BRITISH COMMONER’S APPEAL FOR MUNITIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 126, 29 May 1916, Page 5

BRITISH COMMONER’S APPEAL FOR MUNITIONS.

TAKING HOLIDAYS IS MURDER FOR TOMMIES. THE MOST CRITICAL TIME OF THE WAR. IS DURING THE COMING SIX MONTHS. (Reed. 9.10 am.). LONDON, May 28. Mr Griffiths M.P., after fourteen months at the front makes a striking anneal to munition-workers through the Weekly Dispatch. He says the next six months will be the most critical time of the whole war. We are -passing rapidly to our zenith and the enemy’s efforts are ever increasing y violent. We shall be in the gravest danger if we are caught short of ammunition or guns, with the enemy commanding apparently unlimited supplies. Both the Whitsuntide holidays with the inevitable curtailment of output will he little short of murder for Tommies in the trenches. This is a gun war ,and Verdun has proved that any shortage is fatal. Men without guns and shells do not count; shortage or waste meant the sacrifice of thousands of lives. We never, until recently, had guns or ammunition approaching anywhere near the total available against us. (Reed. 9.j0 a.m.). ■ : LONDON, May 28. All these long months they had been struggling to equalise conditions, (and were now on the right road to overtaking the Germans, and I do not believe that we are going to he let down because munition workers are determined to take full holidays. The science of gun-reading enables the enemy to discover your weakness, whether you are conserving your ammunition or awaiting guns. Let munition workers treat themselves to the best holidays, one that be enjoyed by the mind, from a sense of duty done, and theLby giving the mind Test from most terrible thoughts. Slackness on your part compromised safety. If we all play up well we put our soldiers well on the goal, if there is slackness I fear to contemplate the consequences. It is as serious as that. >;