MEN IN THE U.S.A.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4711, 8 November 1917, Page 5

MEN IN THE U.S.A.

BRITAIN MAY ROUND UP 500,000

NEW YORK, Oct. 17. War sentiment in the United States is growing steadily, according to .Brig-adier-General Wilfred A. White, C.M.G., heafL of the British Recruiting Service in tlie U.S.A. General White has just returned from a tour across the country. He estimates that the King’s army will get about 500,000 men as the result of the campaign that has been started in America, of which 100,000 will come from British subjects who have been located through the selective draft law. The General placed a string of recruiting offices throughout tlie country with Boston. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis Duluth, Spokane, Seattle Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Kansas City and St Louis as tlie central working points. • ' , ' ~ • “Our greatest difficulty,” said General White, “is that we have no adequate method of estimating the available number of British subjects of military age, or of locating them. We shall have figures of the men who are between 21 and 31 as soon as we have access to tlie registration cards which have been kindly promised to ms Our 'present guess is that thei e are 500,000 British subjects in this country between the ages ot 1J and 45” .