WORK OF DEMOBILISATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1919, Page 7

WORK OF DEMOBILISATION.

AGST&ALLOS MPATIEiS LonGon, oan. \i The tenseness ei Hit desire of the soldiers to get home is shown by numerous ! etatenKirts among the men claiming that enlistment e-pires four month? after J cho waff, an<? stating chat they will therefore quit then if they axe not aboard a ship that will take them home. To counteract this agitation General Sir John Monash (director of demobilisation) has issued an order that evitey man's attention must be drawn to amendment of the Defence Act cf Jiine 191S, extending service daring tfce'Giiv-ernor-GeneraPs pleasure i. General Monash, intemeireO, he was satisfied mow, owing to ttic tyoi situation more 3hips would be «ntj_ to Australia than he wocld 3be able to (fill. He wishes to emphasise that the British armies are not being demobilised, put aro being out. He is clodely examining individual cbiimu for priority. Of 6<!o men interviewed only 15 hyws been discharged in Britain. Orders provide that discharge outside Australia slialS bo granted most sparingly. tliegeil" era! interests of Aistralja, wt the individual interest, Wag ffln cousiaans aot" Ja the policy ] General Monish's porter is opposed to Mie Eoirender of Australian eiSzcnship. The craditionß precedent to dischargo wiH •be'-. "Ko defendants ia Australia, or the SKqaicscence of dependants, or that (iociicik? is oi<?.i.-vscsly outside