The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-28
ONLY FEW WEEKS
SERVICE LIKELY:
FOR GUARDSMEN |
IN U. 5. CAMPS
Likely That North Dakota
Troops Will be Dispatch
ed to France Early
DRAFT QUOTA FOR
STATE IS.CUT DOWN
Additional Credits Allowed
for Guardsmen, Now in
Federal Service

Word from official sources to the
effect that a constant stream of ma
/ tional guardsmen would be started
across the Atlantic ocean within a
| short time, for service on foreign
shores against the Germans, receiV-
ed in Fargo today, indicates that
North Dakota guardsmen may spend
only a few weeks in the concentra-
ton camp at Fort Demirg, N. M, to
which they have been assigned, SO
far as present official orders are
concerned. HE5 ..
The war department plan contem-
plates, it is understood, the evacua-
ton of at least one National guard
concentration camp a month after
the movement of the troops begins.
BY the war department plan, troops
will be picked for foreign service on
the basis of their efficiency, and the
fact that the North Dakota soldiers
saw such lengthy service at the bor-
der last year, puts them in the front
line for possible service this season.
The same source that furnished
news of the contemplated early de-
parture of the National guardsmen
also indicated that the second draft
army will not be called out till next
spring when the cantonments are
abandoned by the first army mem
bers.
DRAFT LISTS NOT
YET RECEIVED HERE.
The off1cial draft lists have not
been received by the Cass county
selection board. With their arrival
now definitely delayed till Monday,
at the earliest, the work OF selecting
Cass county's men for service cannot
\, lokA vAaNgf UynAk
County Auditor w. II. Tucker has
been about-the busiest man in Fargo
the pest week. answering Qfestlon of
the prospective soldiers. He VIII
welcome the arrival of the lists and
the actual beginning of the work.
MAY REDUCE NUMBER H
CAL LED FOR EXAM.
Receipt by the adjutant general of
additional credits for North Dakota
reduces the number of men required
under the draft by 334, and makes a
net quota for the state of 5,272 men,
as against 5000, under the first state
ment given out in Washington.
Cass county's quota, on the basis
of the present figures, is reduced
from 422 to 400 men.
If the present estimated net quota
is finaL then only the first S1s men
drawn, lnSJeaQ or o44 as previously
indicated, will be called for examina-
ton.
The unofficial quota for Grand
Forks county. under the new esti-
mate, is 22O; for Burleigh county,
132, and for Mountrail county 206.
Other counties are being figured out
at Bismarck today by Charles Leiss-
man, clerk in charge.
The reduction in the number OF
men required from this state was
brought about by the granting of
credit for National guardsmen not
previously listed in the federal SER
vice.
co. 3 MEN GET
"SHoT IN THE ARM.
Recruits for Co. b. First North
Dakota, were given the typhoid fever
treatment Friday, the shot in the
arm, in military parlance, being the
first treatment of the men to guard
against disease.
Capt. c. G. Cramptson, u. S. re-
serve corps, directed the work, and
eighty men were given the treat
ment.
$4,000 of intedte :AfterRvJ vt: