LABOUR WILL SUBMIT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2573, 22 September 1915, Page 5

LABOUR WILL SUBMIT

IF CONSCRIPTION BECOMES ' NECESSARY By T«le?raDh—Prcsa Association—CopyriEht. Paris, September .20. Mr. John Hodge, Labour M.P., in an interview given •to tho "Petit Parisien*," said: "If conscription is necessary we will submit to it, and to everything else necessary to securo. a triumph." SOUTH WALES MINERS AGAINST IT. ("Times" audi Sydney "Sun" Services.)' (Rec. Scptemeber 21, 4.35 p.m.) London, September 20. Fifty-fivo thousand organised workmen, chiefly Monmouthshire miners, passed a resolution against conscription. Mr. James Winsbone, acting-president of tho South Wales Miners' Federation, said: "If Mr. Lloyd George wishes to retain the confidence and support of tho trade unions he must declare against it," adding: "Millions more_ men would volunteer if necessary, but it would be fatal to introduce Prussian militarism into England." JIBS. PANKHURST IN FAVOUR, London, September 20.' Mrs. Pankhurst, speaking in London,/ advocated compulsory national service for every man and woman.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PREFACE ' WHAT THE GERMAN PRESS SAYS. ('Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)'. London, September 20. The German Press, commenting ort Mr. Lloyd George's preface to hiscolleotion of war speeches, generally stresses < his marked admission of German success; The "Frankfurter Zeitung" asks: — "Can anything be more" shameful for tho Allies than Mr. Lloyd George's declaration that- the Germanic Powers possess an overwhelming superiority in war . material and, equipment, despite the resources of England, France, and Russia? Tho wholo of tho industrial world is at the "disposal of the Allies." "POISONING OUR OWN WELLS " LORD CURZON ON. THE,. BIG :. ' controversy; r: By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrigM (Rec. September 21j-il.is- p.m;) London, September 21. ■Writing to the "Daily Chronicle,"' Lord Curzon (Lord Privy Seal) protests against, the suggestion that he is prepared to present an ultimatum to his colleagues. He had been a convinced supporter of universal service for many years, and was a thousand times more so now when he "believes wo, cannot win the war without it. He had scrupulously refrained from making a speech,writing letters, or giviiigr interviews, being content to act in a spirit of loyalty towards the Prime Minister and his colleagues, without which Cabinet Government' would bo impossible. Ho appeals to tho newspapers to discourage tho attempts to_ manufacture discord whore none exists. "There arel several ways of losing the war, but one of the surest is to poison our own wells." THE MUNITIONS SUPPLY AN IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT. London, September 20. Sir Hay Donaldson, Chief Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich (since 1903), is retiring from Woolwich to take up a more.important munitions appointment fort'ho duration of the war. ■

AUSTRALIA'S ROLE' : LET THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT DECIDE. (Rec. September 21, 10.30 p.m.) . Adelaide, September 21. ■ The'State 1 Premier, after attending the inaugural meeting of tho Universal Service League,-said: '.'Australia, should do nothing at this juncture in regard to conscription that will embarrass tho Imperial Government." We could safely rely, lie added, on the British Cabinet doing all that 'is necessary to bring tlie war -to a successful conclusion. It is not for Australia to say that conscription is necessary ; but if it were so we should not hesitate to adopt it.