RECRUITING IN IRELAND
MR JOHN REDMOND’S TRIBUTE. TIIE CASE EOR CONSCRIPTION! CONDEMNED BY NATIONALIST LEADER. ( By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —.Copyright) LONDON. July 20. Mr John Dillon (Leader of the Nationalists in the House of Commons), speaking at Limerick, praised Ireland’s response to the recruiting movement. Four thousand men had enlisted in Limerick and, proportionate!) - , London should recruit SOD.OOO. The Irish Party warned the Government that there would be the utmost resistance to conscription. Some members of Cabinet appeared to think that in order to obtain a sweeping victory it was only necessary to adopt the worst feature of Frussianism and introduce compulsion in military and industrial service. That was merely a panic cry. It appeared that some people would rather lose the war than win without compulsion.
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Southland Times, Issue 17484, 27 July 1915, Page 6
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126RECRUITING IN IRELAND Southland Times, Issue 17484, 27 July 1915, Page 6
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