UNFIT MEN IN THE ARMY.
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The system of examining t craita was explained by General Sir Alfred Keogh, Director- General of the Army Medical Servibe, who gave evidence be- fore the House of Commons Select Committes which is investigating the administration of the Keview of Exceptions Act.
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Amsterdam, Jaly 2.-On the front page of the Vossische Zeitung Professor
Alois Brandl, the famous German Shakesposreen scholar, "bas had the kindness” to place at the diapoast of that paper an article which shows "bow England armed herself for
He said it was not until the Derby scheme that an organised | war. system of medical examination was set up,
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#bich were subsequently eatab has laid down his Shakespeare KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPY. lished and most of those appoint and taken up Harold Begbie's ed had been in retirement for" Vindiostion of Great Britain some time, so that their know- to prove Germany's innocenes. ledge of the servios could not be Mr. Begbie, says Brandl, "in of much use.
bis anxiety to defend Lord legitimately," Sir Haldane, has given away Bome "Quite Alfred proceeded, "a great deel-crete which throw a peculiar must be allowed for negligence, light on the legend of the in- "Many men were passed, I have no pocence of the English Govern
doubi, who ought not to have been met." He quotes from page 116 passed; bat, on the other hand, a to show that s the re-alt of his. great number of men were revisit to Berlin in 1912 Lord jected who ought to have been Haldane came to the conclusion passed Bader the
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Was Chancellor and really in Asked if the president of such power, war with Germany might boards had the power of the cast-be regarded as an improbable ing vote, Sir Alfred replied that contingency," and that the Kaiser wished an understanding with if the president disagreed with any member of the board as to England." the category in which a man should be placed, the General Officer Commanding the distriot would decide.
Mr. Shortt, K. O. (Chairman): What we should like to get is a record of the number of men who have been passed for service, and in the first three months of service have been shown to be unfit;
The witness replied that he could get a list showing the total number in hospital who had had less than three months' service, including men who at one time had been intally rejected.
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After that Lord" Haldane went : back to England and "set to work as no other English Minister had done, despite the opposition of many members of his party-many of whom are now national heroes-to create for hie country a fighting meqbine and a system of national defence each, as it never before possessed. "Then," declares the professor,
the answer to the accommodat ing spirit of the Kaiser was that the British Naval Estimates were increased from £36,000,000 to $51,000,000,"
Sir Alfred could not explain
Mr. Begbie, according to the why men rejected by one medical professor, unveils another secret board were passed by another. in pointing out that one of Lord Special instructions were sent as Rosebery's charges against Lord to the mental condition of recruits. Haldane was that the English He thought 150 persons were too Army placed against the German many to be examined by one army in August 1914 only coa- medical man in a day.
sisted of 170,000 men. Mr. Begbie
Asked by Mr. Pringle if he
proves that it pambered nearly
could socount for a medical board 700,000 and calla as evidence s having passed as fit 75 per cent. statement by Archibald Hard in of the men who previouely had the "Navy League Annual" of been rejected, Sir Alferd said he 1915-16.
war
could attribute that to the in- Lord Haldane sccomplished creased efficiency of the board, thie, he adds, by setting up all the No general instructions had been anits of his army on a issued as to lowering the standard. footing "prepared to spring into Occasionally they bad "rcand aced activity on mobilisation table mestings" of the inspectore, for war." He introduced, the but no record of these meetinge professor goes on, quick-firing gaze, and armed 81. Regular snå was kopt.
150 Territorial batteries with it. He changed the old militis into s reserve, which made a reserve battalion for every two Regalar
Mr. Pringle: As a result of those meetings would a letter of this kind be sent to a board: You have bad far too many rejectione in your district"?
battalions, so that when he left Bir Alfred: Yes; or too few, as office in 1912 there were ten the case might be.
complete army corps, to which Mr. Nield asked if the witness must be added 313,000 Territo- knew a case of a recruit being rials, in additional to Colonial passed although certificates from troops.
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civil doctors who had treated him "Ia defending Lord Haldane, for tuberculosis were produced., Mr. Begbie has let the cat out of The Witness: The responsibil. the bag," says the professor,, and ity is with the board; of course. he quotes two of Mr. Begbis's A man may have had tuberculosis sentences to clinch the matter. Week days at 7.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sundays et 7.30... and 3 pm, arrival here, after which they be examined on the 10th Sept. and yet be perfectly fit to serve
ed for war than any of her Allies" in the Army.
Mr. Nield pointed out that (p. 49), and "Indeed such a osp- able critic of military matters as socording to the instructions any man who had been ander treat-Lord Sydenham declared that ment for tuberculosis should act this country, never entered into, be accepted.
"Would you be war better prepared then in varprised," he asked,"" to know August 1914" (p. 53).
Thus the professor provee to that that instruction has been wholly ignored by a certain his own satisfaction that England board?"
deliberately prepared for war with The Witness: Ishould be, very Germany and that the Fatherland
was an innocent assaulted party. much.
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wounded in the battle of Messinae, Mr. Nield questioned the in the same hospital in Lieut. witasse about an occasion when Dake Marshall, also of Yokohama, it was alleged that a medical board president, when told "You
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MP against Bir James) Mackenzie," replied, "D-Bir month -Very quick. I should James. Put the man into. BL."
like to see such cases,
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hoped the Committes would be How about men transferped- able to report in the frat week ),
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