Reading Mercury Oxford Gazette 12-1914

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To REolmrr -For th""e ,. Re.diD~
who w 8h tG ]0 D the Royal Navy e.nd ROYIl
Me. nes the recro tiD@. olice 8 117 Cranbury

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nnd tbe reero ling offioea for the Army Ready D S 0

&re The B!Lrr~ka St. Mary
mury HOU6G

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Mr Bonar Law the leader of the Op
pos t on addressmg the cba rmen and
a.gents of Un on st organ sa.t ODS n Lon
don on Monday d sclosed a. momentous
Gecret 00 A ugu,t 2nd two clays before
we declared war on Germany he and Lord
LansdoWIle gILve IL written pledge thlLt 1
the Government felt t thelr duty to sup
port F ra.nce and RURSla. they m ght connt
on the " 0 e hear ed co operat on of the
Un on st Party
Nay more
They ex
p c sed the op n on that t would be fa tal

BAl..oua CLUB -Tho usual Chr 'I.... tree and

enteria nment 18 b81ng a.rr&nged for the cb dren
of members of th 8 club and prom lies to be f
Al'lything
more euoceseful than Ulual
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PATRIOTIO SALJl

boon promoted Deputy Asai8t.a.nt Ai:lJul3,nt

and Qu!U'tennIHter General v M Brevet I euten
ant.-COlonel W A White Conn aught Rang-eH
Ma.Jor Ready .sen-eel w th the N Ie E:t.ped lion
1893 be ng preeent .~ the battl~!I of Atba.ra and
Kha.r oum
He WIt8 mentioned n d~pa. chell
and rooe ad the 4th 0 M5 of the MedJ d e and
the E~pt an med!!.l w th two eta ps
He was
W' I:;h tbo N Ie Expedition
1899 rece v og C Mp
to Egypt Ron medal
He served tn the South
Afr can Wl!lr from ]890 to 1002 tilio R PR.rt n
the oparat ons In th6 OrtJotlge Fr~ Sta. e the
Tracsn80 and .'5ubflequently n C"pe Colon
He W!L/II present a.t. the I\Ct -on at Z lik&ls Nek

SALI: 0" GAS BroOK: -w th referanoe to the
ad ert:.sementd m the
Reading Mercury
recently reg&Iding tJwt ewe by tender 01 £0 000
Ord narv otoek of the Reod ng GM Compa.ny
on the 10th of Decemher 914 tenders for be
tween two and three timeB the amount of 6 ock
for ~ale Were r~e ved the a.verll.~e pnce off ered
bemg eOIl&idetl"ably a.bove the m rumum fixed
CONCERT In OODD~cUon w t.h the
Y MeA L teury and Deba tllg Soc etv
"ar 6uccesful enncflrt a.rranged by ],.1 W J
B Marks ook pace n the haJJ on WedneroBY a.nd was mentloned n d spa.tcb cs
he recc ed
even ng
&ngs we e g en by 11: S8 Ma.y 1\la.rks h e Queen II medal m h four clasps a d
M 80S D Hopkins M 35 H Kn gh on and Me.ssrs made aDS 0
W J Lyswr Rond Tay or
Mr A F n. n <!on
tnbutcd ,. v 01 n solo o.nd ook pa. t w th M S8
P Hn.rns Vlohn) .nd Mr A Gooda I (p ano)
n an nstrumental trl)
Mr W R Ln.rramac
rea ted tW'lce and Mias A Hopkins ga e
p ftDoforte $010

to the hono rand seeunty 01 the Umted
tate Bb t not"d that tb s
"as before the vlOlat on 01 Belg an ne
tTo. ty left the Government n any doubt as
to the r course Tho Un orust leaders had
nn do ht and they ad consulted a8 many
of the col cag as as poss ble wha.t was
f1 ~olutely necessary and tl cv were p e
K ngdom to h

pared to

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nk the r a ffcrences n order that

