| Show CONSCRIPTION IN EUROPE In most mot continental countries mili null military tars tary nT malingering In order to avoid compulsory cOl military service has reach reached ed tho stage HInge of or a line fine art In fact a I formidable list lI t of new crimes has been boon added to tho the statutes ns as a I re result result sult sad and medical men frequently havo have to suffer for lor their assistance In this particular kind of fraud Thus Thull some Homo time ago a n number of Cologne doctors were wore arrested upon a n charge of having administered pills to young oung conscripts conscript These pills pill i consisted of o drugs which produced the symptoms of heart disease so effectively effectively I as ns completely complete to deceive the tho military authorities with the result that the conscripts were declared unfit for service In this case the fraud was brought to light by b ono one of ot the conscripts as a 11 result of an overdose of the time medicine In Germany German where tho the conscript Is frequently treated with the tho greatest harshness there thero are aro very few towns where there thero aro arc not specialists whose living depends solely In inducing such sucha a 11 condition of affairs as ns wilt will render young oung men exempt by b reason of un unfitness fitness In the French army arm U it Is Js quite com coin mono mon for tor youths to feign all ull manner of or ills JIls deafness dearness being the usual ailment aliment trusted to in order to escape the tho service As s a result tho the military doctors have mado made an especial study stud methods of of detecting feigned deaf deafness deafness ness and to trap the cunning youth who acts the part of a deaf man Another common practice In France FranceIs Is to tamper with the thu eyesight though this frer results In permanent injury For instance short sight Is produced by b wearing powerful Concave con concave cave glasses for fa I a 0 considerable time despite the risk of bringing about per permanent permanent manent blindness It is no uncommon uncommon uncommon mon occurrence for men to commit suicide rather than submit to forced service in the army arm armIn In eastern Europe niost brutal methods are arc adopted by b parents in order that their sons may be bo able to work for them instead of o serving inthe In Inthe the tho army arm Tho boys are frequently and it Is not at all uncommon uncommon mon oven even for their limbs to be broken or their sight to be bo destroyed d In order to prevent any an likelihood of ot their having hav having ing to become soldiers Switzerland probably has the tine cheap cheapest cheapest cheapest est army and time the least burdensome methods of conscription the service being much lighter than thun in the other continental tal armies Indeed the con conscript conscript script in ht the Infantry army has to undergo actual training for tor only days during the entire period of or his service It Il is fixed by the constitution that no standing army arm can be bo maintained within the tho limits of the confederation though every citizen Is liable to mili military military tary service for a period of twenty five years In addition to this all men Inca between the ages of or 17 and SO 60 years ears aro are enrolled unrolled un under under under der a special category Tho Tine training during tho the first year Is the tho heaviest afterward the tho man has to practise with a u rile rille each year while he Is called out for OJ training every ever alternate year Every man is compelled to lire a 11 certain number of rounds of or ammunition under stringent regulations In this way wa by constant rillo rifle practise every overy man knows how to handle a rifle while a n large number are arc taught to ride and andall andall andall all have a 0 good knowledge of ot drill The rhe officers are taken from irom tho the rank and tile ille but have havo to devote a lot of ot time to the practise and study of mili mill military military tary tory operations Those persons who mire uro exempt from service for any reason rea ren reason son ron have to pay pa for or the luxury being beam subject nOt only to a personal mili mill military tary tarl tax but also to 10 special military taxes on income and property Pearsons Weekly |
