EASTER LEAVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3044, 3 April 1917, Page 7

EASTER LEAVE

' POSITION OI' 1 27th REINFORCE- -■■ MENTS. >„• The men of tho 27th Vho ha-vo oomplained that their Easter .leave was "cancclled" because troop trains wero nob available for, their use, appear to hayo ■ beeu. misinformed regarding the'' position!; A Dominion xeportor, ivlio made inquiries on the , subject yesterday, was informed by the i .military; authorities .that at 110 tijns . had, it been .intended, to give the 27th ■ Reinforcements 'extended leave at . Eastor. The draft had not yet been in camp a full month, and the officers of tholtraining staff did not consider it desirable that recruits should be away from camp. for several davs on end at v '. , an early stage of their training:;. ■: ; "The men; 1 pf .the ;26th. and .2bth Reinforcements are getting lea\e over ' .■ .tho- Eastor holidays; but this is counting, -as their final leavei. It wis conveni-. ent to 'let these drafts away ,during the holidays. Tho final loavo of tho 27th Rdihforceriients will - come later. Lack of troop:.trains,'according to the official stat-omeut/had nothina to do. with ! i the.- ajrangciiiQiits ; 'TO Railway Department.was not" aslced .to provide tarins .'for, tho conveyance of tho ' 27th Reinforcements at Easter,time. , ■' The men of'the 27th Reinforcements . siaio that;- they, -'were promised leave and tliat. tliey made their arrangements in tho full expectation of rc- .. neiving it. .Apparently thore was some ' . mimndersfcanding/on this point. : Thai expectation of leave appears to have been goneral throughout tho draft, but it is stated officially that thir d raft Jiad jm'ground for believing . that ', would'he' granted over the EastM 1 boli'days. ,v :; -,- ;; ' .