COMMENT IN THE HOUSE
MR. CHURCHILL IN REPLY. (Rec. March !), 5.5 p.m.) London, March G. In the House of Commons, Mr. J. H. Thomas moved the rejection of the Naval and Military Service Bill, which empowers the retention of tho forces considered necessary until l')-0. Mr. Thomas said that the Bill was a breach of the Government's non-conscription pledges. If Britain became conscript tho war would leave us vanquished. Labour would accept the challenge. Mr. Churchill, in reply, said that the Government did not want to maintain conscription, and was doing its utmost at the Peace Conference to abolish conscription throughout Europe, but had not yet succeeded. AVe stood almost alone there. Mr. Thomas's amendment was rejected by 304 votes to 71, and the Bill was read a second time.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 5
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