The Army and Recruiting It is expected that Mr. Duff
Cooper, the Minister for War, will announce considerable improvements in conditions of service with the regular Army, when he presents the Army Estimates to Parliament next week. The new departures will include an extra meal a day, a restriction of stoppages in pay, which materially reduce the soldier's 14s. a week, a reduction in periods of service abroad. The soldier will spend his last year at home, with an opportunity for getting a job when he leaves the Army, and there will be added provisions for vocational training. In addition, the War Office has announced a five-year plan for replacing out-of- date barracks, modernising others, and substituting permanent barracks for huts. Mr. Duff Cooper has taken the wisest and most humane course of dealing with the recruiting problem ; it is indeed the only course if the Army is to compete with industry for recruits under existing conditions.
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