COMPULSORY SERVICE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144197, 13 September 1913, Page 3

COMPULSORY SERVICE.

POPULAR IN AUSTRALIA. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. (Received September 13, 9.65 a.m.) LONDON, September 12.

The Commonwealth Office, replying to a correspondent in tho Westminster Gazette, who drew attention to emigrants’ hardships owing to compulsory service, declares that compulsory service is popular with both political parties. The country is united on the question, and compulsion has como to stay. The reply adds that the enrolments are satisfactory and improving.