Referring to numerous Colonial offers of military help, Mr. MacDonald said that owing to conscription, the fighting services could now secure regularly the numbers and types of men needed without volunteers.
The first need of the Colonies, he added, was for the defence of the Colonies themselves. The guarding of strategic points concerned the whole Empire, Often the best war work was to carry on ordinary jobs and, thus, distribute the immense men power calmly and efficiently over every activity for the victorious prosecution of the struggle—Reuter.
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