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Show ! WERE FEW DRAFT EVADERS. Less Than One Per Cent of Americans Ameri-cans Registered Evaded Service. Washington. The war -department disclosed on August 15 that only 173,-911 173,-911 of the 24,000,000 American citizens who registered under the selective draft for military service during the world war could be classified as wilful deserters. This is less than 1 per cent, This announcement was made together to-gether with the publication of-a plan to make public the names of these 173,911 men with a view to their apprehension. ap-prehension. To apprehend them the war department asks the co-operation of various state and local officials, patriotic pa-triotic societies and oilier agencies, including in-cluding the department of justice. |