BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIV, Issue 15980, 5 June 1916, Page 8

BRITAIN.

CHVRC'HILL'S ATJMY CRITICISM. ; INDIA AS A RF.CH ITTING GROL'ND "Tlßies*' and Sydney "sun" Eeruisec. ! Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON", lime 2. In the House of Comni'ia-i ATr 'Pennant stated that when the Military Service Ave- iv::-} fully v.-orkiujj every mail would have the iob for v.hich he was best iitted. It was not j>ossible to draw on tho population of India, for tin; creatioa of soldiers. It- was a question largely of officers. It v.as ahncsi imno-sible n> send oiueers from to take charge of t!ie India.u troe-p-;. A simila.r difficulty applied it; A'Vica. If Mr Tv'inston Chnrcliill th<; foreign Press ho would see tha: the Germans were phrased with the. idea, of Britain resortina; to coloured irof;ps. indicating that we were near the end of our tether.

PETROL coxsemr riox. TICKICT SY>TK3I. 1 ,- OR ADOWED Petrol tickets are foreshadowed 1»* a new !;iiion under tho De-ionee ol ih.' Itealm Ait. nvjuiritvi pe-'rol users Tn Mipply ili<- Governmen! with itilVirmaiion r-.;;';." their consumption of pet nil. KXTJST.Arr.XT OK FORKIGX SITUECTS. In tho blouse. of Commons 3tr 11. Samuel .stated that the Governmentregarded as important the enlistment in thoir respective armies of tho men ol Aisied nations now in England. The British authorities had actively cooperated with tho Allied Governments ill this matter. Arrangements wore now hcins considered giving facilities lor the eventual enlistment of foreigners in the British Army. AIUX ITfO XS ST.: PPLY. AX TMPORTAXT AXNOFXCEmext. 31 r A. Henderson, in a speech at Leeds said that 31 r Lloyd Goorgn authorieed him to make, the statement thai. wo jiov.' stood bettor than ever regarding munitions, machine guns and. Ji'-avy guns. The fact that tho Whitsuntide. holidays had boon postponed only until tho end of July spoke volumes. LESSON OF YERDUX. A YEAR'S PROGRESS. fir Addison (Under-Secretary for 3imiitionv) in a. speech at Sheffield, said that Verdun showed that more and more shells and guns were required. Sixteen times more heavy shells were made by unspeeiaivsed firms than were a year a;ro mad.; by the ian.ro armament lirm.-v and "Woolwich Arsenal. Our scientists had found formulas for producing optical gloss, which was formerly a German mor.o- ---: poly. Our output now exceeded tho i out-nut be'ore the war fourteen times.