MAN-POWER.
NEED NEVER GREATER. LONDON, February 25. Sir Auckland Geddes (Director of National,.Service) during the course of a speech in Lond'on said that there was no clear end of the war in sight. The need for man-power was never greater. The whole of the man-power question was profoundly modified by the defection of Russia, and tbe severest blizzard in America. The defection of Russia enabled Germany to establish an approximate equality of strength on the West front. Thus -the Allies could at present obtain no decisive advantage there, and until the American forces arrived we must see that our army was kept up to the necessary strength. The blizzard in America greatly delayed the arrival of raw material for munition works, so that for the next few weeks fewer munitions workers would bo needed and numbers of eligible munition workers who had not yet served should bo in the Army.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 2
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