He revealed that the total number of men who, since the introduction of compulsory service, had been registered and become liable to be called up tudor proclamation, amounted 10 between 2,500,000 and 2,750,000. These, together with members of the regular, reserve and auxiliary forces before the war, andthe very large number of voltinteers who had entered the army since the war. and the great growing forees of the Air Force and. Royal Navy, showed that the mobilization fof manpower in this country for military purposes was already on a prodigious scale.
Then, there was the great system of civil defence, which had been built by way of preparations against alr raids. He did not think the risk of it raids was over, or even that it was diminished. AS long as that Was 30, they would make a capital mistake if they were to reverse the policy of precautions hitherto followed, Mr. Chamberlain expressed regret that "some evacuated children had returned to towns, and hoped that parents would leave their children in evacuation arcus, looking upon the temporary separation of their family. fas one of those sacrifices necessary to win the war.
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