RECRUITING.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 4

RECRUITING.

TOO MANY EXEMPTIONS

LOUD DKHBY'K 'I'LIOA KCIt A .STRONG STAND.

London, March 2. Lord Derby, speakiii'g in the House of Lords, said filial he was concerned about, the numbers of odioial aml oilier ,oxt>inpfiou.s. There was no doubt that-, men were getting iinlo vairious occu■patious for which they wen'e quite unsuifed iir order to 'avoid heir vice. Tie suggested Ilbiiit no single man und<'r 31. years of age dhou.'ld lie allowed exemption ou the groumls tbat they wore htarred, hndgod. or rcserv'txl for oecupafitms. Tire Goverii.nieii'-t inunt he pro-pared for far .stronger measures iiif they dos' Ted tv- ciei the number of in.en required. He. suggested tbat ■single men aintl imiirrieil mcii' ought, n.ivt to ht> cj hi siit I c ret 1 st'.-rrrcd unless tbey had held Miel.r proserin jmstTifon. or one siniiilar iv clhaira'trlcr, previous 1o August 15. He i.iitpltrrixl (bcHoii>e It) take the Ntrougesrt lino mv tbe oxemptiian qucistiioii. and thus have tbo country at their I nicks. Lord Derby wr.id be had a profound eouitemnt for the small -and insrgniibcsvot body of membeirs of fire House of Common's who were wlntt'linc aiv.iv Uk* cou.nlrv'.s miliitniry fsln-engfli. He rogrettotl .lihtif, Sir John Sinion's influeneo had been, used for such a purpose.