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militia were called in; recruiting stations were set up in all the towns,

and meetings were held in every district. All enlistments were, of course,

voluntary; at this moment there was no thought of a draft and no necessity

for one. At first, the recruits were sent to the mainland to serve with

regiments in process of formation; I believe a number of them were

included in the famous Princess Pat's regiment. Recruiting for the Fifth ) Siege Battery, and for MacKinnon's Ammunition Colunm was begun. In 1915, | the 105th Highland Battalion Started recruiting.

Everywhere, from North Cape to Kast Point, the call for men received an enthusiastic response. Young adults crowded the the recruiting stations in such numbers that feeding, equipping, and finding quarters for them posed a problem of supply. It was a situation without precedent in the history of the province and one that demanded almost superhuman efforts on the part of the few available militia officers. Upon them fell the burden of getting this ponderous machine into motion and repairing the inevitable breakdowns. But those men were quick to "learn on the job." In an almost incredibly brief time, everything was running smoothly -- in pleasing contrast to the blundering and ineptitude that marked the performance of some of the so-called experts who headed the mainland training bases.

Most of the recruits to the lObth., like their predecessors in the old 8end., were fresh from the farm. They were a self-reliant and independent lot. Like the boys who in previous years had gone to the Maine lumber wood: or to the Western harvest fields, they regarded the whole project as a bit of rough-and-tumble sport. Their great concern was that it might all have come to an end before they could take a hand in it. Wisely, the high command made no serious attempt to establish anything resembling the

hard~fisted discipline of ths regular army. With those boys, it would have