The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-06
ALLMENOPCLASS
ONE TODE CALLED
T0ACEIVE SERVICE
Filling Of AaWali's Quota win Ex-
haust List Says CAPTAIN
Field-4More May Be Needed
REcLASslFleATloN eEbE nl
."REJECTS" IS PROBABLE
One Thousand and Eighty7fOur
Are Ordered TO Report at Fort
Armstrong BY the Twentieth

Every Class One man under the So
lecBVe draft IN Hawaii Ia to be called
TO active service, according TO a state
mont last night by Captain H. q.
Field selectiVe draft officer, who adds
that, it may be necessary either 10 re-
classify registrants in order to get
enough to complete the TerrItory's
quotn, or else to call out some Of the
Clnss Two men. Al
Captain Field = statement was made
m reply to a question al 20 the mean.
ing of an Associated Press despatch
from Washington, dated yesterday,
which said: p ~. ..r 80 #
Zone thousand and eighty -four. men
Of the selcctive draft in Hawaii are
called out to report at Fort Armstrong,
Honolulu on August 2O.'' ~'" MI
On the face OF IL appeared that
this meant the calling out Of an addi.
tionhl thousand eighty four men. as
the orders for induction Of men into
the service under which the draft Of.
fee is now working were received
some time ago. a
q, Captain tIeld, however, says posi-
lively that this is not, the case but
that the 1854 MENTIONED are for the
purpose of bringing Hawaii q draft
regiments up to full war strength and
The order told of in the Associated
Press despatch is Identical with that
under which he has been working for
several days "a
VIII Exhaust List as IS Il, If-lYl
The number, he, says, is an arbitrary
one, not figured exactly TO exhaust
the Full list Of Glass One men in the
Territory, But il will exhaust the
Inst, he says, and, indeed, il Is by no
means certain that there are enough
Class One men left to iii the qnota.
II oil probability, he says, il will be
neeessary either to reclassify the Class
So ppe men who have been rejected, with
4, view Of drawing as many as posi-
ole OF them into the service, or else
to draw a certain number of men from
Glass 2. Captain Field says he is
reluctant TO resort to the latter alter
native and hopes to be able 10 eli IN
the, list out of Glass One men after
reclassi ncation. '"" " l%c@
II 10 impossible, he adds, 70 ten how
the great perceHtage OF. reflections will
be, but II is running much higher with
the last Batch of druftees' than with
earlier drawings. Reflections now are
numc ro1s on account of deficiencies In
height and weight. a-'.'' a.'a
Appro&imat ely $50 men have been
indncted into the setSire' under the
lat call, which Captain Field says Is
he one mentioned In the press ies.
patch, Of yesterday This leaves some
thing over 40 more men % be i'm
Quoted. How MANY &c will be neces
Sary ia call in order 10 get that humber
Is prohlematicdl on account OF the inn.
nnSsihilitv 81 estimating correctly the
percentage Of~rejcctions' ~.
The cali for 1894 men does not
Captain Fiehd says, affett the youths
Who registered this week. having he,
come of age within the past year. Al.
though virtually All Of them may be
expected to be classified as Class One
men. thew are not yet classified not
having filed out questionnaires. Dues.
tionnaire blanks have not yet been re-
crived here - t.
New Registrars J." " Y ~
The cothpiling of the recent draft
registration reports was finished by
captain Field yesterday, n" showed
hat 2e93 men OF the 1918 Class had
registered 40 10 last Wednesday which
was the final date These arc the men
who have reached the age OF twenty.
one years since July 81. 1917. CAPTAIN
Field said Yesterday that there was
a very small percentage Of tfeIinonents
in this draft and those were being
quickly rounded up by Detective Gar.
ter. Several OF the plantations, which
served as registration cepters IN some
districts are yet to be heard from.
The complete list of draftces rs com.
piled is as follows: '''. -
Oahu-Honohrlu: Local board No
I: City, POO; Wnimaralo, &; total. 200
Local board No. .: City, ZIG: Whipa
-, ~. Fonb,dm Ma ntation. II; kea
ri ESRaka, III WNianae, 7; wS'aIua
I' JNt'T'a"Tl; t6hay, ,563. Total fo,
Oahu ID date, 77s.F / ~ F".
tia%8aALdraf BGa+d M. | $40. 10.
cal !,, board % ~ No. Z = lao, Total for Ha.
RaHiLAll' b6ards 70 date, 40.
Kauhi-IAll, b9s,pIs to 2Gte, 500.
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