GERMANY
A COLOSSAL MUNITIONS FACTORY.
VIEWS OF CIVILIAN MOBILISATION. SUPREME EFFORT OF THE WAR. TO TURN THE SCALE OF VICTORY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association., (Rec. Nov. 16, 8.50 a.m.) . „-.... ? AMSTERDAM, Nov. 15. i German newspapers are full of ' the civilian mobolisation scheme. There are highly coloured pictures of a new Germany controlled from General Qroner's office, from where the activity of all industry and every utilisable citizen will be directed. Germans are being persuaded that their supreme organising genius -will turn the scale of;. victory, and it is intended to show the . world how a great empire can Sun business directed to a single end—the -winning of the war. The newspapers, with a -view to stimulating the nation, recall the late Lord Kitchener's saying that for England, the war would only begin in 1916. Germany under-estimated England, and she must convert the Empire into a colossal munitions factory. ; There is some doubt as to whether compulsion will apply to women. It is .understood that the food mobilisation will allow a dietary in accord with the importance of the war work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 November 1916, Page 5
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