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Show Ills to army he cancelled War Department Countermands Counter-mands Orders for Draft Entrainment. Movement of Men to Be Stopped at Once, Washington Wash-ington Says. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. Almost the first action of the war department today, after announcement of the signing sign-ing of the armistice with Germany, was the cancellation of all army draft calls under which more than 300,000 men had been ordered to entrain for camps before be-fore November 30. Urgent telegrams, prepared three days ago at the direction of Provost Marshal General Crowder, were sent to all local draft boards, directing that the movement of 252,000 men, under orders to entrain between today and Friday, be stopped immediately. The telegrams reached most of the boards in time, but a few men are known to have started for camp. Secretary Baker said, however, that wherever possible j their immediate return to civil life would be arranged. No More Inductions. "I have suspended further calls under the draft and inductions," Mr. Baker said. "There will be for the present no additional men brought iu under the draft, and to the extent that we can, we will turn back those men who have been entrained and have .not yet reached training camps." Thr nmvnst. marshal orpnprsl 's office had no estimate of the number on trains before the cancelling order was issued. Alt men assembled for entraining are to be Considered as honorably discharged from the army and paid accordingly. Until further notice, no inductions or calls, except for the navy and marine corps, will be permitted. One call for a few thousands of men for the navy is now in preparation, but, volunteers to date have more than filled the requirements re-quirements of the navy and marine corps. Since August, 1917, when the first calls were issued under the army draft law, 2,700,000 have been inducted into the army. Practically all physically qualified men between the ages of 21 and 31, who were placed in class one, arc now iu the service. The men who were to have moved to camp this month were of the new registrants enrolled September 12. Many of the men who were under orders to move this week were orig-j orig-j inally directed to entrain in October, but their movement was held up because be-cause of the epidemic of influenza id the army camps last month. Genera Crowder announced that registrants reg-istrants whose induction orders are cancelled can-celled or who are discharged after their entrainment for camps will revert to the status existing at the time the original induction order was issued, this to include resumption of their order and serial number. It also was specifically announced that nothing in the cancellation of the calls shall operate to relieve from the correctness of his acts any registrant who has heretofore become delinquent or a deserter. By order of Secretary Baker, Provost Marshal General Crowder today directed local and district boards to ''continue to completion as expeditiously as possible pos-sible the classification of all registrants who on September 2 had attained their nineteenth and had not attained their thirty-seventh birthday. ' 7 General Crowaer, however, directed the boards to discontinue immediately all work connected with the classification classifica-tion of men who on September 12 had attained their thirty-seventh birthday and had not attained their forty-sixth birthday. "In entering," said Mr. Baker's order to General Crowder, "upon what seems, in view of the mighty events of the day, to be the final work of this character to be done by the selective service system, I extend to the members mem-bers of that system my personal congratulations con-gratulations upon their truly great achievements ot the past year and a half. ' ' To you, members of that system, must come a sense of duty well done which a loyalty, patriotism and devotion such as yours can bring. The country and the world knows that it owes to you a debt of thanks and gratitude which can not be measured by words but only by the affection, the respect and the esteem, now yours, of those among whom you live and from whom you have taken that which was beyond be-yond price." In transmitting Secretary Baker 's order to the state draft executives and local and district boards, General Crowder added his personal congratulations congratula-tions upon their "truly great achievements achieve-ments of the past year and a half. ' 7 Naval Program. Secretary Daniels today announced no immediate step would be taken toward to-ward demobilizing any part of the forces of the United States. About 70,000 members of the naval establishment, including the marines with General Pershing's army, are now in Europe. Mr. Daniels indicated that the marines might remain longer near the scene of hostilities than any other force. The secretary has called upon the bureau chiefs of the department for a study of pending naval construction contracts. He contemplates a gradual curtailment of the contracts where materials mate-rials which would not be needed by the regular naval establishment are being produced. Early orders withdrawing from service the naval coastal patrol service from Canada to Brazil may be expected, Mr. Daniels indicated. The navy has been charged with the duty of training crews for. the great numbers of merchant ships being commissioned com-missioned by the shipping board. The secretary anticipates continuing with that work until some new plan is provided. pro-vided. Since it is a vital element both of demobilization and reconstruction work in Europe that great Merchant tonnage had been immediately available, avail-able, it was said to seem improbable to Mr. Daniels that nnv reduction of the naval forces being trained to man such shins could be undertaken. v |