NATIONAL DEFENCE
SYDNEY, March 10. Bishop Stretch, in his opening address &t the Anglican Synod at Newcastle, in dealing with the question of national defence, said that if the community expected that in time of danger all ablebodied men would rally at the country's call .it became a duty to give to all such training in arms as should save their courage from being a mere suicide. He believed that training could be planned to do away with larrikinism and to add to the physique of the race. We did not •wish, if war came, to see our manhood die -for lack of knowledge, so it seemed to him that universal training might Veil be regarded by a Christian man as the strongest assurance that we should not be attacked.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 29
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130NATIONAL DEFENCE Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 29
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