MILITARY TRAINING
NATAL UNITS CALLED UP NOW AT FULL STRENGTH DURBAN, May 17. Twelve hundred men in Natal between 17 and 20 have been called up for immediate military training. This will bring the units to full strength. In Transvaal the South African coast garrison, the R.N.V.R., and the citizen forces will be increased by 5000. THE BRITISH BILL PROTEST FROM EIRE (Independent Cable Service) DUBLIN, May 18. (Received May 18, at 11.55 p.m.) Mr de Valera announced that a further protest had been made to the British Government against the Military Training Bill provisions to conscript Irishmen resident in England. The President declared that Ireland was the mother country whose relations with Britain were entirely different from those between Britain and the dominions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23812, 19 May 1939, Page 9
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124MILITARY TRAINING Otago Daily Times, Issue 23812, 19 May 1939, Page 9
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