IRISH RECRUITING.
SPEECH BY LORD WIM'BORNE
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
(Press Assn.—Reed. 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, October 11
; Lor c i Wimborne, in a speech in Dublin, said that 157,000 men had enlisted in Ireland up to the middle of September, and 92,000 Catholics and 62,000 Protestants in Ulster contributed 5-1,000, of which 40,000 were Protestraits, lie estimated that 72,000 men of military age were available, including the unfit. The Irish divisions need. e<l 40,000 recruits before" Christmas.
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Northern Advocate, 12 October 1916, Page 3
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