of them hiMm the com. p' iltlt that, itn apncitaleil for future work hi- Go erntni'iit will tim properly pens on bun. "How can It"" he nsks satirically, "pension the crippled'.' It hasn't tlic money " Hin'iig the promenade hour cich dnv the Ked CrosM nurses pass up and d .wn w th then white boxes, and . vet pass, erby contributes to the fund, t'v.er, coppers and even go!,l llowini; ;, ,j,M). emus stream into the "lionr." A hew delay Is added to the I r.i oiler's schidiile now. for In mliltt on to the ii-cd pisspnrt. when return tn Hllgllind '-on lire obliged to pass the medical exnmlnii'-oa Fnrtutiatelv u , but h dplay, for the suigion tnere'.v looks at your forehead and examines vnur wrist "For pnslin ?m:t!!pn:;," he states In answer to com. ihiia'1 I ''Tt tw qo'te nece..ir now" Recruiting Has Fallen Off to Alarming Lixtent and Recourse Must Be Had to Higher and Lower Bourgeoisie of Country Instance of Lord llaldaue n v. I High (.'hnncellor but then Hecre-n-v ( State for U'ar, In connection w, , . I reorganization of the nrm , ai substitution of the so-called frr'1 i i,r for the mliltln antl volunt'.r K't i Th- conscription law wns kntn .i- ti. militia act, nnd it used to be tnji every year by an ait of I'.u. .intent passed In the expiring liotn ..f .(, nuniinl session. Hail Ilk passage of m,- suspension act been omitted i'iv m elther by ilesUn or tinlnti ntio 1 1 ' t , mil. tin txillot system of con-r , would once moro Inne roll!" ,i . ii titce. Acconllnir to the etm . , law tho sovereign, In cunju'i i. . , his l'rhy Oouncll, had tint r'gir upon each county of the Unite I in- iinm. for a certain iiuota if ti tween the ages of elglreef. a i y for compulsory service In I n. ,, , Th s Mtiotn would be furnish" I i. ..-i-ItiK to the law by means of , i , , th persons exempted front tne .-. by ttatuto were peei., ii.irAor.j. ir cletks, only son. of wldnw- .' medically until. The law fur' . i 1ded that the militia tl. l f l should n it le ompli'Vi I f r fni i.n . vice excep Where the men 1i.nl u their volun ary cnn'nt. t'e- i ' -. stnndlng being that the f.v. . a, oh' Is emp. y.Oil for refs'.-i: Naslon of the lliitlsli Ifles. In ilnglaiul the militia e stf n . ,n existence for hundreds "f enrs i.'ii-cd on the principle repent..1,,' , 'ished by nc. of Parliament t 1 1- i State i entitled to demand the tn i'y scrv.cei of all ir nnv mcmlx'is t is communltj far the purpose . f ,1 . i.. c lefcnce." For the last nltetv ,,r , . dred years, however, of th s of the mlllila system the ml.ltl.i v,.. r. orulted purely liy Voluntary et. ' - m.-nt arid not by conscription, tin-l he mllltla net. Indeed. British statesmen nave al ways nuinlfesteil a pronounced r-,.u-nance In the past to consoi-ip-lnr. .. s ground that It rarely fitrnlsiie I an In dent fighting force, or could be ! . .c Uwm ns a valuable factor In thi - -tern of military defence of an ..,.! v and also because the Idea of couip. ' .it men to flglr has always been ri - . ; to Kngllsh speaking rncis. The ih Ct riots in IdCH .n New York and e.si ' In this country fiirnbsh a i-e demon.Hinitlon ther.f. In all the wars in which F.'ig'an-l been engaged during the pas- tie i-v she has always managed to t u the Held a siiillcient number ..f iv i ' v means of Voluntarj enlisttn throtiffh tho omployiuent of f. -r m mercenar.es. ns a' the