THE AMMAN VALLEY CHRONICLE AND EAST CARMARTHEN NEWS
The time limit under Lord Derby’s Scheme has expired, and the county is anxiously and even curiously waiting the result of this appeal to the patriotism of the eligible young men throughout the land.
This we may expect to be informed of in the course of the next few days, but in the meantime speculative opinion is of two kinds – one that the result will be found entirely satisfactory, and the other that the single young men have altogether failed to raise to their responsibility and enrol in sufficient numbers to obviate recourse to more compulsory methods.
It is idle for Mr. Ll. Williams to suggest in Parliament that sufficient information of the scheme has not been published in the rural districts of Wales. The details have been, we venture to say, the topic of discussion in the most remote parts of the country during the past two or three weeks, and those who have mixed with the young men and listened to their views could not fail to come to the conclusion that all the real volunteers had long ago enlisted, and that those who have recently enrolled have done so under what they believe to be compulsion, more or less.
It has been openly said by many that they refuse to attest, because they consider the present rush for enrolment has been merely in order that the majority of them may have an opportunity to appeal to the Local Tribunals, and not with any desire to serve the country.
They themselves would rather wait until they are forced to go into the Army and take their chance. There is a good deal to be said for this view, as anybody will agree who has seen the reluctance with which numbers of those who have en-----------------------------------------------
