BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16234, 2 April 1917, Page 2

BRITAIN.

MEN FOB THE FRONT. SHOULD WOUNDED MEN RETURN ? (Australian and N.Z. Cable Amu.) Received 5.5 p.m., April Ist. LONDON, March 31. There is considerable feeling among the public against bringing back to the lighting line silver-badged men who were discharged from the army on account of wounds. Many consider that the age should be raised before wounded men are re-enlisted. Mr Maepheraon, in the House of. Commons, stated that half a million men were discharged in the first eighteen months of the war, and it is estimated-that at least 0O!,OOO are now fit for service. Mr Pyecroft, Mi* Charles Seely, Mr McKenna, and, Mr Churchill are among members of the House who are actively agitating in the matter. MUST HAVE NATIONAL SERVICE. Mr Hayes-Fisher, M.P. for Fulham, said it was no exaggeration to say that Britain was in deadly peril at the present foment. There must be national service for everybody. We did not. mean to stand more than three years of war. We were united to kiipck out the; enemy in 1917, and-wdre beginning to do it. ' It was necessary to have 300.000 md?e men for shipbuilding, munitions, transport, and agriculture, apart from women..

THE WAR CONFERENCE. | The War Conference sat this Mottling and the Cabinet, in the afternon. '' Owing to pressure of war business there is practically Kttle chance of the Conference considering the Dominions report. The overseas delegates held cpnstaltations on Saturthe heads 6f certain depart ments. " ..

. SOLDIERS' COMFORTS FUND.. Sir,, Thomas Mackenzie, chairman of the Ncir Zealand Contingent Associatnqn,. states that the balance in hand at the vena of Majrch t?as £7OOO for general comforts, and £21,000 for Red Cross. There is an additional £2OOO. in hand for comforts. General Richardson also holds £IOOO for comforts for hospital patients. General Richardson ciepr&atfes Any systematic attempt' by the Association to cater for fit; men, whose care should devolve on the military authorities, with small supplements from the High CftrnMiMidnef's . Fund subscribed in. LondoA. Some members ssociation disAeiit from General Richardscn's Association expends £2iXfi soldiers' personal comforts.