THE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2726, 22 March 1916, Page 6

THE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN

-ALL ELIGIBLE MEN NEEDED

APPEALS TOR FIGHTING MEN

■AT MIBAMAR ANDIKELBURN

j v--Last evening'therecruiting campaign r ■ was; oamed -to .Miramar. - There was : --only t a-small - attendance, -mostly. Na- ; .tionalJlesemsts. 31r..T. Townsend, .;..Mayor of .Miramar, who- presided, said !;.. --that: he :.tha' suburb - had sent . ,;*■ aunts-;able, eligible^men.:' -There were ,->;:soma young! .married men/who had not - -gone: yet, ;but:they-were ready to do so !■:.-■ ;-wnea called on. .Their turn, however, : ;.had sot come yet. i; i Mi. It. .A; Wright,riM:?., .in ..the ■;r._course of -.his address,, said that there •■.:■ was.-nor.sense in saying -that the war ~ -;was;:;near an-.end. One reason was r - "that ..the. gang of .ruffians—the German limitary—would, carry on tho war whilo '--:™ey could get a .man to. fight, because : ::. r they feared what punishment might he i.-.-;;meted- out to. them for :the carnage were responsible for. -Again, the '.-.-GennansTrere welldng .in in territory -';they.iad,conquered-for.the present, and ;--we''cou]d not shell'-them .out speedily. : .ylLall..the young -men realised that the ;•■'war: would, still-go on a long while vet, ;-•: -they would join -the- colours. One had f ■:; only ;_to Tead,: the reports " of German.

/-atrocities to . realise-what would.iap- ;: -;pen to iNow Zealand if .we were beaten. ,--He :: appealed to r tho6e .present to do p;;what"they :could tie re-;-.™oriiiiing'oampaign,::and to do what they ij-i could :todnfluence ; elig'ible::men: not to to, do-their:duty. ;. -.:r£Mr.';Martin,. a-returned'soldier, -.made i.'.ithe point-that ,':New Zealand should not -have .sent-.its .Main; Body to -the front j.'Tunless it was -prepared to; send others :i. to lack :ihem;up and. see.them :through. ; ;rHe,-..t00, -trusted that::all .present would ; : ::iuse:w-_hatever-.influence:.'.th6y hadrin the I -direction of. securing, men. for. the firinn--■:tlme;

; : , f-TheTHon. J. G.' TV.. Ait-ken -remarked '."-that he'was not a -believer \iu war -'-.-but;did. endorse " 'Britain's :.; :share.;in the '".present ■-•conflict.■-■ .'Had :. stayed- out of-.this -war, : she ;■': :;would Jiave been shamed for ■' ever. ; : :.-Britain;stood a'.chance of isuffering con;ioss\ia:rtrade' -through -.the' did >notanatter.-.so long rr;as:.ihe_right ior -which she ■ fought ;.:\ triumphed. ATnerica-.-particularlv had ;: *got a Temarkably: ifine "trade ■-.-chance.- , ■Ihe„Allies"would.in:allT)rbbahilitv:have i: a. Jiardight .yet before'they -secured ;:.-:virtory, so all:';the:;men iNew.Zealand ; ..couldvsend forward ".were;:needed,.- and rrr e hoped -all who -could" Tvould• come :;forward. ...:Erery ;fit.;man ;should -cnot :;.Jiesitate to.dd.his-dnty. ; ..'iQ.uartennaster-Sergeant-.lßrovni, "who r^ 5 ,* 0^1 'for :the-front very, shortly; . : mi vited; the,men: who rhad mot venlisted ;' -yet,•.not .to shelter behind women's ■ he.urged nvomen. not to i'.sheltertthem. £He .agreed thatutho ;-'end:of-the aJon g : way:off,. a nd r ::a - tll s* r ,eTer - y "man-was 'needed. :" , j't^ r ' ' •RoTOitree /moved:—"That pledges itself Ho;do;all in ,;.Jts: : power to-assist: the -voluntary Te-;,;.--wuitingrnioyement'.". -Tber.motion was . ararned-nnanunously.

MEETING AT :KELBURN

■LASTTHIAL OF VOLUNTARY METHODS.

attendance'.■ at Jfie ..teeetmg.held :under,the; auspices .of the ; nS mE f %ff^--fr'-tne':'draining fe 1 "-right. -'-Tho ■ WfHSIT'V ■ »»Ml»a OUt tbft _Kelbum..Boy. Scouts.' '(Mr. :j...'S.Pennant), apologising - for tne: poor .attendance at ..ther.meeting .smd.-that .ie. supposed it was. due. to the:fact that ill tK p e : were .m Bup-rt of. the re C ruitmg:L?e. did ? ot :think .it necessary to meetings, v-to express that■agreement.

