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Show oo CALL FOR RECRUITS TO FILL SECOND DIVISION WASHINGTON. Nov. fl. lelc-i graphic orders were seni today to the army recruiting stations to recruit the Second division to its full strength Immediate!) Im-mediate!) Ii was explained at th$ war department thai under the pro-1 visions of the national defense act one I division of the aVpiv must be kept at full strength and that the Second divl-slon divl-slon had been seleotOd by the general Stafl as ihe unit to be maintained at full strength. The division, which Is stationed at' amp Travis, Tev , is 8,000 short of its fun strength and the war department Maui thai the recruiting service never I before In time of pesCS had been given' a similar task. Heretofore recrutU lot the Second division have been drawn from the states of Texas and Oklahoma but under the new order; they will he taken from any place In the country. Major General James ;. (larboard who was General Pershing's first i chief of staff in Prance, commands the I division. I |