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BRITAIN'S POLICY
LONDON, March 6. In the House of Commons., Mr J. H. Thomas (Labour) moved the rejection of the Naval and Military Service Bill which empowers the retention of forces considered necessary until 1920. Mr Thomas said that the Bil<l was breach of the Government's non-con-scription pledges. 'If Britain became .a conscript nation the war would Heave jus vanquished. Labour would accept the challenge. Mr Winston Church Ml (Secretary of War) in reply said that the Government did not want to maintain conscription, and was doing its utmost at the Peace Conference to abolish conscription throughout Europe, but had not yet 'succeeded. We stood almost alone there. ■ -.. Mr Thomas's amendment -was -rejected by 304 votes to 71. The Bill was read a second time.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9545, 10 March 1919, Page 6
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