The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-07
BRITISH REGULARS
 LIKE VETERANS AS NEW ARMY ARRIVES
Tommy" a Seasoned War rior in Comparison to Lord
 Kitchener's Volunteers.

British Headquarters, Frances July 22-The "Keecheenaires'' as the French peasants call the New Army, have joined "Tommee Atkeens.' the regular. and the t'Tereetoreeals' at the front Tommee begins to feel like the oldest inhalbitant. By the way, he does not like to be called Tom my" though the world persists in a word which is as objectionable to him as ttJacky' is to the American blue jacket.
 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 TerritoriaIs, who are about the same @ as the American National Guard, when they arrived. The Ter r1torials 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 wh ere 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 |. Don't be downhearted! There are still some Boches Ieft!" the. Territor- ials join the regulars in saying to the the Territorials feel like G.. A. R. men,
 Its kind of you. We knew that you could have killed them all off, if you had wanted to- the Kitcheners i reply.
 Don't charge too fast! Wait for us | to catch up!'' call the regulars.
 "we,n wait. on theTRhtne!' answer the New Army.
 1 Well named is the New Army. It has brought a new. element into life at the front They bear the stamp of I long route marches over English roads and of Iaerciless formal training of the I drill ground.
 On seeing 300 or. 400 soldiers bath | ing in a canal their broad chests and the fine play of their. muscles told that they were of the first 100, ,o0o which answered the call sto arms last August.
 If the average. old timer of the 1 trenches had to run five miles against the average New Army man he would be blown half way and the New Army r man would trot past the goal am easy winner Sitting in a dugout under f shell fire is not exercise When men come out of trench es, they want to sleep. and eat The tendency is to grow. fat
 The veterans are fght-hardene ed and trench-hard ened but not muscle | hardened. That is the reason why the t officers encourage cricket and foot 1 ball and other sports. It saves the men from drudgery of compulsory eNer-
  l-s= The other night. sSYhen one heard some soldiers billeted in a barn sing I ing one was certain without asking l that they were New Army men. The British regular rarely sings in camI l or on the march. Neither elated ol depressed he plugs along doing dnis days work. As the New Army flow: in he will be outnupnfbered but -in I changed.
 Those New Army men are singtne God Save the Kng,'' before they la1 down in the straw for the night il the land of France which wall all st 1 new and strange to them and so com paonplace to the veterans Their fresl l young voices were pleasant to the ear.
 Everyone hopes they will keep or singing. A mere layman did not knoV :, but that they might bring their bands At intervals one asks himself what i.
 missing in this British Army any way? Then he answers, music, O Il course.
 If a band were to start playing 1T the trenches there would be a shrap