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Show ENGLAND 1ST HAVE MEN FOR WARWDRK Lord Milner Declares Last Comb-out for the Army Has Crippled British Industries. America Relied Upon to Furnish Big Fighting Force; Allies to Do What They Are Able, By CHARLES H. GE.ASTY. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) LONDON, Aug. 14. In an interview with Lord Milner today, he expressed favorable fa-vorable views on the war position, but called attention to some of the problems now confronting the allies. '1 feel that Great Britain may be overdoing over-doing military effort, having regard to all our other efforts," said the minister of war. "The last comb-out hit us and the allies very hard in some ways by diminishing our industrial production for the purposes pur-poses of the war. I need not say anything any-thing to you about the coal situation, which, as you know, is very serious for us and the allies, Italy particularly being be-ing entirely dependent on Great Britain for coal, and France' largely dependent, while our own enormous output of war material depends upon coal. There are other ' cases in which the latest comb-out comb-out checked the production for war purposes. pur-poses. For instance, tanks. I am at the present time compelled most reluctantly to bring back some hundreds of men, recently recruited, in order to keep up the tho production of tanks, which began to fall off owing to the loss of these men's services. MEN NEEDED FOR WORK AT HOME. "What is evident, is that the demand on the British man-power for war purposes, pur-poses, that is, for the maintenance of the navy and mercantile marine, for coal production, for the output of every kind of engine of war, especially airplanes and tanks and guns required by the United States and other allies, as well as ourselves, our-selves, and for many other requirements in the way of equipment, Is so great that Great Britain's contribution to the ranks of the allied land forces is bound to suffer certain diminution. The allies must understand it, and understand un-derstand the reason. There is great danger of some misunderstanding. What I want to emphasize is that Great Britain's Brit-ain's total war effort is not going in any way to diminish. In fact, it Is constantly increasing. I am very much afraid it may be thought that we are inclined to relax our effort, because we now rely on the help of America, That is entirely unfounded. The way I look at it is that America's contribution should be an absolute ab-solute addition to the strength of the allies, al-lies, not in any sense a substitution of American effort for that of Great Britain or of anyone else. But it may be the best use of the total strength of the allies to devote rather more of Great Britain's Brit-ain's man-power to those objects which she is in the best position to fulfill, or perhaps can alone fulfill, and rather less of It to actual soldiers. Each ally has to contribute that which is best for the purpose of the alliance. AMERICA IN THE BEST POSITION. "It is idle to ignore the fact that Great Britain and France, too. for that matter, who have lost literally millions of their physically fit young men, are not in so good a position for supplying soldiers sol-diers as America, with her almost untouched un-touched millions of young men, whose magnificent fighting qualities, which I. for one, never doubted, have now been shown to the world in most unmistakable fashion. "I know this may be misinterpreted. Somebody is certain to say; Oh, yes, |