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Show f Mf J Britishers ialMed 4fir FV;-)5taics Called to Colors . , : ' t , & W'-V',--, ,: .- - . , T'."- .--.a;;-;-;T.ti.:yS.i.ii... &rV-. . :. . ,s : ' .- r. ;T" rs.' x .'s, , ,i . ' - - . , f V s -;w, r If' 1 r m .A . - h a- , v s V-fV ' - jr- c - , Vtt - '- ' fSsL- .- .T:;-o :-V?sl:-:--'. . 1 os'''i"'H-:'::" ::::: L-' ij Tlle l'lite(1 til t t's; and British Kovm-iiiiients, . ' ' ;. ' t&-jj'-' "J jj?J' y"' 'V:.V:"o 'Syyyy':y 'i'':y:y :y::: Iiowpvci', are working in linrniony in this soine-j- jr I vV ':,':" -'::- ' ' ;Vv what oomplieatprt international matter because, . XJ?" ' 'i ' J- jT s!f';, : . : , ';; after all, so long as a man fights it does not make f -'-'"J ,: dteJ ' a great deal of difference whether lie goes "over l tllp top" under the British Hag or the Stars and JVJJ 'mT- M-J JSk v.,'. ,;::.r' 4 Stripes. The main proposition is to see that he J1: : gets into, the firing line in one army or the other !?. ... :,-'h:. - v':f.:: wfe' rfl ilPW' P and does "his bit" against the Prussian military '?VV WT'i autocracy. V' -f" .. "w & , J'' ; aer AaJ's. ' 11 is nn armi' axiom that three men are needed 4 " X, ki)ffpJll2A": .: i-f!?- behind the lines to keep one soldier in a front rxsA,V? ''' J) X-IX" I "ne trench ready to go over the top. Men who i j? '' , X i ' " i5?- vN V fight must be backed by men who work, and ex- 'i r ,f "'fc v ' ,f tj" 4r ""1 T vevts in all sorts of trades are needed. The Brit- ,V t. " --v , tjX " ' ish and Canadian recruiting mission, for example, ;;;;''";A - v;.:-vi ;f; is now in urgent need of blacksmiths, boat build- LLr-fl, - " - . , X J'8" 'iulf 1 ers' carpenters, caulkers, drillers, frame benders, :.: : v : M ,..':10-VS:-s:;i V' $ heavy timbenuen, platers, platers' helpers, pile Wy-V"i7:-,-;':;;& drivers, quarrymen, riggers, riveters and their . ' 'Ti':'if 1 mates, seamen, shlpAvrlghts, shipyard machinists J-rAPPVJ-fcAlAfO?J S5-sii'&i': -: : ' : " V: : : : " r' " . : ;i: The average man of fifty-six thinks that no YA$ YffifcS " one wants him for war purposes, but he is mis- "SkSpf .feSfewSI ' j5 taken. Let "old Doctor Osier" take notice that VARIOUS TYPfJOfPACXJ SDfirJM3iyC Tl The United States and British governments, however, are working in harmony in this somewhat some-what complicated international matter because, ; after all, so long as a man fights it does not make a great deal of difference whether lie goes "over the top" under the British Hag or the Stars and j Stripes. The main proposition is to see that he gets into, the firing line in one army or the other j and does "his bit" against the Prussian military autocracy. I It is an army axiom that three men are needed j behind the lines to keep one soldier in a front I line trench ready to go over the top. Men who J fight must be backed by men who work, and ex- perts in all sorts of trades are needed. The British Brit-ish and Canadian recruiting mission, for example, is now in urgent need of blacksmiths, boat builders, build-ers, carpenters, caulkers, drillers, frame benders, heavy timbenuen, platers, platers' helpers, pile drivers, quarryinen, riggers, riveters and their mates, seamen, shipwrights, shipyard machinists and stevedores. j The average man of fifty-six thinks that no ! one wants him for war purposes, but he is mis- j taken. Let "old Doctor Osier" take notice that L '.... . .".:: :;.y.. .. -.v.x . ..,w I the British government thinks that a man of fifty-six, provided he knows his business, is well worth acquiring for its service in the Royal Imperial Im-perial Engineers. This corps offers a special opening open-ing to men between fifty-one and fifty-six, and to younger men who are highly skilled or medically unfit, for general service, but who are fit to carry on their trade occupation. They are being enlisted en-listed for the duration of the war, and rank from privates to sergeants, a private receiving 76 cents per day, a lance corporal 84 cents, a second corporal cor-poral $1, a corporal $1.08 and a sergeant $1.28, separation allowances being paid to dependents. The Canadian partriotic fund also gives an allowance al-lowance to dependents who reside in Canada. Forty clerks are at work in the New York offices of the British and Canadian recruiting mission on a card index system covering the names of every Britisher and Canadian of draft age in the United States, and Brigadier General White hns already sent a strong letter to 100,000 of them explaining why Uiey should volunteer, asking them to volunteer or tell him their reasons why they do not do so, amiending with the pertinent per-tinent query: "Will you not do your part, a man's part, in this great cause?" The most interesting war relic ever seen in America will he used In General White's great recruiting campaign. This relic Is none other than the tank Britannia, which has already been seen In New York and Canada, but is still a decided novelty to people all over the United States. The Britannia is a genuine British tank, and has seen service on the Flanders front. When it first appeared ap-peared upon the streets of New York, it caused a great sensation as it lumbered along Fifth avenue, ave-nue, and later on was the biggest hit at the Hero Land bazaar. An extensive Itinerary has been laid out for the tank and its crew of veterans, several of whom bear wounds received In the service. This novel land battleship carries six machine guns, and Is an awe-inspiring sight ns it moves over rough country and deep ditches with the same ease and speed It shows when it attacks the Gorman trenches on the French front. By EARLE HOOKER EATON. ir-ja k A MAN wants to fight nowadays I "a there is no reason why he should I . i 1 not. be accommodated. The Unlt-ed Unlt-ed States is not only a vast're- F4 cruiting camp for its own armies, ' yJ Dut Great Britain is engaged in a ' strenuous campaign to get every 