1 DECEMBER 1917, Page 15

We have not noticed that in. any discussions of maw-power

attention has been directed to an obvious and considerable reservoir. We refer to the men who were wounded in the earlier part of the war, and who in the Act which provided for conscription were expressly exempted from being called up again. These men area very honourable section of the manhood of the country. They joined up of their own free will, and it was entirely in accordance with the general sense of what dsceney required that they should have been exempted from conscription when conscription became necessary. But of course since those times the situation has entirely changed. Even when the Conscription Bill was introduced, nobody foresaw the strain that would be placed upon our resources.