PERIOD EXTENDED TO FOUR MONTHS
Military Training In Canada (Received February 4, 10.40 p.m.) OTTAWA. February 3. The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, announced that military training for men aged 21 years would be extended from one month to four. He said that, starting on March 15, 0000 men would be called up monthly. At the end of the first two months of basic training men volunteering for the navy and air force will attend special schools. At the end of four months the remaining trainees will be posted to reserve units and will return to civil life. Mr. King said he recognized that the earlier 30-day scheme was inadequate and it also dislocated industry by taking a quarter of a million men from their jobs for a month at a time. He said that the new scheme would mean that more than 72,000 would have undergone four months’-training by the end of the first year.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 112, 5 February 1941, Page 10
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