STERN SENTIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 5

STERN SENTIMENTS.

LORD APPEAL - v • (Reo. January 0,5 a.m.)' . Londohtp'jattuary, 10. Lord Rosobary, speaking at Dn!« keith, said that Britain and Germany, wero fighting with their books to tho wall. Unless sufficient recruits were, forthcoming under tho voluntary system; some fonn of compulsory enlistment would be unavoidable, and not urnreli come to the great mass of his country-! men, who would willingly accept on Im-j perial mandate. But thought it ui> / fair that some should be singled out. for active service ivhilo others remained, at liome. If the rule applied to all equally there would bo less reluctance.i' But it must be remembered that the position of those enlisting voluntarily ' before any compulsion was used would 'be widely different from that of those!' enlisting under compulsion. "Every able' bodied man would do well to realise? that fact, while there was time, so that! he could Bay after the war that he bad;! served as a volunteer, not as a con-f script. A victory such as we would desire wej only achieve by being able to pusli.mil-! lions of Austrians and Germans back. W<(j had greatly minimised Germany's capita.li error of"mistaking France and Britain/ for decadent nations. The sooner the German military caste Bystem was endedi the bettor for Germany. 'The present! war had taught the world that the kiU«{ ■ ing of men was,merely a scientific pro-J position, but the length of the war was, dependent upon other factors. ■' i The very thought of their brothers' or friends waist-deep in the frozen water, fighting for the Empire's exist.' enco, ought to bo a call ' to'everyone to go. There was not ' the! slightest doubt, that the Allies would* uHimately be victorious^'.'