Again Rises; Roeder Boast )RITAIN will have between London, Feb. 1. 000,000 and 8,000,000 armed and uniformed troops by September, 1941, under the plan to expedite the expansion of its arm ied forces, a survey showed today.
In the World War, Britain mobilized less than 5,000,000 armed men in four years of fighting.
Outdoor training camps wer expected to treble the present total of recruits, and the Government was adding pressure to the plan to substitute women for men everywhere possible in industry, thus freeing thousands of men for the army.
Mr, Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, in the House of Commons, said that women would be employed un industry to the utmost extent and that thousands of women and girls already were training for work in war factories.
At the start of the war, between 16,000,000 and 7,000,000 men were exempted {rom the fighting services because they were members of reserved occupations. It was estimat-Jed, however, that 1,500,000 such ex~ Jempted men'since have been released ito the fighting services, The total of Jexempted persons probably will be trimmed another 80 per cent. as soon as women are able to replace the men—United Press,
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