CASE FOR COMPULSION.
STALEMATE ON CONTINENT. ODDS AGAINST RUSSIA. 9 Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 30. Sir G. L. Chiozza Money, M.P., in urging the adoption of national service, writes: " While Russia has fought gallantly against odds in men and material, there is not the slightest doubt that she has again and again failed to extricate men who have been captured by the hundred thousand. A large proportion of the Russian army" has been lost, together with an enormous quantity of artillery, machine-guns, and other material. As between the central Empires and herself, Russia's advantage in numerical superiority has for some time disappeared.
We see Italy making slow progress in a terrain of extraordinary difficulty. Her efforts have had little effect upon the Germanic campaign against Russia. Austria, which was supposed to be crumpled up in the first two months of the war, is holding Italy, while taking Rusir aU sbare ° the fightin § m
" The French, with all their gallantry, .v re unable to effectivelv tW° e p h< ; ad , vanc ed German frontier Gallipoh ls still nnconquered. 1 naVy ma SnificentlT hoids the seas, our ships cannot force the issue.". ~uioi
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16011, 1 September 1915, Page 8
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194CASE FOR COMPULSION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16011, 1 September 1915, Page 8
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