Ireland and Conscription.
BITTER O'BRIEN. Received this day at 8.50. London, April 10. Tliere was an uproar in the House of Commons when tl/e debate on the Man Power Bill commenced. The Bill proposes, in order to meet the present emergency, that the military age be raised in Great Britain to 50 and in some cases to 55, and further that conscription he applied to Ireland. On the resumption of the debate Mr William O'Brien protested against "the madness and wickedness of applying conscription to Ireland." She could have destroyed the Government by an outbreak of war and this was her reward. The Government was offering her the shadow of Home Rule with naked military despotism at the point of machme-guns. Irishmen were asked to shed torrents of blood because another violated treaty was flung to the winds. Mr O'Brien said he was compelled bitterly to renounce his dreams of reconciliation between the two countries. He concluded: "Because Ireland is weak they are going to do to her what they dare not do to Australia without the consent of the people."
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 April 1918, Page 3
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