DEMOBILISING THE ARMIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 5

DEMOBILISING THE ARMIES

WORK PROCEEDING MORE i SMOOTHLV / ■ -\ MOBB DEMONSTRATIONS By Telceraph-Press A«6ociation-Copyricht London, January 7. . The "Daily Express" understands that at tho elevonth. hour the authorities have decided to stop the leavo of the troops and to substitute quicker demobilisation. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Eec. January 8, 8.50 p.m.) London, January 7. A few hundred soldiers inarched to the War Office. The matter was arranged on the sumo terms as was done at Folkestone. In suite of the general's advice, disaffected'soldiers nt Shoroham to-day insisted on telegraphing to the Prime Min-' 'ister demanding: to be sent home pending the completion of the demobilisation formalities. One hundred men of the Bedfordshires .at Bristol marched to the Town Hall nnd : requested the Mayor to assist in hastening the demobilisation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Eec. January 8, 9.50 p.m.) London, January 7. The work of demobilisation is now proceeding more smoothly. Ten thousand men were demobilised daily laet week. It i 6 expected that the figures. will soon' become twenty thousand daily, i The Prime Minister is interviewing the authorities personally with a view to evolving a simple procedure. The -guiding principle at present is the needs of industry, not the length of service. Troops employed at the Essex aerodrome interviewed their colonel, who allowed one day's leave, adding that those who were able to secure work would be demobilised forthwith. / . Six hundred "men at Kempton Park Army Service Depot proceeded to Whitehall as a deputation and visited the War Office—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asen.