voted 186,000-odd men--call it roughly 200,000. The
army reserve and the special reserve then became available as part of
the regular forces of the country, amounting also roughly to another
200,000 men. That was altogether 400,000 men. On Aug. 6, after war had
been declared, I made a motion in committee which was assented to in
committee and by the House on report, for the addition of 500,000 men to
the regular forces. These 500,000 men, assuming them all to have been
raised, would, in addition to the 400,000 I have just mentioned, amount
to a total of 900,000 men. I think it will be interesting to the
committee before I state the reasons for which I am going to ask them to
make this further vote to know what has actually happened in consequence
of the vote of Aug. 6.

Enlistments Since the War.

The number of recruits who have enlisted in the army since the
declaration of war--that is, exclusive of those who have joined the
territorial force--is 438,000, [cheers,] practically 439,000. That is up
to the evening of Sept. 9. The committee will therefore see that, having
sanctioned, as it did, very little more than a month ago, the addition
to the regular forces of the Crown of half a million of men, we are now
within some 60,000 of having attained that total. The numbers enlisted
in London since Sunday, Aug. 30, have exceeded 30,000 men, and the stamp
and character of the recruits has been in every way satisfactory and
gratifying. [Cheers.] The high-water mark was reached on Sept. 3, when
the total recruits enlisted in the United Kingdom on one day was 33,204.
[Cheers.] I may mention--I am sure it will be gratifying to honorable
members on both sides who represent Lancashire constituencies--that on
that day 2,151 men were enlisted in Manchester alone. That is a very
satisfactory result, but it by no means exhausts the requirements of the
case. The response to the call for recruits has been in every way
gratifying. But I am aware, not only from a discussion that took place
in the House yesterday, but from communications which reached us from
various parts of the country, that there are complaints of grievances,
causing legitimate or otherwise deeply felt dissatisfaction at the
manner in which some parts--I say advisedly only some parts--of this
operation of recruiting have been conducted. I should like the
committee to realize what were the conditions of the case. ["Hear,
hear!"]

A Year's Recruits in a Day.

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