THE EMPIRE'S CRISIS

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

THE EMPIRE'S CRISIS

AN APPEAIi T<> NEW ZEALAND'S MANUOOI>.

The Prime Minister has issued the following appeal to men of military age throughout the Dominion: —

"We are now entering upon the most critical pet iod of the :xnr, when each and every part wf lite Ki-ipire must mrdce a- speciai effort to :>end men and munitions to the iY'nit. Field Lord Kitchener has stated ir no underlain t«»rms that he w:\nt.? both, of these essentials, and

tl at with a sufficient number of the. ouo and sin adequate quantity of the ether the Allies will hold the war i;. tho hollow of their hands. Now Zealand has dono nobly up to the present. Her sons have enlisted as soldiers of Kn^ by ten. of thousands, and when tested on the battlefield they have by their sp onaid gallantry and achievement already created an imperishable lecord or bl"¥rL the hillsides of Gallipoli, from the benches whore gallant men are fighting .for ihe honor and prestige of our race, tho appeal has now come to their comrades n-ho aro. still in New Zenhnd with such force that few of British bkrod will be :,blc to resist it. The call has fome i'om the leaders of tho Empire so clear, ?o strong and so i.ersistent that no man wot- by of the nr.mo can hear it unmoved. . , , . "I. know the appeal is .not bomg made in vain. I know the response will be wcrthy of. the manhood ot the country, but le^ me say personally to every man of military age whose ro-Rpoiv-ibilities to dependents do not compel him to ramam m ;tho Dominicn that it is his bounden cli-ty, in iw-tice to his country, in justice to his'fellow New . Zealanders who nayo died fighting, for honor and liberty and wh(se bone 3 rest to-day in ioreign toil nay, in justice to hnr^U -a citizen of the Empii c, to respond in a courageous ancl patriotic &pint to the urgent iness-tge from our kit acrosw the ?eas, and to say to th© milr.ary authornies of tho Dominion, m words familiar but expressive, 'Here am I> send Me.'