it would seem opportune to translate and introduce a song which was to be heard in America war, namely, "1 dia not raise my during the earlier days of the
boy to be a soldier." Just now, for the most part, even those who talk about the evils of the soldiers are only too pleased to see their own sons or nephews become even junior officers, but there is evidence that some are developing an aversion to this employment. Perhaps the fact that soldiers, and even officers, have actually been killed, and that in large numbers, in the recent fighting accounts for it, but it is true that I have recently heard quite a number trying to discover means to get sous or relatives discharged from thie army.
Until recently recruits have had to furnish a guarantor but now any applicant is accepted without surety and no questions asked. After a few days training they are hurried on towards the area of action. I have heard that in a neighbouring county the recruiting agents have even come to the stage where they go out and exhort men to enter thd army or bring pressure to bear oe a man who has more than and son to put some of them into the army. One would like to think that the shortage of recruits was due to a growing dislike to soldiers but the more likely reason is that the large casualties during the fighting of the past six' months has made the occupation' unpopular. The efforts being made to get recruits also show that the commanders are putting} forth every effort to increase their forces in preparation for further fighting.
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