IRELAND AND CONSCRIPTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 June 1918, Page 3

IRELAND AND CONSCRIPTION.

LONDON, Juno S. An anti-conscription conference at Dublin issued a statement warning its countrymen against false confidence that conscription was ended; it v.'i*S on.b r .provisionally postponed, LONDON,' June S. It is stated in Dublin that Lord French is forming a non-political committee of prominent Irishmen to conduct voluntary recruiting. It is understood tho military are taking altogether 75,000 miners from the pits for army service. Sixty per cent, of the men volunteered in some districts In the House of Commons, replying to a question Mr. Bonar Law said he could not say when the Home Rule Bill would be introduced. It was incorrect to infer from Lord French's proclamation that the Government had the idea of conscript Hon in Ireland.