FRENCH ARMY RECRUITS.
THEIR PHYSICAL CAPACITY
'Times I—'Sydney 1 —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 5.45 o'clock.) PARIS, Sept. 20.
The medical examination of twen-ty-year-old army recruits resulted in 65 per cent being pronounced fit for service. It had Tjeen anticipated that only oO per cent would be found fit. A British officer asserts that the physical capacity of the conscripts equals that of British soldiers who have undergone two years' service.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 5
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73FRENCH ARMY RECRUITS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 22 September 1913, Page 5
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