DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
NEW GARRISON BATTALIONS RELIEF OF ACTIVE TROOPS NAVAL MOBILISATION (United press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 23 A further step in Australia’s military preparations is that arrangements are being made to raise new garrison battalions for the Army reserve, to relieve active militia troops now employed in internal defence. There is to be special training of the militia forces in two batches each of about 40,000 men ffer a period of about one month. It will commence shortly. Arrangements are also in progress for raising, from the militia and other sources, a special force of one division, with auxiliary units, for continuous service at home or abroad. , This force will be concentrated in brigade groups about November 1. Naval mobilisation has been completed and all reserve ships are commissioned. The squadron is now exercising and patrolling.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20918, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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139DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20918, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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