"SPEED UP" THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 5

"SPEED UP" THE WAR

CONSCRIPTION VITAL TO «RICA AMERICAN OFFICER'S FRANK OPINION ■■',■. , , r , , «-i ' , Washington, -April 24. . Lieuteiiant-Ueneral Bridges declares that conscription is vital to tho United States before tho nation can have any success in war. The volunteer system in England retarded.and delayed every phaEc >6f -war ''development. Voluntaryism sent trained .artisans-and industrial vworkersi into tile trenches when they '.were-Badly.needed at"homo, -and left at 'home those needed for the .front. tJonscriptibn at the beginning- of the 'war would' have obviated .the difficulties .in connection with munitions as well'as many other vital mistakes'. •'.."'■. . ■ .' The.duty of the .Allies .now -was to speed up the war. (The British ■people had beon ..entirely won to conscription, and were fanatical even upon the subject. They had -opposed it only because 'they 'did ; not know -what it meant. They now looked on conscription as :a business way of inakinE %ar. Lord _ Kitchener's volunteer recruitine: was :the ; innocent canse of retarding Britain's war progress, because Lord Kitchener's ■•scheme there would have been a breakdown -in voluntaryism earlier, arid conscription would have been earlier, introduced. Lord "Kitchener's very success supported voluntaryism ifor a'long--time;—Aus.-N.Z. Gable'A«sn. ■ '■■'... PETITIONS -FOE GONSGRIPTION. . 'April 26, 1 a.m.) ■'•'■' „ ..-', , ./.', ..■:.. • Washington, April %. -Several hundred .petitions, .bearing a'.million names,'asking for'consoription, .have been lafd before-the Speaker.—Beuter. ■ ' : GREAT RUSH FOR WAR LOAN STOCK (Ilec. /April .26, 1 a.m.) Washington, April 25. ■ The first issue of the war.loan, .fifty million sterling, was over-subscribed 100 per cent.—Reuter. , ' . ; .... .• ' ' ■ , I . FRENCH COMMISSIONERS OT WASHINGTON. ... . Washington,-April 24. Marshal Joffre and 'M. Viviaiii, the French Commissioners "have •arriv-ed.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn., . ■;'■ . THE ARGENTINE WHEAT EMBARGO .- . ' Washington, April.24. A diplomatic settlement of the Krcentina' wheat embargo has been arranged by Britain.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable -Assn. '