ARMY HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS ALTERED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 7

ARMY HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS ALTERED.

RAPID CONSTRUCTION OF SUB-

MARINE CHASERS

ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN NAVAL

ENVOY

(Received July 12, 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 11. The War Department has announced changed height requirements for recruits which will make available thousands of additional drafted men. The minimum is sffc lin and the maximum 6ft 6in.

Slow organisation of'the Exemption Boards is delaying drafting.

NEW YORK, July 11. The United Press correspondent at Washington states that the Navy Department has revealed that the United States is building three hundred submarine chasers, each of 110 feet long. The work is progressing rapidly, and some will be ready during the next few months.

Prince Galitzin. of the Russian Navy, has arrived in America on a special mission, and is going -to Washington.