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been watching young Frenchmen, orld War was end- under the French scription for two In the army. They round their caps, their coats, and ng and shouting as the greatest lark in enter the barrack

of

I was cheered by pirits, I, who watch- at close quarters, feel a twinge ere would they be years' service had it, in fact, end What experiences e undergone? They trefree. But, then, renchman, in his ar, takes it for must abandon civil b defend his coun-

my is anything but

the obligation al defence is sential duty of de-

to

re-

tions in life, of all ty, destined for sions, from the na which make up wn together in the

the

army, at the

ir manhood. This

which the classes

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BISHOP'S LAST VISIT TO CRIPPLE BOYS.-The Bishop of London paid his last official visit to the Heritage Craft. Schools and Hospitals for Cripples at Chailey, Sussex, before his retirement. Photo shows the Bishop in a cheerful mood with some of the nurses.

thinking

n absolute level, if they are apprenticed to certain andunphilosophical han anything else trades, if they are supporting of equality and family, they may obtain a respite pass, in which peace can appar- a should have brought us to this enced throughout until the age of twenty-five. In ently only be preserved by a enchmen.

certain professions they are allow balance of power by millions of ed a suspension of military service men in uniform facing millions of ary duties do not until the age of twenty-seven. But men. But such is the case. Unless ars of active ser- there is no escape, and practically England d is two years as

no Frenchman tries or wishes to Europe, it is unable to avoid the disinterests itself in Ill probably be ex-

escape from the honourable fulfill logical conclusion of conscription.. as it was in 1918.) ment of his duty as a citizen,

by another two

the young French- And since everybody has the ased to follow his same obligations, the Frenchman hold himself at is not handicapped in his civilian full disposition of career by his two years' military orities, and may, service. Indeed, as something like

up for further 250,000 men are called f menace.

year for training, and as they stay up every in the army for two years, the pro- blem of unemployment is substan- tially reduced.

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exemptions- eer "physical

ex

en the "physically the auxiliary ser- 288, provision has He case

All Continental military authori ties agree that it is impossible to create an efficient army, in these days of mechanization, in weeks of voluntary training. That a few is why British diplomatic efforts of men did not impresa Germany buld be shattered Italy, and why they dismayed the ed on at the or- nty-one. If they

French.

and

dies that should; It is certainly regrettable that, d, if circumstan- twenty years after the World War, to reside abroad, the result of muddled diplomacy

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