PROSECUTIONS SOON

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 8

PROSECUTIONS SOON

Military Service Defaulters

It has been officially stated that prosecutions are pending in cases where single men within the age group for the First Division of. the National Military Reserve have failed to register for service. Both the defaulters and their employers will be prosecuted. Every possible method of checking up on such defaulters is being used.

Employers are concerned in the case of defaulting employees because they are required by law to ascertain whether or not an employee is registered.

provide a.certain number of trainees in each district; the 14,000 to be drawn for overseas service- will be taken from the Dominion as a whole, but their names will be arranged according to the districts in which they reside before they are published in a Gazette on December 4. POSITION OF TERRITORIALS. Men who were called for Territorial service in the previous ballots and who have been found fit for overseas service will be transferred from Territorial units to the overseas draft if called, in the overseas ballot. Those selected for overseas service after being found fit for Territorial service but who have, not started their Territorial training will not be required to go into a Territorial camp. Terri- ! torials on home service who are in Class A are included in the ballot. Appeals against Territorial training will not count in respect of overseas service. Those selected in the ballot now being held will be placed under an entirely different obligation from that created by selection in the Territorial ballot and if there is ground for appeal a separate appeal must be ima,de. i Medical examination of the men selected will "be carried out as soon as possible after the men are advised I of their selection on December 4, but ! as there is still a large number of men selected for Territorial service to be examined those called for overseas service are not likely to be examined before the New Year. PERMANENTLY UNFIT EXCLUDED. All those who have enlisted for overseas service and those drawn in the first Territorial ballot who have been found permanently unfit have been excluded from the present ballot. These men have been transferred to the Third Division of the Reserve.

Young men who have offered their services to the Air Force and who are awaiting selection or medical examination may be drawn in the ballot, but if-this happens the recruit selected should immediately advise the Air Secretary and the Area Officer in his military district. He will then be advised whether or not he is to submit himself to the Army authorities for medical examination.