31 OCTOBER 1914, Page 3

Last Saturday Lord Kitchener appealed to both men and women

to refrain from treating the recruits in the training camps to drink and from putting any other sort of temptation in their way. Lord Kitchener suggests that local Committees should be formed in the neighbourhood of camps to educate public opinion. People should try to think of the soldiers as being "in training" in the athletic sense. What is not too strict a regime for, say, the Olympic Games is not too strict when the prize is saving the British Empire and ridding the world of the intolerable German militarism.