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SKO'JLD THEIf BE CALLED UP. j L:rd me en csKsxnm | Times" *t.r, Sydney "Sun" Soivicei, (Received September 2, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. | Lord. Milner, in tho " Empire Rei view,'* says: 44 If the Government, | j especially Lord Kitchener, declared that j i compulsory ' service for the period oi '■ the war is necessary in order to win it, any opposition would easily be 1 swept away. In the present great j struggle it is increasingly evident that Great Britain has henceforward to boar the heaviest burden, the Ku>- | sians' power for the time bsing broken, i Franco .throughout hay strained every f-nerye. "■ Wo-'a-lonc have large unused ' reserves of men. j "The only question is: Shall wa ! employ the power of the Stato to cai, them up? It seems to tho practical mind. unclouded by old controversies arid party cries, that there is but one answer. The law is not needed to • ; compel men to serve because* they are : i ! unwilling, but for the purpose of proi riding adeauate, national organisa- [ lion. 1 "
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 1
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