MILITARY SERVICE
Should Be Compulsory
Returned Soldiers’ Views
By Telegraph Free? Association
WELLINGTON, May 3.
Reference to the withdrawal of the Allies from southern Norway was made at the- annual conference of the New Zealand R.S.A. and a resolution was carried urging the introduction of compulsory, universal, national service. The Dominion president (the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C.), said the Empire had reached the crisis in its existence and it was the duty of returned soldiers to give a lead in asking for the maximum effort from the Dominion The loss of the war would mean more to New Zealand than to Britain, because the Dominion would become a German colony.
The resolution stated that the R.S.A was emphatically of the opinion that to obtain the maximum effort and an earlier end to the present hostilities it was imperative to demand equality of sacrifice and that could only be obtained by a national register and compulsory, national service. Speakers pointed out that the voluntary system was only bringing in the men required at the present and that those enlisting were bearing the burden for all the others. The resolution was carried unanimously.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21645, 4 May 1940, Page 8
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191MILITARY SERVICE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21645, 4 May 1940, Page 8
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