THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1989.
CONSCRIPTION BILL OUTLINED
Military Service Bill To
Be Rushed
London, To-day. NO time will be lost in pushing the Military Training and the Re- Auxiliary Forces Bill through Par- liament.
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The second reading of the for- mer measure will be taken in the House of Commons on Thursday, when Mr. Neville Chamberlain will speak.
Both Bills have a lifetime of three years, and can be continued for a year at a time by an Order- in-Council, or be abandoned be- fore three years by similar means.
-Reuter
GERMAN CONSUL AND WIFE KILLED
Paris, To-day, The German Consul-General in Tunis; Marshal. Von Bieberstein and his wife, were fatally injured in a motorcar accident which occurred lant night.
The car in which the
Consul General 'and his wife were driving, collided with another car about ten kilometres outside Tunis.
The German Consul-General and his wife were conveyed in a grave condition to the hospital where they succumbed to their injuries a few hours later.
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A servant who was also in the car, escaped with slight injuries.— Trans-Ocean.
Jobs To Be Kept Open For Conscripts
London, To-day.
The text of the Conscription Bill, officially styled the Military Training Bill, issued last night, shows that both the Admiralty and Air Force may take a certain percentage of those called up. The Admiralty is empowered to establish a special reserve to which selected men will be attached. There will be no need for special powers for the R.A.F. which already possesss an auxiliary re-
serve.
The Bill provides that the King, by an Order-in-Council, may direct that the Bill be applied in North- ern Ireland with any modifications or adaptations as may be specifled. will be issued except in a special It is unlikely that such an order
emergency or in war.
Eire citizens," "ordinarily resi- dent" in Britain, will come within the terms of the Bill 'like the clti- zens of other Dominions,
ONLY EXEMPTIONS
Only exemptions in the Bill are members of the regular forces or those who, have served six months with the forces since 17 years of ago or those serving in any re serves of the auxiliary forces or under training as cadets in a mili- tary college.
Total number affected is about 200,000. It is likely they will be called in quarterly batches of 50,000 each,
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The Bill also requires em- ployers to reinstate personis called for service, and imposes penalties for non-compliance with compensation for ag- grieved persons.
It also enables rules to be fram- ed to prevent prior discharge of persons who would shortly become eligible for service.
-MILITARY LANDS
Power is taken to abbreviate the present procedure for taking pos-
U.S. MINISTER TO session of land and buildings re-
CANADA
Washington, To-day. President Roosevelt has appoint
quired for military purposes,
"People called up are liable to be. enlisted as militiamen - and to undergo six months training and consequently serve three and a half years in one of the auxiliary Bupplementary – re-
ed Mr. Daniel Roper, former Secre- forces or n
tary of Commerce, as United States serves. Minister to Canada.
Men between 20 and -21 failing The post has been vacant since to register are liable to a fine of early last year-Router.
£5. Reuter.
STICKING UP AN AUNT SALLY
The Polis
has
Rome To-day. în refusing to discuss - Embassy to the Quirinal
report that
GEN. WEYGAND TO HAVE TALKS IN TURKEY
Paris, To-day..'
TESTING NEW MEMEL® "FORTRESS"
Kaunas, To-day,
It is learned that important German naval and artillery the Memel coast to-day fol- manoeuvres will begin along lowing completion of the first
line fortifications intended to defend the new German ter- ritory of Memel. Reuter.
HITLER SPEECH NOT ACCEPTED AS REPLY
WASHINGTON; TO-DAY
HE SECRETARY OF STATE, MR. CORDELL HULL, IN-
General Weygand, who headed DICATED YESTERDAY THAT ding celebrations of the the French delegation to the wed- THE MERE HANDING OF A Crown Prince in Teheran, arrived COPY OF HITLER'S REICHSTAG
Iran in Aukara yesterday on his way home.
SPEECH ΤΟ THE UNITED STATES, EMBASSY IN BERLIN,
It is understood that he will re- main three days in the Turkish WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS capital where, according to French
REPLY newspaper reports, he will discuss CONSTITUTING -A matters of the moment leading Turkish politicians..
with the
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
In all probability, he the opportunity to gee
PEACE MESSAGE.
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Soviet M. Po Ankara.
German Foreign Office sent a copy of the speech to the Embassy, and then telephoned saying, it was reply to the President.-Reuter.
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