OTHER SPEAKERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 8

OTHER SPEAKERS.

LONDON, Nov. $, Mr John Redmond spoke of Mr Asquith's proposal in reference to the Cabinet silence-wreckers. For the time being he was against imposing compul.sion unless the country was practically unanimous. It would be folly and a crime. The voluntary system had not had fair play in Ireland. Hitherto the Government and the. War Office had given neither assistance nor Despite discouragement, 300,00() to 400,----©OO Irishmen were in the army, including 115,000 in Britain and Irishmen in the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand forces.

Mr Barnes did not object to Mr Asqnith's statement. The national safety .must oe the supreme consideration. If it became absolutely necessary to bring compulsion on young unmarried men ■who did not yet realise their duty, he supposed it was justifiable, but the' time had not yet come.

Lord Charles Beresford said he did not think Mr Asquith's speech would relieve the nation's anxiety. The Government now knew that they would never get through the Dardanelles. It was altogether wrong for Lord Kieh«ner to conduct the war while a member of the Cabinet. Mr Asquith's cynical and callous doctrine of "Wait and see" was absolutely fatal to success in war. Hitherto we had no proper plan of campaign. Naval authorities were never consulted on the Dardanelles cperations, but were simply told to do it. A large army ought to have been sent to Serbia in the first instance instead of embarking on a blind gambling risk in Gallipoli. Mr Whitaker deplored Sir Edward Carson's speech, which would have a disastrous effect on the colonies and our Allies. It looked as if Sir Edward Carson had taken to "moonlighting."