BRITISH ARMY

Grey River Argus, 19 March 1940, Page 12

BRITISH ARMY

Further Conscript Drafts IN NEXT QUARTER. LONDON. Marcli 17Britain’s total army strength within the next two or three months will be nearly 2,500,000 men. ' Considerable speculation in the newspapers, on the date on which the age groups above 27 will be registered and called up for national service, has caused the Ministry of Labour and National Service to issue awarning that no reliance should be j placed on unofficial statements im-| plying that even tentative decisions , on these matters have been. made. | Out of twelve and a-half million families in Britain and Northern Ire-; land, one family out of every six and! a-quarter families has now a member, in the National Army to-day, com-1 pared with one in every 28 families a year ago. One man in every five! families will be in khaki when the Army has taken its proportion of those under 28 years, who are still awaiting registration