New-York tribune., 1918-06-25
Drawing to Fix Liability
for Service Likely Thurs
day or Friday
Treaties Are Ratified
Senate Approves Pact With
Great Britain Without
a Dissenting Vote

WASHINGTON, June pa second
national lottery to determine the or
der numbers of the 744,865 men en-
rolled June last under the selective
service law will be held here this
week. The date has not been definite
ly determined, but the drawing prob
ably will be on >Jhursday or Friday,
depending on the time the final COM
plete reports are received from the
district boards.
The procedure to be followed, it was
stated officially to-day, would be SINH
lar to that Of last year, when nearly
ten million men were given their rela-
tive places in the draft. The same
bowl will be used, with capsules con-
tanning numbers up to the largest
number of registrants in any district
IN the country. Last year 10,5OO cap
suies were provided, but the number
.his year will be much smaller, and it
Is expected that the drawing will be
completed much more quickly.
The lottery system is based on the
selection OF master numbers, each of
which governs similar numbers in
every one of the 4,5OO local districts
oyer the country. Under the system
OF classifying registrants adopted
SINCE the flrst drawing last year, how
ever, IT would not necessarily follow
that the men holding the first number
drawn would be the first called for
service.
Distribution Of the questionnaire
blanks, from which will be determined
the class into which each man will 90.
was begun to-day, and when the new
registrants fill these ont and return
them the numbers assigned them in
the lottery will then become operative
TO determine their relative liability at
the root of the class in which thew
are placed. 0'
Treaties between the United States
ana great Britain for reciprocal oper-
atlon OF army draft laws to their citi-
zens, including Canadians, were rati-
tied late to-day by the Senate without
a dissenting vote.
= The treatie1 were signed June bv
sSecretary Lansing and Lord Reading.
the BRITISH Ambassador, after revision
1T, TO meet objections made by Senators.
lhey Will become effective upon ex-
change OF ratifications between the two
governments. 1t is understood that
similar draft treaties now are being
negotiated between the United States
and France, Italy and other of the
Allied governments.
Katlfication. of the conventions is
made dependent in a supplementary
resolution adopted by the Senate upon
issuance OF proclamation by President
wilson, wilson, formally announcing that
American citizens under twenty-one and
over thirty-one years of age are not
subject to draft under the United
States selective act
Citizenship Is Preserved
This is q technicality to meet British
draft laws and prevent the drafting Of
plre who are below or above the draft
ages as fixed by acts of Congress.
Citizens of either country drafted nv
the other would not lose their citizen
ship by reason of their service and
each government is given the right to
issue certificates of exemption to their
citizens upon application or otherwise
within sixty days after the ratification
of the treaties.
Citizens Of either country resident in
the other and desiring to enlist under
their own flag would be acquired to do
so within sixty days after the conven-
I1VHS are Idtlleu OF return Wlthln that
period to their own country.
British subjects in the United
States between twenty and forty-four
years OF age-the British draft ages
and American citizens in the British
Empire between the ages of twenty
one and thirty-one would be subject to
draft under the treaties, but thew
would be given the option of return
ing to their own countries for service
under their own flag.
1t is estimated that some $4,000
American citizens in the British EN-
pire, inclddng $4,000 in Canada, and
$4,000 British subjects in the United
States, including $4,000 Canadians. viii
be affected by the treaties.
A new clause inserted in the treaty.
provides that citizens Of signatorv
nations exempt from the draft at
home. such as the Irish and Aus
tralians, shall not be subject to draft
In the country of their foreign resi-
dence.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
to-day directed Wisconsin to furnish
500 white grammar school graduates
and Ohio 1870 negro grammar school
graduates qualified for general mill.
tary service for special training at
army schools.