ARMY OF LABOUR READY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

ARMY OF LABOUR READY.

HOW THE TRENCHES ARE HELD

URGENT NEED FOR EXPLOSIVES

THE USE OF GAS

(Received June 10, 11.55 p.m.)

London, June 10.

In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon, in moving the Munitions Ministry Bill, said investigation proved." that there was an entire army of labour, skilled and unskilled, waiting to be used, and anxious to be used.

Lord Stanhope, who has just arrived from the front and is returning to-day, said he was not revealing a secret in saying what every German staff officer knew, namely, that the French, broadly speaking, held their trenches with few rifles and the support of 75 millimetre guns. We held ours principally .by rifle fire. The first system was expensive in ammuni±i6n and the second was . oxpensive in life. It ought to be publicly announced broadcast that every slack or wasted day in the factories meant so many lives.. If the Government and public men generally spoke the whole truth more there would be much less difficulty in getting recruits and munitions. The necessity * for using gas ought also to be realised. As the Germans chose wicked methods of warfare they had become outlaws, and must be treated as vermin and stamped out.

Lord Cui'zoiij in replying to the whole debate, said active steps were being taken for the-production of gas.