ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"Interested." —We are officially advised that the pension wonlW be as lor rank held in the Expeditionary Force. "Conscript 99."—See news article headed "Combing Out" in Monday's issue. The test ie when the men are posted to the actual Reinforcement drafts. There is no intention of lowering that standard. "Anxious."—No. 20 General Hospital is situated at Dannes, Camiers, France. "Merely Existing."—(l) It is obvious that if the Government Statistician is to solicit information regarding the status of Reservists lie cannot supply the information lie obtains to whoever likes to ask for it. Otherwise there would be very few who would care to give such information, and the administration of the Military. Service Act would suffer in consequence. (2) To place a married man who is not supporting his wife and children in the First Division would . require an alteration of the Act, which is now not worth while, as the First Division is almost exhausted, and such men are to be included in the earliest class of the Second Division.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1917, Page 6
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