Arizona republican., 1917-08-14
ENTIRE PERSONNEL OF NEW NATIONAL ARMY IN TRAINING
 C0NT0NMENTS IN OCTOBER
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1


 WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-The en- tire 6S7,000 men composing the first increment of the army draft forces will be under training early in October. Under orders issued today the first thirty per cent of the quota of each district will begin entrainment for cantonments September 5; the next thirty per cent September 15, and an- other thirty per cent September 30. The remaining ten per cent will be mobiliZed as soon after that date as possible.
 The plan to assemble the new forces in three incrementS distributes. the task of furnishing supplies and equip ment through September It will also prevent serious shortages in any camp and will give the new officers from the training camps time to familiar ize themselves with their duties gradu ally before responsibility for a great body of men falls on them.
 The order issued today means that about 12,000 men will reach each of the sixteen cantonments soon after September 5. They first will be eX- amined physically by army doctors and finally accepted or rejected.
 Presumably the first increment will have been organized into skeleton com panies, battalions or regiments before the second arrives. The new corners can be quickly absorbed by a going concern in that case, and the third lot can be taken into the war machinery with even less disturbance when it re- ports fifteen days later
 In farming communities local boards now will arrange the lists of those to fill the first increment with local crop conditions in mind. Drafted men en- I Oq nd yuh nth ice would go with the first third of the district quota would be passed over to the second or third, as may be necessary.
 Reviewing the question of discharge for dependent relatives, Provost Mar shal General Crowder issued a supple mental ruling today holding that per- sons should not be discharged because of dependents resident abroad. The object of the law permitting persons to be discharged provided they have persons falling within any of the classes of dependents dependent upon them was to prevent such dependents becoming a charge upon the American people, the ruling says. "A dependent residing abroad could not become such charge. Persons claiming discharge because of such dependent cannot properly be discharged on ground that such discharge is advisable within the meaning of the act of congress- The conscientious objectors to war are not to be excused entirely from serving the country was made clear in another ruling by the provost marshal, holding that such persons should be sent to the mobilization camps along with others drafted, to be assigned later to non- -cOmbatant branches of the service It is presumed they will serve in the quartermaSter's corps, the medical corps or other units not en- ployed in actual combat
 Only in rare cases are railway mail clerks to be exempted. Today the postoffice department announced that published reports of blanket exemption l for this class of postal employees were based on misinterpretation of the department order covering postal ex- emptionS
 1 It developed that the navy depart ment, misunderstanding the war de- partment ruling as to voluntary enlist ment of registered men, had instructed l the recruiting officers to accept regis trants into the navy even if they had been called before their local selection
 boards for examination. The mistake quickly was corrected, recruiting sta
 tions being told by telegraph that no
 man called for examination under the draft law could be accepted into any branch of the military or naval ser vice as a voluntary recruit. Until called, however, registrants are free to enter the army, navy or marine corps.
 Plans to provide publicity facilities
 at camps of the national army and the
 national guard are to be left entirely
 to the discretion of the camp com 1 manders, who will be authorized to permit newspaper correspondents to
 establish offices within the camp limits and maintain telegraph or telephone lines there if deemed advisable No
 such privileges will be granted, how
 ever, until the camps actually are es-
 tablished and the commanders on the ground.