General War News

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 February 1918, Page 1

General War News

HEALTH AND OUTPUT. Dr Addison (Minister for Eenconstruction) has come to the conclusion that health is a very complex business. The time has passed when the people would be satisfied with a dose of medicine. Health consists of food, habit of life, hours of work, to mention only a few points. There was no organised body to deal with these things, but at the Ministry for Munitions he had set up a committee to investigate matters appertaining to health. Some interesting discoveries had resulted. A set of women turning aluminium fuse tops were working CO hours weekly with an hourly output of 100; when doing 54.8 hours per week the hourly output was 134; and at 45.6 hours per week it jumped up to 158. Therefore, it paid that factory to employ these women only 45 hours a week. Similarly taking a set of boys boring top-caps, 72 hours a week resulted in an output of 100 per hour, 54 hours a week gave 117 per hour, and 119 resulted with a 53-hour week. A reduction of hours from 58 to 51 of men engaged on heavy work increased their hourly output from 100 to 139. Up to the present it had been nobody's business to find out these things as a whole. COST OF A TANK. The Press Association understands that the cost of the tank, as used on the western front, together with armour and guns complete, is £5000. THE LIMBLESS ABMY. Speaking of the country's debt to the limbless army, Sir Francis Lloyd said £100,000 was wanted to extend the. work done at liocliampton. A hundred men a week are fitted there with artificial limbs and 11,000 had passed through the institution. After framing 2200 had found work and 0500 had returned to their old places. 43,000,000 MEN UNDER ARMS. Speaking at a meeting of the War Saving Association, held at the Army Ordnance Department, Woolwich Arsenal, Major B. Bigg referred to the enormous amount of money that is being spent at the present time, and said that altogether there were 43,000,000 men under arms. ' AN OLD EASTERN PROPHECY. BRITISH OFFICER'S ESCAPE. An amusing story about the escape of two British officers from a Turkish prison eamp in Asia Minor is told by the Daily Telegraph on the authority of an M.P. Soon after getting free the officers came 11 Turkish soldiers who were deserters. Britishers and Turks joined up and set out for the Black Sea coast. Ere long they encountered another dozen Turkish soldiers who were for arresting" them. The Britons and their new allies, however, attacked the new enemy, and took their arms away from them. All three parties then marched towards the sea, which they reached after many hardships. At last they were fortunate enough to come across some Russian patrol vessels, which conveyed the entire party in safety to Odessa. 4000 WOMEN DOCTORS. Four thousand women doctors in the United Stages have been asked to register for servicc in 10 American women's hospitals. Many of these will begin war service in the Women's General Hospital, the management and operation of which are in the hands of women, and the funds for which have been raised by women doctors, jt. ...