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Show DiFiMslT ENGLAND MED TREATIES PROVIDE FOR DRAFTING DRAFT-ING OF ALIENS AFFECTED IN ARMIES DURING WAR. Sixty Days for Enlisting Given, It Eeing Estimated Forces Maybe Swelled by 54,000 Americans and 310,000 Canadians and English. Washington. Katificntions of 'the draft treaties between tin! United States ami Groat P.ritain and Canada were exchanged on July 'A') at London, It was officially staled at tin.' state depart merit, ' making them effective from that dale. It Is esiimaied that 5-1,000 American citizens in the Iiritish empire, inolttil-iiiff inolttil-iiiff .'iG.OOO in Canada, unit 2f",0,0U0 I'.rilish subjects and (!0,0iKi Canadians In the United .Slates will lie affected by Oie treaties. American citizens hetween the apes :of 21 and Ml, resident in tin! Iiritish Empire, will be given sixty-days from July .'50 In which to enlist, enroll or return re-turn to their own country for service, but after that time they would be subject sub-ject to draft unless they had been (.'runted exemption by the American embassador as provided in the treaties-. All Iiritish subjects and Canadians between the ages of 21 and 31, the state department explained, who have made declaration of intention to become be-come citizens of the United States and who are liable to service under the draft law, may, during the sixty days' period, enlist or enroll voluntarily in the Iiritish or Canadian force at any British or Canadian recruiting mission in the United States, or may leave the country for the purpose of military service in their own country. |