THE REINFORCEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 296, 3 September 1918, Page 6

THE REINFORCEMENTS

DRAFTS CLOSED TO RECRUITING THE CLASS D MEN • An announcement is to be mado by the Itecruiting Board during the next few days regarding the first ballot in Class D of tho Second Division. It appears that none of the D men (three children) will bo taken into camp before April next at earliest, provided that tho present rate of reinforcement is continued. The date may bo later. The October, November, and January drafts (Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Reinforcements) havo been closed to recruiting as from Saturday last. No additional men a,re to be posted to these drafts. The.February draft (Fiftieth Reinforcement) is also closed to recruiting as far as Second Division men are .concerned, but it is open to First Division men (ballot accretions) and nineteoii-year-old and twenty-year-old volunteers. The March draft (Fifty-first Reinforcement) was opened yesterday to Second Division recruits, botli volunteers nnd balloted men. _ - The reservists remaining in Class C, Second Division, will be called up by Gazette, to be issued on September 18. They are about 4000 in number. Tho fit men among them will bo posted (subject to appeals) to the March, draft. The Class C men, with accretions from the First Division, transfers from the CI Camp, and volunteers will more than suffice to fill the March draft, and there will be a surplus to carry forward to tho April draft. The arrangements stated above could be disturbed by two factors, firstly, heavy wastage in the New Zealand Division, and, secondly, a_ sudden increase in the amount of shipping available for the transport of troops. Tho indications are, however, thnt any alteration of dates will be in the direction of setting drafts hack rather tlian bringing them forward.