12 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 14

RECRUITING AT BIRMINGHAM.

[To TER EDITOR OF THE “SPECTLTOR.'1 Snt,—You say in your last issue with regard to recruiting that " the response from the great centres of population must in some cases have been decidedly poor." May I say that Birmingham is not one of those centres which deserve your censure ? The population is about 830,000, and up to last (Monday) night the number of recruits was 18,000, that day (Monday) having brought in 1,400. Further, some battalions of non-manual workers are being raised at the expense of the citizens, for which 4,500 names have been received.—I am, Sir,