MILITARY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2354, 9 January 1915, Page 7

MILITARY SERVICE

IN GREAT BRITAIN COMPULSION ADVOCATED London, January 7. The Unionist papers are advocatini compulsory military Bervice in Grea Britain. The "Daily Telegraph" says tha without numbers, which alone can ann hilate the enemy, the prospect in Flai ders' and France is one or mutual ej haustion, and' a consequent condition c stalemate. The "Morning Post" thinks that afte five months of war Britain ought t be holding more than thirty miles o battle-line, seeing that Russia alon holds six or seven hundred miles. The "Daily Chronicle" believes tha thirty thousand men weekly are sti being enlisted. Compulsion would ui doubtedly irritate many otherwis patriotic men intosaying, "Wait until w are compelled." Another matter abou which the publio hopes to hear som reassurances is the coast defences. Man people left the coast towns .because o this uncertainty. N.S.W. PROPOSAL'. EVERY MAN'TO TRAIN. Sydney, January 8. The Hon. A. C. Carmichael, referrin to the National Reserve, said:—"W have to thank the extraordinary strii gent censorship for the inability of th public to realise the grimness of th struggle, the true position of the com batants, and'the possibilities _ of th future. This is a war of attrition. Th time has come when we must honestl recognise that the war is going to ta to the utmost the resources of the Allies especially the untrained millions of. th British Empire." „ Mr. .Carmichael proposes that ever man up to the age of fifty should b compelled to undergo serious militar, training on at least one afternoo: weekly.