AUSTRALIA.
REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS
DOUBLED
Melbourne, Sept. 14
Senator Pearce states that the authorities are able to equip all who offer. The military authorities have no power to release men from training for agricultural work, but no objection will be made to farmers enlisting deferring their, training for a few weeks. The authorities state that double the usual number of reinforcements are being despatched, 10,500 leaving monthly until November, when the quota will be raised by" 6000 a month. No new units are being formed.
There are now 27,345 men in training in Victoria. This is fbe greatest number during the war. '
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13873, 15 September 1915, Page 6
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101AUSTRALIA. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13873, 15 September 1915, Page 6
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