COMPULSORY SERVICE URGED
Australia’s Inadequate Preparations
SYDNEY, March 13. Compulsory national service was strongly urged by tho Labour Premier of Tasmania, Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, in a broadcast address today. He said that life Government believed in compulsory military and physical training and in tho mobilization of wealth and industry. “Australia is Jiving in a fool’s paradise,” he declared. “We are inadequately prepared to meet an attack on Australia, though in war we might find an enemy a few hours away. It is impossible to minimize the gravity of the situation. We know that war may come in such a way that there would be no warning.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 9
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107COMPULSORY SERVICE URGED Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 9
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