Britain’s Military Training Measure Expected in Commons

Northern Advocate, 11 May 1939, Page 8

Britain’s Military Training Measure Expected in Commons

LONDON, May 9

npilE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR, MR L. HORE-BELISHA, IN ' THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, M OVED THE SECOND READING OF THE RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES BILL.

This deals with the procedure for the embodiment or mobilisation of the reserves and auxiliary forces, and provides, as the Minister claimed, methods of instituting State preparation more appropriate to modern emergencies than the existing elaborate pr evisions which date back over 50 years. sy-

Ulster’s Exclusion. During the committee discussions of the amendment excluding Northern Ireland, Mr W. J. Anstruther-Gray (Conservative, Lanark) asked for an assurance that youths from Fire would not be permitted to work in the United Kingdom without military training. He urged that all youths from the Dominions should not be permitted to be employed in the United Kingdom unless they did military training here, or in their own dominion.

Lieut.-Commander Agnew (Con', servative, Cornwall) said the amendment compelled men from the Dominion to register unless they could prove that they were not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, I£ should be clarified whether coming for a three-year professional course obliged them to register. The amendment w.as carried by 261 votes to 21, Ulster members opposing it. Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, moving the time-table motion to expedite the Military Training Bill, said that proceedings were being closely watched in other quarters, and anything .appearing to be dilatory might be most discouraging to Britain’s European friends. Sven if the bill passed according to time-table, the first militiamen could not begin training until the beginning of July.

Guaranteed Price For Meat And Wool Opposed

[Per Press Association. Copyright.'] FFJLDING, This Day. Attended by about 400 members, a meeting held at Feilding yesterday under the auspices of the Farmers’ Union, and addressed by Mr Mulholland, voted solidly against the proposal to introduce a guaranteed price for meat and wool. Only three voted for the proposal.