The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-15

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 At sea we must be supreme: in the air we must win supremacy, and on
 land we must do the best we can to nn the gap Russia has made until America can take her place. And all the time we have to keep our vital
 industries going"
 While the enemy possessed the ad- vantage of an interior, with a good
 ailroad system, continued the min ster. they procured no corresponding ldyantage in stability and solidarity of public opinion.
 Discussing the age question he said
 hat the Germans were using boys of
 s on the Russian fronts and that Austria had raised the limit to s
 ears Analyzing the enemy's itrength he declared that the Ger mans would be able to withdraw
 j0,000 men from the eastern front md the Austrians would be able to release enough to make the total l,600o00.
 Sir Auckland assured the house
 hat the entente allies at present in numbers and morale were on equal
 erms with the forces of the enemy u present opposed to them and with
 he necessary endorsements which would he found during the year, could face any additional forces which the 3nemy could bring.
 When the full force of America oame into play a superiority would le esta blished which would be the se- vere herald of complete and final vic tory
 The naval personnel, said the min 'ster, had expanded during the war from 150,000 to 100000. The army today had more than four million men on the rolls The combined air ser vice had increased from two thousand to 125.600 The total enrolment in the armed forces had been 100000 England had contributed 4,590,000; Scotland 6200O0; Wales 2S0,000; Ire land 10000: the dominions and col- )nies 90O,000
 The remaining one million com posed of native fighting troops, labor corps, carriers and similar workers were from India, Africa and other de- pendencies.
 The minister declared that 1t would be necessary to raise in this country at once from 420,000 to 450,00O mer from civil life as an absolute mini mum. More might be necessary dur ing the coming year He added that the government had decided not tC l introduce couscription in Ireland fol the present, nor change the military age limit in Great Britain and tho colonies.
 The government could not givt preferential treatment to any organi- ! zation Many young men in essentia industries, he said, had acted as i they held a privileged position. The, must share the burdens with the oth- CTS and thus be replaced by older men.
 Sir Auckland praised the spiri shown by the labor leaders in the negotiations with the government Efforts were made by pacifists to stil up strife in munitions factories and young men threatening to uphold the output of ships and areoplanes in or der to force the government to send the wounded back to the front and drag out their fathers and stop the leave of the men at the front.
 "I believe that if they do they will meet such blast of hatred it will surprise them he declared.
 The men who have acted as di- rectors of recruiting, continled the minister would in the future be re- gional directors of national service The government departments had ar ranged for the requirements. amount ing 10 9000O mon to be supplied through the labor exchange. Pros pective demands for labor at the mu nitions plants and under the admir- alty amounted to 439,000 men and i19 GOO women. The appeal for labor for the ship yards had met with a response; more than five thousand men had presented them selves in the past month and 2,l00 had started to work Altogether during December forty thousand vacancies for men and thirty six thousand for ...--...-... LnA L.nar, FiIlnA