30 OCTOBER 1915, Page 14

RECRUITING SUGGESTIONS.

Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—By all means let us give the system of voluntary enlistment, unfair and unbusinesslike and expensive to the country as it is, every possible chance of its vindicating its raison (rare. I offer a suggestion to that end. Why could the authorities not send a few of the German guns home that have been captured, with some of the men who helped to capture them, and parade them through the towns and country P It seems to me this would give enlistment a very necessary fillip.—I am, Sir, &c., ULSTERMAN.