the lile a.nd dea.th strugg e w tb Gel"tna.ny
sbo Id b. Cl"rl~ed through w thout bin
d 80nce
The act on redonnde to
credit It was a.lmost f not QUlte unpre
cedentcd
In prey ous wa.rs Governments
were (lons derablv hampered bv the att

tude of the Oppos t on
Faced w t h a
graver dan gel" than n the t me of Napo
leon the UruOUlst Pa.rty has made t pass b e for Great Br tam to wage war as a
ruted nat on
The1r patr ot e net on has
been handsomely ""knowledged by the
Governm nt Press
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The f a d of the German warsb ps on the
'Nm'th EIl.!&:t coa.st 1 a..c; 1 ad the op-pos te of
fect to that probably Ul!.eno ed The Ger
ma.ns counted on croat ng a pa.n c b t
they have fa led to accompl .h the r oOject
The conduct of the nbab tants of tho th ce
nfort nate to ~ was
Ul t e e rcum
stances adm Table a.nd the normal life ot
the placos was soon resumed There was
unhapp y a gr evous 10sfI of 1 fe and peT
~Da LDJU v those struck b (rerroan shf";l1
be ng roost y women and ch Idren
The
hearts of the whole co ntry w 1 ~o out to
these unfo tunatc ot IDS of German out

aQe
Gerrmmv ev dently means to con
No conslderat on of
t Due as she began
h maUl y and no regard for the aws of
wa d ar e we gh ~ th ber dete rrmnat on to
wage a r thles s "ar and to earll the Den
\' a.hIe rcputa.t on of twcnt eth cent r~

Runs

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om the god,,, h to des
Germany seems

t oy t hey first rna ke mad

b nd to t he fact that 1 c

cont Dance of
U c r nl nates
t. e sympath es of other na ons b t make s
1 e comba tanLs e e n n ore detern !l od tb t
t he power ('If Gc man ... shal b e dc st oye 1

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f he h stor of tbe
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Germauy s m sta ke

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outragcou treatment of nOD
comoatants
I cl oni served to n rou e
h er opponents to grea or he ghts of sc f
saer fice and de e m oat on to eonq cr
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Defence Force th s week carne to the m
porta.nt lee s on to affil ate to th e Central

\ssoc at on of ' olu ntoor Tr. nmg Corps
Th " me. us that n lut ro they " 11 be a
urnt recogn sed by tho ' Var Office and al
though thiS nnt.urally m crea ses the r op
po t rut es for se£ulness t also mposcs
r espon b t es of a character wh ch some
of the l oun~er members apparent y felt
some reluctance to ndertake on account

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01 the t!es wh eh b nd them to the r homcs
and the busmes5es or 'Profess ons Mom
hersh p of tho Force was or g nally con
fined to thoRe ~ 0 we e not e g bl0
tl rough age to se ve n t he Regular or Ter
r tor al Force h t rccogn s ng tho fact
tha.t there were SOme whose only deter
rent from eni stment was some genu no
cause t was dee ded to allow these men
to Jam the older ones n order that they
n ght by dr 11 and dlSc plmc prepare
themselves to take the r 81 arc n the coun
tliY s defence n case of emergency H ther
to a these nco had to do wa.s to sati1s y

tbe Oommand ng Officer of t be Force tbat
trhey bad
a genu ne eason
for n ot
10 nmg the Regular or Terntor al Army

but by affiliat on to the Oentral Oorps tbey
are now requ red to agree 10 WI' t ng to
eni st f spec al Y

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led upon

to

do

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while &nother regulatIon l..d down by the

W&r Offioe 18 that a recru t ng officer ma.y
Vl8lt the corps at any' tlme and recrUlt any
members found el g ble for serv ce whose
ptesence 18 not accounted for by some
good and suftic cnt re \son Tl e doubt wh cl
ex tjted

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to how theMe

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c a !3~S "Quld

operate w.... the only object 0 vh eh so ne
of the younger member. had to allihatlOo
but they loyally agreed to ab do by the
Wl8hes 01 the mlLI9nty It Wln thus be
for necessary for the "hole of the membe s to
re enliBt

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