Ireland

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 58, 5 October 1916, Page 5

Ireland

SHORTAGE OF ENLISTMENTS. SIR EDWARD CARSON’S STRICTURES. A PERTINENT QUESTION. Press Association —Copyright. Published in “The Times." (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, October 4. Sir Edward Carson writes in The Times as follows: “Man-power is the most serious question confronting the War Office. There are 650,000 men of military ago in Ireland, and under I‘JO,OOO have enlisted. There are more Ulsterites than from the whole of the remaining provinces. Britain will probably he compelled to revise aud extend the Military Act in the near future, as men are essential at whatever cost. What will Australia ;i,.' Canada say to shirking Ireland, who refuses to hearken to the call oi the Irishmen in the trenches.”