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EXTRACTS FROM

THE WEEKLY PRESS AND PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY

ISSUED BY THE

MOBILIZATION DIRECTORATE, WAR OFFICE.

THE UNITED KINGDOM. DEMOBILIZATION.

Manchester Guardian, 11/12/18.

Naval and Military

Record,

11/12/18.

(884)

No. VI.

Transport Limitations.

480

The number of pivotal men who can be transported to England before Christmas is limited by the amount of transport available. At the moment there is unprecedented congestion. Released prisoners of war have necessarily to be first considerpt and there is additional pressure on the French ports owing to the arrival of repatfisted French and Belgian families. Dispersal stations, however, are now in smooth working orde and as soon as the temporary pressure on transport is relieved there will be arstoly increase in the numbers of key men being released.

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Additional Officers for the Royal Army Ordnance Corp RECE

2790

When demobilization begins the services of additional officers wille-required for duty with the R.A.O.C. A limited number of officers of the Special Referee, ftri Force, or others holding temporary commissions will be selected and attached to fin corps

for duty. Candidates are to be of the rank of Lieutenant, between 30 and 40 year of age, of medical category not lower than C.1, and should have served overseas with an expeditionary force. They must agree to serve with the corps as long as their ser vices are required and overseas if necessary. They will be eligible if accepted, for E.1).. pay under A.C. 1927/1918.

REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT.

Ex-Service Man,

6/11/18.

(891) Resettlement Machinery-What the Labour Ministry Can and Cannot do.

The Minister of Labour, explaining in an interview with a representative of the **Ex-service Man" the plans of the Ministry for resettling men after the war, said: "We are not a 'departmental machine', but a Department genuinely anxious to do everything possible for those who have done so much for us. But the men must help us to help them, otherwise our task will be impossible: our position is really that of a vast clearing house for labour. We neither make work, nor control the underlying principles (ofters international in aspect) which determine the state of the labour market: herein must the men help us, by adjusting themselves to the industrial changes caused by the war. In this way we hope to avoid conflict with the inexorable law of supply and demand, and it is just here that the Local Ailvisory Committees will be invaluable, through their local and personal knowledge, in alvising men how to adapt themselves to an inevit- able change of environment.

MEDICAL TREATMENT.

(900)

Times, 10/12/18-

Athenæum, November, 1918.

Disabled Soldiers-Continuation of Hospital Treatment.

The Secretary of the War Office announces that under instructions from the War Cabinet it has been decided that for a period of six months from December 3rd, 1918. the War Office will continue to afford treatment in Military Hospitals for all serving soldiers requiring prolonged treatment, and will also provide accommodation and treatment for pensioners during that period.

A Medical Correspondent of the Time" expresses great satisfaction at the progres- sive spirit thus shown by the Army Medical Department, and considers that the future of the disabled soldier is rendered considerably brighter, as the Pensions Ministry can now form a close working alliance with the Army authorities, and so gradually taki over such wer-doctors and war-hospitals as may be necessary.

(902) The Future of Ex-Officers-University and Technical Training Classes.

In a contributed article on this subject Mr. Ranold Frost points to the existence of these classes as evidence that the State recognises the importance of training officers for their future civil work while still in the Army. The classes are, however, capable of indefinite expansion, since of the numbers that can at present be provided for (about 90,000) only about 1500 (out of a possible 40,000) are attending. This can only be due to ignorance of, or failure to appreciate, the facilitics offered, on the part of the officers themselves, or to lack of support and encouragement by the military authorities.