Each of these has sent employees to the front, and while they are away is paying their wages and, on the chance of their return, holding their places open.

Men who are not accepted as recruits are enrolled as special constables.

They are those who could not, without facing ruin, neglect their business.

They have signed on as policemen, and each night for four hours patrol the posts of the regular bobbies who have gone to the front.
The ingenuity shown in finding ways in which to help the army is equalled only by the enthusiasm with which these suggestions are met.

Just before his death at the front, Lord Roberts called upon all racing-men, yachtsmen, and big-game shots to send him, for the use of the officers in the field, their field-glasses.