Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-10
PRESIDENT CALLS
NATIONAL GUARD
FOR WAR SERVICE

from the militia, and, under the
terms of Section of the act
of May IS, 1917, be subject to
the laws and regulations govern
ing the Regular Army, except
as to promotions, so far as such
laws and regulations are appli-
cable to persons whose perma-
nent retention in the military
service on the active or retired
list Is not contemplated by law.
Officers Retain Rank
Nv. The members of each
company, battalion, regiment,
brigade, division, Or other or
ganizations of the National
Guard hereby drafted into the
military service of the United
States shall be embodied in or
ganizations corresponding to
those of the Regular Army. The
officers not above the rank of
colonel of said organizations of
the National Guard who are
drafted and whose officers are
provided for in like organiza-
tionS of the Regular Army are
hereby appointed officers in the
army of the United States in the
arm, staff corps or department,
and in the grades IN which they
now hold commissions as off,
GERS of the National Guard, such
appointments to be effective,
subject to acceptance, on and
from the fifth day of August,
nineteen hundred and seventeen.
and each of them subject to such
acceptance, is hereby assigned as
of said date to the organization
of the Army of the United States
composed of those who were
members of the organization of
the National Guard in which at
the time of draft he held a COM
mission.
'The on-commissioned off,
GERS of the organizations of the
National Guard, the members of
which are hereby drafted and
are hereby appointed noncom-
missioned officers in their pres
ent grade in the organizations
of the army composed of said
members and shall in each case
have the same relative rank as
heretofore; and all other enlist
ed men are hereby confirmed in
the Army. of the United States
in the grades and ratings held
by them in the National Guard
In all cases where such grades
and ratings correspond to grades
and ratings provided for in like
organizations of the Regular
Army, all such appointments of
noncommissioned officers and
combinations of other enlisted
men in their grades to be with
out prejudice to the authority of
subordinate commanders in re-
spect of promotion, reductions
and changes in enlisted person.
mel.
Retain Guard Designations
"V. Each organization of the
military force hereby created
will, until further orders, bear
the same name and designations
as the former organization of the
National Guard of whose men,
bers it is composed.
"VI. All necessary orders for
combining the organizations cre-
ated by embodying therein
members of the National Guard
and National Guard Reserves
hereby drafted into the military
service of the United States into
complete tactical units will be
issued by the War Department.
"In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caus-
ed the seal of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the city
of Washington, this third day of
July, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen, and of the Independ-
ence of the United States of
America the one hundred and
forty-frst.
"(SeaD BY the President.
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
"(WOODROW WILSON,"