LONGER PERIOD
TRAINING IN CANADA
OTTAWA. February 3
The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, announced that military training for men aged 2J years would be extended from one month to four. He said that, starting on March 15, 6000 men would be called up each month. 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 mtmths the remaining trainees will be posted to reserve units and will re-tiu-n to civil life. Mr. King said he recognised that the earlier 30-day scheme was inadequate and it alsn dislocated industry by taking a quaVter 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 6
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