The Archive · 1914

A PEOPLE'S WAR

Dee 9

Other correspondents having written to explain to ''Neutral"' the dangers of taking a quotation apart from its context, this part of his letter need not detain us. What Mr. H. G. Wells said, course, was this: There are many of us capable of fighting, for our homes, if they were invaded by the Germans, though not, perhaps, capable of _standing'a continental campaign. Will the War Office take advantage of this fact, arm, drill and give us some kind of uniform to denote us orthodox combatants, and thereby let Igose numbers of the regulars in England to serve abroad? Or will it ignore us and our useful patriotism? If it won't even double that sum, but we dojlet us fight in orthodox ways, we think that it would be worth "he! will fight in unorthodox, because UN

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