So much has been heard of the alleged apathy of Britons at home that it is refreshing to find an American cor it "devoting a column to a serious effort to convince his countrymen that it would be a mistake to imagine that the British Empire hae reached "the Diocletian period of the Romans." Hoe assures readere of the "New York Tribune" that Britons are revealing anything but embryonic decadence. Never was Britain greater than in thie hour of crisis; the war has gone straight home to the heart of the nation, " but it is a British heart, which docs not heat any the lees feelingly because its pulsations are not of the spread-eagle timbre"
Here is how "apathetic" England has been about the war: Within ninety dave of its outbreak the great civilian state raised within its own boundaries and placed under arms for training purposes 1,250,000 volunteers. is is exch of the regular and territorial military establishment, hitherto the only one upon which Kitchener has drawn for the requirements of the expeditionary force fighting on the continent. The sons of the Empire from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia have come by the shipload in their tens of thousands to fight for the motherland.
The correspondent goes on to quote many other facts and figures and reminds Americans that "Pre. sident Lincoln had to resort to just as heroic measures to find men to overthrow the rebellion as Kitchener is employing to-day." But there is this great difference,
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