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Show GUARD COMPANIES MUST KEEP 65 MEN ENROLLED WASHIN'OTON. Oct. 18 Under a war department decision announced Bum day th minimum strength at which national guard infantry com-panlea com-panlea may be maintained arter July 1, 1921, Is 6T. active enlisted men Recruits Re-cruits may be enlisted up to the day on which national guard organizations leevt their home stations for their ait- ; nual field training I in order to f acllitt.i te the reorganisation reorgan-isation of the national gard, om- : panics and correipondlng units will be re gnlsed up to July 1, 1921, with a minimum strength or fifty active enlisted en-listed men. After next juiy i when tho peace strength is greater than t.S, th miard organizations may be I maintained at 63 active enlisted nirn nnd such ntimier f reserves as win BQual or exceed the minimum peace strength for tdmllar units of the regu-1 regu-1 lar army The announcement said er- forts should be made to encourage the .maintenance of guard units at trie peace HtrenRth prescribed for the regular regu-lar army. 100 men. |