COMPULSORY TRAINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7447, 23 May 1911, Page 1

COMPULSORY TRAINING

LIVELY MEETING AT WAIIIL s\ SPECIAL TO THE ''TIMES.” : . AUCKLAND, May , 22. Recently the question of compulsory military traininir has been much in .evidence .at, WaiM,. the , Socialist, party causing considerable adverse comment by their condemnation of the scheme. The culminating point was reached yesterday afternoon on the recreation reserve, when Mr V. Potter, an ex-member, of a South African contingent, pave a stirring address in the presence of j.WO persons in supnort cf compulsory military tT«inins. He moved the following resolution • —"That while deploring the horrors of war. we maintain that every man has a right to uphold the British flap.” Leaders of the Socialists, after rivin" disloyal utterances and s f i<Tr>atirano JL Potter’s address as a "babel of jingoism.”. moved —"That- this meeting of citrtenK enter their emnhcti.e nr.-te.rf . apainst military training,”' . The Poeialists insisted on a divisim-fe decide the quArtvrn land.' a ■ nemert»j,:v s/VTl© ensued. 'The crowd' divided lc-.ur immediately, About four h'nndrml favoured the- amendment while c. large majority supported the resolution. _ , M<-an whi'e the; more excited i-Vyi,*] i w,made an urgent apnea] to the peonle to "rally round the red flap.” ' • ' *"-V The. resolution. 1 - however, wan- carried amid enthusiastic cheering, and the assemblage concluded hy sinning the National Anthem, interrupt.:'-! by groans from the Socialists.