NATIONAL SERVICE.
.'•'■ j >.i. —"TT 7 —~— ''*?" —! ' SOUTH .AFRICAN RECRUITING. GENERAL SMUTS SPEAKS OUT. LONDON, March': 3. The Press Bureau states that General Smuts, as Privy Councillor of the Army Council, has ordered a general revision of the certificates of exemption of all men under thirty-one. The Government is impressing the tribunals with the fact tiat the war is reaching its critical stage, and that it is imperative to obtain more men for the army. Exemption is in nowise justified on the ground of employment or hardship, unless for most exceptional reasons. It intimates that the special arrangements which had been made for postponing the calling up of religious workers and students, ]u.d been terminated.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 March 1917, Page 5
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114NATIONAL SERVICE. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 March 1917, Page 5
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