WILL CONSCRIPTION COME?

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 7 October 1915, Page 2

WILL CONSCRIPTION COME?

"It is certain," writes Dr. Fitchett in the October issue of " Life" magazine, just to hand, "that the proposal to establish National service will create a controversy which may well shake the Natjanal Cabinet of Great Britain to its foundations." This sentence was written before conscription in Great Britain became the burning topic it is to-day, and forms part of a very shrewd and interesting forecast by the editor of "Life" in his monthly review of the great War, and few writers posses such a gift for summing up and estimating the general situation. Supplementing Dr Fitchett' 3 notes on the war are a review of the outstanding war novel, an informative article by Carlyle Smythe on "What I Saw in France," and a' fully packed Explanation Department for the "man in the street." The i»os,t conspicuous amongst the general articles in the October nurnhejj ia one entitled " Snakes I've Met," one of a series in which W, A. Somerset is presenting the adventures of that curiously erratic charaoter " Morrissey of the Snakes." This article is accompanied by some remarkable photographs, illustrating Morrissey's method of " milking M —i.e. extracting the venom from, a. tiger snake The snake was one how-owed for the occasion from Metaio Zoo, and though it bit Morrissey twice during the/operation,he suffered no further inconvenieuQe than a badly swollen arm, and he, succeeded in extracting a quantity of venom — enough, as he quairriiy put it, "to kill two families of the size they have em now-a-days,"

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