COMPULSORY TRAINING IN ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 5

COMPULSORY TRAINING IN ENGLAND.

THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTAGON-

ISM

PROMOTION FROM THE RANKS.

(Received F-efe. 19, 0.25 a.m.) London, Feb. 13 '

Colonel Seely, speaking at Ilkeston, isaid tho Government would not introduce conscription until, it told the ootm.try frankly that it would sas'o it fr:m .a great danger menacing it.. It was wrong to gull tho people into a 3yste:n which was alie* ±o .their nature.

Colonel Soely .added that ho would .shortly announce a plan making it easier for .worthy "rankers to rise from .tho humblest to the highest places in

the Army