EARLIER MESSAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 5

EARLIER MESSAGES.

OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS

ENORMOUS INCREASE NECES-

SARY

UNSATISFACTORY TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS.

London, March 13

In the House of Commons, Mr Lloyd George, referring to the Defence of the Realm Act Amendment Bill said that business men were subjected to inconrenience, which was inevitable in wartime. "Instead of 'Business as usual,' " said Mr Lloyd George, "we want 'Victory as usual/ and that is impossible unless everybody in the community is prepared to suffer all kinds of inconvenience and discomfort, and even sacrifice. It k essential that Great Britain should increase enormously her output of munitions. A drastic measure is not justified unless it is felt that we can proceed no further without it. The national need is so overwhelming that those aware of the military position understand how much depends on getting an adequate and overwhelming supply of explosives at the critical moment."

In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. H. J. Dalsriel said that there was overwhelming evidence of the unsatisfactory treatment of British prisoners in Germany. They were not receiving food and money sent by relatives, and their letters are strictly censored. One wrote: "We are as happy as if we were in Dartmoor." Probably the censor thought Dartmoor some palace, ana did not delete the reference.

• Mr M'Kenna, Home Secretary, said that the Government was aware that a British subject was publishing an English newspaper in Berlin, disseminating false news of Britain and of neutrals.

} Dr. Macnamara, Secretary to the Ad(miralty, stated that every loss to the

CABLE NEWS.

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British mercantile marine »ac published ; nothing was suppressed.

Berlin reports state that deputies visited prisoners at Doberitz, and found the arrangements admirable and the prisoners contented.

A corespondent, describing the British bomb-throwers, says they are strange looking men. Round their waists they carry 20 or 30 bombs— little cylinders fastened to a long stick, round which fall streamers.

Crouching among the barbed-wire, the bombers, with supporting infantrymen, raise themselves a little and hurl the bombs high above the parapet* Gaining equilibrium from tho streamers, they plunge in a straight pluinbline into the trench.

Then follows a rush. As each trench is taken, the bombers get to work again, and throw bomb after bomb, jam-pot after jam-pot, and grenade after grenade.