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AMERICAN ENLISTMENTS FITNESS THE ONLY TEST (1 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. The Secretary for "War, Mr. FI. L. Stimson, announced that the War Department had raised the maximum enlistment age from 45 to 50 years. The Wall Street Journal’s Washington correspondent says that the projected army and navy combat strength in 1944 exceeds the estimated number of men from 18 to 45 years of ago physically lit to light, hence Mr Slimson ’s decision to enlist older men. The proposed army and navy strength, necessarily secret, has been boosted higher than any figure yet published. The United States replaces Russia as the anti-Axis recruiting station. Job and dependency deferments will disappear. By 1<)-I4 fitness will lie almost the only test.
The order of induction will he. firstly, remaining single men, secondlv married men with no children, mid thirdly, married men- with one child. Within each group, war workers will be called last.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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154AGE INCREASED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 4
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