Australia
THE CONSCRIPTION PROBLEM. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Melbourne, September 18. Mr Hughes, in a long manifesto, appeals to the people to make a sureme effort to supply the necessary reinforcements. Britain, New Zealand, and Canada were calling up more men, and Australia must make the same sacrifice. The British forces, excluding the Dominion and Indian troops, were well over five millions, and in the same ratio Australia should have an army of 500,000 instead of under 800.000, besides which Britain had nearly four million engaged in munitions. Britain had thus put nine millions into the fight and Uas still calling up men. The manifesto concludes: “How can we say that we are being asked to do more than our share? We must get more men Unfortunately it is only too apparent that the voluntary system will not insure them.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 18 September 1916, Page 2
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