MR. LLOYD GEORGE AT BRISTOL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13793, 14 June 1915, Page 6

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AT BRISTOL.

SKILLED MECHANICS IN THE

TRENCHES.

TO BE RETURNED TO FACTORIES!

PROMPT RESPONSE BY MASTEUS

AND MEN

(Received June 13, 3.30 p.m.) London, June 12

Mr. Lloyd George, at Bristol, addressed a great gathering representing, tho western industries concerned. He said the war was one of munitions. .The British ongineorin trade could win tho war; without them victory was impossible. Ho understood that Bristol was suffering from ■a scarcity of labour. Firms had been asked to furnish tho names of skilled labourers who wculd bo more useful at home than in the trenches, and Lord Kitchener had instructed that they nhould he dug out and invited to return. Ho appealed to the labour leaders to use their influence to socure the ■suspension cf regulations preventing .the employment cf unskilled and girl labour daring the war.

"Wo have heard about Keuve Chapetie," he said, "but wo want a deluge of shells to iai.. for forty days and forty nights without ceasing. Then we ■shall hear the orp.-iking of-the- German rsLeel barrier uc<i the cheeks of the "British infantry :r.arching ' through the. ishattorrd ont"- enchments to victory." Mr. Lloyd George's speech was businesslike and unrhotoricaL Bo pleaded for a sufficiency of high explosives to enable the soldiers to crash their way through to victor}'. "You'can supply thcrn," he said. "If you do fewer lives will b.e lov-;t. We are —1 hardly liko to uso the words — short of shell. Yob, t will. That is the fact. V*:e vvaut it, need ifc, must get it. i'or. can give- it, and whatever you do 1 hope you will do quickly. Time here meaus lives, and the- rc,ua shells tho surer and speedier the victory." At the close, of f.ha mooting, Mr. Lysaght. the u-.-.-or of large engineering works at .\,j-sport, placed them at the disposal <ii i!-^ State.. Mr. i-.it.yd (i-'!'-ge Eauasrxod that epfecimeus of r::.< shells- iteovled would .shortly be e:u-A' >cl af CfcrciiflY Newport, and owa .-:-.. Advicus li'oin ■./iasgow e£ato that Kight of William Jeardmora and Company's workmen, with the Amalgamated Ei-p;ineers' Sc^i-'-ty's organising delegates, huve yoitu to ilio front for a ; v;eeli s-rt: t';, .'.-'.•ldiers' a-.:tu:.5 need--,;! Tlieir ir. is i;: -Ay to he. follovi'td by v;«its jt'iov:- •'.-■ ova ditTerent cei:tref>, y/itii a ;i»w i) stiiculafcing the cutput o)' jxiur.iv .s.