Wellington, Apr. 18.
An appeal to every man up to fifty years of age to be prepared to defend; his country in the event of the emergency of war was made today by Mr. M. J. Savage, the Prime Minister, speaking at a State Luncheon for the delegates of the Pacific Defence Conference.
The day, he said, might come eoner than it was thought, and then they might have to go to war and New Zealand would have to be ready While they hoped for peace, he added, there were obstacles to disarmament and, until these were abolished, they
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