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Show CONSCRIPTION FOR CANADIANS. Premier Borden Presents Bill for Compulsory Com-pulsory Military Service. Ottawa. A bill for compulsory military mili-tary service by Canadians between the ages of 20 and 45 years was presented in the house of commons June 11 bj Sir Robert Borden. , During the next seven months. t( , keep four Canadiau army divisions in the field, the enlistment of 70.000 men ' is needed, he said, and to keep live divisions in the field S4.0U0 men are needed. There is a greater number of suitable men in Canada. It has been5 decided that they should' be brought to arms by compulsion. All Canadians, Cana-dians, under a law which had been on the statute books for forty-nine years, are liable for the defense of the country coun-try and liable to be sent abroad if the government decides that in defending the country they should fight beyond its boundaries. |