WHAT TO DO WITH IT?

Taihape Daily Times, 4 March 1919, Page 4

WHAT TO DO WITH IT?

Uncle Sam is busy asking what will the world do with the bewildering array of materials surrendered by the Germans under the terms of the armistice. This question is suggested by a war correspondent's statement of some items handed to the American army of occupation within the past few days. The enemy agents, he says, presented schedules of materials filling 42 pages of closely typed paper, Thousands of items were listed. Among the commodities named were millions of hand grenades, several. million shells, 2,00,000 rifles, 75,000 helmets, 80,000 pounds of leather, 200.000 metres of cloth 10,000 captured British rifles, and 10,000 bugles. In addition, he adds, the beaten foe was prepared to turn over dozens of warehouses stuffed with 'everything Jfrom wallpaper to big guns.

Large numbers of women and girls demobilised from munition work and Government offices in Great Britain are being absorbed in the needlework trade. In London hundreds of new hands have been taken on by West End firms, but there is room thousands more. The general experience is that few wonijen. and jrirls who left the .trade to on&er murfmon factories are so far returning to their old calling. The new labour consists almost entirely of fresh recruits, and the employers are faced with tho problem of instructing them in the work.