THE COMPULSION PRINCIPLE.
LORD KITCHENER ON
RECRUITING
IRISHMEN PROTEST AGAINST EXCLUSION.
(Received January 6, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 5. Lord Kitchener will, on Wednesday next, in the House of Lords, make a statement regarding recruiting.' ' There have been many sectional conferences of members of the House of Commons in view, of Thursday's debate. Mr John Dillon attended an anticonscriptionists' meeting, over which Sir Edward Carson presided. The Irish Unionists' meeting sent a resolution to Mr JBonar .Law and Mr, Asquith, declaring that the exclusion of Ireland from the operation of the compulsion scheme would be an insult and a humiliation to a loyal and patriotic people and an abandonment of the principle of equality of sacrifice.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8340, 6 January 1916, Page 5
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116THE COMPULSION PRINCIPLE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8340, 6 January 1916, Page 5
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