BRITAIN'S MAN POWER

Taihape Daily Times, 17 April 1918, Page 5

BRITAIN'S MAN POWER

CIVIL SERVICE COMB-OUT. CLEAN OUT AT 25. LONDON, April 15. In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law refused the Nationalist request for an additional day's discussion on the application of compulsion to Ireland. Mr. J. lan Maepherson, 'Under-Sec-retary for War, replying to a question as to whether in view of the position in France, it is proposed to permit horse-racing in the United Kingdom, said that the Government saw no reason to stop the present limited programme, which was considered necessary to maintain the important industiy of horse-breeding. Sir Auckland Geddes, Director of National Service, stated that the Government was determined that no man over the military age would be taken if the situation could be met by calling up men of the present military age. The age of twenty-five was selected for a clean out in the Civil Service, because above twenty-five the men were really indispensable from the viewpoint of the war effort. This ■did not mean that Civil servants above .twenty-five were not being released jp.s rapidly as possible. m t PASSIVE . RESISTANCE. LONDON, April 15. Cardinal Logue, speaking at Duneannon, said that proposals vitally affecting all sections of Ireland were being hurried through the British Parliament with unseemly haste. The Government was making the gravest blunder, which would lead to the utmost disorder and chaos, and would be met by strenuous passive resistance. Cardinal Logue deprecated organised physical resistance.