GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 31 July 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

COMPULSORY SERVICE.

NOT NEEDED AT PEESENT,

LONDON, July 29. Mr. P. Guest raised a discussion on compulsory service. Mr. Tennant, in reply, questioned whether any real necessity for an ■a> teration in the voluntary system had been yet demonstrated. He had no wish to close the door to compulsory service. The Government was prepared to achieve a successful issue of the war even though it sacrificed the last man. Mr. Ellis Griffith said the country was prepared *or any sacrifice. It was for the Government to tell every man that sacrifice was required, TUSKS r'JB FO&LORN HOPE. GERMAN PRO2.OSE OF HELP. LONDON, July 29. The Daily Telegraph's Athens correspondent learns from secret service iv Constantinople that the Austrc-Ger-man offensive is expected to resume against Serbia in August. Enver Pasha, in a proclamation, has exhorted the Turks to resist because German reinforcements will shortly arrive in Constantinople, when Serbia will be crushed.

The military situation in Turkey i.<* critical. It ia believed she would instantly for: peace-except for the dfinite/ German promise of early assistant.

THE MINERS' CONFERENCE.

MR LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH

LONDON, July 29

Mr liloyd Georg e said there was only one question for all classes, and all trades. They must ask themselves: Are w 6 doing enough to secure victory, when it means fate) and freedom for ages? There was too much of a disposition to cling to the amenities of peace, such as fashions, lock-outs, strikejs, methqds of slowing-up the output, and sprees. All our wages must go up, profits must be improved, prices :,must be kept down. It was also said no man must be called on to serve the State unless he wishes, or should only do the work he liked, not what fitted him. This freedom implies the right to shirk; it implies the right for you to expect and «enjoy, and for oters to defend the country. Is that fair? Assuredly victory was not to he\ gained by that road. There will be the story of Australian and New Zealand j! battalions, which had not yet appeared, I will defy the] Press Bureau and tell j kow New Ze&laneera and Australians ! wer 9 fac'mg 1 the Turkish attacks the • Othar day. What was the effect? Not J a man would So on the sick list, and I iaot «tsu doctors in the regiments , I could persuade them. They would not I complain; there was no pulse feeling J I can tell you. (Cheers)). Therej was j a© ifclrkhig not until the attack was j over and they had finished the Turks, j would they go into hospital. That's the i.spirit which alone will enable us to' win through, and nothing short of this j . will achieve victory, $ The peril is a great and immediate one, but if the. democracy of Britain rise to thei occasion they will again triumph over all forces of despotism. The time has com e when every man and woman j must help their country.

The Rome "Idea Nazionale" states that the Duke, of Puglie, the eldest son of the Duke of Aosta, who is only seventeen, has enlisted as a private in 'the journal, has left for the front with the consent of the King. Count Reventlovr, in .replying to recently expressed German opinions, as to naval power, says it is an utteir mistake for people to stake their hopes, as many of them seem to do, upon the] possibilities of submarines. .' He remarks that, although submarines may dispute the enemy's command of the seas, "even- German submarines cannot control the seas," and that, if J Germany trebled the number cf he,r i &h>*..cc i -.ij'4 .t}.ot protect:col']

A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. A special article; which appeared on the 13th May in a military paper, 'The Lille War News,' on the occasion of the birthday of the /rown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria, is illustrative of the incitements issued to the troops. "Comrades," says the article, "if the enemy were to invade our land do you think he would leave one stone upon another of our fathers' houses, our churches, and all the works of a thousand years of love; and toll? And if your strong arms do not hold back the English (God damn them!) and the French (God annihilate them!) do you think they would sp&FC your homes and your loved one,s! Wh£t would those pirates from the Isles do to y oU •if they were to set foot on German soil?"

This Outburst is rather remarkable inasmuch as it is an exhortation to defend the) soil of the Fatherland, not to drive back th e Allies and capture Calais or Paris operations about which we have up till now heard so much. SINGLE MEN'S SELFISHNESS Though a large part of the nation is alive to our danger (writes the Depn of Lincoln to "The Times") there is no question that there are, still two Englands one of which (probably the large minority, but still numerous) is ignorant, apathetic, or selfish. I travel widely, and always third-class. I find

this veiw held everywhere. I am told of young unmarried men who say, "Let th e married men go, and we can have their land." I am told of local preachers who are] steadily advising against enlistment, and who ought to be dealt with by law. I am told of married men who ar R even taunted by the;ir unmarried neighbours—"l'll go when you do."

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