UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
MR EWINGS BILL. LONDON "TIMES" COMMENT. Pre" Association-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 10.35 p.m.. Oetdbor 2nd. LONDON. October 2. The "Time" in eulogising the Ewing Bill, said that conipulsoiy training is the b'.st safeguard of compulsory i-crvicc, and that the Australian people ure the rirst community in the Empire to grapple ser'ouidy with the duty of military training on a national scale. They will reap an ample reward. They may never have to tight, becauiv th-.-- better they ure trained the smaller (heir risk. But apart from that Mr Ewinj's measure will area try strength-it the Fedeial idea, namely, the sense of iitizen>hip in a great Commonwealth, and will prove, if pioperly ndministered, potent to evoke and oiganito Australian as distinguished from the self-assertion of Victoria or Queensland or New South Wales.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 5
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132UNIVERSAL TRAINING. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13715, 3 October 1908, Page 5
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