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NATIONAL GUARD GOES
INTO REGULAR ARMY
President Issues Proclamation Draft
ing Safe Troop>-Nlaryl;,n land ti"n
To be Called Ont July 18th

Washington July 9.-rhe last
step necessary 10 make the entire
National Guard available for duty in
France was taken today BY President
Wilson with the issue OF prociama-
ton drafting the State troops into
the Army of the Jnited States on
August 5th.
To make certain that the purpose
of the national defense act Is earned
out. the pEoclamation also Epecitical-
ly declares the men drafted 20 be dis
charged from the old militia status
on that date In that way the con
stitutional restraint upon use OF mill
tia outside of the country is avoided
and the way paved for sending me
regiments TO the European front.
Prior to the application of the
draft regiments in the northern and
eastern sections Of the country are
called into the federal service as Ma
tional Guardsmen in two increments,
to be modified on July ) and %.
Many units already are federalZed
and presumably they will be mobl-
liZed with the other troops from
their States. The guard from the
other States will be modified on the
day of the draft The arrangement
was necessary to provide for move
ment of the regiments south 20 their
concentration camps without congeS-
ton and to the same end the divl-
sion of States into these lncrementS
was revised from the original sched-
ule.
The operative date of the draft
was delayed until August 5, so that
I'll he raj ken INFO The
Army simultaneously
Fourteen camp sites for the 10 tao
teal divisions into which the guard
will be organized for war purposes
have already been selected and The
militia bureau is preparing the rail
way routing of the troops to the
camps. Seven of the sites selected
. are in the Southeastern Department,
five in the Southern and two in the
Western. The two others Will be in
the Southeastern Department and
!. until they are approved assignment
.,of regiments to camps and divisions
cannot be fully worked out. The on
: ly two divisions positively assigned
= are the nineteenth, including the
> California guard, which will go to
:. Linda Vista, Cal, and the twentieth,
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other States in the Northwest, when
will go to Palo Alto, Cal.
The Presidents proclamation fol
lows:
Whereas the United States OF
America and the Imperial German
Government are now at war. and
having in view the consequent dan
ger of aggression by a foreign enemy
If hn
States and the necessity for proper
protection against possible Interior
ence with the execution of the laws
of the union by agents of the enemy,
-MoodHoMA Nilsen.-preslden OF me
United States, by virtue OF the au-
thority vested in me by the constltu-
ton and the laws of the United
States and through the governors OF
the respective States, call into the
service of the United States as of and
from the dates hereinafter respec-
lively indicated, all members of the
National Guard and all enlisted mem
bers of the National Guard reserve OF
the following States, who are not
now in the service of the united
States. except members OF staff corps
and departments not included in the
personnel of tactical organizations
and except such officers of the Ma
tional Guard as have been or may
be specifically notified by my au-
thority that they will not be affected
by this call, to wit:
ION July Is, 1917, New York:
Pennsylvania Ohio, West Virginia,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, North Dakota. South Dakota
and Nebraska.
ION July 25, 1917, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Maryland, District OF
Columbia, Virginia. North Carolina
South Carolina, Tennessee, Illinois,
Montana. Wyoming, Idaho. Wash
ington and Oregon
The members of the National