BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15605, 1 June 1916, Page 7

BRITAIN'S PART.

AT THE FRONT.

COLONEL CHUKCHTLT/S

CIUTICIS3I

STATEMENT BY I-ORD KITCHENE 1

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rcccived Muv 31st. S.o p.m.) LONDON, May 30. In the House of Lords, Lord Middleton drew attention to Colonel Winston Churchill's statement that there worn 200.000 officers' servants and 50,000 grooms behind the British lines in France and Flanders.

Lord Kitchener said the servants and grooms served in the trenches, and could not bo considered as being behind the lighting-line. He thought that Colonel Churchill thoroughly realised that fact.

| Iti tho House, of Commons last week Colonel Churchill asserted that the/o was a grim distinction at the front between the trcnch and tho "noutrcnch" population; yet the part of the Army which really counted for ending the war was the "hilling, fighting, find suffering part." Every serviceable man should be nut in to lengthen and strengthen the fighting-lino. There were 200,000 officers in the Army, with 200,000. servants and 50.000 grooms. This was an army in itself. Colonel Church ill declared that the men in the trenches were living continually undofire. The "non-trench population" did not suffer, and were enjoying good food, and often better pay than tho fighters. The sha.ro of decorations given to the non-fighters was so disproportionate mat it had become a byword. GALLANTRY REWARDED. ENGINEER OFFICER'S NOTABLE DEED. (Received May 31st, 8.5 p.m.)

LONDON, May 30.

In the long lisfc of bravo deeds described in the latest list of honours, none is more notable than that of Second-Lieutenant Campbell, of the Royal Engineers. Tho Germans had dug a mine and . primed it with over si ton of high, explosives. It only required the lighting of the fuse, and, apparently, tho Germans were awaiting a favourable moment. Lieutenant Campbell cut into tho gallery and removed tho entire charge. He has been awarded the Military Cross. ! MOTHERLAND AND I DOMINIONS. |

UNITED IN LOVE AND LOYALT'7. (Received May 31st. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 30. Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at Birmingham University, in introducing Mr W. M. Hughes to receivc an honorary degree, said all the Dominions and dependencies of the Empire, united in their love and loyalty, had given strenuous help to tho Motherland, who had been attacked by a brutal and insidious foe, diabolically efficient in unscrupulous methods of warfare. THE BOARD OF TRADE. ILLNESS OF MR RUNCIMAN. (Received May 31st, 8.5 pan.) . LONDON, May 30. ■ It is feared that tho illness of Mr W. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, will prevent his attendance at tho Paris Conference. LONDON, May 31. Mr Lewis Harcourt will act as deputy-President of the Board of Trade during Mr Runciman's illness ; which is due to overwork. HOMEWARD-BOUND. RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS. LONDON, May 30. SLr_ Thomas Mackenzie* farewelled at Paddington station a party of invalided New Zcalanders, who are returning to New Zealand in the Rotorua, via the Panama Canal. $HE PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER. VOTES FOR. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. LONDON, May 30. Sir Edward Carson has conveyed to Mr Bonar Law, the Unionist War Committee's resolutions in favour of the revision of the Parliamentary Register, to includc votes for soldiers and sailors. AFTER THE WAR. OPPORTUNITY 1-OR EDUCATED DEMOCRACY. LONDON, May 30. Mr A. Henderson, President of tho Board of Education, in welcoming tho P'rench professors who are to make a tour of England, said that tho toach.ing profession would be a great factor in reconstruction after tho war. An educated democracy would be the best guarantee of the internal progress of the nations and tho right conduct of international affairs.

The friendship of France and Britain had been scaled with the beet blood of both nations.