COMPULSORY SERVICE.
THE FEDERAL BILL. AUSTRALIAN PATRIOTISM. LONDON, October 2. ,f The Times," in a leading article eulogising the bill introduced by Mr. Ewing (Federal Minister-for Defence) for compulsory training, says that the best safeguard is compulsory service, and the Australian people are tbe first community in the Empire to grapple seriously with the duty of military training on a national scale. "They will," proceeds "The Times," •'reap the ample reward of national security. They may never have to fight, because the better they are trained the smaller will be their risk. "But, apart from that, Mr. Ewing's measure will greatly strengthen tha Federal idea, namely, sense of citizenship in the great Commonwealth, and prove, ■if properly administered, potent to evoke and organise Australian patriotism as distinguished from the self-assertion of Victoria or Queensland or New South Wales." . ,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 237, 3 October 1908, Page 5
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