MOTHER COUNTRY
THE MAN SUPPLY.
NEEDS FOR CAMPAIGN
MILLIONS OF EXEMPTED MEN. • The Times” Service. (Received September 21, 5.30 p.m.) 1 , LONDON, September *2O. Colonel Repington says that the end of October will bring slackened activity. Tho offensive will not then bo resumed on a grand scale till Spring, 1917. “We must look abend and settle the question of ,tlie reserves available for the Spring operations and not entertain any- illusions about the Ger-; man man power. Despite their losses and defeats they still have large reserves. They have called-ou the 1917 and 1918 classes and other large accessions are available. They will' call up all between sixteen and sixty years before admitting'defeat, hoping to wear us down, j* , ' “The Allies must placo in the field every available able-bodied man. Wo have not yet sufficient for a decisive decision of annihilation. “The 5,000,000 of military ago available, in Britain would • Ijave'been sufficient .to maintain a hundred divisions in the field if tho exemptfbns had not seriously encroached on the supply. We must drastically reform our .Military Service Acts, or Germany will beat «s m the organisation of man power. Ireland will he able to give 150,000, but compulsion will lie necessary to maintain the Irish divisions. Britain
•' hap no need to raiso the age limit until the younger classes aro exhausted. There are still 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 exempted men .ivho can be secured from civil occupations, and .1,600,000 of military age wearing badges. If we are fdreed to call on the older men we must use them for home defence, relieving tho younger men for the front.”
( EFFECTIVE UTILISATION,
' ’ BOARD APPOINTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. September 20. ‘ ’ An official message says:— In pursuance of the War Committee's decision, a board has becu appointed utfdcr tho chairmanship of Mr Austen Chamberlain and tlio vicechairmanship of Lord Midleton to determine all • questions relating to the allocation or economic of man power for tho successful prosecution of the war, and' to direct Government Departments concerned to create the machinery necessary to co-ordinate activities regarding the distribution ind utilisation of men and women.
YORKSHIRE EXPLOSION.
THE CASUALTY LIST
LONDON, September 20.
• An. official message says that tho casualties in the recent explosion in a munition works wero five killed and two who died after being taken to hospital. Seventy-two were injured, twenty seriously, but they are expected to recover.
ARMY CONTRACTS.
CHANGES IN CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
LONDON, September 20.
Mr Lloyd George is making important IT' changes in tho Army clothing departifc ■ merit as a rosult of the bribery prosecu|jf tioris". Y • ' -
RAILWAY DEMANDS.
DISPUTE REPORTED SETTLED.
(Received September 21, 9.10 p.m.) ‘ ' LONDON, September 21. It : is reported that the railway crisis has, been settled on the basis of doubling the previous war bonuses, which in future will bo 10s weekly for adults and 5s for employees under eighteen years.. . ~ (Received - September 21. 10.55 p.m.) . . LONDON, September .21. The report of the Railway Agreement, is confirmed. '
SOLDIERS’ TEMPTERS.
DENOUNCED BY BISHOP OF LONDON.
Reuter’s Telegrams.
LONDON, September 20.
The Bishop of London, in an outspoken open air address dn Piccadilly, denounced those “ male hawks,” for whom shooting was too good, who nightly lay in wait to stain the chivalry of our soldier boys. He also denounced music-hall promenades, and the writers and- producers of slimy plays, which the soldiers did not want.
Australian and N.Z Cable Association. (Received September 21, 5.30 p.m.) - / , LONDON, September 20.
The Bishop of London, in the course of his denunciation of moral evils, said that shooting was too good for s the “male hawks” walking in Piccadilly, taking money wliihh helpless, trembling girls earned by tlieir shame. It was the duty of middle-aged men not allowed to fight and tho women in London, to purge tho heart of the Empire before the boys came back. If it was still the same old London the dead would have died in vain. , ,
OVERSEA SOLDIERS’ CLUB.
OPENED AT HATTON GARDENS
LONDON, September 20. 1 The Lord Mayor opened the*Victoria League’s new club for overseas soldiers at Hatton Gardens
BRITAIN’S LOSSES.
~ MINISTERS’ BEREAVEMENTS ■ ' V
t LONDON, Lieutenant D. Henderson,‘soil of tjio Right Hon Arthur Henderson, lias been killed.
Mr Henderson ‘is the |ixtli member of the Cabinet to lose a son, the others being Mr Asquith, Lord Crewe, Lord Selborne, Mr Pike-Pease and Lord Lansdowne.
, Mr. Henderson and Lord Selhoriie have each two other sons on ,aßtfve service, whilst Mr Lloyd George, MiLong Mr Bonar Law and Mr MacKinnon Wood have one each serving.
So far eight members of the House of Commons have been killed in, tho war. ■
NEW ZEALANDERS —_ * r ■ THE WOUNDED CHEERFUL. (Received September - 21/ 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. Many New Zealand wounded have arrived in Britain. Sir Thomas Mackenzie visited them and found them cheerful and doing well.
DURATION OF WAR.
LORD DERBY'S VIEW.
WILL LAST OVER WINTER
(Received September 21, 11.25 p.iri.) NEW YORK, September 20.
Lord Derby in an interview with American (Correspondents does, -not agree ' with the view that the war will end in six months. He believes that it will last over. the winter and considers that there are very few slackers now in Eugland. After a visit to the front he felt that there was even a greater certainty of victory.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 6
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