HOME GUARD OR E.P.S.?
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Certain E.P.S. activities are to be suspended, viz., fire?watching. The Whole system of fire-watching is to he reviewed. I would suggest, Sir, that the* whole E.P.S. and its personnel be reviewed, when it would be found that many young fit men could be transferred to the Home Guard. The Home Guard today has in it§ ranks many exmembers of the National Military Re? serve, men who hot only served in the last war, but have served two years or more in the N.M.R. In the mean? time a number of these men have been, "man-powered" back to civil-occupa-tion and/were then compelled to join the Home Guard. This may be all right, Sir, if the country needs their services, but the part that seems'most unfair is the number of younger men who have only done and are still doing E.P.S. work, having had no military training whatever. A few Sfun? days .ago,.while returning at the end of a 15-mile route march I was amazed to see the number of young fit mep Jii their gardens in every suburb we passed through. Is this y?h%i is called an "all-in" war effort? —I am, etc.,
SOYES FERME.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1942, Page 4
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