tttni ' ' Crimenn war; and the reail.n s- r.'t whUh men volunteered for si . ' S. nth Afrlcn during the lti.er ir f fourteen years ago ba- :iiwi- ' -tiseil as a potent argument In fa- f their contentions by those wh.. '. ,v been opposed to any form of com- u. sory m'iit.iry scrvlc. Hut in point of numbers the pre wars of llngl.md hnve been mere , play. Great liritaln was con-'Ii'e . have made an altogether mnr is showing when she put "OO.OOu in, . the tlelil against the liners In l'.'U" in the Crimean war less than s' " Mng ish 1 1 oops were engaged. Th. of an army of S.nuO.OOO men under n-w mi. h as Kngland hns at present. 1- thug altogethrr beyond the w!'! dreams of thnso who In ymr- en Ium' fiiught for and agilr.st oompa' ' m.lltnry service In the Fntte.l Is . i..rn. while the f.n t that Givit Pi should have been able to rai-e i ! of tlis M7.o by means of puri 'y -tarj ftilN-ment has ben n . nr. agreeable surprise tn her Allies an I .if most unpleasant dinisvmeni t ' many. War to-dny. however, t b. inn ducted on a scale and with n di -t ' avngcry ur.paralli led since ti,,. ,1 , ' tho Thltty Years war, alii) It nieins fo lnws that the addition. Ion men demanded by Lord K, and by bis rninlsti.rl.vl colli g e - pimve siiillcient to accomplish t1"- ' structlon of the military rum! '. power of Gc runny, to which Gr. i V nln at.d h r Allies nre commltti .: S another million and possibly n ' ' dltloiml million may lie nei.. o - -the war Is bronuht to a s,ict.--r iilination nev year, or m.iy t nfier next It Is Idle to expect fur'! , to be raised, as the I.fiun.nim , -under .inn-, by puri ly v.,lui,t.n -. . uicnl. Tho burden is piopor : unevenly. U weighs wifi ... . undue pressure upon C , .-h .. tho.e who are Imbued with pit- n and v.ho have a proper appre. i.it . , what they owe to tho Statu -.n 1 t , ' natle l.ind, while those who m selllsh and too apathetic to rei"'. responsibility In this connect lei mi nei -- to evade what is their bounden .Pi-v t cltlrcns. Compulsion is the only iv, s reaching them, and since c.i-.s. -was legislated out of exist. ne - 1 . .i l'.'im, thanks to I.nnl Haldin,' ,i l ' . been shown everywhere to 1 , - Isfnctory resuts and lias I.,. i lnndiqu.it,. as a fa, "or in .ei of military defence, the . nl . l ' ' Will be to accept I.nnl Roberts - i ! e find to jlil.l (,, vh.it may b. -a"l h i e be. n h s d ing ( i 1 1 . i - ' Inaugurate tir.lvfi-stl obllgaiorv - I'i ciitniiien,i.,l bv l.lbehil leoler as I.orcl Itosebery. the Into Sir ( nilke. ,vc . n that the bunh n fend'.nif the honor of the Una , ' i t.'ctliig Ilrltlsh healths and hotn the Imii-'irs of lnvilon and of ; . Ing the .ik; isriilsh F.tup.r. ft , ' otruc'i.in and ulsintcgi,t,,.r ,, iqtiallv shire.i by nil rin, - cviiy ,,b!i. boilled dtlzer.. WIRE MESH HAT SHELVES w T lUVi: ba silelf ff,, banished tne nf',. irr 111 'lie hall ciu..' .-in-' Ji place hiixe one ,.f wl mi.slnsl w r. ' said a hniisekeepi r U en ii, at iinproveiu, n'j.. innltcr how Mien sou dus- a w -siei shelf tliere'ii .ilw'ns be iltisi' y It I i grind into the under brim of a hit laid ii'ioii It. ' It'i the hall closet shell thnt' prm i'v risponslblo for tip. ru-v lo.c i mine to men's hat bnni. in m w helf there's practically no r,. M' f ; du.il. :u It In prlnclpallv ,-ntnp.-.e.' of holes The wlr.. I nicke.'ed so h i ivll' no rust "