DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
SPEECH BY LORD ISLINGTON
115 y Electric Telegraph—Copyright j [United Press Association.]
London, July 31
Lord Islington, in a speech at Chip ponham dealing with compulsory ser vice, said that the obligation of uni vcrsal service was undertaken in Nett Zealand by general consent. Speaking from intimate observation of the cadet system and the effect it was having upon the national character in tinniest democratic of the overseas Dominions, ho had not the slightest, doubt that if a universal system of school cadets was carried out, England ivould supply the deficiency in her Territorial Army.
A PLOT THAT FAILED
On the Army vote, Colonel Seely
added that tho military aerial wing hiid ilown 135,060 miles without a serious accident.
The proposed reduction of the Army vote was defeated by 280 votes to 247. The Conservatives carefully organis ed a snap division to kill the Nationalists, who employed a detective tr' watch tho London termini. He no Heed an unusual number of Unionists returning, and informed the Government Whips.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 74, 1 August 1913, Page 5
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