BRITAIN’S MAN POWER

Taihape Daily Times, 1 July 1918, Page 5

BRITAIN’S MAN POWER

WORK FOR OLDER MEN,

LONDON, June 28

In the House of Commons debate on the hardships of conscription on men over 45, Mr. Lloyd George, replying, said that the older men were needed for work behind the fighting lines. It would be folly to put them in the trenches. It was true the Americans were coming, and they preferred to be brigaded with British divisions, but that was on the distinct understanding that when the comb-out was completed the British would take the place of 'Americans, who would then form their own divisions. That was an honourable understanding, under which President Wilson readily sent a very large force of Americans to France.