Second Edition. Great Britain
BANK HOUOAY AMONG THE ' MINERS.
Umtbd Pbew 'Association. (Received 2.10 p.m.) ■London, August 2.
Bank holiday was observed in the munitions area of the Welsh coalfields, all the workers undertaking to resume to-morrow. • The Welst Coast seaside resort.- uure thronged. Fifty thousand witnessed the military a nd naval sports at Stamford Bridge in aid of maimed and blind soldiers and sailors.
GERMANY'S WAR WORKERS. (Received 2.10 p..m.) London, August 2. In the Priise Court; the SolicitorGeneral produce.?!: an , .affidavit by Major Dillon, of the \Var Office Staff, wherein he estimates the numbers receiving supplies from the German Government* Be States that there are four millions under arms on both fronts, 750,000 in training, the casualties numbering about 2,000,000. The railways employed about half a million, Krupp's and other factories 730.000. mines on other; than the war, work absorbed These with their dependents *rjjrobaUy aggregate k 20.000,000. The figures- are giv,eo. as .proof that the bulk of the imports of Germany all wanted for the war wot-k- ---■ ers. , ; '•;-/,"•'
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 80, 3 August 1915, Page 6
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171Second Edition. Great Britain Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 80, 3 August 1915, Page 6
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