Meanwhile the Government, which is Mr. Lyons, has staked its future on the success of a drive to increase the strength of the voluntary militia from 35000 to 70,000 within the next three months.
"The responsibility of organizing this campaign has been shifted to the aged shoulders of the waf-time Prime Minister, and present Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Hughes. Despite the burden of the years "Billy" Hughes is still the most striking personality in Australian politics, and immensely popular. He has already plunged into the re-cruising campaign with irresistible enthusiasm. If the task can be accomplished, he is obviously the one man likely to succeed. If too much has been attempted, Mr. Hughes will doubtless. be the scapegoat. And that will be another trick to Mr.
Lyons.
Outside of political circles there is a strengthening conviction that the time has come to end such ski mishing. Seldom, if ever before in this country, has the emergence of a statesman been so universally de-
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