Show GUARDSMEN TO TOBE BE BESENT SENT ABROAD SOON BELIEVED SOME DIVISIONS ILL V BE READY TO SAIL FOR FRANCE SOON AFTER AUGUST 5 I Act Actual al Concentration lon of Troops In Their Home Camps Begin at Least One Half of Total Strength of Force Being Assembled Wash Washington I Mobilization of the national guard began on July ID lb While no orders for embarkation of state troops for France will be given ghen until after August 5 when the entire en en- tire tiro force will be formally drafted Into the United States army there arc ure indications that some divisions will be regarded as ready to board bourd transports soon after that date The Tire first clause of President Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil WIl- sons son's proclamation providing for the of the national guard for the war became effective on Mon Mon- day ony Under it all nil guard units from New York Penns Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia Michigan l Wisconsin Minne Minnesota soar sota Iowa North and South Dakota and Nebraska went on the federal pay roll from that date Actual concentration of troops In their home borne forces or state camps I began Monday Approximately one half of the total strength of the national national national na na- na- na guard or more than men Is included In the force assembled as as- Rapid Progress Rapid progress Is being made mucIe in relieving relieving re re- lieving guard regiments which have been in the federal service since the declaration of war guarding prop prop- erty This work will be ue taken over oyer largely by civilian watchmen It will be necessary to retain guardsmen guards guards- men for the protection of certain big munitions works and other property vital to the conduct ct of ot the war The department commanders will hold such troops as deemed advisable for this purpose The next step In the general mo mobilization m- m will be ordering of divisions to the camp cump sites already selected for them A full supply SUllI of Is available avail department representatives show and the detachments will entrain entrain entrain en en- train as ns rapidly as us the commanders of the departments from which the they come and amI of those in which their camps are I located agree as ns to dates |