It is not,
I think, surprising that the machinery has been overstrained, and there
have been many cases of temporary inconvenience and hardship and
discomfort. With time and patience and good organization these things
will be set right, and the new scale of allowances which was announced
in Parliament yesterday [cheers] will do much to mitigate the lot of
wives and children and dependents who are left behind. [Cheers.]
We want more men, and, perhaps most of all, the help for training them.
Every one in the whole of this kingdom who has in days gone by, as
officer or as non-commissioned officer, served his country never had a
greater or more fruitful opportunity for service than is presented to
him today. [Cheers.] We appeal to the manhood of the three kingdoms. To
such an appeal I know well, coming from your senior representative in
the House of Commons, that Scotland will not turn a deaf ear. [Cheers.]
Scotland is doing well, and, indeed, more than well, and no part of
Scotland I believe, in proportion, better than Edinburgh. I cannot say
with what pleasure I heard the figures given out by the Lord Provost and
those which have been supplied to me by the gallant gentleman who has
the Scottish command [cheers,] which show, indeed, as we expected, that
Scotland is more than holding her own.
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