THE AGE LIMIT
(To tho Editor.) Sir,—lt is with consternation too deep for language to express that I learn through your columns that it is the iwlicy of Parliament to conscript our nine-teen-year-old children, while thousands of our very best class of manhood shield themselves behind these boys. _ Personally, 1 am a worn-out old soldier, and notwithstanding all the experts, martial and medical, I still maintain that I could be of more service in tho field than any child of nineteen. And the reflection—aye, disallusionment of what I thought I so often risked my life for. My God; Can Britishers be so inhuman; nay, even unmammalian as to thus sacrifice their voung? If 6uch a catastrophe should befall us, it may logically be expected that many of us worn-outs .with manhood still vital within us, may forsake humanity and emulate the loftier and'more noble ethics of tho tiger, wolf, or weasel.—l am, etc., ? August 11, 1917.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3161, 13 August 1917, Page 6
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156THE AGE LIMIT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3161, 13 August 1917, Page 6
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