MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

TO ENSURE VICTORY. ALL OUR WEIGHT REQUIRED. FORTITUDE, RESOLUTION AND SAC RIFICE NEEDED., London, Dee. 5. The Times says that the war has reached a stage when no man or woman is justified in remaining In occupations not essential to the' war. Unless the whole adiiH population is thrown into the struggle for national existence, those who have died for the Empire have died jn vain. Never has the world's salvation more depended on the fortitude, resolution and Sacrifices of Britain and the overseas Dominions The Daily Hail urges the immediate raising of the military age, and the substitution of elder men in essential trades and widespread exemptions. POST-WAR TRADE. REPORT OF LORD BALFOUR'S COMMITTEE. London, Dec. 5. The Daily Chronicle states that the completed report of Lord Balfour of Burleigh's post-war trade committee reconv mends a general tariff of 10 per cent, ad valorem on all imports, reductible by negotiation with those countries giving British goods reciprocal' treatment. Imports from the Dominions and India would be admitted free.

OVER 127.000 PRISONERS. TAKEN BY THE BRITISE / London, Dec. 5. Iu the House of Commons, Mr. MacPherson stated, to November 26 we have taken 180,951 prisotfers on all fronts, of vflhoni 127,102 are Germans, 2092 Austrian and Bulgarians, 4305 Turks, 8562 native soldiers and followers. THE RATIONS SCALE. FAR HIGHER THAN THE GERMAN. Received Dec. 6, 5.5 p.m. •6J3 , London, Dec. 5. Tn tlie House of Commons Mr. Clynes, replying to a question, said our voluntary ration scale was from 30 to 40 per cent, higher than the German compulsory scale. IRISH RiEDICTRIBUTrON. (Received Dec. 0, 11.40 s>.m. London, Dec. 5. In the House of Commons, Mr. Redmond's amendment to omit Irish redistribution from the Representation of the People Bill was defeated by 217 to 163.