SHAMING THE "SHIRKERS."
Young Englishmen continue to arrive from abroad to join the army, says a London paper. They como from every part of the globe, and scarcely a passenger vessel arrives but has its complement of these patriotic sons of the Old Country. Some leave good positions and, being comfortably off, travel homo in -'style," but a great many are not able to afford an expensive passage. Nothing daunted, tlioy come steerage, but the "steamship companies allow them some special facilities, such as tlio reservation of a portion of the steerage quarters for their use. They constitute a striking example for their compatriots at homo who still hang back. That there should be any young eligible men out of khaki is what surprises them most when they laud.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129SHAMING THE "SHIRKERS." New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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