NOT HIRED MURDERERS
AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS AND* STRIKERS. (RerciWd January'l.3, 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jaamary 12. The Minister for Defence (Hon. G. F. Pearce} speaking at Broken Hill, declared that he was not prepared to use iihie mildtaay forces to shoot down-strikers. Defence was a plank of the Labour Party's policy. Soldiers were not'hired murderers, as had been, stoated at Broken. Hill. They were made to pea-form a iuty they owed to the country. Jlapan, said the Minister, • was an arsenal from beginning to,end, and was' not in favour of intei-national t:ibitration. Australian coinpukory training was a- trifle compared to the autocratic conscription of European countries.:
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10527, 15 January 1912, Page 5
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104NOT HIRED MURDERERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10527, 15 January 1912, Page 5
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