SUFFERING IN GERMANY. LESSONS OF THE WAR.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14336, 12 February 1917, Page 6

SUFFERING IN GERMANY.

LESSONS OF THE WAR.

INTENSE COLD.

SCHOOLS AND,AMUSEMENT

PLACES CLOSED.

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Berne, Feb. 9

The intense, cold in Germany is greatly aggravated by the coal shortage. The temperature is eighteen degrees below zero at Leipsig. All places of amusement in Saxony have been closed in order to save fuel.

All the Berlin schools. have been closed owing to lack of coal.

ARTICLE BY MR MASSEY.

WIDER SPHERE FOR; WOMEN

NEW ERA OF PROSPERITY

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konflon, Feb. 9,

Mr Maesey, In an article in the "Pall Mall Gazette," says that one of the most valuable lessons the war teachss is how wise ia the utilisation of women power in certain'^pheres. This will te« lease a vast of tnari-po^CT1 for development of resources of the Empire and secure its future progress -and prosperity. Men will demand and re-

ceive a larger measure.of products of their toil, vrlnlo tho stress of competition wili be lessened by.the opea-

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ing of broader . fields of opportunity. There is dawning a new era of industrial prosperity based on co-operation. The very forces the enemy has set in motion have enabled the Empire to realise the common perils, powers and possibilities and revealed the weak joints in the Empire's armour.