On Wednesday Mr. Lloyd George opened a Conference of representatives
of the Trade Unions at the Treasury in order to consider the mobilisation of industries under the new Defence of the Realm AAA, He made an urgent appeal to employers and workmen to sink their differences and °omen- trate all their energies on a far larger output of munitions. The expenditure of war material, particularly of ammunition. be said, was far larger than any General Staff bad estimated. In the best regulated countries the pressure was beyond belief. At present our failure to produce enough was causing the greatest anxiety. There was a lesson to be learned from Neese Chapelle. There the British gene had directed the heaviest fire on the enemy which had ever been known. The effect was not only to ensure succeaa, but to save the lives of soldiers in the attack. In France he had been told that after a heavy concentrated artillery fire an assault could be con- ducted with a tenth of the lose that would have been incurred otherwise. To produce much more ammunition was therefor* simply to nave teeny more lives. On those grounds In implored his audience to do all they were capable of doing.
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