THE MAN PROBLEM IN BRITAIN
QUESTION. 01 , RE-EXAMINATIONS. '.s(Rec7 0.15 a.m.) '■■"••» London, June 22. In the House of Commons a debate took placo on the question of the reesaniinatiou of discharged soldiers and rejected men. Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Secretary to tho War Office) dedared that the re-examinations had proved that there had been many fraudulent rejections. • Tho Government ha<l expected to get sixty thousand recruits It now believed that it would get sixty thonsaw* men of A Class and sixty thousand others. The Government was willißg to appoint a committee to examine the working of tho re-examinations. Mr. Bonar Law mentioned that over seventy thousand soldiers had been released for tho trenches by the substitution of less fit men.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I " FEDERAL PARLIAMENT PROROUGED Melbourne June 22. , The. xederal Parliament has been prorogued till July ll.—Press Assn. ESTIMATE DOUBLED INDIA'S GREAT, WAR LOA.W London, Juno 21. The Indian War Loan subscriptions totalled 4i36,000,000. This sum is more than double tho estimate.—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 10
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162THE MAN PROBLEM IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 10
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