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He then described the prodigious seals upon which the mobilization of human resources in Britain is being continued. Conscripts mobilized since the institution of compulsory military service and those who may be called up immediately by simple proclamation amount to between 2,500,000 and 2,750,000 men, he said.
Dealing with passive defence, the Prime Minister admitted that the regulations cause some bother to the population, but stressed that not a ingle one of them was unnecessary. "T consi er that the risk of air raids is not over, or even that it has diminished," he said. "I am certain that we should make a capital mistake if we were to reverse the policy we followed."
"We must not think that because this war has not so far taken the form it took in 1914 that we can carry on our lives as if we were still at peace," he said. "We have got to do without a lot of things we shall want very much."—Havas.
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