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Show FOSTER TOMMIES NOW ARE CALLING: "I "BRITISHERS YOU ARE NEEDED, COME!' H j IiBBbBRS. nbfcHLiBfcr I raflfl&'nL Facing newsboys shouting war cx- iras in every city ar posters in which British Tommies, gun in hand, reach across a pea green ocean to j grasp the ana's of the British- Canadian kers and shout: "Come ij across now." These posters which blossomed j out before Von Hindenburg's drive I' bore the slogan: "Britishers, you are I needed." The world knows it now. I That the call is heeded was shown by a rapid increase of enlistment when news of the "giant offensive" H I startled the public. One father, ! Thos. McGregor Littleiohn, who I with hie own father, had fought in the Soudan campaign within a week brought in his second eon and said: "I would disown the lad if ho failed when Britain is fighting the ftgbt for America and all tho world.'7 Another An-other man who has lost both feet wrote that he wished and hoped he j might go to the trenches as ho cannot can-not because American to serve "as ' the son of a British soldier should." I "1 lost both leg below the knees 1 twenty-three years ago," ho wrote. "Every time I pa3s tho Mission I feel like going to enlist. If I could only get a chance to join the Rod Crosa 80 as to help tho wounded I would go in one minute." Tho recruits who go with cheers ringing in their oars and with memory mem-ory of the waving flags and smiling girls do not forget that all "the folks back homo" are behind them aa they go. Public demonstrations fw outgoing out-going recruits are becoming popular among society and business leaders BflLmBHsflLIH |