AN APPEAL TO ALL BRITONS OVERSEAS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 January 1917, Page 3

AN APPEAL TO ALL BRITONS OVERSEAS.

Issued by United Workers, London, with the approval of the Right Hon. A. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies. THE following is a reprint from a pamphlet sent us, with the compliments of the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs :—■ TO BRITONS OVERSEAS. After two years of the War we see most clearly emerging a struggle of economic endurance, to be waged by the non-combat-ants ; and that side whose noncombatants can finance it longest will win. Upon the issue depends the liberty of our Emrire. The whole German nation is supporting its armies. The utmost frugality is in force, and the nation's resources are being conserved in a remarkable way. To the recent War Loan, which realised 535 millions, there were 5,279,645 subscribers. Germany is not exhausted. Britain, who must buy her food and raw material abroad, and lend her allies more than a million pounds a day, has at last realised that every single citizen is called upon for. his or her maximum effort. Through her Cabinet Ministers she has called upon the people for self-denial, for the utmost conservation of resources, and for the loan of every spare penny. And the people, now that they understand this to be an economic struggle, are reponding more and more. They are awakening fast. The national conscience is stirring. We intend to produce more.* to consume less,'and to adjust our whole economic outlook to the War.

Meanwhile, it is of the utmost importance that every Briton overseas, ra^n and woman, shall understand the position. We address all of British blqqcj. We address Canadians, Australians, South Africans, Britons in the Crown Colonies and Protectorates, Britons in India and Burmah, Britons in the United States, in Latin America, in China, Britons wherever'they be on the face of the Earth;. and we ■tell them this: — ." * V

(1) Time is on our side if our Empire can outlast Germany V in money and resources';'and'it ::■. -is" beyond dispute that we'can

outlast her if we choose. v (2) Our power to do so, depends Entirely upon the indiv.idiJal conserving h|s resources,' and making; them available fqi- the

War. (3) This lie can only do by producing more, consuming less, and lending every penny he can ■ either to his own Government's War - Loans or those of the British Government.