More than half the young Frenchmen called to do military service each year are found unfit. The proportion of rejected men has been growing each year since the war. Officials and medical men are anxious to learn why. Before the war when the young conscripts did three and even ' four years' service in the army, only about one man in ten was relieved of duty. Many of these, examined later,, were accepted for office duty. •About one-third of the young men are refused as physically below par when they appear at the age of 20. About a sixth are sent home during their first three months' service, the hard life in the army I developing defects previously undetected.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 10
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