CANADA.
CONSCRIPTION AND COALITION. Received July 26, 5.5 p.m. Ottawa, July 29i. The majority for conscription entourage* the Government to believe tait the formation of a coalition Cabinet is likely to be successful. The final vote was 102 as against 44. The opposition consisted almost exclusively of Ivench Canadians. Sir Wilfrid Lauricr asserted that' he wished to send reinforcements, but thought voluntaryism had not been exhausted. His policy was to coavinee the peoplt by argument, and if that failed he refused to coerce them.
CONSCRIPTION OR ABANDONMENT? Ottawa, July 24. TV Canadian House of Commons rejected daylight saving, the farmers objecting to rising earlier thaji at present.
Mr. Clifford Sifton, a leading Liberal, caused a sensation by pointing out that the election of an aati-conseriptionist Government in Canada would be disastrous for the Empire. Canada's, choke lies between prosecution of the war and the abandonment of the men at the front to whom chat support of all par-, tics was pledged. The third reading of the Conscription Bill was carried by a majority of 88.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1917, Page 5
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