REAL MAN POWER.

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10288, 9 January 1917, Page 4

REAL MAN POWER.

The British Empire contains more! than a quarter of th'e whole human I race. On a. moderate estimate :t must have at least fifty million -f military agel. The Sunday .Pictorial therefore thiiuis it is..absurd that the British Empire should have difficult v in raising soidierw enough t.o wix] tins or any war. (rui-many. it is said, at the begijinin.if of the war reckoned that she had eight or nine millions, to draw upon. Put the total at seven millions, and it is more than 10 per . cent, of her entire population. Tun "]->er cent. ■ of the Brti'.sh Imperial pop- , ulations would give xi« forty-threo I millions. Two .per cent, would fur- ' nish us with over ctiehf: mill:onß. If | we "combed, out" the whole Empire, I from Ireland to Fiji, we could sret ■ more men than we could, use. Ind'a alone could spare us an additions! million or . two and hardly know that she had parted with .them. We could have another million of coloured troops if we draw as freely upon our ' Africa.n Dependencies and Protectorates a.s France ha* done- upon hers. We can hardly mobilise the whols man power o^ the Empire in time .or the closing staees of "this war. In the next war—if there Is a. next war-- ' we ought to do it.