These men who have responded to the urgent call to arms are of" all ranks and classes, but there is little to differentiate each from the other as one sees t! m on Salisbury Plain. "Kitchener's" are clad in dark blue, and wear an odd_ little Bootch cap clapped on the side of the head; rumour has it that 20,000 of theca uniforms have been filched from the postmen, so those who deliver our letters will go shabby thie year, Other recruits are wearing the scarlet discarded by men on active service, many are till in However, the great multitude including the men of the Overseas, are in khaki of various shades. Here march the compact little body of Newfoundlanders, there the Canadians, quickly distinguishable by means of their coloured shoulder straps. Away across the plain one catches " glimpse of Australians, or else the New Zealanders who are most prominent when they wear their "'cow-boy hate" with the khaki and scarlet band. Yet over in the vastness there are other troops, and will be more, stalwart Maories and a little body of Red Indians, so wide has the call of Empire sounded.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.