ARMY CALL-UP OF YOUTHS
MAY CONTINUE IN AUSTRALIA AFTER WAR ENDS Recd. 11 p.m. Canberra, July 17. The Army call-up of 18-year-old youths is likely to continue, and compulsory military training may go on even after the end of the war with Japan. This, says the Sydney Sun’s Canberra correspondent, is the prevailing official view. Any move to suspend the call-up of 18-year-olds will be resisted strongly by the Army. At present 3000 youths are called up every month. The authorities emphasise that the loss of this inflow would be serious in view of the proposed discharge of 64,000 men by the end of the year, in addition to the normal wastage of 24,00 men. An army spokesman said: “Australian troops are pretty heavily engaged, but as soon as these operations end discharges can be speeded up.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 168, 18 July 1945, Page 5
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