MORE MEN!

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5

MORE MEN!

AiDDRESS BY I-ORD .DERBK.

f^STRI'GTIONS KO CAN-

VASSERS.

THE LAST APPEAL-

(Received Oct. 20, 8.40 p.m.) j LONDON, Oct. '20.. '■ Loitl Derby, in an address at the i! Mansion House in. connection with ihisij recruiting scheme, emphasised; tHejj points' <©f instruction to canvassers, i; who are to call p/n aU personally eligible and sea the man \hiniself.*| They must explain plainly .and.] politely £ke needs of the country, but j must not bully or■.threaten. .-• ae\ secret of the success, of his scheme was not to gei' au unmanageable number,! of recruits, font so many that he would be able to look forward with confidence to supplying Lord Kitchener's requirements lor many months to^ come. The whole secret was the] overcoming of the pi-esent hand-to-j mouth existence- He put iiside the •suggestion that a man should be disked to promise to come up for ■certain later, as there was no certainty about that. He proposed putting 23 classes of. unmarried men in the first group, according to a,ge, and similarly married men in 23 groups, to be called up as required. , 'A fortnight's notice would be .given before they need actually join. It would be many months before the married men would be called on. The war might be decided before^ that. If enlisters could not be equipped at the moment they would be allowed home until called up «.nd given three shillings a day. This was the' last effort in behalf of voluntary service. The scheme was supported by .«11 riolitir-rtl parties with the utmost harmony. He appealed to the people to recruit, and hoped that the appeal would not be in vain.