I should like to see, and we all want to see, an Irish Brigade--or, better still, an Irish Army Corps.

Don't let them be afraid that by joining the colours they will lose their identity and become absorbed in some invertebrate mass, or what is perhaps equally repugnant, be artificially redistributed into units which have no national cohesion or character.
"We shall, to the utmost limit that military expediency will allow, see that men who have been already associated in this or that district in training and in common exercises shall be kept together and continue to recognize the corporate bond which now unites them.
One thing further.

We are in urgent need of competent officers, and when the officers now engaged in training these men prove equal to the test, there is no fear that their services will not be gladly and gratefully retained.

But, I repeat, gentlemen, the Empire needs recruits and needs them at once.

They may be fully trained and equipped in time to take their part in what may prove to be the decisive field in the greatest struggle of the history of the world.