COMPULSORY TRAINING
BRITAIN BEING CONY'TNCED. THE GOVERNMENT’S TIMIDITY. AFRAID OF LOSING VOTES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 6. (Received January 7, at 10.20 a.m.) The newspapers comment favorably on the Cambridge professors’ proposal that only Territorials he allowed to graduate, also on the extension of the same principle to public appointments. The ‘Evening Standard’ says that, despite the fact that five-sixths of the Unionist party and many Liberals support Lord Roberts’s altitude, our political leaders are. afraid to propose compulsory service, believing it to be hopeless until the working men of Britain allow their sons to giveup six months to leant to defend their homes.'' , “[I. ord - Roberts has again and again warned England of the insufficiency of her land forces, and criticised the Territorial system as a failure, partial if not complete. Liberal and Radical journals have, ridiculed his anxiety, and bitterly accused him of rousing German antagonism.] u
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Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 6
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150COMPULSORY TRAINING Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 6
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