"THE LAST QUARTER OF AN HOUR."

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 5

"THE LAST QUARTER OF AN HOUR."

On the day before the Germans hurled, themselves against the British front, the Reichstag passed the latest war credits—£7so,ooo.ooo. In pleading for'their passage, the Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, Count Rocdern, referred to the "last quarter of an hour" of the war, which the who";,. world he said, now felt was "not too far distant," He added: "With breathless anxiety all Europe's gaze is now turned to the western theatre of war, where we,, better equipped than ever with everything that the resources of the country and the industry of our people can provide and strengthened by the forces already liberated and to be liberated in the East, await the coming decision with boundless confidence. "In addition to their threats' M superior military strength, our enemies v have latterly been threatening' to enforce a . raw materia! boycott against us after the war. This threat can also react against our present foes. When England's blockade no longer Us to import Chilian nitrate we began to extract nitrogen from the air. If they cut us off from wool and c\ ton we shall take substitutes from the German forests. The problem of directly converting cellulose into rrtutorials for spinning appears to mo fo be nearing a practical Polutiou Tl ' a national problem of the highest importance. ''