NEWSPAPER AGITATION FOR MORE MEN.
(United Service Message.)
LONDON, September 19
Recent responsible visitors to the front, including Lord Northcliffe, have been impressed with the necessity of more men to make up our losses and enable us to continue the- most vigorous offensive.
A public campaign has been initiated asking the Government to immediately "comb-out" the munition works and the Government offices, where _ thousands of young- men are sheltering. : :: ',ThVv-":": Daily Mail" urges- that. • th. c preferable course- to. take; vvould 'be- tlie most searching " combing-but," including* tlie exempted men :;in. civil pecu pa'tions, been us-? men' of;' 45 \ years of »<xo nre unsuitable. The paper quotas Sir Douglas; Haig's remark that ." war is a young man's game."
Numerous letters endorse the views of the " Daily Mail."
A wounded Australian officer from Frayco snvs "another 1,000,000 men are wanted before' Germany is beaten."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 6
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143NEWSPAPER AGITATION FOR MORE MEN. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 6
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