NATIONAL SERVICE MUST COME

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 6

NATIONAL SERVICE MUST COME

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S VIEWS. (By Telegraph—l'i-ess Assn.-Copynght.) London, Juno 'i. _ Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent scientist, believes that registration for national servico is bound to come. The present, emergency, lie says, is more serious than people realise, and employers and employed ought to be encouraged to suomit willingly to national organisation.—('"rimes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) SPLENDID RESPONSE OF THE WOMEN. 70,000 REGISTERED FOR WAR SERVICE. London, June 2. Seventy thousand British women havo registered for war service. Fourteen hundred are engaged, mostly in the clothing and ammunition trades. The majority of the women belong to the better classes, and are offering their services for patriotic reasons. Positions are being given to the most needy. The Government permits twenty per centum of the eligible men to enlist, but apparently believes that women cannot replac& men earning £300 a year. Women's new occupations include those of paymasters, ticket-collectors gardeners, 'bus-drivers, bailiffs, and telegraph messengers. _ Six hundred are employed in the Vicker's munition works.—("Times" and Sydnev "Sun" Services.) PRESS COMMENT. (Rec. June 3, 10.20 p.m.) „.. ... London, June 3. Ihe "Westminster Gazette" supports the scheme for a national register of the population, which the advocates of conscription would consider as a first step towards national servico. Tho. "Manchester Guardian" strongly opposes conscription as undemocratic. "It would recreate England on the Prussian model." The "Guardian" admits, however that no general'objection can hold against, a proved necessity, and that will be the moment it is shown that, without com pulsion we cfllnot raise the armies necessary to win." 'Die "Daily Chronicle" deplores tho whole controversy, and regrets that "instead of having a united nation, wo should !«ave a divided one, with —for the first, time —a dangerous and growing anti-war agitation."