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Column Commander did not yet know 

 them sufficiently well. 



Next day Lord Tullibardine again 

 paraded the men, who intimated that 

 they were firm on the question of the 

 strike. They said that they were going 

 to write to The Times and to Lord 

 Kitchener; some of them, indeed, had 

 written to Lord Kitchener already. 



Lord Tullibardine answered that they 

 would have been wiser had they trusted 

 to him. 



They said that they were suffering 

 from a breach of contract. This was 

 a fresh grievance, and it was possible 

 to perceive that it was not quite un- 

 founded. The terms of enlistment, framed 

 by the home authorities, had been am- 

 biguous. " For a year or for the duration 

 of the war " was not good wording. Men 

 might honestly understand it to mean 

 that they were free to go home after 

 serving for a year. 



Lord Tullibardine explained the real 

 meaning of the terms ; which was that 



