THE REGISTRATION BILL
IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY LORD LANSDOWNE ■By Telegraph .—Press Association.- —Copyright. LONDON, July 13. , Lord Lansdowne, Minister without portfolio, in the House of Lords, moved the reading of the Registration Bill. The country, he said, realised that the old go-as-you-please system had broken down. He believed we had twenty-two to twenty-three divisions in the European theatre at the present moment. Prodigious efforts had been made to overtake past errors and in order to provide equipment. The efforts had been attended with considerable success. There was not a word regarding compulsory service in the present hill,-but he did not believe tie country would tolerate voluntary service with its present anomalies and injustice mnch longer. The bill would greatly assist compulsory service, because it would shorten the interval elapsing between the decision to resort to absolute compulsion. . The bill was read a second time. •
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9096, 15 July 1915, Page 7
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