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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 167, 8 July 1875, Page 4

The following startling announcement appeared recently in a well-known military periodical published io London: « Without either professing to be initiated into Cabinet secrets, or desiring to create unnecessary alarm, it has become the duty of the compiler of this history to give publicity to a rumor of a very portentous character relaiiag to a measure stated to ba in contemplaation with regard to the re-organization of the army. Tbia is no other than the approaching establishment of the conscription-— a measure the necessity of which, it is said, has impressed itself upon the Government ia view of the twofold fact, the threatening aspect of certain Continental Powers and the increasing difficulty of obtaining recruits, even for our small army of 130,000 jnen. It is believed that a policy of opposing millions of armed citizens to the millions of troops of a probably hostile confederation is considered not alone desirable, but in the present state of affeks necessary ; and the public mast not be surprised if an edict goes forth that every wan between the agei