MOTHER COUNTRY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17279, 21 September 1916, Page 7

MOTHER COUNTRY

MORE men wanted. , losses must be made up.;; RE-EXAMINATION OF EXEMPTED CLASSES. Unit«l Service. (Received September 20, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. Recent responsible visitors from the front, including Lord Northcliffe, were impressed by tho necessity for more men to make up the losses and to enable the Army to continue a most vigorous offensive. A public campaign has been initiated for the purpose of asking the Government immediately to comb out the munitions works and Government offices, where thousands of young men aro sheltering. t ANOTHER MILLION NEEDED. Tho "Daily Mail” urges that the preferablo course is a most searching combing out, including the exempted men in civil occupations, because men of forty-five are unsuitable. Quoting Sir Douglas Haig, the newspaper says that the war is a young man’s game. Numerous letters endorse tho "Daly Mail’s” attitude. A wounded Australian officer from Franco says: " Another million men are wanted before Germany can be beaten.” THE AGE LIMIT. AN INCREASE SUGGESTED. ■ Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 20, 5.20 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. There are persistent rumours of th® probable raising ofthe age limit for military service to forty-five years. Tha Director of Recruiting says that I» knows nothing of the matter. WHEN PEACE COMES* GRADUAL DEMOBILISATION. LONDON, September 19. Mr Asquith, replying to the Labourites, said demobilisation must be gradual,' including a period of furlouuk on

full pav. The Government hoped to establish machinery which would operate immediately peace was declared. 80UTH WALES MINERS, AN ADVANCE DEMANDED. LONDON, September 19. The “Daily Chronicle” states that the South Wales miners will demand an advance of 15 per cent sought in August before consenting to the government’s coal scheme. Other portions of British coal fields have already accepted. DARDANELLES COMMISSION IMPORTANT WITNESSES. ; (Received September 20, 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. There was a full attendance at the Opening of the Dardanelles inquiry, which promises to he one of the most important and thorough ever hold m Britain. The evidence of Sir Maurice liankev, Secretary to the Imperial Council of Defence, occupied the whole day and is likely to occupy au<».n««. Major Winston Churchill, Viscount Grey and Mr Asquith aro the next witnesses, and the inquiry will be adjourned for a week. \ KILLED IN FRANCE, ’ ; DR A. A. MARTIN. f (Received September 20, 5.20 p.m.) LONDON. September 19. Dr A. A. Martin, of Palmerston, died of wounds in the New Zealand i Stationary Hospital in France. He was wounded on the Somme battle fiont.