COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING
A JUDGE'S OPINION.
(Per United Pbess. Association.)
_ A UCKIiANi), Dcccmlier 17. op oak my fu-tkw on the subject of compulsory service, Mr Justice Dcnniston saitl it seemed to him that our obvious duty was to prepare ourselves as a cominumt'v lo defend oursolves 011 land. Willi ciir small population iliis could oidv bo done b.V SQIUO such organisation as that which exists m Switzerland. We should endeavour vo make trainini,' in arms not merely an episode in the l,(e of each o! us. but part of its essence. If even a small part of the energy of our young men which found lis outlet in games und sometimes commendable forms could bo diverted to acquiring skill in the iis(3 and practice of arms, and a certain amount of drill and dis-' cipline, we should in time create sonic'.'""n «f Ibe feelinp of the Swiss republic, in which a sense of the paramount obligation to defend one's country seemed part of the very fibre of its people. If, he concluded, wo allow ourselves to remain in our present tupine self-contentment, I fear we shall tsomc day have a rude awakening
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14089, 18 December 1907, Page 5
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