BRITISH ARMY STRENGTH
LABOR DENOUNCES CONSCRIPTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 6. In the House of Commons Mr J. H. Thomas (Labor) moved the rejection of tho Naval and Military' Service Bill, which empowers the retention of tho forces considered necessary until 1920. Mr Thomas said tho Bill was a breach of the Government’s non-Conscriptkm pledges. If Britain became conscript the war would leave us vanquished. Labor would accept the challenge. Mr Churchill, Secretary of State for War. in reply, said the Government did not want, to maintain Conscription. Great Britain was doing her utmost at the Peace Conference to abolish Conscription throughout Europe, but had not yet succeeded. She stood almost alone- there. Mr Thomas’s amendment was rejected by 304 votes to 71, and the Bill was read a second time.
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Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 6
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