THE CONSCRIPTION BILL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2663, 7 January 1916, Page 5

THE CONSCRIPTION BILL

- INTRODUCED ■BY MR. ASQUITH IRELAND EXEMPTED STRONG OPPOSITION TO THE MEASURE ' LORD KITCHENER SPEAKS SIR lAN HAMILTON'S DISPATCH PUBLISHED AT LAST

Highly events are chronicled to-day. The Imperial Government has introduced its Bill providing for the enforced enlistment of unencumbered men who have failed to attest voluntarily, and it is announced that Mr. Asquith will resign if the measure is not; passed by the House of Commons. Sir John Siinon and others oppose tho Bill, aud there are threats also of*.organised opposition by the railwaymen and miners; but the Government is supported in its action by Lord Kitchenor. He states, in effect, that wonders have been accomplished under the voluntary system, but that it is no longer equal, without modifications, to maintaining the army needed to secure victory. Sir lan Hamilton's report upon the Gallipoli operations has been published. He attributes the failure at Suvla Bay to divisional commanders, and states that after tho attack had failed lie applied for. heavy reinforcements, which were refused. Being ' then asked to estimate the loss involved in evacuation he replied that evacuation seemed to be impossible. He was thereupon recalled to London. The Russians are persistently developing their ollensive, and, according to some reports, the Austrian's admit tho partial evac- \ uation of Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowiua.