Iditarod pioneer., 1915-11-06
BRiTkIN'S REV ARMY
 IN CONTRAST TO REGULARS
Associated Press Correspondence from Brit

Associated Press Correspondence from Brit ish Army Headquarters in Francr,
 We are in sight Of the trenches at Inst, said a private in what Is known as the Stock Exchange battalion of one of the regiments of the new British army. Its been a long pull in hard merket. But We never missed getting our shilling day, and our wives have got their separation allow anceS regularly
 There ar privates in the Stock Exchange battalion who have names well known ln the world of finance Some of them have sub scrbed fortunes to the latest WIFI loan. At home l have three bath rooms in my ~aus. and sixteen bedrooms sad one. "Out hpra l am glad to stand up ia line with q towel over my shoulder and take my turn with the wash basin As for sleeping or straw in a barn, it is paradise after hard march. l suppose W" will get these other things too, like everybody else does in 1he trenches.
 Bound to, though you have ten thou, sand a year, remarked another. Maybe you have one in your shirt now
 What interests Us, said a divisional staff officer "is not that they arg Stock EX change men, but ara they good soldiers!
 Many sreak German as result of inter national financial relations
 Tt would be cdd, said one, If l should b, shooting at Kaufman, who is on the Berlin exchange. We went 10 school to- g2thcr in Germany
 Not all in the Stock Ezchange battalion are afiluent or members of the exchange but al were recruited from the Stock EN- change district As they march along a read in France laden with dust, the S25 a week clerk and the big broker are elbow to elbow. and the observer cannot tell one from the other.
 There is another battalion composed ot artists, architects musicians and men of kindred callngs Many officers have been promoted both from the ranks of Artists Rifles and the Stock Exchange battalion 1 Then there are b&ttaIons of miners, sports men. and companies from the same factory and groups of friends who enlisted in body in order to be together during the cam paign
 Officers who have been in the fighting since the retreat from Mons are saying that the new army is changing the whole face of life at the front.
 " c regulars all knt" OIt altptiiC4' oIlN explained We were a sort of family When an officer was killed, if he were lot
 an old pal. at least you knew who he W. The names on the casualty list of the ne"
 army will be strangers
 Promotion has been rapid Boys of IS who began as second lieutenantS in the new
 army are now first heutenants. There arf captains who are scarcely of age. One oth
 cer meets another who was major Wher he last saw him, and finds that he IS no"
 brigadier general or "brig. gen" in army pariance.
 Seeing a sign of a corps headquarter:
 painted so we'll that it looked as if it hac l been carved into the wood, a passer- by knew at once that it was the work of {
 new army man who was professional sig
 painter. Be it lawyer, plumber, book 1 keeper. a carpenter, a tailor or an engineer
 that is wanted one is always forthcoming
 from the ranks of the new army. The Brit
 igh regular, es a rule, knew only the trad'
 of soldering.