CANADIAN RECRUITING SCHEME.
INFLAMMATORY CRITICISM
(Received July 30, ; 9.20 a.m.)
OTTAWA, July 29
About £18,000,000'0f the £30,000,000 votod for war purposes has already been expended.
The attention of the military authorities has been called to inflammatory articles published in Henri Bouniassa's paper " Los Devoirs." Bourassa takes strong exception to tho attitudo of
firms which stimulated a movement inaugurated by the Stock Exchange for encouraging unmarried employees to enlist. He contends that it is akin to intimidation, a.nd that, if tolerated, conscription will virtually be in force in the city. - Recruits are offering as fast as they can be enrolled. A number of Austrians endeavoured to pass as naturalised Russians, and when the imposture was discovered they stampeded.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2732, 30 July 1915, Page 5
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