{"id":2049,"date":"2016-10-14T04:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T10:50:45","slug":"the-war-office-performed-a-remarkable-about-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"The War Office performed a remarkable about turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[A]t the end of last month the\u00a0War Office\u00a0performed a remarkable about turn. Having been utterly opposed to the hiring of Chinese labourers before the Battle of the\u00a0Somme, it\u2019s now clear that the manpower situation has entirely changed. This could be a war of\u00a0attrition, and minister of war David\u00a0Lloyd George\u00a0has just authorised the opening of negotiations, on an absolutely top secret basis. So it is that the British Empire, and not the French, will become by far the most extensive hirer of Chinese labourers in the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"bump-view\" href=\"https:\/\/makersley.com\/chinese-labour-corps-23-aug-1916\/\" data-bump-view=\"tp\">Chinese Labour Corps | 23 Aug 1916<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A]t the end of last month the\u00a0War Office\u00a0performed a remarkable about turn. Having been utterly opposed to the hiring of Chinese labourers before the Battle of the\u00a0Somme, it\u2019s now clear that the manpower situation has entirely changed. This could be a war of\u00a0attrition, and minister of war David\u00a0Lloyd George\u00a0has just authorised the opening of negotiations, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/?p=2049\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensuringweremember.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}