LATE WAR NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 15908, 14 September 1915, Page 8

LATE WAR NEWS.

(Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) AMSTERDAM, September 13. Zeppelins over the island of Ameland were seen this morning flying westward. ■ LONDON, September 13. The Press Bureau states that Lord Kitchener and Mr Lloyd Ge l ge. arranged tor eight parties representing workmen employed m tiie munitions areas to pay a four days' visit, to France to see the'imperative necessity fur accelerating the output. Mr Arthur Henderson, M.P., headed the first party of trade union leaders who visited the firing trenches at the end of August, including a section where our advanced forces are facing the enemy on three fronts. That party reports that conversations with the soldiers impressed them as to the overwhelming supply of munitions and vast preponderance of projectiles required in order to shorten the war. The requirements of the Army are enormously in excess of all calculations. The party visited Ypres, and found it a mass of blackened and deserted ruins, the result of sheer wantonness. Will it need the sight of desecrated homes and violated womanhood to convince the British workman that- he must put forth every effort if Britain is to be saved from the fate of Belgium and northern France, or, what is infinitelv worse, lie saved from being compelled by the _ selfishness and indii'iereii' hj of its citizens to conclude a degrading and disastrous peace. The vast majoritv of the industrial community are doing their duty, but if the gallant fellows at the front are hampered by slackness in the workshop dieter will inevitably result. The soldiers are optimistic to a man and declared that "once the lads in the ehops realise the need, they will ■work until they drop so that we won't go short of munitions,-'