COMPULSORY SERVICE.
THE! AUSTRALIAN SYSTEM.
(Peir Press Association.)
LONDON, December 2
In the House of Commons to-day Sir W. P. Bylee (pßiadical member for North Salford), in view of Earl BoY orfrs' speeches on oom.pul.eory training, asked for particulars of compulsory service in Australia, and also whether only 40 per cent of the boys of 14 obeyed the enrolment order.
Colonel Seely (Secretary for War) replied! that he hia<3 placed the Commonwealth Parliamentary paper on the matter in the library. He -was not aware of any general resistance to the compulsory clauses of the scheme
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 8
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