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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2801, 20 June 1916, Page 5

All hay or oat or wheat straw threshed or untliTeshed, now standing on a farm or other promises in bulk in Great Britain is requisitioned by tho Army Council, and it'may not bo sold or removed without application to the district purchasing officer. Farmers and' stockbreeders aro authorised to use the normal ' quantity of hay or oat or wheat straw in their possession for consumption-by stock'in their possession or control. "Are we to make war- on children?" asked Dr. Scott Lidgett in the coursc of a heated, discussion - by' tho London County Council of a proposal to dis- ■ qualify from scholarships tho children, of . enemy aliens; Mr. Gordon, the deputychairman, said that tho resolution con-, corned only four or five children, and tho brothers of some of tho children it was proposed- to exclude*.- from scholarships had died for us. "I am ashamed of this motion," declared Sir Jolin Benn.- Tho resolution was carried, with the modification, "unless in any, particular case tho com initios seo fit'to depart from tho rule." :.