NATIONAL SERVICE
MEETING OF THE LEAGUE. SPEECH BY LORD ROBERTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 29. (Received- June 29, at 10.35 p.m.) At the annual meeting of the National Seffvice League Lord Roberta stated that the membership was 91,142—an increase of 30,000 during the year. Seventeen members of the House of Commons were now pledged to the league's proposals. He said that Australian Ministers had assured him of the immense advantage to the health of boys through cadet corps. If Britain got the boys trained compulsory service would follow naturally. It was infinitely regrettable that the military training of boys, which was one part of Lord Haldane's scheme of immediate practical value, had been dropped, at the first breath of disapproval by those inaccurately tailed the Peace party. Mr W. B. Ley land, of New Zealand, was amongst the speakers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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140NATIONAL SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 15183, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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