The state commission appointed to study the questions connected with compulsory military service, decided yesterday to recommend an alteration of the proposed law on conscription.
The change intended would require illiterates to serve three years while educated persons would serve but two years.
Moreover, it is proposed that the sum which would have to be paid tin obtain exemption from military service should be raised from 40 to 60 in the case of illiterates and to 100 Egyptian Pounds in the case of educated persons. It is recommended also that the penalties for evasion "of military service should be inereased.—Trans-Ocean.
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