The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . nded to provide for two supplementary drafts(June 5, 1918, and August 24, 1918), in additionto the original draft of June 5, 1917. Later thedraft ages were extended to include men from 18to 45 years inclusive. The first registration there-under was held on September 12, 1918, and pro-duced about 13,000,000 registrants. The firstregistration brought out nearly 10,000,000 regis-trants. The second yielded 744,865 and the thirdyielded 157,963. The four registrations togetherproduced nearly 24,000,000 Americans of m
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . nded to provide for two supplementary drafts(June 5, 1918, and August 24, 1918), in additionto the original draft of June 5, 1917. Later thedraft ages were extended to include men from 18to 45 years inclusive. The first registration there-under was held on September 12, 1918, and pro-duced about 13,000,000 registrants. The firstregistration brought out nearly 10,000,000 regis-trants. The second yielded 744,865 and the thirdyielded 157,963. The four registrations togetherproduced nearly 24,000,000 Americans of militaryage. The administration is in the hands of theWar Department under the supervision of thePresident and with the assistance of local draftboards for each locality with the field boards foreach congressional district. The first men draftedwere called to service September 5, 1917. Selective Service, Second Draft—The provostmarshal general authorized the classification ofSelective Service men into five groups, indicatingthe order in which they were to be called to All the bombs shown in this picture were dropped by the .Allies in one night on munition dumps, railways, etc. WAR CYCLOPAEDIA 427
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