FRENCH MILITARISM.
CIVILIANS NO LONGER SAFE. UNIVERSAL SERVICE. DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT. BY CABLE —TRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGH’I. Received 12.55 p.m. to-day. PARIS, March 4 The Chamber of Deputies resumed the debate on Military Re-organisation Bill. Discussion centred on the first article, establishing flic principle that every citizen, irrespective of age and sex, must serve in war time. Objection was raised to this, as suppressing the principle of non-combatants rights to protection under’the Hague Convention therefore, in future wars Lusitanias could be sunk, and women deported for war work without protest. Following a long discussion, the article was amended to declare that every citizen must serve either as a combatant or as a non-com-batant.
The debate showed that the Government recognises that in the future wars no State will be able to pledge the safety of civilians, and that an enemy will not distinguish between uniform and mufti men, or women. '
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 March 1927, Page 9
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