Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — BILL FOR 1,000,000 SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

BILL FOR 1,000,000 SOLDIERS

Lord Roberts Presents His Compulsory Service Measure. London, July 13. —The bill which provides for the compulsory service in the territorial army of all male citizens between the ages of eighteen and thirty was introduced by Lord Roberts. He painted a gloomy picture of the condition (of the country’s defenses and claimed that his measure would furnish one million well trained and disciplined soldiers in a few years.