MOST URGENT PROBLEM FOR BRITAIN.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14611, 16 January 1918, Page 5

MOST URGENT PROBLEM FOR BRITAIN.

SM POWER BILL INTHOOOGED.

FURTHER TROUBLE LOOMING AT PETRMMD.

rarae between oossagks avd bolsheviks,

Artillery and aerial activity continues on the "Western front. Severe fighting has commenced in the Ooa territory between the Cossack and Bolsheviki forces. The results are unknown. It is reported th*t iresh troubles are imminent at Pe'trograd owing to the suspected intention of the Bolshevikis to abolish tha Constituent Assembly in favour,of the Soviets Congress. In the .House, of Commons Bir Auckland Geddes introduced the Man Power Bill, stating that the must urgent problem at present was more men.

The cable news in this issue accredited to "The Times" has appeai-ed in £iat journal, but ,-only where expressly stated is such 'news the editorial opinion of The Times."