BALLOT LIST TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 4

BALLOT LIST TO-DAY

THE PROGRESS OF RECRUITING. The Gazette Extraordinary that is to be issued to-day will contain the names of about 3800 reservists of A Class of tho Second Division, and some 700 First Division men, consisting chiefly of youths who have attained tho ago of twenty years during recent weeks. The publication of this Gazette will complete the fourteenth ballot einco tho Military Service Act camo into operation, and will exhaust Class A (married men without children).

The fifteenth ballot will bo taken in. Class 13 (married men with one child). Tho date is not yet fixed. The Defence authorities can alford to allow an interval of two, and perhaps three months between the fourteenth ballot ami tho fifteenth ballot without endangering tho regular dispatch of the reinforcement drafts at the proper strength. Hut they may choose to proceed with tho drawing of the B men in order to 'allow more time than tho twelve weeks already promised between medical examination and mobilisation for the settlement of private affairs.

The February and March drafts (Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Reinforcements) are full, and the April draft is approaching completion. Most of the fit men of A Class will be taken into camp after the end of April, and the figures already available confirm the expectation that the class, with accretions from tho First Division, will suffice for at least, three reinforcements. Then drnfts of fit First Division men are reaching the training camps from the CI preparatory camp, and thero aro also the nineteen-year-old volunteers to be taken into account. It appears certain that none of the B Class men will bo wanted in camp before September, nud the date mny be later. The date of mobilisation of the B Class reservists will not bo affected by the date of tho ballot. If tho first ballot in the second class of the Second Division is taken in February or March the object will be merely to give the men more time to make/their preparations. In the event of the ballot being taken, say, six months in advance of mobilisation, a single medical examination will be regarded as sufficient. The old rule that a man must bo examined a second time before entering camp if the first examination ha'l beoii made more than throe months earlier hae bppn abandoned. The only exceptions will bo made in the cases of reservists who contract illness or infirmity after the medical examination and before entering camp. It will be the duty of these'rnen to inform the authorities in order that a second medical examination may bo made. With the issue of to-day's list the number o~ men called \m under tli« Military Service Act will rpach a totnl nf approximately ftf.GOO. The first bnllot was token in Noven'b»rjpi6. The. to+il numb"! , of Second Division men called up, all in Class A. is 13.800.