BRITAIN'S INSISTENT CALL FOR STILL MORE MEN.
I Buying to the defence of the channel ports. r] .:>•">' LONDON. April 11. IBAttYING TO THE DEFENCE OF THE CHANNEL PORTS. B . LONDON. April 11. I ""' ■) Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister in Charge of National Service, in i the course of a speech in London, said that Britain was going to require a vast number of men. He wished he was able to tell the figures, but that would give the enemy most valuable information. ■He realised that the Man-Power Bill would mean dean and disaster JmsßS?**-- . , , . ,i. tut nR a less evil than military disaster. . *o many industries, but that was a less en mmiL how the great battle would en .It migh end wi e Kd .occupation of the French Channel . ports. Then we 8 ho«ld German occupation of the French Channel ports. Then we should : *eed a great army in England.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 7
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