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Show CONSCRIPTION FOR THE BRITISH London. Nov. 11 If unmarried men eligible for military service do not "omp forward voluntarily and enlist before November 30, the government will take steps to compel them to do so. Marriages contracted since the registration day of August 15 will not save these men from military dut3r. This the nearest approach to conscription con-scription that has yet been taken by tho government under Lord Derby's recruiting scheme, was officially announced an-nounced tonight in the following statement given out by the press bureau bu-reau "Lord Derby is authorized by the premier to express surprise that his statement in the commons on November No-vember 2 should be considered ambiguous. am-biguous. The premier on that occasion occa-sion pledged not only himself, but the government, when ho staled that if young men did not. under the stress of national duty, come forward voluntarily, vol-untarily, other and compulsory means would be taken before married men were called upon to fulfill their engagement en-gagement to servo "Lord Derby is further authorized to state definitely that if young men medically fit and not indispensable to any business of national importance, import-ance, or any business conductod for the reneral gcod of the community, do not come forward voluntarily before November 30. the government after that date will take the necessary tteps to redeem the pledge made on Novembei " "It must be clearly understood ihit no marriage contracted after registration regis-tration day, August 15, entitles any man to be relegated to the marriage group. Whether any man is indispensable indis-pensable to his business will be decided de-cided by competent authorities." |