AUSTRALIA’S PART.
CONSCRIPTION DEBATE. ADVERSE AMENDMENT NEGATIVED. MELBOURNE, September 21. (Received September 21, at 11.20 a.m.) In the Federal Hons© of Representatives ft Referendum debate was continued. Mr Bums moved as an amendment that conscription was inadvisable. He argued that if tin? Government’s proposals were carried out it would he destructive cf the best interests of Australia.
Mr Archibald, in supporting Mr Hughes, said our enemies here "were nob Germans but the men wiio had got German gold. Ho suggested deportation of the I.WAV. Mr_ Anstoy, in denouncing the measure, said it seemed lo bo the organised determination to draw out of the country ft whole of its manhood. He claimed that the number of men asked for weekly was utterly disproportionate to our weekly casualties. Ho concluded by saying: “They are going to draw up immense forces, far ' beyond requirements, and stretch out our lino and increase the slaughter.” Tho amendment was negatived hy 49 votes to 12.
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Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 6
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