IN AUSTRALIA
THE CONSCRIPTION ISSUE
OPPOSING AMENDMENT
DEFEATED
(Received September 21 3 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 21. In 1 the House of Representatives the referendum 1 debate was continued. Mr Burns'moved an ■ amendment that conscription was inadvisable. He said that if the Government's ; proposals were carried Out they would ■be de- ' structive of the best interests of Aus- ■ tralia. - r ! Mr Archibald, in supporting Mr Hughes, said: " Our enemies here ar>e not Germans, but men who have got German gold." He suggested the deportation of all members of the Independent Workers of the World. . ■ Mr Anstey, in denouncing the measure, said there seemed an organised determination to draw out of the country the whole of its manhood. He I claimed that the number of men asked ■ for weekly was utterly disproportionate to the weeMy casualties. He con- ! eluded: " They are going to draw up 1 -immense forces- far beyond the requirements, so asto stretch out the line and increase the slaughter." The amendment wns - negatived by 49 to 12. *
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3560, 21 September 1916, Page 5
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