CANADIAN ARMY
MILITIA TO BE CALLED UP (Rec. February 16, 5.5 p.m.) Ottawa, February 15. Tlie Canadian Government is considering calling out the militia 'under the compulsory provisions of the Militia Act, in order to guard the-Amerca' border and release fifty thousand troops in Canada for tho overseas army. It is believed that voluntaryism will'first be tried, and then if recruits for home service are unobtainable compulsion will be enforced. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9
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73CANADIAN ARMY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9
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