THE CALL TO ARMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1915, Page 5

THE CALL TO ARMS.

3,000,000 MORE MEN WANTED

-TO OOUNTER-BALANCB GERMAN NUMBERS.

(Received Oct. 19, 9 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 19,

General Sir Eric Swmyne, speaking at Hull, said that Britain needed 3,- ---( 000,000- more men before the spring. He «*>timat<xl that Germany still had . between .'9,000,000 and 1.©,000,000 men ■ ranging from 18 to 45 years of ageIt was* useless talking of wearing Getfznany ©ut. but if Britain raised an a<3- , ditioual- -3,000,000 the German nurn- • hers would be counter-balanced and the enemy would, recognise that it . nrrnld be fruitless to continue the . war. Britain did not want conscrip-

■•- iicn, but unless 3,000,000 were re- ,- cruitc-d by the spring the military authorities could not be held respon- . ■sibU" for the result.'