CONSCRIPTION ENFORCED

Nelson Evening Mail, 30 September 1916, Page 6

CONSCRIPTION ENFORCED

PROCLAMATION I ISSUED. PROTESTS IN PARLIAMENT. (Eec. 11-.35 ».m.> MELBOURNE, This Day. The Gover nor-General [has .issued a Proclamation <jallHng' on all [persons between 21 and 35>, single ox*, "widowers without children, to enlist under the Military Service Act-, "within the limits of the Commonwealth, and any Commonwealth ■territory during the continuance of the war. . It is .intended to first c/ill up all men whose surnames >begi,n with A and B } who must report on Tuesday morning-. Exemptions include those engaged in ordinary occupations, hut who iare indispensable. The Proclamation empowers the miEtary to compel proprietors of picture shows to exhibit the Proclamation on the screens.

In the Hfouse of P-epresentatives a motfion to adjourn was moved by Mr Mathews, wiho protested l that no reason has been given for the issue of the Proclamation calling up men, as the Constitution demanded.

Air Hughes, in reply, said the law would fee -dbservedL lie ap(pealed to every man to . respect the law. In -the Senate Senator Pearce said the government was appointing a committee of civilians to decide what industries and men should -be exempted. Senator Pearoe's motion for adjournment was strongly! opposed !by Senator Mullan, who moved) an amendment that •the Senate adjourn •until Tuesday -wii-h the object of determining whether it wodldi countenance the Government's action an calling up troops "without -the Proclamation coming Parliament, i The amendment was cqpried 'by eight to seven. ; NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. (Rec. Sept. 30, 11.20 a.m., SYDNEY, This Day. Lists 224 and 225 contain the following names:— _ j Killed in action: Privates A. Head, W. G. Thomas, F. Henderson. Died- of wounds : S. A. Watson"Wounded : A. Johnson, J. Taylor, l". P. Hunt. Severely wounded : Lance-Corporal Y\ . Adams, Privates W. M. Burke, G. Foster (second occasion). Injured, dangerously ill: Corporal B. Harris. Ill: Lance-Corporal J. Keane. Out of danger : F. G. Clarke.