DEFENCE ACT DEFAULTERS.
4 _ AN EXAGGERATED STATEMENT. Bj Teltgraph—Press Aesociation-CoD.iiiSht (Rec. September 12, 10.15. p.m.) London, September 12. Captain Collins, Secretary to tho High Commissioner for Australia, in a letter to the nowspapers, denounces the unfairness and absurdity of tho statement niado in England that 18,000 cadets are actively opposing the Australian Defence Act. Ho shows that there were only 643 do-1 faulters. in New South Wales, and considerably fewer in the other- States. The majority of the 18,000 had only failed to attend the minimum l number of drills.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1544, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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90DEFENCE ACT DEFAULTERS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1544, 13 September 1912, Page 5
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