From The Spectator, 26 December 1914:
Under the heading ” Success of Recruiting Canvass,” the Times of Tuesday declares that the canvass conducted by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee is “progressing most satisfactorily.” We most sincerely trust that this roseate view is correct. As yet only two of the nine military commands—the Eastern and Southern—have been dealt with, but the London district will be taken in hand at the beginning of the New Year. Thousands, we are told, have already joined the colours, and tens of thousands have declared that they will come up later if called on. Apart from this somewhat oracular statement, the article contains one of the best and most moving true recruiting stories that we have ever seen. Among the replies was a letter which ran as follows:
“‘My master wont to know if i ham obliged to join your Army has he hav no one to put to look after the sheep.’
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