Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-09-16
DEMAND FOR RECRUIT
GROWING |hSIs7ENT
IN FAR AUSTRALIA
EVERY INDICTMENT BEING Of
FERED TO HAVE AUSTRALIANS
ENLIST FOR SERVICES OF
EVERY KIND.

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 16.-
Everything possible is now being done
to get more recruits in Australia
everything short of CONSUMPTION it
self There are, after year of the
WAR, 10000 Australians under arms,
either in the firing line at the Dardan.
! Giles or in training camps, but instead
of there being any let up in the call
for men, the demand for them grows
more and more insistent.
Although the Ministry of Defense
denies that it looks to CONSUMPTION, a
census of unmarried men has just been
taken by the police of the various,
states to determine the fighting
strength. The result of this has not
been made public The campaign to
0hhSI foIuHIceIS, however, taxes on
new vigor each day There are speech
es by civil and military authorities
there are newspaper appeals; there
are huge advertising posters, there
are parades, and there is even the dis
play of wounded soldiers-all to the
same end. In this state (Victoria) a
recruiting campaign covering the last
three weeks of July resulted in more
than $4,000 enlistments, a number
which, it is pointed out, equals the
strength of the entire Australian force
which was sent to Egypt last Novem-
ber The fact that New South Wales
is in virtually all things rival of
Victorian some ways jealousy So
figures to certain extent in a recruit
ing campaign which is now in pro-
gress there.
Business houses all over Australia
are making it easier for young men in
their employ to enlist by either keep
ing up their pay or promising them
their old places if they return; and to
induce men-even with dependents
to join the colors, the press is by re-
quest of the military authorities print.
| ing almost daily the liberal rates of
pay for Australians on active service
| and the pensions which will be paid
the disabled and the relatives OF
such officers and privates as may be
killed
But the chief appeal is to patriotism
and never have the Antipodes seen
such widespread and ardent use as
| nowadays of the Union Jack of the
Empire and the southern cross of the
young Australian Federation The
government will have comparatively
little trouble in clothing the greatly
augmented number of volunteers, but
| it will have considerable difficulty in
arming them. 1t is not improbable
that it will have to have the assist
ance of the Imperial Government ia
this respect.
Meanwhile wounded men are be =.
| ginning to be brought back all the way
from the Gallipoli peninsular in fair
numbers. By November it is likely
that with cooler weather in the Red
/ Sea many more will be returned home
| Elaborate preparations have been
made for the care and treatment of
these soldiers. In order to raise funds
for this, July 30 was chosen as Aus
tralia Day" and every conceivable
method of obtaining and soliciting
contributions was employed on that
| rate from one end of the Common
wealth to the other Melbourne and
Sydney resembled nothing so much as
huge county fairs. The result of the
patriotic charity was a sum which all
this Writing-with the returns not yet
In from many sections-amounts tol
nearly $40O0000.