There are, however, reasons why men cannot join certain non-national units, Most units if not all have a. fixed limit, or establishment, beyond which they cannot recruit. If unit has reached this maximum it is obvious that for a time recruiting may be stopped in it. The two gun batteries, for instance, can only use certain number of men effectively; fan infantry unit may only recruit up to the strength of a company, another company must then be formed; and similarly with cavalry troops and armoured car companies, Another reason is the language Gifficulty, though this is infrequent plies more to the technical units, in which, for instance, a Russian, however desirable he might otherwise be, would be a handicap unless his instructors could translate technical terms in his own language.
The procedure in most, if not all units, is that a candidate tion form is forwarded to a senior nice. or officer of the unit, who (the practice varies according to convenience) submits it to a per manent c-mittee of the n.c0's of that unit. If there is nothing against the candidate, viz., physically suitable, has not been dismissed from some other unit on account of slackness or is known not to be an undesirable, he passed and admitted in due course,
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