GIGANTIC WINTER EFFORT

Nelson Evening Mail, 15 November 1916, Page 5

GIGANTIC WINTER EFFORT

'EARLY SESSION : OF THE. Pv.EICKST^VG. PTtOPOSA-L TO CONSCRIPT THE POPULATION. {Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, Nov. 14. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent says German politics are talcins an unprecedented coarse. The Government's action in summoning the Reichstag to meet in the near future instead of in February, as had been arranged, mean? that the measures recently announced must b<; of an extraI ordinary, nature. I It lias been widely hinted that the ! Government proposal to mobilise the entire civil population, for a gigantic winI ter effort. I An inspired appeal in the Berliner ( Tageblatt urges so-called general oblij gatory civilian service, and advocates that all civilians, male and female,/ from ; 16 to 6-5, be placed on a military footling. The coming winter must be used to strengthen the military front, filling the gaps, and raise new armies, simulI tawouslv strengthening the economic | front. . ■ j WINDING UP OF ENEMY FIRM. % ! (Australian and N.Z. Oniblo Association.) LONDON', Nov. 14. The Board of Trade has: ordered l tho winding up of the finm- of August mer, bookbinding dealers.'*'