According to telegrams published to-day all the remaining Derby groups of bachelors as well as the men compulsorily enlisted in Great Britain under the Military Service Act will be called up this week. Moreover, it is understood that the lists of men exempted from military service are to be revised. This certainly ju the statement that the Government is re-spending to the demand to press the war to @ victorious conclusion as early as possible, There are twenty-three Derby groups of single men and the same number of martied men, the groups con: is of men from eighteen to forty years of age. Under the scheme there are five million men of military age liable to be called up, and of these 2,829,963 had either enlisted or been rejected by the end of last year, leaving a balance of 2,182,178. The single men available under the scheme totalled 2,179,931 and there were 9,839,210 benedicts. Of these 1,150,000 single men, and 1,679,269 married men had been accepted by January 4 and 103,000 single and 112,431 married men had been enrolled for immediate service, the remainder coming under the group system. The War Office wants every available man, but before it can secure the services of the married men enlisted under the Derby
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