To the Editor of the Norta-Cutna Dairy News."
So Whilst you are constantly urging the necessity at the present time of sending men from this port to the front, or to the training camps at home, there are other people here who are doing a great deal to discourage men whose minds are not made up, and even to dishearten those whose relatives have already gone, Phe men in the trenches have been telling us they want "more trained men." The persons here to whom I refer are saying, presumably with a greater complaisance than the men in the trenches, that the men of our Far Eastern contingent® are of no use to the War Office, and never can be of use. They, a few only I hope, express themselves as out of sympathy with the sending of men to help the country's cause.
You, Sir, will wish to believe, as most of us would wish to believe, that no Englishman would be found to express himself thus at such a time. Ihave, however, an authentic incident in which a man during the last two days gave voice freely to opinions such as I have described and actually to the mother and father of one of the men who left by the Arcadia this morning. The son
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