COMPULSORY SERVICE.
MINISTER DESCRIBES CAMPAIGN AS MADNESS. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. December 6, 11.25 p.m.) London, December G. Colonel Seely, Secretary of State for War, in addressing the London Scottish Regiment, defended the Territorials, and declared that the people had a deepseated objection to compulsory service, and any attempt to base the defence system upon compulsory enlistment would be madness. Even if compulsion were possible, it would take years to provide ah efficient engine of war by means of it. The Government had not the slightest intention of adopting the principle but would foster the volunteer principle to the utmost. It proposed to complete the organisation of the National Reserve, which now totalled 170,000 men; He hoped that- all patriots would abandon a barren controversy and join in fostering voluntary national service.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1617, 7 December 1912, Page 5
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