BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15172, 9 January 1915, Page 9

BRITAIN'S PART.

COMPULSORY SERVICE

ADVOCATED

"NUMBERS ALONE CAN

ANNIHILATE."

LONDON, January 7. Unionist papers are advocating compulsory military service in Britain.

The "Daily Telegraph" says that w-ithout numbers, which alone can annihilate the enemy, the prospect in Flanders and France is ono of mutual exhaustion and a consequent condition of stalemate.

The "Morning Post" thinks that after five months' war Britain ought to be holding more than thirty miles of battle-lino, seeing that Russia alone holds from six to seven hundred miles.

The "Daily Chronicle" believes that thirty thousand men weekly are still being enlisted. Compulsion would undoubtedly irritate many otherwise patriotic men into saying, "Wait until we are compelled." Another matter about which the public holies to havo some reassurances is the coast defences. Many people have left coast towns because of the uncertainty regarding these. The "New York -Herald's" London correspondent states that professional footballers have at last made a strong rally to tho colours. Lord Kitchener granted permissiou to those under contract to have time off military service to meet their playing engagements to tho end of tho present season, army pay to be given irrespective of the clua salaries they may be drawing.

At the Conference of the Teachers-' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, Professor Finlay, of Manchester, declared that Lieutenant-General Sir Baden-Powell was the greatest educator of the day. He believed that after the war they would see wholesome conir pulsion sUcu as youth itself welcomed, together with a larger acceptance of responsibility by the nation.