25 AUGUST 1917, Page 3

We hope that the school teachers when they resume work

after the holidays will encourage the children to collect horse-chestnuts- not for the mysterious game of " conquerors," but to help in win- ning the war. It seems that horse-chestnuts can be used by the Ministry of Munitions as a substitute for grain in some important industrial processes. Every ton of chestnuts will save half a-ton of grain for food, and there are, it is said, 200,000 tons of chestnuts to be picked up. The Director of Propellant Supplies, at 32 Old Queen Street, S.W. 1, is ready to receive the unfamiliar crop.