POSITION AT HOME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11593, 11 January 1916, Page 1

POSITION AT HOME.

COMPULSION IN FAVOUR. I —' ■ I j OPPOSITION WEAKENING. ! I £37 Telegrriph—Fr»ss Association —Copyright. : (Received January 11, a.m.) LONDON, January . 10. \Wk-end meetings were generally bad for ant-i-coinpulsionists. Audiences of -working" men severely heckled .Mr J. 11. Thomas. M.P., anil other Labour loaders- Mr \N iustone, who was rejected nv \ha electors tot Mcrthyv Ty civil, met with a disorderly reception at a miners' njccting in Aber,sychan The Nationalists are not expected to rake further action against the Bill, so that the opponents to the second reading, which will commence in the House of Commons to-morrow, will he

I below fifty. Newspapers are giving prominence tu the reopening of tho group system. The "Daily News" appeals to single men to enrol, as this is the last chance to- save voluntaryism. "Daily '.Express" demands a general election to clear tho air. Other newspaper.: stale that the Government will noL hesitate to appeal io the electorates if the pro-vroys of the. Bill is unduly hampered.