SUNDAY TROOP TRAINS
A way out of the difficulty of Sunday troop trains has been suggested to us which will perhaps commend itself both to the Military and to the Railway authorities. It is .that instead of the week-end leave to the men in camp being fixed to terminate on Sunday evening, it should be extended to tho Monday morning following in such week. This change would possess the advantage of giving the men a fow hours' extra weekend leave, as some compensation for the curtailment'of their opportunities to visit tho City during the .week nights, due. to the cutting' down of suburban night trains, while it would also relieve tho Railway Department's staff of the strain of running' Sunday troop trains. So far as we have been able to gather,' the step here suggested would make little difference ,to the work of tho men in camp. They would return to duty by the first train on Monday morning and would lose little, if any, time in their actual training as. the result of the -extra leave. The' matter is, of course, one for the Military authorities to decide, but the suggestion seems a good and practicable .one deserving consideration. . .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3050, 11 April 1917, Page 4
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200SUNDAY TROOP TRAINS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3050, 11 April 1917, Page 4
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