7 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 15

The Belgian Government have issued a proclamation to Belgian men

of fighting age who are refugees in foreign countries urging them to rally to the work of liberating their country. It is added that those who do not volunteer by November 15th may be requisitioned for military service under the law of 1887. It is very interesting to see that the Belgian Government are thus imitating what Lincoln did in the American Civil War. It was the Draft—the legal power to requisition service—which forced men of the North to volunteer, and it alone made volunteering a reality.