A NATION AT WAR
BRITAIN’S HUGE ARMY. ) . NEARLY 2,500,000 SOON. A TRULY NATIONAL FORCE. (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This D'nv. 11.5 h.m.) * LONDON, March 17. Britain’s total Army strength within the next two or three months will be nearly 2,500,000. ' One in every 6} of the 12,500,000 families in Britain andj Northern Ireland has a member in the * national army To-day, compared with one in every 28 families a year ago. One man in every five families will be in khaki when the Army has taken proportion of those under 28 still awaiting registration. Considerable speculation in the newspapers concerns the dates on which the age groups, above 27, will be registered and called up for national service, and lias ■ caused the Ministry of Labour and the'National Service to issue a warning that no reliance should be placed on unofficial statements, implying that eveii tentative decisions on these matters have been made.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 134, 18 March 1940, Page 6
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