VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9181, 2 September 1908, Page 4

VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT.

A recent issue of the organ of the | "English National Service League" ! has the following interesting remarks ! on the subject of voluntary enlistment: "The Germans are confessedly students of English methods of colonisation, but there is one of our methods with which, apparently, they will have nothing to do, and that is the formation of Volunteer corps. The Berlin correspondent of the 'Morning Post' states that a Government Bill has recently been brought before the Local Government at Windhoek, the capital of German South-West Africa, providing for the introduction of universal military service in the colony. The Commander of the Imperial Protective Forces, who supported the measure, contended that the future of the protectorate depended on its acceptance. The question of forming Volunteer corps, as in English colonies, had, he said, been carefully considered, but owing t j the fact that such formations had everywhere proved unreliable the idea had bee* abandoned. A Volunteer system, he added, would be ideal, but, seeing that men were not ideal, realities must be reckoned with."