Washington, Nov. 18.
The first call to the colours sounded today for the eligible draft-age men whose numbers were among those drawn early in the recent national lottery.
Promptly at daybreak the initial contingents of draftees started getting their marching orders—orders which meant "We're in the Army Now" for a year of military training.
Three midwestern and nine far western states will supply the vanguard of the nation's first peacetime draft army, which will be 800,000 strong by next June 15.
These states are Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan—comprising the Corps area, with headquarters Chicago, and California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and part of Arizona—comprising the Ninth Corps area with headquarters at San F
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