DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
LONDON, September 21. The Tiaes recommends to tne extreme Labour members in England an article written by Mr J. C. Watgon, the Australian Labour leader, in the Call, the organ of the National Defence League, and desoribes Mr Watson's advice to genuine citizens of theEmoire to be in readiness to defend its integrity, as "the true note of Imperial statesmanship." Mr Watson, in his advice, advocated the compulsory training of a oitizen soldiery between the ages of eighteen and twenty years, and generally expressed the Labour views of military training the barraok system. MR KEIR HARDIE'S VIEWS. LONDON, September 21. Mr Keir Hardie that Labour unflinchingly oppose Mr Haldane's scheme to induoe the youth of the nation to become volunteers, deolaring that such a system is an insidious form of conscription.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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135DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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