BRITAIN'S SECOND ARMY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 7

BRITAIN'S SECOND ARMY.

SIXTY THOUSAND SINCE MONDAY. FUSILIER TELLS A STORY. LONDON, September 3. Since Monday sixty thousand men have joined Ldrd Kitchener's' army. The second hundred thousand is expected to be completed in a few days; The Football Association proposes to place its grounds at the War Office's disposal, to arrange for wei)Uk,nown public men to address players and tors on match days, and to open,_ recruiting stations adjacent' to the grounds. Two American engineers who were recently in Berlin, visited the flying station, and saw jSfty Zeppelins ready' to start, and hundreds of aeroplanes also ready. " . An operation for appendicitis will be performed on Prince Albert shortly. No anxiety is felt. It is now stated that although the pavilions of the Leipzig Book Exhibition were burnt, the British .Commissioner had removed* tlie British loafi collections prior to his hurried departure. Among soldiers' experiences is the story of a Fusilier, who said:—"The 1 Germans did not give us much time to think. We were busy picking off the enemy. -The last sight I had of the Germans' was a squadron of Lancers caught in the open. All the horses were ' shot, and the men lay behind the rampart men and horses, using : earbines. Our artillery and • infantry.. were pouring a hail of leald into them. One of our men, while holding a,waterbottle to a wounded German, was shot dead. Another, while lighting a cigarette, had his fingers shot off. We hear • awfuL stories of the German treatment of our wounded, but are not inclined to " believe them all."