THE WAR OUTLOOK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16163, 18 March 1918, Page 7

THE WAR OUTLOOK.

MOST CRITICAL STAGE REACHED. (Australian and N.Z. Csblo Association.) (Received March 17th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. Mr Arthur Henderson, in a speech, stated that the most critical stage of tho whole war liad arrived, and the situation was most grave. COST OF WAR PF.XSIONS. (Received lith, n.u p.m.) LONDON, March 15. The expenditure on war pensions for 1917-18 totals £23.000,000. covering 63").000 cases. The expenditure* for 1918-19 is csti- j mated at £41.500.000. EXTRA FOOD RATIONS. (Received March 17th, 0.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. It is estimated that 6,000,000 people are being suppliod with extra rations, which consist of bacon. poultry, and rabbits. These will not bo granted to professional or commercial men. shopkeopers, messengers. domestic servants, or women doing ordinary factory work, but will be granted to all men engaged in bodily labour and women on tho land. Tho "War Office requests the public not to send gifts of food to men at the front, whose rations are amplo.

RUTiWAYMEN SEEK INCREASED WAGES. (Received March 17th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 15. The National Union of Railwayman, representing '400,000 mon, is Applying for a 12J- per ccnt. advance, owing to a similar advancc being granted to munition workers, though tho railway workers have already secured rises equivalent to all the dividends paid to shareholders beforo the war. SULLIVAN BACK IN ENGLAND. (Australian and N.Z. Cable, Association.) (Received March 17th, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Match 16. Tom Sullivan, the New Zealand *xchampion sculler, has arrived in London. Ho is in the best of health. He pays a tributo to the work of the Dutch authorities in Rotterdam. No words, he says, can describe their kindness and care. I & Sullivan was until recently a pris- . oner in Germany, being repatriated from the Ruhleben internment camp.