London, Nov. 23. pss for a national register and for the organization of voluntary effort for home defence are now learned to be practically complete.
It is expected that the plans will come before the Cabinet next week, and that a full statement will subsequently be made in the House of Commons by Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal.
Although the Cabinet has yet to decide the form of the register, it is practically certain that the idea of compulsion will be ruled out.
The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Leslie Here-Belisha, in the House of Commons yesterday, broke the practice of refusing information in cases where corresponding information is not available for foreign countries in order to counter specific allegations in circulation which he thought were calculated to have an unfortunate effect.
After explaining this in reply to a question on the equipment of the Guards battalions, he said:
"I am prepared exceptionally to state that of the ten Guards battalions eight have had a complete issue of their war establishment, both of Bren West Must Lose in
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