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Show I CALL TO ARMS FOR NATION'S DEFENSE The coll to the militia of all the states was contained In the following statement state-ment of Secretary of War Baker addressed to the governors of the states: "Having In view the possibility of further aggression upon the territory of the United States and the necessity for the proper protection of that frontier, fron-tier, the president has thought proper to exercise the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the laws and call out the organized militia and the National Guard ueces.-ary for that purpose. "I am In consequence, Instructed by the president to cull Into the service of the United States through you, the following units of the organized militia and the National Guard of the state of which the president directs shall be assembled at the state mobilization point (or at the place to be designated to you by the commanding general, eastern department), depart-ment), for muster Into the service of the United States. "Organizations to be accepted into the federal service should have the minimum peace strength now prescribed for organized militia. The maximum strength at which organizations will be accepted and to which they should be raised as soon as possible is prescribed in section No. 2, "Tables of Organization," Organiza-tion," United States army. "In case any regiment, battalion or squadron, now recognized as such, contains an Insufficient number of organizations to enable It to conform to muster to regular army organization tables, the organizations necessary to complete such units may be moved to mobilization camp and there inspected under orders of the department commander to determine fitness for recognition as organizqd by the war department. "Circular 19, division of militia affairs, 1U14, prescribes the organizations desired from each state as part of the local tactical division, and only these organizations will be accepted Into service." |