THE NATION’S DEFENCE.
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Sept. 21. Mr Keir Hardie insists that labor must unflinchingly oppose Mr Haldane’s scheme to induoe the youth of the nation to become volunteers, declaring it was an ineidiouß form of conscription.
The Times recommends to the extreme laborites in England an article written by Mr Watson, the Australian Labor leader, in the organ of tbe Natal Defenoe League, and describes Mr Watson’s advice to genuine citizens of the Empire to be in readiness to defend its integrity as a true note of Imperial statesmanship. Mr Watson in his ariiole advocated oompnlsory training of oitizen soldiery between 18 and 20 years of age, and generally expressed labor views in favor of military training apart from barrack system.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1868, 24 September 1906, Page 2
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124THE NATION’S DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1868, 24 September 1906, Page 2
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