CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 2

CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN

RKVIVHU IW THE COMMOJCS. PREMIER* APPEAL IGNORED. DISSERVICE TO EMPIRE. iHjr Cable- -IV«wi A*soclaa>D.-ropTTtjht.) (Rfmvtd 2.4 .S p m.) LONDON", September 28. Iα the of Commons to-day Captain I jurat irvitul Mr. Asquith to make a njlai M upon national nrrvirr Mr. Awpillh Mill thr «"ib<jr*l w re ceiMiip the moot rarcful and imxiotia rt.iiM'iinin. , : The linvernmrnt will annitnni'f it* policy at the earliest mo Blent. In the nmnlimr tfie apjH-al to member" t i alwtain from rawing the •übjert. We .in- at a \ery > ritir.il mo mrnt <n tiic limtorv oi ibr \»r We arrarc watflimg ».th ,nitn.~- sympathy an I hop.- ihr ctlorli uf tbf Allied lofn*. i"Jv«—•*• rimH tit tw a premtrT dcwnirr to Kntain and thp Alliihl <■»!»•■ at eut-h i nx-mcnl than llir j-up !Ti»tion of division of opinion herr." !_jt.r. t'apUin lim-st rivi»rtf>tl to tli« suijjwt. 11«- realiec.i the grsvo rf«»poTV mhilit.i of di*ob«-yinz \Sr Awjuith'e i|iimt. this «b :i time to do »ha,l *a«. riffbt. irr>»piTtivc of prp*aurr from »jt>'trr eo'jrrf. Con-tcriptMn would hrartrn the Allies, !:»%•• 4 f.N'afhm;i ejTnrt- on Bul.rsrii.. an 1 % rrnjrtben th>attitu.ii- of (Sreece. <Onji-ri(it»>a rould r.nt l>e virgrt it ilv> Lmrrtimfril rouKl Jujrantor imentj thou*»nii recruits a ""•ft, hat UTilivw tiiat roulil in- piiaran t*r.! the Oovcrmneot might twit to de lay adoption of a systimi which uouid Suar»nt*r recruita Mr. Henry I'ii... Pe«*e (Ae.-H.tant l'c>*tmat.l«-r-f;yn«T«h i Mr .to*epb (Vai-e. aii.l Mr \V. M. H Itinglo deplored the duruMinn. and aj>pealrc! for eilpnrc until the (,o\rrnn:rnt had irT.vri at a den Mr Minlf; WiUon did not think that tli« lolialiiry «>,li-m r<iiiU r< plare the ra.-iialti<«( in th,> flrjng Imp I.ieut. Colonel Sir A. B<» <-s».'M. I monwt wmbrr for lhi.tlcy, »*i<l that unless the rt.m of rivrniU »a* a<--<-lcrated it aould r* impowible to maintain th.- .frmy at ;t« prr-ent etr^njjth Riyht lion. 11 < hapi.n. lniom»t member for Wimbledon, naid that Iμ? would nrri-r harr imaffir.ed that tfar <if l>ate would aflir Mr A»i|uith'« rrply in»»n).) It »v ..ne of the meet ren-etUMr dV:*t<-» that had rvrr ihkrz pUc« in t'lr Uoiur of Commona. H l.t>rd Kitehentr thought that eonncnption wao mve»»ary he wouid not hesitate to s*> m>. i( hrens I A peneraJ attack on Mr Anquith ami lhoM> re! s;.-.ii;».sJ.- for the cwututt of the Arjnv wa« deplurablr Mr l_ -C. M. P. Kmtrr. l"nioa»t nwni I Sor for Hirn)iiipha,m. wild he failed to uniler*la,n<l tin- drrad of dncuaeion whirh >eeined to nut. ;>.r A. i'.iil.r.. Liberal Ui*mi>.r ./or protested the critinpnz* tirj! lia,'i been made after Mr. Ai-j'iit:. . milcinii ».!'■•!«.. ThQae uin> favouTttl ronK-ription werr siwplrv flouting Mr. Aiwjuith.