Although salvage operations continued without interruption yesterday, late in the afternoon the Admiralty stated that they could no longer hoped that further lives could be saved.
(Continued on page-8) exchanges throughout the country at hours determined by the initial letters of their surnames in alphabetical order.
All classes were represented, including students clerks, and workmen, and they were all variously attired, in working, business or sports clothes. Registrations are stated to have totalled 220,018. Of these 3,775 registered as conscientious objectors, or L7 per cent.
There are approximately 300,000 men in the age group 20 to 21, and it is estimated that about 50,000 are already in the forces or have been exempted.
Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, who toured a number of London exchanges during the day, subsequently declared that the response was entirely satisfactory, and that the proportion was just about what was expected for the full register.
He spoke to some of them, he added, and there was no doubt that the general attitude of the men was that the nation was calling them and they were answering willingly.
A very large proportion appeared to be looking forward to their training with some eagerness.
The proportion of conscientious oblectors, Mr. Brown asserted, was very small, and the proportion of requests for service in the Air Force or Navy was not so large as he had expected. Boys seemed to be taking it for granted, he added, that the: going to do their military train the Army.—Reuter.
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