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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 November 1917, Page 3

It is becoming: almost impossible to get out of England if you are a man of military age. It is said that the regulations —or the observance of them—have been tightened in*, considerably, and that- the process has led- to much inconvenience. One man almost above military age was finally rejected by the military authorities a few. weeks ago after a close examination by medical specialists, and was given his discharge. He at once consulted one of the greatest specialist 6 in the country, who advised him to go to a certain British colony for his health-—a colony where, as a man with.' some considerable capital, he would be a useful citizen. Encouraged by the officials of the colony in London, lie made all arrangements, winding up his business and arranging his domestic affairs, only to find at the end of it all that the National Service authorities had put a veto on his passport. In another case a man, less fortunately placed from a financial point- of view, gave up his business and sold up his home with the intention of taking his wife and. five children to the same colony. But again a veto has been placed upon his departure. All this is evidence that the National Service Department is doing something.