The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-19
.R0fRS NATIONAL
GUARD To C0[0RS
Virginia Troops VIII Go Into Camp
July rs, and Will Recruit to
Full War Strength.
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND
TO BE TRAINED IN SOUTH
Large Numtyrr of Training Camps
Will BE Located Where il-Ycar
Out Door Practice MAJ BE Had.
First Call July is.

First Call July is.
Washington, May ls.-The man at
the desk and the clerk at the counter
viii be in training for the trenches
within the next two months.
The war department today ordered
the national guard recruited to war
strength Immediately and dispatches
OF instructions to the adjutant-gen-
erals of all states. whereby the guard
and the enlisted men of the guard
reserve will be drafted into the fed
eral service on July Is. July 25, Au-
gust 5.
The citizen soldiers will be held at
their state mobilization grounds for
two weeks or more after mastering
in and then will be sent to federal
concentration camps. There will he
thirty-two of these camps, sixteen of
which will he employed by the guard
and the other sixteen by the army of
seleCtive conscrpts. which will be
| 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:
MIA, Ohio. West Virginia. Michigan.
Wisconsin. Minnesota. Iowa. North
! Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska
will he brought into the federal ser
vice.
Virginia in Service July rs
Il On July % the following state or
CARNATIONS 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 Oregon.
The remainder will so into the fed
eral service on August s. They in
| clude:
Indiana Kentucky. Georgia, F'lor-
| da Alabama. Mississippi. Arkansas
Louisiana. oklahoma. Texas. Missouri.
| Kansas, Colorado. New Mexico. Ar-
| IONA, Utah and California.
All the national guard coast artil-
| lery will be drafted on July 5.
The federal concentration camps
| for the national guard organization
will all be located in the South or
| on the Pacific slope. where climatic
| conditions VIII allow all-vear train
Ing.
| Location of Camp.
| Concentration camps for the ma
tional guard and the national army.
| as the force of 500. 900 selective cor
| scripts is officially known. will he as
| follows
| Northeastern department;
camp ot the first national army
| division. This camp Will be located
| at Aver. Mass
| Eastern department. second. third
| fourth and fifth national army d.
| visions
| Southeastern department. sixth. SOW
/ enth and twelfth national army di-
| visions and the fifth, sixth. seventh,
| eighth, ninth, tenth, sixteenth. seven
| teenth and eighteenth national guard
| divisions. These divisions include the
| guardsmen of Maine. New Hampshire.
| Vermont Massachusetts. Rhode Is
| land, Connecticut. New York, Penn
| sylvania. New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
| land, District OF Columbia. Virginia,
! North Carolina, South Carolina, TEN
| nessee, Georgia. Alabama, Florida
| Ohio, West Virginia. Indiana, Ken
lucky. Mississippi. Arkansas and Lou
| isiana.
l. Sites for three of the camps in the
| southeastern departs have been APP
| proved and work is under way on
| at Atlanta. Augusta and Columbia.
s. G. Nine other camps remain to
| be designated in this department
/ Southern department. fifteenth ma
tional army division. eleventh, twelfth,
| thirteenth. fourteenth and fifteenth
national guard divisions. These In
| etHde!- Michigan Wisconsin. Illinois,
Minnesota, North Dakota. South Da-
| kota Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Texas and oklahoma. One
camp site has been selected. 1t is
at Ell Paso. Four more remain to
be approved
i Central department, eighth. ninth,
l al
teenth national army divisions.
l. Western department. sixteenth ma
tlonal army division. Nineteenth and
twentieth national guard divisions,
| comprising the organizations from
| California, Nevada. Utah. Colorado,
| ! Oregon. Montana, Idaho and Wyo-
ming, One camp site has been So
lected. 1t is at American Lake, Wash
/ Iington. Tow more remain to be
| chosen.
State allotments toe the national
army division have not yet been COM
pletely worked out and for that rea-
son the conscript organizations are
for the present designated by nu-
merals. The plan as announced to-
day will put more than 100000 men
under ai-year training south of the
Mason and Dixon line. The national
| army forces will be trained for the
most part near their homes In Gil
mates 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.
II A great recruiting drive to bring
the national guard to war strength
of $50 to company will be begun
| Immediately. 1t was stated at the
war department today that the volun-
teer system would be given a com.
plete trial. but that If enlistments
were not up to the mark the ma