BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15174, 12 January 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN'S PART.

A WAR OF YEARS

HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE.

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COMPULSION

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(Received January 11th. 0.00 p.E>-> ' - LONDON. January 11. ?; Lv the Army debate in the House of *- Lords, Lord Solboruo said that Gsf • many had showed she possessed a most . wonderful war machine for turning i»j° -. j--soldiers tho whole of her. -• capable male population. The Ger*, /,_ man eoldier had proved splendidij b**^ yo. and to fail to admit that was to *>\-if&* our own eoldiore of the credit of firi|*r,3£<,. ins splendidly. The len-th of war must be measured iv year^nd»*^|

2! months. Many men had not entisted who might htjio done so. The man who was prepared to enjoy life under ti fi British flag without a grim jetcrmination to hand on the flag as free as he found it. was unworthy of the name of Britisher.

Ixjrd Ilaidmie baitl tho task was rolossa!, needing every energy of the nation. The Constitution permitted .onwription. but a magnificent response •r&s bcinj; made to the appeal to men to anlist. It might be necessary to resort io conscription in a great national emergency. British experts were endeavouring to produce big guns equivaIrnt to the German. Our artillery service was in thorough order. Fifteen thousand ('•) gun.s had been added before the war. Lord MacDonncH stated that sixteen thousand Uhtermen and thirty-eight Nationalists had been recruitIf an equal regionso had been made m other parts Britain would have over two million men. Lord Crewe *aid the Government had considered the question of conscription, hut did not regard compulsion a.s within tuc landscape as they now saw it.