" A RUDE AWAKENING." COMPULSORY SERVICE.
£BT TKLEKIAMI.— PKE33 ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 17th December. Speaking to-day on tho bubject of compulsory service, Mr. Justice Denniston said it seemed to' him that our obvious duty was to prepare ourselves as a community lo defend ourselves ou laud. With our small population this could only bo dono by s>omo such organisation as that which existed in Switzerland. Wo should endravour to make training in arms not merely an episode in tho life of each of us, but part of its essence. If even a small part of tho energy of our young men which found its outlet in games, and sometimes less commendable forms, could bo diverted to acquiring skill in lho uso and practice of arms, and a certain amount of drill and discipline, we should in time create something of tho feeling of the Swiss Republic, in which a sense of the paramount obligation to defend one's country scorned part of tho very fibre of its people. "If," ho concluded, "we allow ourselves to remain in our present supine self-contentment, I fear wo shall some day have a rude awakening."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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188" A RUDE AWAKENING." COMPULSORY SERVICE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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