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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 84, 29 May 1911, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY SENTIMENTS

Although your leading! article of last night exposes the fallacy of your correspondents in the same issue on the subject of “Military Training (says a correspondent of the Wellington “Post”), I am loth to, let the opportunity pass without protesting, with your permission, against the miserable arguments used in criticism of one of £ho a most forward movements over made in this country. The extraordinary sentiments, of some of your correspondents suggest a series of answers foreign to a true Briton. How or why is this? Is it a trait of the “Little Englander ol whom wo road a good deal in the English papers a year or two ago and now happily almost if not wholly extinct, visited by a broader recognition of the dangers that besot Great Britain as a nation? Surely wo are not to assume that any largo section of New Zealanders are ready to throw up their hands in ghastly horror of the necessity of beiim prepared to defend their country, should necessity require it. No! I know full well no such feeling exists in the towns. If, unfortunately, it does, even a small proportion, then all the greater cause for the men and fathers of New Zealand to assert themselves by enrolment, as no doubt they will do when the time comes, prepared to take their share in defence of thenhomes and country, quite apart from the advantages of drill or discipline The numbers will soon be known, unci a little later those, if any, who have from anv cause neglected to register, and so ‘ further this national movement. ,