COUNTRY'S WAR EFFORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16903, 16 July 1918, Page 4

COUNTRY'S WAR EFFORT

STRAIN MUST BE MET. FORCE TO BE MAINTAINED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION,] WELLINGTON, Monday. Reference to the published report of some remarks by the High Commissioner in London to the effect that the Dominion's man power was diminishing, and hinting at the possibility of the Americans taking the place of the New Zealanders, was made by Sir Jam?s Allen to-night. The Dominion, he said, had entered the campaign with the intention of seeing it through and he believed the people of New Zealand were still determined to do bo. He believed the men at the front wished to fight the matter out and intended playing their part to the end. There was a great strain upon New Zealand's man-power and resources, but, like our allies, wo were prepared to meet those strains and to do and give all we could in this fight for freedom. We were glad to see the Americans ooming in and we hoped that they would como in such numbers that victory would be certain. So far as lie was concerned he considered himself pledged absolutely to keep the New Zealand Division up to strength as long as he had man-power to do it.