New Britain herald., 1915-08-09
KITCHENERS NOW AT
 FRONT IN FRANCE
New British Army Forced to
 Stand Jokes Of Regulars

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
 British Headquarters, France, July 22.-The *"Keecheenaires,' as the French peasants call the new army have joined '"rommee Atkeens," the regular, and the "Tereetoreeals' at the front. Tornmee begins to feel like the oldest inhabitant. By the way, he does not like to be called Tommy" though the world persists in a word which is as objectionable to him as "Jacky' is to the, American blue jacket.
 <~4 The British regular did all the fight ing for the first five months of the war He had his joke at the expense of the territorials, who are about the same as the American National Guard, when they arrived. The territorials thought that they were made soldiers when the war broke out; but they were drilled for months at home before they were sent to France where they were drilled for months at home before they were sent to France where they were drilled , some more and set to digging reserve trenches behind the line. In the spring they had their turn, and the Canadians, too.
 Feel Like c. A. R. Men,. > Don't be downhearted! There are still some Boches left!" the territorials join the regulars in saying to the new army. Besides the new army the ter ritorials feel like G. A. R. men. s@
 Its kind of you! We knew that you could have killed them all off, if YOU had wanted to-" the Kitcheners reply.
 "Don't charge too fast! Wait for us to catch up" call the regulars
 Well wait on the Rhine!''a answer the new army.
 New Army We'll Named.
 Well named is the new army. It }, has brought new element into life at the front. They bear the stamp of long route marches over English roads and of the merciless formal training of the drill ground.
 On seeing three or four hundred soldiers bathing in canal their broad chests and the fine play of their mus cles told that they were of the first hundred thousand which answered the call to arms last August. If the average old timer of the trenches had to run five miles against the average new army man he would be blown half way and the new army man would trot past the goal an easy winner. Sitting in dugout under shell fire is not exercise. When men come out of the trenches, they want to sleep and eat. The tendency is to grow fat..@ Ar.ae e't+ - Lr Is-.fs
 Veterans Fight Hardened
 The veterans are fight hardened and trench hardened but not muscle hardened That is the reason why the officers encourage cricket and football ; and other sports. It sayes.pthe~ men 7 from drudgerysssof compulsory exer- cises to keep them in condition.
 The other night when one 7, heard some soldiers billeted, in a barn sing ing one was certain without asking that they were new army men. The British regular rarely sings in camp or on the march. Neither elated or depressed he plugs along doing his : days work As the new army flows in he will be outnumbered but un- J changed. s4.s.-. s.~s-s Sing God Save the King.,' x
 Those new army men are singing .sGod Save the King,''' before they; lay down in the straw for the night in thes land of France which was'salIsso new and strange to them and so common place to the veterans. Their 1fresn young voices were pleasant to the war. |, Everyone hopes they will keep on singing. A mere layman did not know but that they might bring their bands At intervals one asks himself what is missing in this British army, any way Then he answers, music, of course.
 If band were to start playing in the trenches there would be a shrap- mel bullet through the drum and a high explosive in the mouth of the ' horn in short order. Bands may have no place at the front, but that does not rule out the Scotch bagpipe. When you hear "The Campbells Are Coming" at the head of a company marching back from the trenches we'll for want of other music, the bag pipe becomes sweet to other thar scotch ears. No modernization of wa,