The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18
BRITISH YOUTHS
EAGER TO JOIN
ROYAL TROOPS
Lads Of Isles Drill for Duty
in Kitchener's Army
Coast Solid Defence.
FISHERMEN SHOOT AT
MINES LAID BY KAISER
NJ FLORENCE KuRBy MrDGLEy.


and Cambridge wears n more normal and
peaceful air. the wounded are stll here.
going and coming from week to week
Only last night 200 more came In from
tho firing line They had been eight days
in the trenches and their uniforms were
caked with mud and torn to ribbons
Also many OF them were very badly
wounded heretofore we have only had the
slightly wounded They are eth housed
in Trinity College closters and In tents
on the Backs" but soon term begins
and they must be moved into the new tenn
porary hospital which Ia being built for
them rapidly In the cricket fields OF Clare
and Kings colleges.
II "a TO be the most up 10 date OF hos
pftais. built Of ASBESTOS sheeting while
the sides are 20 slide up and down on
guilds, so that II may be opened IN the
summer and thus be turned into an out
door hospital. II Is 10 Accommodate six
hundred. and has every conceivable mod
ern convenience md labor saving device,
such o. small electric trucks IN rails
running through the wards 20 collect the
so'led linen and convex Il automatically
20 the wash house whore (. e washed
and sterll7ed automatically Men are
working DAY and night on the erection
OF this hospital 90 that q may be finished
IN time.
The officers training corps grows
smaller AID smaller each day. as the
graduates and undergraduates get their
commissions and go of 20 their various
regiments. most OF thcm with Kitcheners
army, some into the territoriais and
some into the special reserve. Many OF
those stil waiting are drilling recruits
who ure hileted here. for the demand for
officers 10 train these new recruits Is enor-
nous. and time is short for they must be
ready 20 10 abroad IN six months.
Most student. at Front.
Few freshmen viii come up to the
university this year. and practically no
second or third year men n all tsave
those who ar" not physically ~ TO- the
army, but there - no doubt that every
one NJ these freshmen will ~ once join
the training corps and drill and study
alternately all through the winter The
Fairgrounds will be empty this term no
football, no hockey and no rowing, FOR
every second they can spare from their
studies will be given 10 drilling.
But II Cambridge IS NOR" p'l"efrl In
appearance now, II Is not so between here
and tho east coast, for while on 4 motor
tour this past week I saw much Of inter-
est and found the whole countryside in
defensive condition. In the large town
OF W saw thousands Of K,trhoner's
army being drilled on the spacious breezy
common W has huge barracks.
70 ~, ,,,, r.,.d r,,a,.,ors c,,th ,hoso ia.
recruits. They have twelve drills day
and four good meals. To see them drill
ing Is most Interesting and often anus
ing. for only very few are IN uniform.
s.,
biest and oldest OF clothes, red band
round the arm being the only sign to dis
dngiish them from the civilian. one
sees a str1ng" miXtur" OF costumes a
khaki coat, black trousers and straw
hat complete khaki suit with a soft
felt hat | even saw one man I'm uniform
and a bowler.
Some Of the y. c O.'s are old and gray
and have rriOinc1 tn" army out of IA
triotsm TO teach these green men OF a
younger generation ali they know Of SOL
diering. and valantly do these old SOL
diers strive 10 teach quickly wha, n has
taken them years Of painful experience TO
learn Thcy. are being well paid by the
Government.
The uniforms are 70 no OF blue serge
and not until they go abroad will they
wear khaki, for the supplv az khaki has
run very low. 80 great has been the de.
mand and those who are loft behind
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