UNITED STATES.
CONSCRIPTION v. VOLUNTARYISM, THE BRITISH EXAMPLE. Received April 25, Z. 10 p.m. ■ v Washington, April 24. Lieut. General Bridges said that conscription was vital to the United State 3 before the nation can have any success in the war. The volunteer system in England had retarded and delayed every I phase of the war. The development of voluntaryism had sent trained artisans and industrial workers into the when they were badly needed at home>, and left at home those needed at the front. Conscription at the beginning of the war would have obviated the difficulties as to munitions end many othe* vital mistakes. It was the Allies' duty now to speed up the war. The British people had been won entirely to conscription, and are fanatical even upon the subject. They had opposed it only because they did not kuow what it meant, but now looked on conscription as the business way of making war. Kitchener's volunteer recruiting was the innocent cause of retarding Britain's war progress, because without Kitchener the break down of voluntaryism would have come earlier, and conscription would have been earlier introduced. Kitchener's very success supported voluntaryism for a long time. , , HUNDREDS OF PETITIONS. • Renter Service. i Washington, April 25. Several hundred petitions bearing a million names, asking for conscription, have been laid before the Speaker. THE WAR LOAN. FIRST ISSUE OVERSUBSCRIBED. Received April 26, 1.6 a.m. Washington, April 25. The first issue of me war loan if £50,000,000 has been niter subscribed a hundred per cent. FRENCH COMMISSION ARRIVK. Washington, April 24. General Joffre and M. Viviani have arrived.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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