NATIONAL DEFENCE.
NEW SCHEME IN FRANCE. BOTH SEXES INCLUDED. (Per Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) PARIS, January 23. M. Boncour, explaining to the Chamber’s Army Committee the Bill providing for the organisation of the nation in war-time, which is part of the new plans for national defence, emphasised that, despite the development of international solidarity and France’s efforts for peace, war was still a possibility. It would not be merely a military campaign but a war of. nations in which it would be impossible to distinguish soldiers from civilians. National mobilisation, therefore, would include all active forces, and in principle it would extent to both sexes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10827, 24 January 1927, Page 5
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