Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 91, 14 November 1916, Page 5

Australia

COMPULSORY TRAINING. Press Association —Copyright. ; Received 10.10 a.m.) .Melbourne, November 1-1. Senator Pearce (.Minister of Defence) announced that the total cost of continuing compulsory training would not exceed £420,000, still 27.~)02 men would he trained.

A QIAiJGLIGAL SCHEME

ATTEMPT TO FRIGHTEN WOMEN TO VOTE “NO.”

gome extraordinary revelations in connection with the Conscription Poll in Australia are contained in tho latest files to hand (states an ex-

change). | One device was unspeakably cruel in. design and execution. It was unworthy of Australians and in keeping ! with the Huns’ methods of fright!uli ness. I It had its origin in Melbourne,, but jthere is little doubt that it was put into operation ' all over the Common - .wealth, i Briefly stated, the scheme was as follows: “Every woman who had a. son ol eligible age and was regarded as bejing likely to support ■’ (, amIpaign was circularised, the name oi her son or sons, as the case may be, being utilised in the circular. “The circular was sot np in deep edged mourning, in the centre of which was a drawing of a newly-made grave. “Over the grave was shown a cross, bearing the. name of the son of the woman who received the circular, together with the inscription, ‘Killed, July. 1017.’ ” A more hideous and fiendish piece of work it is impossible to conceive. The women of Australia —the wives, mothers and sisters of our An/.ac heroes—should have known how to treat such a despicable attempt to frighten them into submission.