NEWS FROM BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15742, 28 August 1915, Page 10

NEWS FROM BRITAIN.

WHAT FARMERS EXPECT. GREAT SACRIFICES NEEDED. LONDON, Aug. 26. Lord Selbourne, President of the Board of Agriculture, in addressing representatives of Agricultural Societies at 'Westminster, said that the situation demands from every class greater and greater sacrilices. The financial burden would soon be very great, and

imany more men must enlist—lie did not care 'whether voluntarily or compulsorilv or from agricultural or other ' industries. The agricultural labourers | had done their part in the ivar nobly, '•lit the response had been very small over the country, therefore his forecast was that in 1916 men would be taken irnm those farming districts from which hitherto they had not gone. His aim. to which Lord Kitchener had been sympathetic, was to leave the farmer his foreman, stockman, carters and shepherd::, but the rest, of the work must be done by women or men hitnerto unemployed in agricultural operations. The operations in the Dardanelles had been of valuable service to Russia ii! reducing the Turks in the Caucasus, and in other ways. 'lhe German suct cesses were due to military organisaI iion, not to the success of the German ; soldier over the Russian. who was ! absolutely sublime under the most try- ' »>« conditions. Russia's set-back had imposed a greater England. l-ra»!ce and Italy than was the case six months ago.