Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-19
Renewed Instructions Sent
Out to Federal Agents
BY 4ttorney-General
Gregory.
tBy Associated Press.l


tonight by Attorney-General Gregory.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
has ruled that persons who neglect to
appear for examination will be accept
cd automatically. and that the privilege
OF claiming exemption then will be
denied. 1t was to help carry this
policy into effect that the Attorney
General acted. His instructions fol-
low:
1T has been determined by the pro-
rost-marshal- gcneral that persons who
fail to appear for their physical ex-
animation after having received their
notices TO do SO from the local boards.
by such failure waive their right to
physical examination, and arc accepted
by the board without any such exam
ination. Their names will be certi-
fed TO the district boards as chosen by
the local boards for the national army.
WILL WAIVE RIGHT
TO CLAIM EXEMPTION
IF they do not then appear TO claim
exemptions. they will waive thereby
the right to such exemptions as they
might have claimed. and their names
Will be certified by the district boards
to the Acknowledgement Of their re-
spective States as persons for the ma
tional army. The adjutant- general will
then mail them notice to report for
duty at specified time and place, and
such notices will be given publicity
according to the regulations of the
CONSUMPTION act.
Such persons then become subject
TO the military authorities at the time
designated by the adjutant-general for
them to report. Should they fail to
comply with this notice. they become
descrters from the army. and will be
treated as such by the military au,
thorities. ~,
1T is. therefore. a matter of vital
concern. not so much TO the govern
ment as TO the persons themselves, to
see that they give the correct address
Tor their notices to be mailed to tham.
Should they fail to comply with these
notices after receiving them they be-
como automatically drafted without re-
gard 10 physical examination or to cx
emption or discharge
SHOULD BE TURNED OVER
TO MILITARY AUTHORITIES
Where persons are known TO h.
willfully refusing to comply with the
requests of the local board. and are
SO conducting themselves as to be a
menace to the proper enforcement of
tho conscription act. and their where
aoouts are known. they should be de-
tanned in Jail on complaints charging
Violations OF section Of the con.
scription act until the time when they
arc ordered by the adjutant-Eeneral to
report Tor duty in the national army.
lhey should, at that date. be turned
over TO the military authorities. No
prosecution need be had. as 1t will be
unnecessarily expensive. and little is
to DO gained therefrom."
SHIPPING FACILITIES
ALREADY AVAILABLE
WASHINGTON. August 1s-Tb.r.
Will be more than 100. 900 United States
troops in France before the snow ni..
IL was learned to-day that ample ship
ping facilities are already available for
tho transportation OF troops as soon a
they arc ready.
Some of the divisions OF the National
Guard will be sent across before all ~
the regular army is ready and before
any Of the conscripts go. The order
of their going has been tentatively
mapped out with the rainbow" New
England, New York, Pennsylvania and
chance. because they have been or
sanized as divisional units for some
years.
This order. however, may be changed
at any time. as the drilling of the
guard troops in cantonments pro-
crosses.
Inspector Instructors will keep close
watch of all the work. and the reward
of proficiency will be the vanguard of
the National Guard line
1t was limited to-day that still fur
ther changes in the destination of some
of the expeditionary forces might be
made. In this connection. the report
of the renewed allied offensive In the
Balkans'was recalled. War Department
officials refused to DISCUSS this or any
other movements OF troops. The news
of the sufficiency of the shipping at
hand, for transport service came from
the Shipping Board, confirming the
prediction made by Secretary Daniels
three weeks ago to the effect that when
the time came the ships would be at
hand.
ARTILLERYMEN PICKED
FOR SERVICE IN FRANCE
Two hundred artillerymen graduated
from. officers reserve schools were to-
day picked by the War Department to
proceed Immediately to France. The
fact that these youngsters. all of whom
have been working with artillery OF
the size hitherto considered impossible
for field use. are to be sent to France
shows that the United States is pre-
pared to play the game in tho most
modern fashion. The War Department
already has announced that much
heavy ordnance for our forces will be
made In France. Tho young graduates
probably first will be sent to tho
cruesot and other gun works to see
their pieces made. and then shown, how
they are handled In the mud o. Elan