TRUTH ABOUT SHELLS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 24 October 1916, Page 3

TRUTH ABOUT SHELLS.

Munition workers and the general j public who uiieu me j.vliu>ic ' rial!, Stratioru, hi., one Uignt iccon.i.., j dau i.iiicJtt again una uurmg uii inspiring auure;is on "iuo [best anu easiest way to win lue ua» , a London paper.) He uad been to me western from j several times, be explained, and us I was greatly concerned to enforce tno i point tnat tbe war would really b^ I won at bome. He bad every syruj pathy with tbe widows and orphans, i out in this terrible business it was far ' better that we .should send shells than j tears, and every worker at bome should realise that our comfort ana safety were only being secured at the cost of other men's lives at the front. When he returned from his first visit to the front, said Mr. Tillett, Lord | Kitchener sent for -him to tbe War I Office and said": j "Well, what are you going to tell the ! people?" | "I am going to tell them the truth.' i "Good luck to you! I wish 1 couk. do the same," rejoined the Secre- [ tary of State for War. ! Soldiers and officers had again and '■ again told him that if the workers at i home would only deliver the goods they would put them through and drive the Germans back. For many weary months the Germans had rained hell, in the shape of shells and high explosives, on our men, and we could make little reply. It depended on the home workers to see that we were now in a position to rain a deeper hell on the Huns. (Loud cheers). He had every faith and hope that they would do it. 5