TIE REAL ISSUE IN NATIONAL SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 6 September 1915, Page 5

TIE REAL ISSUE IN NATIONAL SERVICE

'ACCORDING TO H. G. WELLS. By Telezraph—Press Association—CopjTight ("Times" and Sydney 'Sun" Services.) (Roc. September 4, 5.5 p.m.) London, September ,'.4. . Mr. H. G. Wells writes: "So far as ' the, principle goes, the whole mass of tlie nation is solidly for national service. Where the hitch comes is in the profound doubt- amongst workers whether the principle of national service will lie applied to the profita and privileges of the.rich and influential as weft 'as to the lives of the common people in a State where the .'workers' havo been taught- to read and write. The nationalisation of capital must precede the nationalisation: of flesh and blood." MASS MEETING OP WOMEN. London, September 4. 'A' masf meeting of women, whose re-latives-are serving at the front, passed a. resolution to the effect that the time had come when every fit man in the Empire should be.made'a-vailablo for the lighting-lino, or national service. Lord Denman (formerly GovernorGeneral of Australia) presided. Speak- ; ing of his Australian experience, lie said ho could auswer for the fact that universal training had been followed by none of the evil effects that some'of their British opponents had anticipated. Tlio "anti"-ap;itation in Australia had "quickly subsided. The voluntary sys-. tohi was haphazard, unfair, and unequal. Some objected to conscription, as slavery, but ho would like to hear any man tell an average Anstralian that he was Prussianised or a slave, ■(