HERO OFEMDEN FIGHT APPEALS FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 5

HERO OFEMDEN FIGHT APPEALS FOR MEN

CAPTAIN GLOSSO? IN , SYDNEY TOO MAN* YOUNG MEN ABOUT Sydney, Mar 2.5. Capt. J. C. T. Glufsop, C.8., R.N.. who commanded the cruiser H.M.A.S. Sydney when she destroyed tho Enulen, nnd is now Oflicer-in-Charge of Naval Establishments in Sydney, was the priueinal iigure at yestwday's recruiting meetings, aml received sin enthusiastic welcunie. "It is your positive duty to «n----list now; you are wanted, and badly wanted," was his appeal to the youii'ir men, of whom there were hundreds in the big crowd round the platform. "When I returned here about 10 days ago, what struck me most was the enormous uum-i ber of able-bodied men. If you j>o through France np.w_ you won't sec a. single man, except, men 60 years old. ]f you are in England you seldom seo a man wjio is out of uniform. When T look round here I see "hundreds—l may almost say . thousands-ef ablo-bodied men who ought to be doing their duty. There is our motto, a famous one—'England expects every nian to do his duty/ (Cheers.) it is not only England, it is the whole world expects it. "I ask myself, why do not tho iieople m Australia enlist? If by the referendum you ihave objected 'to the word conscription'-Mvell, what's in a name? \ou can object to conscription by name, but nobody can object to it in fact. Aobody began to notice the war until it touched them personally. If, however you Were compelled to -id'opt the rations winch had been prescribed in England Hie discomforts of the war would immediately begin to strike you. At every meal you would put to yourselves Ih'c question: 'Aw f eating more than my share of bread ?' The Tutions in England at present are Ut>. of bread, ".'.AM. of meat, and Jlte. of sugar weekly. " HW would that suit some of you? What about the awards I see issued in the Arbitration Courts? Four pounds of bread «nd Jill), of meat. Why, you eat it in a day; and that is a week's rations. If i-oiiie of you would confine yourselves to these rations for some time you would then begin to realise the effects of the war. Out here you win not realise it. You live in a magnificent country. .Australia lias been extraordinarily generous in money and in kind. Jsul. money is not everything. You eau spend any money in your pocket because you do'not feel tho sacrifice. No oue in Australia would think twice about giving a sovereign. Jt is nothing to you; you are all so rich. ; (Laughter.) What is wanted is your personal, service. '■'"I look round and see the shops in Sydney full of young men. Thore is no occasion for a single male shop assistant. (Hear, hear.) ] went into a sliop yc=lerduy and I was astonished. There wero eight young men iu the shop, and every one might have been at the front. If they aro under military age, (lieu they Hhould be preparing to' go to the front to relieve those men already there. Thorn is no eight-hours day' in the ■trenches. You cannot call time amid tho firing of shot and shell and stop. You are wauted thero everyone of you, nt once —tho sooner the better. Syduey, I think, is tbo fourth or fifth largest town in the Empire. Tho response from Sydney should bo in proportion. "Equally important work has to be done in the country. There are many men here who would be better working in the country, where they could relieve men for llio trenches, i do not say everyone here can go to the trenched. It is not nrubablc. But a lot of vmi can releuc* other men who c-m enlist. Omj word iiuuo—and t particularly speak to tlio ladies. Ut<fore conscription came into fovcf in England a great, dral wa* due t<i tin) ladies. They mado it their business h> we that I.lm young men, and thuir particular young inVn, went to the war. (Uugliter and cheers.) Ladies i>l Sydney—it is your businn=s Hi sw that your young mm go to tho war." .