COMPULSORY TRAINING
A SIGNIFICANT UTTERANCE. By Telegraph—Pre«« Awoeiation. Auckland, Last Night. Comment on compulsory military training was made by Mr. G. W. Russell at a banquet on Saturday evening. Discussing the effect of the coercive measures on strikers, he said that the men in England who opposed compulsory military training knew what they were about. They realised that if you place guns in the hands of uneducated and uncultured men you are possibly providing them with a weapon which they may use to upset your entire civilisation.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 June 1912, Page 5
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87COMPULSORY TRAINING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 June 1912, Page 5
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