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Show RECRUITING IN BRITISH ISLES London, Upril 11. The recruiting campaign to be undertaken by the parliamentary par-liamentary recruiting committee In inndon during the next two weeks opened today when ninety meetings were held Speakers addressed large gatherings in Hyde Pari;, on Parliament Parlia-ment Hill, at Hempstead Heath and about forty other places. Thp non-I non-I party character of the campaign is i shown bv the faci hat the speakers were from 'hp Liberal, Unionist and i Nationalist branch I At RochedaTe one speaker touched on thp lighter side of recruiting. He I told how a woman taking leave ol bei husband at a railway station rc marked "If you thump the kaiser as you thump mp. he will be sorry ho ever went to w ar " The merriment of thp audience was easily turned into an argument. ; ' Why, you are herp and laughing simplv because Of the living Bbieldfl I in the trenches yonder go help ; i hem " Thp appeal had an Immediate r sponse In twenty four volunteers, who 1 were taken at once In automobiles to j 'the central recruiting office I OTw.-.-n... ...ill ka kolrl In I Cl I II fc IUIIIUI I un will li- ll'.i'i Quildhall yard,, Finbury square and ' many other places i" thp London suburbs. sub-urbs. Throughout the campaign flags are to be displayed on all dwellings Fifteen hundred meetings in all are I to be held during the two weeks' cam , paign. |