§ 54. Major HUNTasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that one of the chief reasons that the Australians voted against Conscription was that, as they had already supplied a large percentage of men for the fighting line, many of whom had gone back to fight several times after being wounded, they considered that it was not right to get more men by compulsion from a country thousands of miles away, whilst there were about a quarter of a million of fit young men in Ireland who had never fought at all and were making no sacrifices for the preservation of their country or the Empire; and whether, in view of this feeling all over the Empire, he will see his way to include Ireland in the Military Service Bill?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWThe answer is in the negative.