TRAINING OF BRITISH YOUTH
(British Official Wireloss.) (Received April 23, 9 p.m.) RUGBY, April 22. The strength of the Air Training Corps on January 31 was approximately 177,300 cadets, enrolled in 1444 units, the Under-Secretary for Air told the House of Commons. Some quarter of a million of these were members of 302 schools’ units. The growing mobilization of the youth of the country was also rhe subject of a statement in the House of Commons by the Parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education, who said that approximately 597.000 boys from 10 to 18 years had registered in England and' Wales, and nearly 90,000 had so far been interviewed.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 178, 24 April 1942, Page 7
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110TRAINING OF BRITISH YOUTH Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 178, 24 April 1942, Page 7
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