AUSTRALIAN ARMY.
INCREASE PROPOSED
RECRUITING UNNECESSARY.
(Rec. 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 25. The Prjme Minister (Mr It. G. Menzies) announced yesterday that the War Cabinet had decided to increase the strength of the A.I.F. by the formation of another division. The present objective strength of the A.I.F. would, therefore, be an army corps, comprising four divisions. The present divisions were the sixth, seventh and eighth, and the new one would be the ninth.
Mr Menzies said the nucleus of the ninth would comprise certain units at present abroad. The division was being brought up to strength by the despatch of the existing reinforcements for organisation into the units abroad. The new division would not entail the immediate resumption of recruiting, but it would bo. necessary later to. replace certain units taken into the ninth and to provide reinforcements. When recruiting was resumed a definite uuota would be periodically laid down. The. enlistments would be made selective, preference being given to single men.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 255, 25 September 1940, Page 7
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162AUSTRALIAN ARMY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 255, 25 September 1940, Page 7
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