TIME FOR ACTION
"If "the people of this country want ■the voluntary principle to ocntinue, every man who aa of thai' opinion must set himself to work to eeciire ■the necessary number of recruit®. I do not think there as much value now in platformi speakinig, , :but Chere is value ini the tman of military age recognising that the (time has comie wfceni the lias to make up his mind." ' That ds .the way in whic& thie Minister of Defence (Eton. J. Allen) expressed h'mself to a Post reporter yesterday., and he added that .the mam he referred to had to put himself) in ppsition of either being l excused by a Military Ap- __ .peal Board or being sent into camp Uitbaer compulsion. "X do not think,", h© added, "that on© has a right to. to the p>ride of (the country; I do not profess to be a firm belaever in :the voluntary principle myself, but I am. out to try to see. it throu.gh.j If we fail,' it will be a source of satisfaction, -to oucr national pride that at ■ any rate. we ..did our ibest; it would) 'b© a still greater source of satisfaction if, when the. war ia over, we could'point -to the fact that all our reinforcements had been recruited on the voluntary system."
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Nelson Evening Mail, 27 September 1916, Page 1
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218TIME FOR ACTION Nelson Evening Mail, 27 September 1916, Page 1
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