They do need more men in the field, and they may conscript them, but I doubt the necessity.

But I run across such incidents as these: I met the Dowager Countess of D---- yesterday--a woman of 65, as tall as I and as erect herself as a soldier, who might be taken for a woman of 40, prematurely gray.
"I had five sons in the Boer War.

I have three in this war.

I do not know where any one of them is." Mrs.Page's maid is talking of leaving her.

"My two brothers have gone to the war and perhaps I ought to help their wives and children." The Countess and the maid are of the same blood, each alike unconquerable.