Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-14
Details of Call of
 Forces
THIRTY PER CENT. TO BE CALLED
 SEPTEMBER 9TH
TO- BE 3 AGREEMENTS
Second Thirty Per Gent. Will Go Sept. 15th-The Third 30 Per Gent. Sept. 30-The Remaining 10 Per Gent. Soon After Sept. 30.

Washington. Aug. 13.-The entire 687,000 men composing the first in crement of the army draft forces will be under training early in October.
 Under orders issued today, the first thirty percent of the quota of each district will begin entrainment for cantonments Sept. 5 the next 30 per cent. September 15, and another 30 per cent. September 30. The remain ing 10 per cent. will be mobilized as
 Three Increments.
 The plan to assemble the new forces in three increments distributed the task of furnishing supplies and equipment through September. It will also prevent serious shortages in any camp and will give the new officers from the training camps time to fa- miliarize themselves with their duties gradually before responsibility for d great body of men falls on them.
 The order issued today means that about 12,000 men will reach each of Septemb Der ,. They will first be exam ined physically by army doctors and finally accepted or rejected.
 Presumably the first increment will have been organized into skeleton companies, battalions or regiments before the second arrives. The new corners can be quickly absorbed in that case and the third lot can be taken into the war machinery with even less disturbance when it reports fifteen days later.
 In farming communities local boards TOW will arrange the lists of those to fill the first increment with local crop conditions in mind. Harvesting is in progress in many sections. Drafted men engaged in that work and who otherwise would go with the first third of the district quota, will be passed over to the second or third, as may be necessary.
 Discharges for Dependency.
 Reviewing the question of discharge for dependent relatives, Provost Mar shal-seneral Crowder issued a supple mental ruling today holding that per sons should not be discharged because of dependents resident abroad
 "tThe object of the law permitting persons to be discharged provided he has person falling within any of the classes of dependets, dependent upon him, was to prevent such dependents becoming 3 charge upon the Ameri- pendent residing abroad could not be- come such a charge. Persons claim ing discharge because of such de pendent cannot properly be discharg- ed on ground that such discharge is advisable within the meaning of the act of congress-"
 That conscientious objectors to war are not to be excused entirely from
 
 in another ruling by the provost mar shal, holding that such persons should be sent to the mobilization camps. It is presumed they will serve in the quartermaster's corps. the medical corps or other units not employed in actual combat.
 Government Employees.
 Only in rare cases are railway mail clerks to be exempted. Today the postoffice department announced that published reports of blanket exemp- tion for this class of postal employees were based on a misinterpretation of the department order covering postal Only scheme clerks, chief clerks and assistant chief clerks of the railway service will be given exemp- tions, and most of them are above age.
 The postoffice department announced also that it would certify exemptions for postofffce inspectors but not for postmasters. Postmasters of the first. second and third classes, however, are exempted specifically under the law.
 No Draft Men for Navy.
 It developed today that the navy misunderstanding the war department ruling as to voluntary en- istment of registered men, had in ;tructed it's recruiting officers to ac- hey had been called before their To- al selection boards for examination. The mistake qnickly was corrected, recruiting stations being told by tele- graph that no man called for exami- nation under the draft law could be accepted into any branch of the mili- ary or naval service as voluntary 'ecruit Until called, however, regis l rants are free to enter the army, navy | IT marine corps. Plans to provide publicity facilities | tt camps of the national army and 1 he national guard to be left entirely | tt the discretion of the camp com | handlers, who will be authorized to | permit newspaper correspondents to | stabiish offices within the camp linn ts and to maintain private telegraph ! IT telegraph lines there if deemed 1 dvisable. No such privileges will be ranted, however, until the camps ac- uaIlX are established and the conl-