The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-05-19
GUARDSMEN TO
Be CALLED TO
i. 5. SERVICE.
viii Be Mustered Into FEEDER
al Army in July
AT FULL WAR STRENGTH
Concentration Camps of the Guard to
Be Located in the South or on
the Pacific Slope.

Washington, May l9.-With the or
ders sending Pershing to France the
war department also began its work
of enlarging the regular lorce by call
ing the National Guard into federal
service. The Guard was directed to
be recruited to war strength imme-
diately and Instructions were dis
patched to the adjutant generals of all
states whereby the Guard and the en-
listed men of the Guard reserve VIII
be drafted into federal service July
10, July 25 and August s.
Arrangements for formally incorpo-
rating the Guard into the armies of
the United States, terminating for the
war period their status as militia or
state troops, are understood TO be
based upon the possibility of supply
ing full war equipment for the troops
The citizen soldiers will be kept at
their state mobilization grounds for
two weeks or more after mastering in
and then will be sent to federal con-
centration camps. There will be thir-
ty-two of these camps, sixteen OF
which will be employed by the Guard
and the other sixteen by the army OF
selective conscripts which will bei
gin to pour into the service imme-
diately after the guardsmen are To-
Gated in federal camps.
The National Guard will be ordered
out as follows
On July Is New York. Pennsylva-
MIA. Ohio. West Virginia, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota. South Dakota and Nebraska
will be brought into the federal ser
vice.
On July %, the following state or
ganizations will be ordered out:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con
necticut. New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, District of Columbia, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Illinois, Montana, Wyoming,
Idaho. Washington and Oregan.
The remainder will go into the fed
eral service August 5. They include
Indiana. Kentucky, Georgia, Florida
Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Loui.
siana. Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri,
Kansas. Colorado, New Mexico, Ari
zona, Utah and California.
Al the National Guard coast artil.
lery will be drafted July l5
The federal concentration camps
for the National Guard organizations
will all be located in the south or on
the Pacific slope. where climate con
ditions will allow all year training.
Concentration camps for the Ma
tional Guard and the national army,
as the force of 100000 selective con
scripts is officially known. will be as
follows:
Northeastern department-Camp of
the First national army division at
Aver. Mass.
Eastern department-Second Third,
Fourth and Fifth national army divis-
ions.
Southeastern department - Sixth.
Seventh and Twelfth national army
divisions, and the Fifth, Sixth, Sew
enth. Eighth, Ninth Tenth, Sixteenth,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth National
Guard divisions These divisions in
clude guardsmen of Maine. New
Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, District of Columbia Vir-
gnia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida
Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentuc
ky, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisi-
ana.
Sites for three of the camps in the
departments have been
and work is under way on
the cantonments. The camps will be
at Atlanta, Augusta and Columbia. S.
c. Nine other camps remain to be
designated in this department Ma
jor General Wood Commands this de-
partment.
State alotments to the national ar
my divisions have not yet been com
pletely worked out and for that rea
son the conscription organizations are
for the present designated by numer-
ais. The plan as announced today
will put more than 100000 men under
all year training south of the Mason
and Dixon line. The national army
forces will be trained for the most
part near their homes, in climates to
which they are accustomed. The fact
that the guard is being sent to the
south indicates that the general staff
has decided to concentrate on the
training of the regular forces and
militia in preference to devoting their
greatest efforts to the citizen army at
this time.
A great recruiting drive to bring the
National Guard to war strength of $50
to a company will be begun immedi-