AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

THE REFERENDUM. *NO" MAJORITY DECREASING SLIGHTLY. deceived Nov. 6, 0.45 p.m. Sydney, Nov. C. The "No'' majority has been decreased to 09,811. ARTICLE IN THE NATION London, Nov. 5. The Nation, in an article bended "Vic' tory of Freedom," says: —''Australia's rejection of the conscription for overseas offers substantial ground for hope for humanity after the war. Australian labor has won the battle which British labor has lost. Canada is plainly against conscription, and, with the Irish example, we may conclude that the advent of force and the domain of military service has been definitely stayed throughout the Empire. We all desire the closer of the free British nations, and it is .now clear that the union cannot be founded upon forced Imperial service. So far :>.* an Imperial war is concerned, it is clear the Dominions wish to retain their liberty. The Australian sacrifices will be enormous, but the vote is a reminder that there is a limit to the drain of colonial man power." (The Nation is the mouthpiece of the peace-at-any-priee faction who helped so largely to give Germany the clianee she was seeking to dominate, the world.) THE WILL OF THE TEOPi-E Sydney. Njv. (T. A meeting of twenty thousand {.arsons in the- Domain passed a motion iemnndiug recognition for the will of. the people expressed in the referendum and the withdrawal of the cwriDtion proslamaJWKIt .