COMPULSORY TRAINING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10480, 16 October 1912, Page 2

COMPULSORY TRAINING.

United Press Associatou. —By Electric Telegraph—CopyrightReceived October 15, 3 p.m. V; , London, October 14. ns Mr Olough, in a long rambling question asked Mr Harcourt lor details of the prosecution of defaulting cadets, and whether children of Brutish immigrants in Australia and New Zealand are compelled to become conscripts after six mouths rsoidonce? Also whether the hoy conscription policy was adopted to allay scaremonger apprehension ot German Chinese and Jajianeso invasions;' , , „ ’ 1 Mr Harcourt said the Defence Acts arc entirely within the province of the Dominions themselves, ind it was not the practice to inswer stich controversial questions.