ALL BROTHERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17288, 2 October 1916, Page 11

ALL BROTHERS.

THE "WENTS" AND THE "SENTS."

[From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 30,

The Minister of Defence, in conversation with a representative of the " Lyttelton Times, expressed" himself emphatically against any idea of differentiating between the recruit who goes voluntarily into camp and the man who will get there because of tho fortuno cf the ballot.

" There soems to be an Idea in the. community," remarked the Hon James Allen, "that the military authorities nre going to make differences between the man who is brought under the Military Service Act and the man who goea into the service voluntarily. I desire to let it be plainly known that there is going to be no difference. Someone has written to the Press stating that the balloted man will be marked with a ' 0.,' for ' Conscript.' Nothing of the sort. There will be no difference, either in marking or any other way. The pay will be the same, and I hope both classes of men will meet in camp as brothers, determined cm the one object, and that is, to make this a fight to settle the Germans."