RECRUITING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 245, 4 July 1918, Page 6

RECRUITING

NEXT GAZETTE ON JULY 24

STATE OF THE DRAFTS

Tho recruiting authorities have decided that tho next Gazette summoning reservists for service with tho Expeditionary Force shall bo issued on July 24, fivo weeks after tho publication of the last Gazette. The Gazette will contain the names of another draft of men selected by ballot, from Class C. Second Division. It is likely that the number of men drawn this month will bo 5000. Olnss C contained origiually about 26,000 men, of whom 10,000 wero drawn last month. _ The balance of about 16,000 men will suffice for the July, August, and, September ballots, if tho draw is reduced to 5000, per month. Volunteers aro still boing accepted for the Forty-fourth Itciuforcements, which will be mobilised next week. The response- to tho call for volunteers for this draft has been excellent, but there is still room for some more recruits. Men who have been drawn in tho ballots and set down for later dates may volunteer to enter camp this month. Volunteers are also being accepted for the Ausust, September, and October draft*. This is a reversion to the old system of allowing men to volunteer for drafts three months ahead. The system was suspended temporarily in order that efforts might be concentrated on the draft immediately ahead, but tho need for this do longer exists.

The August, and September drafts (Forty-fifth imd iVty-sixth Hoini'orcements) now contain more than 1300 men each. It is expected that recruiting will be closed shortly for theso drafts. The men becoming available, voluntarily or by ballot, will then bo posted to tho October draft (Forty-seventh Heinforcement). They aro likely to include, most of the first batch of Glass C men, drawn in the last Tjallot. These arrangements might bo altered by a reduction of tho reinforcement quota in the near future, but there is yet no official information on that point. Men who havo been posted already to the August, September, and October drafts will be well advised not to count upon any alteration in their mobilisation dates.

The number of CI men entering the CI camp this week is approximately 518. The First Division is at present supply-, ing about JflO men n month to the reinforcement camps. This number includes ninoteenryear-old and twenty-year-old volunteers, twenty-year-old youths called compulsorily, and transfers from the CI Camp.

The recruiting authorities have decided that in future First Division men shall receive twenty-eight days' leave between medical examination and mobilisation. The period previously has been fourteen days, though this has ofte-i been exceeded in practice.