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Show DESERTERS ILL HT BE ALLOWED TO ENLIST The new order of the secretary of war eliminating all voluntary enlistment enlist-ment in the army for the time being extends in its effects to men of the first draft who have failed to respond to draft calls, it developed at Fort Douglas yesterday. Under the now order draft evaders who are arrested as deserters are not able now to escape punishment by volunteering to enter the service it once. Under the old regulations a man who had failed to respond to a draft call and was later arrested, could avoid trial and punishment as a deserter deser-ter by signifying his willingness to serve in the army. In such cases the man was sent to the nearest draft army camp and immediately Inducted into service. Orders received at Fort I Douglas yesterday stop this procedure. All evaders who are apprehended I now will be held as prisoners until a new ruling as to further procedure in their cases is mado by the war department de-partment What this procedure may be no one here has any intimation as yet. oo |