COMPULSORY SERVICE.
SPEECH BY LORD ROBERTS.
PROGRESS OF MOVEMENT. Dy Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrieht (K-ec. June 29, 10.35 p.m.) London, June "9. At the annual meeting in rue iVitioiial Service League, whicn advocates compulsory military training, Lord liouerts stated tnat tno memoersinp now totalled 91,1-1:!, an increase oi ISU.Ouu in the yeur. Seventeen members of the House of Commons were now pledged to support the League's proposals. The Australian Ministers had assured him that nu immense advantage would accrue to the health of boys through the establishment ot cadet corps. If Great Britain got the boys trained, compulsory servico would follow naturally. It was infinitely to bo regretted that the military training of boys, which was the one part of Lord Haldane's Army reform scheme of immediate practical value, had been dropped at the first breath of disapproval from those inaccurately called the "Peace" party.
Mr. W. B. Leyland, o£ Auckland, New Zealand, was amongst the speakers.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1167, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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