From the News

Dated: December 24, 1915

Hanbury
A recruiting meeting was held last Wednesday night in the Orange Hall at Hanbury. A good number of the citizens were present, but it is certain a much larger attendance would have been present, if the meeting had been advertised better, as many did not know about it. The meeting was opened by the Rev. Mr. Farmer taking the chair and in a short and appropriate way introduced the speakers of the evening. Mr. A. McKelvie, of New Liskeard, spoke first and was followed by Rev. Mr. Donnell, of Haileybury, and Sergeant McCanley.
Mr. McKelvie in his speech, referred to the greatness of its constitution and its colonial form of government. He expressed the greatest faith and optimism for the Allies in the outcome of this gigantic struggle between the powers of democracy and freedom against the powers of autocracy and militarism.
Rev. Donnell referred to the banner display in the hall and the flag of our country, the Union Jack, under whose protecting folds the meeting was conducted. During his address he spoke of the atrocities committed by the Germans throughout Belgium, and quotations from Lord Bryce's report on those outrages, Though expressing the greatest confidence and faith in the power of the British Empire and the Allies to win out in this great struggle, yet there was the need for every one to do their duty otherwise there might be disaster. It is the duty of this generation to hand down to over posterity unimpaired, the trusts which have been left to us by our fore fathers.
Seargent McAuley spoke of the conduct of the war and declared that British diplomacy had not bungled in the Balkans, but that it was greatly handicapped by peculiar circumstances and arrangements, not generally known. Upon the closing of his appeal for recruits, three of the Hanbury boys immediately came forward and signed up. They were, Stanley Dilworth, Frank Ludlow and George Arnold.

Since the above meeting Bert Willars, son of Mr. Walter Willars, of Hanbury, has enlisted and passed his medical exemination. This makes eleven recruits from the Hanbury Home Guard corps. With such a noble representation as this, the people of Hanbury will follow the fortunes of war with a keen interest.