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Show ; BRITISH SUBJECTS I1 TO HELP IN THE III ; - :J SALT LAKE, March 9. Sons of S Britain numbering 136 have been re "a . crulted for the British army in Salt ' ! vi Lako since tho Canadian-British army ; , M agency waa established hero January ' ' i 1, according to Lieutenant J. F. I Mather, In charge of the bureau. ' "s, Immediately following the opening , i of the agency there was a considerable ' j . rush of Britishers for army service, but with tho first excitement over ; jr business dropped off, and during tho latter part of January and all through g tho month of February enlistments : were sporadic Recently, however, ap- , plications have been steadily Increas- ing, and tho day is called poor when (j tho officers do not entertain a score jn of inquirers. YcBterday Lieutenant Mather Bhip- ped three recruits to Seattle, where : thoy will bo physlcially examinod by , " a British examining board ere they are j sent to Victoria barracks. Tho men I leaving aro E. B. Hewitt of Ogden, 1 William E. Johnes and his brother, John M. Johnes, both of Salt Lake. f Ono man, John Green of Blackfoot, ; -ja Idaho, was shipped Monday. J Tho Salt Lake -office is the central i ;)g Canadian-British recruiting bureau of . : the state, and through this clearing- : ;i? house medium all men gathered up by h recruiting sergeants must pass. oo -l |