To the Editor: —I dare say my many friends in the United States and Canada would like to have a few notes of my recent experience during these busy months. It has been an extraordinarily interesting sight to watch the transformation of a peaceful commercial country into an armed camp. As regards soldiers, four months ago England was in the same blissful condition as the United States. One knew there was an army, but a soldier was never seen. To-day khaki is the "only wear," and there are more than 1,000,000 in training, and some 300,000 at the front, a larger expeditionary force than England has ever had on the Continent. And there is a fine spirit abroad. Every one is working, the Irish question is dead, an intense pride has been raised in the army, there is every confidence in the navy. At the first blush it really looks
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