MORE MEN NEEDED
attention; turned to exempted TRADES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Recent responsible visitors to the front, including Lord Northcliffe, have teen impressed by the necessity for more men to make up the losses and enable the Army to continue a most vigorous offensive. A public campaign has been initiated asking the Government to immediately comb out the munitions -works and Government offices, where thousands ot young men are sheltering. The Daily Mail urges that the preferable course would be a most searching combing out, including exempted civil occupations, 'because men of 45 were unsuitable. It quotes Sir Douglas Haig to the effect that was is a young man's game. Numerous letters endorse the Daily Mail's contention. A wounded Australian officer from France says that another million men will he wanted before Germany can be beaten. GOVERNMENT TAKING ACTION. LONDON," Sept. 20. The Government is appointing a committee to comb out military eligibles em ployed in the civil service.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1916, Page 3
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