EVERY DISTRICT MUST SERVE
■ \... .. RECRUITING IN BRITAIN COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING QUOTA SYSTEM By T«l«srapli—Press Association-Copyright . London,-August '29. i A Cabinet Committee, consisting of Lord' Selborne, tlio Marquis ■of Grewe, •Mr. Churchill, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Lord ■ Curzon, and Mr. : Arthur Henderson, is inquiring as totho expediency of introducing the quota system ■• similar to South Africa's, under which oacli locality. mil he asked to furnish a certain number of' ; recruits voluntarily, and, unless they are forthcoming, the Government ■: Villbe empowered to take tlie men required. Tho ■ South African, Government did not find it necessary to Kise'its power., . • Lord Selborne's Committee will deal with the matter ill an administrative manner, free from all political or ; personal questions. Indications aro that tlie chief difficulty will be, not to get soldiers, but the 'enlistment of those who can best bo spared belonging : to -callings whero older men and women might fill their places. /V"
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 5
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148EVERY DISTRICT MUST SERVE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 5
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