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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 8

"Whatever else the war may teach us, it has brought home to everyone the supreme importance of compulsory military training," says the Calcutta Englishman. "That the lesson has not been thrown away has nowhere been so plainly shown as in Calcutta, where the number of recruits in the various volunteer corps has been going up by leaps and bounds, and if recruiting continues at the present rate, within a very short timo everyone entitled to bear arms in the defence of the Empire will belong to one or other of the volunteer corps? Calcutta has risen nobly to the occasion. It promises to do its duty as the second city in the Empire." j It is stated by the Nelson Mail that Major A. E. Glasgow, of the Imperial Army, is a Brigade Major in the second Indian Contingent, which sailed for the front about 20th August. He is an old boy of Nelson College. Another brother, Major W. J. Glasgow, who recently retired from the Imperial Army, has vol' untecred for active service, and has been accepted, but it is not known locally what position he now holds. Major W. J. Glasgow was the first Nelson Collegian to gain a commission in tho Imperial Army. Since his time, many Nelson Collegians have entered tho Army straight from the College, and quite a number now hold important commissions.