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Show CANADIANS CAN NOT ESCAPE ENLISTMEN1 OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. 9. Wife and mother have had their day in Canada, so far as forbidding their men folk to go to war is concerned, and that day Is past, according to official announcement made today. H w'lll no longer be possible, as It used to be, for a wife to keep her husband hus-band or her sons under 18 from enlisting enlist-ing bv withholding her consent. Tn announcing the withdrawal of the veto privilege given to women early in the struggle, the department also served notice on all Canadians that they could no longer dodge military service by paying pay-ing J15 each. Heretofore it has ben possible for enlisted men to buy discharges dis-charges by paying this sum. The practice la to be discontinued. |