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Show RECRUITING FOR THE BRITISH ARMY, Dublin, Nov. 11. Recruiting in Ireland Ire-land has been placed upon a new "basis. Hitherto the work has been entrusted en-trusted to voluntary committees formed form-ed in each county, with a central recruiting re-cruiting council for Ireland. The result re-sult has been, as announced by Major General Lovick Friend, the com-j mander of the forces in Ireland, tho ' enlistment of S1.000 men for the infantry. in-fantry. As tho percentage of rejections rejec-tions for unfitness has been as high as 50 per cent, the total number from Ireland who offered themselves for service in the army was about 160,000 men. Ireland at tho outbreak of the war had more than her proportion of men In the army and in the reserves and this total hus been described by the highest military authority In a public letter as "magnificent " There must be added to It also Ireland's re-crultmeut re-crultmeut for the navy, to which a substantial number of meu have gone. A fresh appeal ha3 been made for more men to fill up the wastage in the Irish divisions at tho front. To Keep them up to normal strength a recruitment of about 1100 men a week is officially statedeto be necessary. No difficulty, however, is expected to arise In the matter. The rate of recruitment asked for now Is less than that reached in the months of April and May last. The existing organizations organi-zations are now at an end, and a new department for Irish recruiting has been established under the headship of Lord Wimborne, lord lieutenant. He had appointed as chief director Captain R. C. Kelly, an Irish soldier of distinction and, what is more to the purpose, an extremely keen business busi-ness man, full of energy and tact. The choice of Captain Kelly has been warmly welcomed by both the Unionist and Nationalist newspapers The most effective appeals addressed address-ed to Irishmen have been based on the Invasion of Belgium The torpedoing tor-pedoing of the Lusitania was a powerful pow-erful stimulus to recruiting, which was btill further added to by the sink ; ing of the Arabic. Ireland was chilled by action on the I part of the military authorities, such , as that which refused to allow tbe ' Irish division to provide its own color?. - There also is a feeling that tho,ei j- ploints of Irish regiments at the front (' have not had all the publicity they j deserved. Still, when all is said, the response of Ireland, notwithstanding all difli- culties, Is regarded as excellent, and , the avoidance-of such errors as may have been made in the past, it is be- ; lieved, will may easy what remains j, to be done. j' oo tj "Does your husband play cards for I money?" "No," replied young Mrs. Torkins, thoughtfully; "I don't think i Charley plays for money But all the .: people who play with him do." WasU '. ington Star. i |