‘A National Day has been decreed at home for April 12th, in the sense that members of the large Trade Unions and Associations give up that day’s income, salary or wage for the benefit of the Fatherland.‘The wish has been expressed that this programme may be supported as follows:viz., that Officers and other Ranks may volunteer to give up their pay for one day.‘All Officers and other Ranks who are willing to abandon for one day the amount of pay due to them will apply to,’ etc.
‘A National Day has been decreed at home for April 12th, in the sense that members of the large Trade Unions and Associations give up that day’s income, salary or wage for the benefit of the Fatherland.
‘The wish has been expressed that this programme may be supported as follows:viz., that Officers and other Ranks may volunteer to give up their pay for one day.
‘All Officers and other Ranks who are willing to abandon for one day the amount of pay due to them will apply to,’ etc.
The captured papers do not disclose the extent of the response to this appeal, but, plainly, at the beginning of 1917, all was not well with the Fatherland.