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FROM KHAKI TO CIVVIES.

VISIT TO THE WIMBLEDON DISPERSAL CAMP.

The mysteries that accompany that transformation of a soldier into a civilian_were investigated recently by s. Daily News repre Bentative at the Wimbledon Dispersal Camp, one of the six stations that have been opened in the country for demobilisation purposes. The other fire are at Shornclife, Oswestry, Chiseldon, Ripon, and Deddingston, and the ona selected for the returning saldiers is determined not by his regiment but by the convenience and the railway facilities afforded for returning him to his home as rapidly as possible.

The Wimbledon Dispersal Camp was formerly a training camp, and its chief characteristics are, therefore, wooden huts and mud. It has, however, been or- ganised for its present purpose with every humane consideration for adding to the joy of the sold- ier's release. It is capable of passing through the gateway to Civil life 2,000 man in 24 hours, though that limit has not yet been reached, and be man need be detained more than four hours. Os his arrival each man supplied with a substantial meal. If he requires sleep or medical attention it is at his immediate disposal. Then he passes into a hut where his arms are collected, and on to another where any deficiencies in his kit are made good for him, for he retains his uniform for a month. In another hat he is offered the alternative of 52s. Gil. caali, or being measur- ed for a suit of clothes which is sent to his hy registered post within 28 days.

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The identification of each man often proves a difficult question. There appears to have grown up in the Army a custom which haa given the demobilisation officers a great deal of trouble. Visiting cards being scarce in the trenches, the approved method of sealing a friendship has been the exchange of identification discs, and it is no uncommon thing to End "Tommy' wearing the lise of a "poilu." The fact of islentity established. the waning soldier handles bis last sanilbag, into which he packs his trophies, loot, and personal belongings. Live bombs, and dangerous toys of that descrip! tion, he must regretfully hand over. This concludes the giving up part of the process, and the more popular programme begins. Each man receives two new £1 Treasury notes, a railway voucher to his home, a-ration-book, a protection certificate, and ae unemployment policy, which guarantees him 29a, a week and

allowances for children for 24 weeks while he remains anem- ployed.

A label is handed to him for the return later of his great coat, for which he receives a further 1. The gratuities and other instalments due to him on dis- charge are paid by means of a special savings deposit account in his name, which is posted on to him.

The soldier is then a civilian.

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He passes to a leparsure but and signed on for military service. Certain classes of men cannot is conveyed by a guide to the station when his train is due. There are 19 different categories, be released, such as those engaged their Yesterday the departure huts each involving some special legal on railways abroad, as

release would delay the demobi- were full of happy ex-warrior, right,which has to be safeguarded. lisation of others. Men in the eager for home.

Then there is the transport mechanical transport, stretcher- This is something like difficulty, both on land and sea. bearers, and other indispensable grateful treatment," said one of When the first batch of prisoners men are in a similar position. them, who was on his way back arrived from Holland, they One point is receiving special to the unites. "I don't like brought with them 128 tons of attention. No advantage is being leaving this place. It takes ne Luggage, an unexpected fact given to home service men even. forgot all I have gone through," which quite upset the railway if they can be spared. So far Major-Gen. B. F. Burnett arrangements here. There were as possible, home and foreign Hitchcock, Director-General of four pianos and a beehive full of service mer are being released in Demobilisation, explained some bees, which caused consternation equal proportions in order not to of the difficulties of his gigantic at the port when it upset. create any feeling of grievance arnunget the latter, who regard themselves as the real soldiers.

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THE JAPANESE SYSTEM.

The great question which every soldier is asking is how to be "I have stadied every scheme demobilised. Last week the Direct- of demobilisation that was every or received 37,500 letters on that designed since Scriptural times, point. In the case of miners,

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HOW TO TRY THE KAISER, Mr. F. G. Kellaway, Parlia-

when the cry was Back to your inen over 41 called up under the mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, and Coalition Act. he said, "but second Military Service tents, O Israel,' I found most assistance from the students, or teachers nothing need candidate for the Bedford Divi- scheme adopted by the Japanese be done. Their demobilisation sion, told a Bedford audience when they came

back from bas already been ordered. Thirty that he would like to see the Manchuria."

thousand men belonging to various ex-Kaiser tried by a jury of One great difficulty is the Government services have also women-Six of them widows of who were sunk on the varying terms upon which men been included in a list of demo Lusitania, and Six mothers of]

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