CANADA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 6

CANADA.

THE GENERAL ELECTION

(Australian and N.Z. Cahio Av^ooiatiorO

Ottav/a, Dec. 14

Mr jli:;:hns'f! . monifc^-fo ir, il;^ Australian soldiors hi! s T:(.v.n published throughout. cli<>. l?">i,iuinlon. Ih is wel-coir-cc! by t';e ooir-oi^tioi^i^t Dress ns a.pov/rrf1'! U'ctor i>; iA<k:.\'in;? ;i.v/;iy ciis-approiier.r-iifsiiF crov.tixl h.y the anti-con-scriptiojiistfi contention that Australiawill bo able to dispense with cohscvip■fcion and still w."iiit;ii,'; \rv fvirecs at the front. Tho ncMV-spapors point out that Sir' Wilfrid Laurier is quoting Australia's example as n country ablo to roly on .vohmtaryism, alleging that" Canada 'is. able to do the -same,, given proper leadership. Mr Hushcs's demonstration of the fail live of voluntaryism- in Australia is thus reinforcing'the Canadian coiiscriptionists' efforts.