TIME FOR ACTION
APPEAL BY MINISTER-FOR
DEFENCE
"If. the people of this country want the voluntary principle to continue, every- man who is of that opinion must set himself to work to secure
the necessary number. of recruits. I /do not think there is much value now in platform speaking, but there is value in the man of military age recognising that the time has come when he has to make up his mind."
That" is the way in which the Minister of Defence (Hon. J. Allen) expressed himself to a Post*reporter to-day, and he added that the man he referred to had to put >himself in the position of either being excused by a Military Appeal Board or being sent into camp under compulsion. "I do think," lie added, "that one has a right to appeal to the pride of the country. Ido not profess to be a firm believer in the voluntary principle myself, but I am out to try to see it through. If we fail, it will be a source of satisfaction to our national pride that at any rate we did our best; it would be a still greater source of satisfaction if, when the waris over, we could point; to the fact that air our reinforcements had been recruited on the voluntary system."
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 6
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219TIME FOR ACTION Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 6
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