A QUESTION
Sir, —Can you inform me bow the Minister of Defence intends to carry out his promise of sending all First Division- men to enmp before married men, .when even now, at this Into date, a First Division man has 1.-.ul his appeal adjourned to Peeomlh r -I, which means probably not goinj: into camp until April of next vear? —I am, etc., CLASS C.
|Tlio reply of the Minister of Defence to the query ui our correspoiuleut. is that no unconditional promisa was ever given by himself or any oilier Minister on behalf of the tiovot'iimeut that without exception First Division men would bo sent out of the country Ijcforu any married man were ROiit. Tho Government had arranged for tho revision of all the sine die adjournments to First- Division men, but it was idle to say that the unmarried men in essential industries should go io tiio war. The seamen on tho ships, tlio m-iu hewing coal in tlin mines, and the farmers needed to keep up production »n tho land, ruuld not bs Kent. As to whether tlio occupation of any particular reservist was such as to make it. neuessary that he should bo retained in Urn country, iho military servicw hoards had to decide. It had rnivcr bwn admitted that, there should bo no discrimination. 1
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 7
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222A QUESTION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 290, 27 August 1918, Page 7
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