DEMOBILISATION IN BRITAIN
GRIEVANCES OF LABOUR TRIPLE ALLIANCE
MINISTER'S WARNING TO
AGITATORS
(By Telegraph-Press Association-CopyrijM London, July 30. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill, Minister for War, slated that over three million officers and men had heen demobilised, and. the process, was continuing at the rate of 5000 to 0000 a day. Conscription 'was disappearing and would end with the pre. sent Military Service Act, unless an unforeseen catastrophe occurred. The regular army num'bered 225,000, and was enlisting 4000 to 5000 volunteers a week. Referring to the demands of the Labour Triple Alliance, lie said its four grievances were obsolete. The withdrawal from Russia had long been decided on, and conscription was pacing away. The War Office circular relating to strikes wi3 unpolitical, and was now out of date. Finally, all conscientious objectors would bo released. Ho solemnly warned agitators that they must hasten their, general strike, otherwise it would ho neces. sary to get a now outfit of grievances.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 7
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166DEMOBILISATION IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 7
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