IRISH CONSCRIPTION.
NOT AN -ICPOSSinLTtY" IP PROPERLY EZPZAXNED. - (Th«."Ttaies.") ' LONTON-ro^berai. ._ Speaking to a meeting-of Dublin Unionists, Lord Wirnborne : (Lord-Lieu-l? lana > ists thought conscription .in munity impracticable without the majority being favourable; but he saw no reason to despair bTOringi-g home to f? : i,-5' ord , %£s&!*■ »'d%_t"ls4iooo men had.enl«tedj-m Ireland up-tc~tl»rmiddle of September. Of these -92,000 were Catholics and, Ulster contributed =:M,OOO, of whom v P^es^«-^^ 8 W e X! , mated that there wei;e -lSOiiWOfmen o* §2i , o^ 260,000-. men. who- were medically unfit or were agricnltfi«l ; l»lKn-«rs tion workers. Th-eTrish divisions would require 40,000 recrnife before Christmas^
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 5
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97IRISH CONSCRIPTION. Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 5
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