Anew conscription Jaw will be submitted to the next session of the Japanese Diet. is draft has. been completed, but alterations are still guide, the new law being based on the result of the military of the country's youth latter move was started estimated cost of about leven million yen a year, The proposed legislation offers a! reduction of conscript army service te every youth who has gone through the new military training. Under the present conscription laws, the regular period of service for the infantry is three yeara, but this was reduced to two years, though the wording of the law Iws not yet been altered accordingly. {t is now proposed to reduce the term of ser-re, such reduction to according to the merits of each individual ease.
The new military training hay not been received with open arms. the citi ally, there is con to the idea people an In the tural districts, however, the farm community fy more obedient; tary officers in charge of the t ing of these country youths duzaled the eyes of the Jai Hodges with their brave snd martial array and, according to the vernacular pros,' the training. leers are immensely extolled and admired.
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