THE FIRST DIVISION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3110, 14 June 1917, Page 6

THE FIRST DIVISION

* ■ VOLUNTARY RECRUITING CLOSING TEN MORE DAYS ALLOWED The Recruiting Board has decided that voluntary enlistment of reservists of tho Fh'st Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve is not to Ire continued after Saturday, June 2li, when recruiting for tins Thirty-third Reinforcement closes. "The present position," says an oflicial statement, "is that voluntary recruiting is opm for Ihe Thirty-third and Thirtyfourth Reinforcements which are due to mobilise for training in August and' September respectively. This means that a member ofr the First Division who now volunteers for the thirty-fourth draft is not due to parade for camp until September. In view of the near exhaustion of the First Division of the Reserve it is iicce=.»ary to prohibit further voluntary enlistment of reservists of that division, as otherwise they would be able to postpone the date when they would be duo to proofed to camp until after the commencement of the ballots for Second Division reservists.

"Exception will be made in the case of youths who are. now approaching their 2flth birthday, which is the age at which they become liable for compulsory military service. A youth who desires to voluntarily enlist on reaching military age will be permitted to do"so in tho month in which he readies'that aire, and he will then bo required to go into camp with the first draft leaving his group one month thereafter. Voluntary recruiting will still be open, of course, 'to members of the Second Division of the Deserve.