Nobody is compelled to volunteer, but those who hold back will be reckoned contumacious, and will be taken into custody, and kept on raw coffee till such time as they evince a serious desire to enlist.

There will be no objection to recruits returning home at the end of the war, if they come out of it alive.

Neither will there be any objections to the survivors bringing back a marshal's baton, if they can get one.

The Commander-in-chief will charge himself with the fruits of the victory.

Surgical operations will be performed at his cost, and cork legs will be served out with the rations.