THE CALL TO THE COLOURS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 6

THE CALL TO THE COLOURS

MEN FOR THE NAVY, FIFTS! THOUSAND MEN WANTED. (R-eo. Juno 27, 3.25 p.m.) London, June 26. Supplementary Estimates have been issued requiring an additional fifty thousand men for the Navy, making a total of 300,000. UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FOR THE FRONT. AN AUSTRALIAN CONCESSION. Sydney, June 26. The University lias decided to allow medical students who have offered their services- at the front to. take tlieir final degree earlier, so as-to allow them to qualify quicker than in the regulation five years. - This does not mean that the curriculum is reduced, but that students jjiay make more strenuous efforts to pass. ' STIRRING PASTORAL TO THE CLERGY. , Sydney, June '26. '< 'Archbishop Wright has issued in Syd-ney-a stirring pastoral to the clergy, urging tM Church to do its utmost to induce ypung men to answer the call .to arms. The heads of other churches are using their influence in a similar direction. INSPIRED BY PATRICIANS'S, . heroism. FRESH BOOK IN CANADIAN RECRUITING, Ottawa,' June 25. The'sto'ry'cf Princess' Pat'riciaVßegiment has encouraged recruiting, and it was decided to immediately reinforce the regiments. The students of. - the M'Gill University..volunteered to fill two companies. l; ~ CONTINGENT FROM SOUTH AFRICA. ; ("Times" aud Sydney "Sim" Services.) London, June. 25. It has been suggested that the South ■ African Union should send a contingent | ta Europe. The Dutcli weekly "Ons Land", declares that the debt incurred over the rest of the South African campaign prohibits this.' The ''Gape Argus" insists on - every - possible device of taxation and voluntary, effort to raise the necessary funds. 4000. FROM JOHANNESBURG.' Johannesburg, June 25.' An . overseas contingent of '1000 men is being formed. "KITCHENER'S BIRTHDAY RECRUITS." • London, June 25. Congratulations from all parts of the Empire were Teceived by Lord. Kit- . chener on his 65th birthday. Special recruiting appeals were made, and every recruit wore an armlet inscribed in red letters - "Kitchener's Birthday Recruits." NATIONAL SERVICE BILL. MEASURE OF DOUBTFUL SCOPE. London, . June 25. • In the House of Commons, referring to Mr. Long's National. Service Bill, Mr. Hay Fisher said it would be found very satisfactory, and would answer the demand made for a great national scheme. There is much doubt as to the scopo of Mr. Long's Bill. Many members of the House of Commons expect that it also provides for a national register of the availablo manhood of the country, and will really be a war census to enablo the authorities to determine for what branch (if war work each is best fitted.