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THE GLOBE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916.
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MAKE THEM USEFUL, There will be something peculiarly ap propriate in employing the German pri- soners in a decent healthy way to help this country to maintain itself, but above all hay! to make it permanently righer. Sixteen Ame months ago in "The Globe" it was urged the that every foot of land should be culti- of t vated, and German prisoners, and interned ord Germans made to earn their keep by work- είνε ing on it. It is certainly ridiculous to keep them a eatin' their 'ede orf," as Jorrocks would have said,
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and producing nothing, while the far- mers and fields are crying out for labour. Our harvest is late and difficult Wi this year. The corn will be long in the
fev fields because of the amount of bottora growth. The ploughing and the cultiva- tion of the stubbles and the getting ready Buj
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of land for autumn-sown wheat is all-im-*| portant. This year's acreage fell 260,000 shr acres as cómpared with last year's, largely because the farmers lacked sufficient to labour to compete with the unfavourable seed time. In the reclamation of unculti- ma vated land, in saving our coasts from erosion, and recovering land from the seas, in planting the highlands with trees, much might be done by German labour to add to the strength and wealth and self-support- ing power of the country.
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It must he the case that some Depart- ments of Government have not yet learned that the country is at war, or else they choose to ignore it. Thus at the Colonial Office they seem to have a superlative dis- regard for the regulations against trading with the enemy and the Acts of Parlia ment respecting it. In the colony of Hong Kong alien enemy's trade marks to the st number of 183 were renewed after the beginning of the war. Moreover, a motion
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a expunge them and to prevent the registra- st tion of any colourable imitations of them was defeated by means of the official majority. The Governor's excuse was that e-to carry the motion would be flying in the ez face of the Government and would only be cvetoed. What a comment upon the Paris Economic Conference, when in the Far
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h East, a stronghold of Hun trade, we are - officially dry-uursing Hụn interests. After Pall the blood and treasure which the Allies & have lavished to defeat the Germans, their trading triumphs over us are to be re- ssumed as soon as this war is over. We wonder whether Mr. Bonar Law is really wwars of the way in which some of his
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