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Show i CLASSIFICATION ; FOR NEXT DRAFT . WASHINGTON, March 7 Rcclassi- fication according to physical condition condi-tion of thet men called in the next . j army draft is provided in revised in-( in-( structions for medical hoards which .are being sent to the local boards throughout the country. The new regulations, reg-ulations, made public tonight, require that ever' man summoned before the board shall be placed in one of the following four classes: (a) Acceptable for general military service. (b) Acceptable for general military service after being cured of remedial defects. (c) Acceptable for special or.limited military service in a specified capacity capa-city or occupation. (d) Rejected and exempted from military service. It is the intnention of the, provost marshal general to provide "later for the further investigation and classification classifi-cation of the men acceptable for limited lim-ited or special service, so that record may be made of the sort of work each of these men may be assigned to do without endangering his health. Under the new regulations many ailments and defects which gained exemption ex-emption of drafted men in the past now will result only in their being listed list-ed in group 13. Such men, if they choose, will be given the privilege of securing the services, of their family physicians in the effort to remove the defect, but if they have not availed themselves of this privilege within a specified tjme they will bo called into military service and ordered to a can-j can-j tonment base hospital, a reconstruction reconstruc-tion hospital, or to a civic hospital, as may be designated by the surgeon gen- eral. ; no |