6r$'iW? Britisher and Canadian in the L.4V United States to volunteer for p! service under the British flag. i-.Vs" Tnis work is being done pend-ing pend-ing the outcome of international rmr-rniiw negotiations at Washington which, it consummated, will permit the British and Canadian Ca-nadian recruiting mission under the leadership of Brig. Gen. W. A. White, C. M. G., to draft every Britisher and Canadian now residing in the United States, and the United States to draft every one of Its citizens who lives in Great Britain or Canada. This is a very important matter, particularly for the Britishers and Canadians, because there are at least 200,000 of them over whom Old Glory waves, and the names and addresses of at least 175,000 of them are known to General White and his staff because they have been taken from the draft records of the United States. Many of these are coming forward every day of their own accord, but the recruiting mission wants every man of them who is physically fit to volunteer for the British or Canadian armies. About 14,000 have already gone into these armies, and In one month recently over half of the recruits secured for the Canadian expeditionary forces came from the United States. When Brigadier General White asks a man to fight he doesn't ask him to do any more than he hns done himself. He is an officer in the regular army of Great Britain, and that he lost no time himself in getting into the fray Is shown by the fact that he readied Belgium about August 0, 101 1, a few days after the war was declared, and ot into action almost immediately. He had general gen-eral charge of the rear guard actions from Mons to the Marne, in which a small British army ina- Pineapples Catch Crop $ All hough pineapples are grown rather extensively exten-sively in the Straits Settlements, the canning of this fruit being one of the most flourishing of the minor industries, there appears to he little definite information available as to the acreage and actual production in the different localities, according to Consul Harry Campbell, detailed as vice consul at Singapore, Straits Settlements. Pineapples are for the most part raised as a icatch crop In connection with rubber plantations, lnce they can be grown very easily and with little (Cost between the rubber trees during the first (two or throe years of their growth. This procedure pro-cedure has been especially attractive to planters '(mostly Chinese) having small holdings on the island of Singapore, ns it affords the planter an In-.eome In-.eome during the years that the rubber trees are coming into bearing, while proximity to the enn-nlng enn-nlng factories of Singapore makes the marketing simple and Inexpensive. It Is estimated that about 2,000 acres of pineapples pine-apples were planted on rubber estates on the Island of Singapore In 1010. Any definite figures !U3 to acreage In other parts of the peninsula are not available, but It appears that the Industry In the Federated Malay states Is not important, being be-ing limited almost entirely to small plots for local market purposes. The value of the exports of pineapples from the Straits Settlements during 1010 was $2. 500, 910. in i . . C?JJ7J AT -fOOr P?U -"- terially aided the French in holding back the German hordes under General Yon Kluck and made possible the great victory at the Marne planned by General .Toffre. After fighting in France and Belgium for almost two years, General White was taken severely 111 with appendicitis, and after two operations was invalided to America Amer-ica on his present recruiting mission. Anyone who Is familiar with the rear-guard actions ac-tions fought by the British between Mons and the Marne heart-breaking actions in which the brave men involved, although vastly outnumbered by the army Germany had been getting ready for years, were practically called upon to sacrifice themselves so that .loft're could have time to fully prepare for his wonderful and successful blow against Von Kluck's flank knows that every Britisher, Brit-isher, from general to private, did the full measure meas-ure of his duty to his country and to civilization, and that thousands of them paid for that duty with their blood or with their lives. Inspired by such experiences, it is no wonder Mint General White is a bit Impatient with the Britisher or Canadian wlin has been under the protection of the British flag for years, who has enjoyed the liberty and the various advantages claimed by those living or claiming the righls of those living under that flag, and yet who 'declines to come forward of his own volition and help Great Britain. France and the United Slates win a war, the object of which is "to make the world safe for democracy." Several months, no doubt, will pass before the conventions providing reciprocal draft privileges are approved by the United States senate and arrangements are perfected for making the draft effective. The reason the United States senate must first pass on the conventions is because existing ex-isting treaties between the United States and Great Britain are to be changed somewhat by them. One odd phase of the situation and one that causes souk? confusion, Is the different age period of the draft in the United Stales, Great Britain and Canada. Britishers from eighteen to forty-one forty-one may be drafted, Canadians between twenty and thirty-four, and citizens of the United States between twenty-one and thirty-one. Still another odd phase Is the first papers proposition. Tho United States draft authorities claim every Britisher Brit-isher and Canadian who has taken out first naturalization natur-alization papers, but: Ihese men are all regarded as British subjects by the British government and as such not only at liberty to volunteer but sub-Jecl sub-Jecl to the British and Canadian draft provisions as soon as they become effective In the United Slates. |