DEARTH OF INFANTRY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 20 February 1915, Page 4

DEARTH OF INFANTRY

RECRUITING PHENOMENON. IN THE SOUTH. ► k ' - ''"' ** !" ,i ,■ » ' Enlistment is proceeding At\thft Christchurch district office, 1 'and there is a strange dearth of men "who wish to join the 1 infantry and far too many lor the mounted rifles, which arm is'already filled up. One of the staff sergeantmajors expressed surprise at the, keenness to ioin the mounted- .rifles, and simply put it down to the fact that the vohm'teeis do not know what they are letting themselves in for. The Imperial man states that for a man who wishes to see the most active service tinder the best conditions the 'infantry 'jte the force to join. Infantry will get work' to-do where cavalry and artillery will not, because infantry' can 'go "anywhere ; -also infantry can take cover where other arms cannot, which i% a point that ie *worth thinking of. " "We "have a lot of not -very. nnprea. sive-looking' volunteers come in with a request to join the Army Service Corpty" he says. "They seem to think that- this is a corps which is not likely to run up against-any bullets! They little know the dangers t"he A.S.C. men run in supplying the firing-line in the trenches with rations, dangers which have to be faced without the, satisfaction of -snootmig back. Taking it all round, the -infantry is decidedly the best arm to join."