EVERY MAN A SOLDIER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16824, 27 November 1916, Page 5

EVERY MAN A SOLDIER.

GERMANY'S MOBILISATION LAW

A FAR=REACHINQ MEASURE.

(Reuter.) Received November ZG, 5.5 p.m. . .AMSTERDAM-, November 25

Hen- Debruek introduced in the main committee of the Reichstag a Bill calling to auxiliary service all linen from 17 to 60. He said that besides millions liable for service in the army, millions are liable for other services. This was was not only a war of armies, but a war of political economy. Germany must exert her extreme national power. The Bill aimed at the mobilisation of labour, of which there was-"a positive lack, especially for munitions and keeping up the, food supply. Compulsion would only be empjeyed as a last .resort, thervoluntary services required of labour must be taken for less important industries. The Bill must prove to the whole world Germany's determination to fight with all her forces to the uttermost. General Graener, Chief of the War Department, pointed out that the exertions of the British Ministry of Munitions necessitated considerable German munitions. The Bill proposed to- add to the army all hitherto indispensable at home. The whole Bill constituted the completion of general duty and would leave the country without, social distinction. % **