POLITICAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1917, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

TEE WORKERS' WORST FOE. (By Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter). Wellington. Aug. 23. ""!i« •cor'i fee of the workers to-day is the man who says that this is a capitalist-' war avid who fails to point out that this is a war which involves liberties and rights of every man awl woman in the nation: who f.iiV: to make it clear thai all that has br-en won dunne ibn •• cnturics by uncrUke and Mifferirig from ignorance and' tyranny 5? at- ...Mko in this struggle." said 'Mr. L. M. Kit in the House of Representatives. Mf ■*« We the war, then the- pcopTE of 'very toimtry where liberty reign", to-day will have taken from them all their moat precious possessions of right, ,vrd freedom cud democratic institution''. I °ay to every worker hi this country, do not quarrel .i bout the detail-' of void- economic position when tho very i:.'uiic of your freedom is at stake.'' THE REASON! FOR TITF. E X 'TRA DIVISION. A "eblegif'W read by >'hr Minister for Defence in Ihr. House of Representatives So-day mentioned that the itli Infantry Brigade was used 'Reside i.Tie Ne\r-Zui-land Infantry Di v i:ion in tin battle* of \rras. The brigade did good work, while receiving its baptism of fire, It will he remembered that the Minister for Defence has several times told the House this -Ith Brigade was formed out of our accumulated reinforcements for a special duty. This special dntv can hardly have been to assist m the battle of Arras ; where, the addition of a brigade to the British forces cannot have been a matter of the first importance. There is some reason lor believing that the real reason for the brigade was the expectation of a vast- conceited Allied offensive this year, an offensive that has been delayed by i!:o failtue of the Russians.