Conscription assigned recruitment quotas to African chiefs who had to produce the men

Evidence

Although enlistment was intended to be primarily voluntary, compulsory enlistment-by voie d’appelwas introduced, which quickly became the norm before and during World War I. Recruitment by voie d’appel assigned quotas to chiefs, who then had to present the necessary number of men to a commission de recrutement for medical inspection and enrollment. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 496

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did chiefs enforce these quotas, and what happened to those who refused? Worth chasing for the social mechanism.