Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1917 — Troops to Remain in State Until Winter. [ARTICLE]

Troops to Remain in State Until Winter.

The following report emanating from headquarters at Indianapolis state that the Indiana soldiers will remain at their home stations for one week and then will report to Fort Harrison until the middle of December. The authenticity of the report is not vouched for. Indianapolis, Aug. 7, 1917.—The entire national guard, numbering upwards of 11,000 men, will be drafted into the federal service within a few days. All units were mobilized Sunday. Edwin Root, chief mustering officer, las appointed mustering officers for each unit in the state. The work of mustering will begin tomorrow. Guard units will remain at their lome stations at least one week and will then come to Fort Benjamin Harrison to remain until the middle of December before going to winter uarters at Hattiesburg, Miss. Colonel Edwin M. Lewis, now commanding the 45th Infantry at Fort Harrison, will take command of the brigade within a few days. The national guard army will be called forth in increments and not as a unit of 500,000 men. This was made plaih by Provost Marshal Crowder in instructions that all local boards might grant temporary discharges to men needed in the harvesting of crops. These men will be able to enter the service when the work in the field is finished. Probably five increments of 100,000 men each will be called at intervals of one week to two weeks. Men named in the first increment could be shifted to later ones if their services were required for the nation’s needs in the harvest fields. No date has as -yet been set for the first call. It is highly probable, however, that the first men will be called before Sept. 1, and that part of their duties will be to prepare cantonments for the remaining increments.