DEFENCE ACT DEFAULTERS.
• » QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Ltfidon, October 11, In the House of Commons, Mr. William Clough, Liberal member for the Skipton Division of Yorkshire, in a long, rambling question, asked Mr. Lionel ITarcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for details regarding tho prosecutions of defaulting cadets in Australasia, whether they were children of British immigrants, whether Australia and New Zealand compelled conscription after six months' residence, and whether a boy-conscription policy had been adopted to allay 'scaremonger apprehensions as to German, Chinese, and Japanese invasions. Mr. Harcourt said defence Acts were entirely within the province of tho Dominions, nnd it was not tho practice to answer such controversial questions.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 7
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116DEFENCE ACT DEFAULTERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1572, 16 October 1912, Page 7
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