LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,
COMPULSORY SERVICE.
[To rex Eorror or rxr "Bramaros...]
Sin,—As a constant subscriber to your paper, I know what patriotic efforts you have made in the past, and are still making, to induce the country to face its military necessities; and perhaps you may think the following suggestion worthy of consideration. Registration and classification of all men between the ages of nineteen and forty will involve consider- able time and possible confusion owing to shortage of staff. Why should not, in the first instance, all those between the ages of nineteen and twenty-five be called upon by Proclama- tion, under suitable penalties, to present themselves at recruiting and other approved offices, with proper certificate. in respect of age and employment P These are the men we especially want to get hold of, and so let those of them who are not employed on urgent munitions of war be dealt with forthwith by enlistment. This class alone would give us far more than the three hundred thousand demanded by Lord Kitchener. Then proceed with the men between twenty-fire and thirty; and so on.—I am, Sir, dec.,
ELLIOTT WOOD, Major-Gen. (Retired). ByIetts, Pembridge, Herefordshire.
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