CHEAT RUSSIAN SUCCESS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 6

CHEAT RUSSIAN SUCCESS

NO WORD OF THE ANZAGS tWARM WORDS IN PARLIAMENT MR. REDMOND ANGRY By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.

CONDtXCT OP THE WAB. SOME WARM SPEECHES. CONSCRIPTION NOT WANTED. Troops left in a "kind of hell." Received Dec. 22, 11.35 p.m. London, Dec. 21. in the House of Commons Mr. John Reimnod said it would be pitUble if the moral effect of Lord Derby's recruiting feheme was destroyed by compulsion of any section. He did not believe there were any shirkers, and if compulsion were proposed he would oppose it bv every possible means. Mr. Stanton (tabor), in his maiden speech, said it was hypocritical nonsense for the country to be afraid of conscription. He urged that slackers should be gathered in, including the youths who had married in order to dodge their responsibilities and were hiding behind the skirts of womenfolk.

Sir Edward Carson said his only criticism of the vote was that it came too late and was not large enough. It was • great public scandal that we had not heard a smgle word about the GallipoK operations, and now the withdrawal was heralded as a kind of victory, wny were the troops left during August, September, and October in a kind of hell, while someone was making np his mind? The want of decision was a blot on the management of the war.

Mr. Dillon said that Mr. A-squitVg •peech was deplorably lacking in giving justification for the fourth million of men, which was the road to financial Tuin. He warned the Government that Ireland would not tolerate conscription. The debate generally voiced the danger of depleting necessary industries in order to secure recruits, and pointed out that if further men were taken from the woollen and cotton industries these industries would be at a standstill.