Extract from letter from an Unconscientious Slacker.
"Dear Lord Kitchener,—I am not a good walker, which prevents my joining the Infantry. As I have no experience of horses, the Cavalry is also out of the question. The Artillery I don't care for on account of the noise, and flying makes me giddy. The A.S.C. does not appeal to me, and the R.A.M.C. would entail some very unpleasant duties.
"So you had better not worry about me. Perhaps when the fine weather comes I may think about the Navy. I am rather keen on boating...."
"We have from the first declared that should the voluntary system fail to supply the men needed to win the war and who could be spared from civil war we would accept and support it."
Manchester Guardian.
Unfortunately, to judge by the proceedings at the Labour Conference, the claims of civil war are very heavy.
This paragraph from "Town Topics" in The Liverpool Echo—