-.The-Hon. T\r. "the ifirst :.speaker,v said :that effort of .the Government yas to.give.a last.itrial -D) .the .British.people as -"the best safe--.guard- of the democracy -against-militarv : tyranny. Britain might :W ; roasonably...Jo6ted:for. aid to the race, but .the rracir-tuat she -had been ■Siyen,su.cn generous ;aid by the peoplo -■ol India, .and,aboriginal races.in all'-JSer :countries, showediow well Britain'had terne:ttie;wMe.man's burden. Henceforth -there would be between these peoples and ourselves a bond writ in +w 'i'T cll - f^' 3 , 1 " thall ' any 'bond .that had existed .hitherto. : There Tvasin our midst here a band of jpeople-wiho opposed^-conscription. They- said, 'in eflect, .1 _am opposed to conscription; .1 -believe, m :the voluntary, system. :but :-l/.am ..going to stay at ionic;" If one were to call a spade a' spade, there nameior . a man of this (Applause.) "In -.pof tics said Mr. Earnshaw, "I-am accounted a Labour "member. 1' beli ere "1 ■am the only Labour "member, who' works for hisjiving. (Laughter.) And I ; say to all workers thaV this .guestion. of . how to win -the ■ wir is,-abovo all others a labour guestion." ■ "The great' obect tor w-hich wo were-striving, 'he con-' : tuiued, was to protect our dand from ■oppression and plunder, and.to.keep our peopleiree from German'oppression He experience, while in America, of German, control of labour, 'having worked m Gorman-controlled en>nnecit ..ing shops m America, and he could as. 6ur_e workers that they would fare worse British rule. .Great as the sacrifice made by our;men on Gallinoli had Tieen, Jt Jiad not beemn Tain. We had meant to get to Constantinople that way, It, We A l ! ouU I . llev S r . ' bBBB W that ™y- Although this scheme failea, the work of our men had impressed our enemies. With knowledge of most of the- Empire, ie. would sa'y that our young, men were better thai" those in any other part of tie Empire, and this because they iad more advantages. He contended that for these advantages which were not the inherent right of anybody, the yonnc man ought *°™ e r ?? d v> s sit. (Applause.) Mr. F. W. Manton made a fervent appeal to young men to follow the lead of the breve men who have <rone heforo them into the fiiihts on the scarred hills, of Gailipoh He quoted examples effectively of the horrors of warfare as practised by the Huns and asked whether-it was not worth.while, to fi"ht to .save our own lands and the whole world from being outraged in the samo way. Ho spoke generally of the greatness of the Empire, its constituent parts, its Navy, and everything the flag has stood for in every nart of ,tho globe, and his appeal was "Is it worth fighting for?"

Mr. E. E. Hadfield said that the. decision of every man as to whether ho should or should not enlist must rest with the man himself. Lord Kitchener had asked men to be sure that the reasons put forward by them should ''be real-'reasons, and not merely excuses. Now the call was for men. ' Men who a few months ago had been sure that (here was no need for them to go, men with heavy responsibilities,- many of thorn, were now in the ranks.or ready to go. ' We all had to alter points of now. None of us knew; the might of Germany heforo the war.- None of us contemplated-such-atrocities as poisonfas or liquid-fire. 'All ' these months tve had been fighting against odds, hVhtIng on the defensive.. Now tor the first .time, as if seemed, Germany waa held up. But this was a very different thing From tho defeat of Germany, because

there could he no compromise in this J l ' ar ' V l , ™y ordinary war about -a -territorial boundary, or something of tho sort, there might bo compromise, but, a war which -was a- conflict between * ii. d wr<n, g> between civilisation and barbarism, must be fought to the end, until the power for evil'bad been oestroyed for all time. For such -an : «m, all men who were not afraid must be ready to fight. (Applause.) _ The chairman submitted to the meeting _the following motion, which was carried with acclamation:—"That this meeting expresses sympathy with the Tocrm'ting movement, and pledges itself so far as it possibly can, to assist it. in every wav."

_ The meeting concluded with three ringing cheers for the gallant French for the stand they had made outside Verdun.

MASTEBTON'S PROPOSE!) RALLY.

At ft meeting of the Masterton Becrniting Committee, held on Monday pvoning, it was decided to hold a recruiting "rally" at an early date, and to invite the Prime Minisfer and Sir Joseph AYanl to deliver addresses. PRIME MINISTER'S VIEWS. By Telegraph-Press Association. Auckland, March 9 1 The ■Prime Minister said that while he was grateful to Auckland for particularly well in the matter of ret cruitmg, he would prefer not to express any definite opinion as to the position in Canterbury and Otago until he had had an opportunity of looking into it to go south as soon as ho could-be spared from Wellington, and would then be bettor able to form nn opinion and.give suggestions for overcoming the present difficulty. ■BALLY IN' DTJNEDIN. '• ; Dunedin, March 21. the new recruiting scheme was launched-to-day, when processions were held in the afternoon and evening, and several -vigorous speeches delivered Despite the unfavourable weather the featherings were largeh- attended, and about 100 men handed in their nsm-s for enlistment. At the .-medior' ox _ animation last night G3 presented themselves, five were -reeded j(being under -age). 14, passed as fit, 35 deferred for various forms of medical treatment, five declared unfit, and four were not examined.

Jeweller, SO Manners street is fht Zvtfl* per cent. (3s.'ln the £) -to soldiers or their friends-when Pwchnang anything for them. Bad<re7 wnstlec watches, engagement ■ rings, etc -Bee Rowland ahont it.-Advt.