THE COMPULSION BILL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 11 January 1916, Page 5

THE COMPULSION BILL

PROSPECTS FOR SECOND

READING

(Received Jan. 11, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan; 10. Week-end^ meetings generally were bad for anti-eonscriptionists, arid audiences of workingmen severely heckled Mr Thomas and Labor leaders.

Mr Winstone, who was rejected at Merthyr, had a disorderly reception at a miners' meeting at Abersychan. The Nationalists are not expected to take further action against the Bill, so the opponents of the second reading y which commences in the House or Commons to-morrow, will be below fifty.

Newspapers __ are giving prominence to the reooening of the group system\ The Daily News appeals to single men to enrol,'. as the" last chance to save voluntaryism.

The Daily Express demands a general election to clear the air.

Other newspapers state that the Government will not hesitate to appeal to the electorate if progress of the Bill is unduly Tramoered.