We will not mourn for them overmuch.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
[Cheers.]
These gaps have to be filled. The wastage of modern war is relentless
and almost inconceivable. We have--I mean his Majesty's Government
have--since the war began dispatched to the front already considerably
over 200,000 men [cheers] and the amplest provision has been made for
keeping them supplied with all that was necessary in food, in stores,
and in equipment. They will very soon be reinforced by regular troops
from India, from Egypt, and the Mediterranean, and in due time by the
contingents which our dominions are furnishing with such magnificent
patriotism and liberality. [Cheers.]
Eager Territorials.
We have with us here our own gallant territorials, becoming every day a
fitter and a finer force, eager and anxious to respond to any call
either at home or abroad that may be made upon them. [Cheers.] But that
is not enough. We must do still more. Already, in little more than a
month, we have 500,000 recruits for the four new armies which, as Lord
Kitchener told the country yesterday, he means to have ready to bring
into the field. In a single day we have had as many men enlist as we
have been accustomed to enlist in the course of a whole year.
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