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Show FIRST DRAFT ARMY NEARS COMPLETION FINAL GUOTAS WILL BE IN THE TRAINING CAMPS BY FEB RUARY 15. Steady Movement of Troops to France Planned, Second Draft to Begin Whenever Training Quarters Are Vacated. Washington. The first army will be completed on February lo. The final quotas from those states which have not furnished their full strength will be sent to camp on that date. Orders to this effect have gone out from Washington, Wash-ington, it is understood. Advance supplies of equipment for the new contingents now are being assembled as-sembled at the camps and cantonments in various sections of the country. Secretary Sec-retary of War Baker has insisted on the accumulation of ample stocks of clothing and other necessary supplies before the additional men reach camp. The work is being rushed. Advices that clothing and supplies would be ready in time were received before the provost pro-vost marshal general decided on the order requiring the induction of the final quotas into military service. An aggregate of about 75,000 men will be sent to camp under the new-orders. new-orders. The date of the second draft call is dependent on the removal of troops now in training, it was learned Sunday. There is no plan under consideration which calls for new cantonments or extensive ex-tensive enlargements of existing camps. The second draft apparently will not apply to all states simultaneously. Transfer of the men of the first na- tional army is regulated by the nvail-' nvail-' ability of ships. As transports become , available, contingents which have completed com-pleted their home training will be senl i abroad. Registrants to be called under : the second draft will be ordered into military service as camp space becomes available. This would provide a period of continuous con-tinuous training. Fresh troops would be ready for service in Europe at all times under this plan. Secretary of War Baker is understood to be favorable favor-able to this scheme. Secretary Baker has stated that there is legal authority author-ity to call as many as 1,000,000 men under the second draft. He hardly thought it would be necessary to call that many, however. Officials of the provost marshal general's gen-eral's office are now working out a scheme for the registration and classification classi-fication of the men who have reached the age of 21 years since June 5. The bill placing these men under the selective selec-tive service regulation is expected to be pushed with but little delay. It is pending in congress now. |