SEVEN-YEAR SERVICE
CONSCRIPTION IN BRITAIN EXEMPTION FOR MINERS Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Mar. 13Under the national service plan published to-day, British youths will serve for seven years in the army, navy or air force —18 months wholetime and 66 months in the reserve. Conscripts during the latter period must give 60 days’ service. Night parades will count as a day’s service. The normal call-up age will be 18, but this can be varied to. suit students, and apprentices. The estimated intake for 1949 is 204,000 whole-time conscripts and about the same number called in annually during the following four years, giving Britain a standing conscript army of 300,000 men at any given time. '
Miners are the only exempt class, but they must stay in the mines between the ages of 18 and 26 years. Conscientious objectors may b e directed into industry for 18 months, plus 60 days. Men whose employment is terminated because of part-time training will be entitled to compensation from their employers not exceeding a month’s pay. The Bill will no* continue after 1954 unless Parliament decides otherwise.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26410, 14 March 1947, Page 7
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