COMPULSORY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2472, 27 May 1915, Page 5

COMPULSORY SERVICE

A BISHOP'S APPEAL NO RELIEF FOR OUR TIRED TROOPS London, May 25. The Bishop of Pretoria (the Right Rev. M. U. Furse), in a letter to "The Tillies," after a month's visjfc to tho Army in Northern Franco and Flanders, appeals to the nation to adopt compulsory service. "The troops," he says, "think that the nation is not hacking them «p as it could and should. Tlie.V tool that tho ignorance and apatliy at Homo are needlessly increasing their danger and losses. "After fighting desperately day and night for weeks, with frightful loss, men are dog-tired, yet they are sent back to tho firing line after three days' rest. Naturally they conclude that there aro not enough troops available.' Battalion after battalion in the Ypres salient had to sit in tho trenches and be pounded with German high explosives, -with no guns capable of keeping down the German fire. Naturally, they conclude the nation has failed to provide sufficient guns and ammunition. Similarly they find tlio Germans ready to answ'e.r every 'British bomb with live or ten bombs. "The troops know that it is a little short of murder to ask men, however full of the right spirit, to face an enemy amply equipped with big guns and the right ammunition unless they are equipped with equally effective munitions." FLOWER OF OUR YOUTH ABOUT TO BLOSSOM. ' ENEMY'S STRICKEN DOWN. (Rcc. May 26, 5.25 p.m.) London, May 25. "Tho Times's" military correspondent says:—"The supply of good men in Germany has not been exhausted, but to a large extent the flower of the Gorman youth has been stricken down at the moment when ours is about to blossom."