Show THOUSANDS I OF SOLDIERS 1 1 SACRIFICED Officer Back From Front Uses Uses' Plain Talk in Urging Britons Britons Britons Brit Brit- ons to Unite MUST LET FRENCH KNOW J Contrast Results Obtained in England With Efforts Made by Its Ally 4 4 M M f M 4 M M M 4 London June 12 The The percent- percent 4 ng nAt of unemployed d union work work- f men nien I In is the lo loviet rt In twenty five 4 Years cnn In 10 Great Orent Britain according 4 In leg to o th Hoard Honed of Trade Labor 4 Gazette There re 1 18 a marked short short- shortage 4 n age e of men In th the engineering 4 eaRl coal mining minim and ag- ag 4 trades In the clothing 4 trade trades n a scarcity of women IB Is 4 noted Increases In Tn f amount amount- 4 lug Ing to ne C n a week cek have haTO 4 been heen since Riner the war but 4 this thin I is ocr oser the of 4 4 worker During During- the Pout Past 4 April there re were nere rc four forty-four trade 4 4 disputes involving o over o rr to- to 4 workers worker nm n a against the OO 4 worker Involved In disputes durIn dur- dur 4 In lug the same month a year ago ngo MIM t 4 t t 4 t The Thc following by ny capt Jersey Jer erse er- er se sey De Dc Knoop of or the Cheshire Yeomanry Yeoman Yeoman- r ry n emphasizing the thousands of casualties cas ens- unIties In the British forces caused di directly dl- dl b by shortage of ot ammunition wa was wai published In tIle tHo Manchester Guardian but the press presa bureau censors refused permission to certain of ot the tho London newspapers to reproduce it It Captain Do Dc Knoop Is the probable candidate of oC the tho unionist party part for tho the next vacant seat In the house of ot cornin com corn in mons o ns Little Sl Sign n of WarI War nr I arrived from the front on a a. Mon Ion day There was nothing In London to sU suggest that I had Just left leCt only onh sixty miles away a a. life lite and death struggle le Any AnJo number of ot young oung unmarried unmarried un un- married men were meandering about tho the streets and the they certainly did not seem to bo be detained by business of vital importance In the country countr districts districts districts dis dis- the only onh Indication of ot war was tho the notice In the tho railway carriages to draw down the blinds bUnds and this thle was generally generall disregarded But the people must b be made to realize the position for tor ever every minutes minute's delay IB is Jeopardizing thousands of ot 11 lives es ThouR Are Sacrificed dI d. d I was sent on the wild goose gOOle chase chaRe 0 of trying to relieve Antwerp Then Thon my command Joined up with the main arm army which hung on simply b by the eyelids and kept the Germans from breaking through to Calais Thou Thousands were killed largely th through rough lack of ot ammunition ammunition ammu ammu- nl on our side The Tho men were kept In the trenches day after aCter d day Y night after night simply because there was wa nobody to relieve them The They hung on and fought as well as Britons e ever aver r fought since the tho world began They fought and the they died for tor want o of fore fore- thought We In this country have got to see seeto seeto seeto to It that no more are thus sacrificed On the da day I was hit wo we were re relieving re- re lieving men in the trenches who were so 50 tired Ilog that they could lIc scarcely move At 4 o'clock In tho the morning the shelling b by the Germans began Everybody Every Every- bod body agreed with me that there had never been any anything thinK like this In the history of ot warfare Ten twelve fifteen shells at a a. time were bursting up and down tho the line Our gunners could do practically nothing The reason of oC all this was that we had had to r recruit In Ina ina a n. hurr hurry and had taken mechanics who ought tp have ha remained behind to make shells Contrast our t position with that of the French who quickly realized d t. t the oi ot a or anu Immediately sent back the mechanics It is owing to the French 75 guns that tho the French arm army has hns done so welL welt At U the front we read rend In the British newspapers of workmen nt at home going on strike for tor another penny half an nn hour hoar or because the they are aro asked to do doa a bit of ot extra work What would happen happen happen hap hap- pen If It a n bat battalion Uon refused to go Into a a. trench because they the had only anI had a a. day hay oft off after doing forty eight hours What t would 1 happen to the tho empire If It there was such a spirit at the front fronte We e must win but we have got gol to break down a machine which has been preparing for or forty tort years We must let the French know that this country Is going to fight tight with the whole and andriot not riot with a quarter o of Its power Those Thosa who talk about Its not mattering whether they live 10 under the German GermanI I emperor or tho the king should see seethe seethe the terrible sights I have s seen en Only I a strip of ot water separates us from it It |