Indian Labour Corps

WITH reference to the recent press communiqué announcing the Government’s decision to form a Labour Corps for work in Europe it is interesting to recall that the suggestion was made by a well-known publicist in an article entitled “Mr. Lloyd George’s Task” contributed to the Fortnightly Review. It was urged by the writer that millions of men were needed for fighting and  producing the necessities of the fighting forces and of the civil population, and that the best way of making the millions of men available for this was by releasing a large number of the three million “servants” engaged by hotels or in pleasure gardens, or for hawking newspapers or in kindred occupations.