CABLE BREVITIES BRITAIN AND PERMANENT CONSCRIPTION

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 8

CABLE BREVITIES BRITAIN AND PERMANENT CONSCRIPTION

Worried by the failure of the recruiting campaign for the regular forces, the Cabinet will probably ask Parliament in its new session to approve permanent conscription, and the formation of a “pool” of a million trained' men, says the Daily Express political correspondent. The pool, which will take about , five years_ to build up, will be formed by calling up young men for two years’ fulltime training with a further four to five years’ compulsory membership of the Territorial Army, entailing drilling and training one night weekly, with a month in camp yearly, Employers would be compelled to give tbe necessary time off foi’ discipline training in the Territorial Army, which, according to the correspondent, will be stiffened, and most officers will be full-time.— London, October 16.

Drive Against Pro-Nazi Gang. The police have so far arrested 20 persons in a drive to smash a proNazi gang operating mainly in Paris, says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. The size of the gang is at present unknown but the police have discovered that it published clandestine newspapers glorifying Hitler, Mussolini, and Petain. —London, October 15.

Warning to Exporters. Following complaints about the shoddy nature of some goods exported from Australia to the Middle East the Department of Commerce has issued a warning to exporters that the department is planning a system of export trade controls to be operated through the Export Advisory Committee and. the Secondary Industry Commission. The object is to prevent the short-term exporter from damaging the reputation of Australian goods in foreign markets.—Sydney, October 17.

A Moscow Attack. Europe would not be hungry if the American and Canadian authorities would increase grain production or forbid the selling of wheat for cattle food and distilling, says the Moscow newspaper New Times. The Moscow correspondent of The Times says the New Times charged influential circles in North America with being more concerned to keep up the prices of wheat than to combat hunger in Europe. It cited the Canadian Government’s discouraging attitude towards the wheat producers’ plans for increasing the acreage' in 1946 and quoted figures showing that while a restrictive policy was being applied to grain for human consumption' the' production of fodder had steeply in- 1 creased.—London, October 15;