New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
STOCK MARKET MEN
 ARE GOOD SOLDIERS
New British Army Changing
 Whole Face of Life at Front
1Correspondence of the Associated Press)

1Correspondence of t"e Associated Press)
 British Army Headquarters in France. Aug. 24-"We are in sight of the trenches at last, said prl- vate in what is known as the Stock Exchange Battalion of one Of the regiments of the New British Army. "It's been a long pull in a hard mar ket But we never missed getting our shilling a day and our wives have got their separation allow ances regularly
 There are privates in the Stock Exchange Battalion who have names we'll known in the world of finance. Some of them have subscribed for tunes to the latest War Loan.
 Awaits His Turn.
 At home 1 have three bathrooms in my house and sixteen bedrooms said one. "Out here l am glad to stand up in line with a towel over my shoulder and take my turn with the washbasin. As for sleeping on straw in barn 1t Is paradise after a hard march. I suppose We Will get these other things too, like every body else does in the trenches
 Bound to, though you have ten thousand a year." remarked another.
  now"
 Prove Good Soldiers.
 "What interests us" said a divi- sional staff officer, lis not that they are Stock Exchange men, but are they good soldiers?'
 Many speak German as a result of international financial relations.
 Ut would be odd,". said one, If I cI0 at riff who is on the Berlin Exchange. We went to school together in Germany"
 Not all in the Stock Exchange bst- talion are affluent or members of the Exchange, but all were recruited from the Stock Exchange district. As they march along a road in France, laden with dust, the twenty-five dol lars a week clerk and the big broker are elbow to elbow and the observer can not tell one from the other.
 There is another battalion compos- ed of artists, architects, musicians, and men of kindred callings. Many officers have been promoted both from the ranks of Artists Rifles and the Stock Exchange Battalion. Then there are battalions of miners, sports men and companies from the same factory and groups of friends who en- listed in a body in order to be TO- gether
 Changing Life at Front.
 Officers who have been in the fight ing since the retreat from Mons are saying that the New Army is chang ing the whole face of life at the front.
 We regulars all knew one an- other,' one explained. We were a sort of family. When an officer was killed if he were not an old pal at least you knew who he was. The names on the casualty lists of t'i'' New Army will be strangers"
 Promotion Rapid.
 Promotion has been rapid. Boys of nineteen who began as second ieutenants in the New Army are captains who are scarcely of age. One officer meets another who was a Major when he last say him and finds that he is now a. Gen eral or Brig Gen." in army par lance.
 Seeing a sign of a corps headquar- ters painted so well that it looked if it had been carved into the wood, a passerby knew at once that it was the work of a New Army man who was a professional sign painter. Be it a lawyer, a plumber, a bookkeep CT, a carpenter, a tailor or an en- gineer that is wanted one is always forthcoming from the ranks of the New Army. The British regular as a rule, knew only the trade of sol diering.