Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-26
| STATE HOUSE.
National Guard Will Be
Grouped in Divisions,
And VIII Be Treated as a
United Force.
Colonial Danes Make Travelling L.
hraries for the Small! Schools.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor and Coun
Gil, Thursday, Dec. 10, at 10 A. M.

matter of much interest to the Ma
tional Guard of the State OF Maine
is the plan which has just been com.
pleted by the war department, of or
ganizins the National Guard of the
States into brigades and divisions
! grouped territorially, which marks the
first great movement in the plan of the
general staff FOR treating the National
Guard as a united force. The new rlan
differs widely from that put forward
three years ago. and which proposed
uniting National Guard with Regular
regiments in the formation Of brig
AIDES. The new plan contemplates COM
bining no National Guard unit less
than division with q Regular COM
mand. In other words, there is to be
no intermixing of the forces in lesser
units than the division. Two National
! Guard divisions may be combined with
an Army division, in time Of war or for
| instruction in time Of peace. or other
| combinations may be worked out. The
! old plan was rejected because ii be-
| came very apparent that it would no.
/ stand the test oil war.
| Under the new plan the mobile forces
| Regulars and National Guard-are 10
| be organized into 1G tactical divisions,
! the first four of which will be made
up of the Regular forces. The II re-
naming divisions of the mobile forces
will consist of National Guard.
| Necessarily, the new plan is much
/ dependent on and. in fact, is a part
! of the scheme of getting the maximum
! military efficiency out of the National
| Guard. the keystone of which scheme
| is the National Guard pay BILL now
| nendfng, known as the Pepper bill. IL
| is III view of the expected passage OF
| this bill at the coming session OF
! Congress- that the details of the
! grouping are being sent to the state
! authorities. The grouping plan takes
! account of no infantry National Guard
organization of lesser size than the
/ regiment, save in two special instances
! the. Massachusetts Cadets and the
Richmond Blues Separate companies
: are discouraged and State authorities
| are urged to consolidate or eliminate
them.
1t is contemplated that at each feie
! army headauarters-a field army be-
ing made up of grouped divisions
/ there shall be an auxiliary brigade fol
! use as emergency troops. In addition
the National Guard of the District oi
/ Columbia. is not attached to any pro
posed brigade, but is left fer use as
! Army troops in contemplating an aux
! iliarv brigade or for emergency pur-
! poses.
! In addition to the first four tactical
divisions, which will be made up oil
! Regulars, the other u divisions will be
made up of TIE National Guard as fol-
j lows:
9Th Division, headquarters at Boston
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
j Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut.
9Th Division, headquarters at Albany
! New York.
7th Division, headquarters at Harris
urg-Pennsylvania.
Sth Division. headquarters al Wash
/ ington-New Jersey, Maryland, Della
ware. Virginia and West Virginia.
! 9Th Division, headquarters al Atlanta
North Carolina South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida.
| 10th Division, headquarters at Nash
/ ville-Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama
/ and Mississippi.
18th Division, headquarters at Co
/ lumbus-Ohio and Michigan.
| 18th Division, headquarters at Chica-
go-Illinois and Indiana.
18th Division, headquarters at ST.
! Paul-Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
14th Division, headquarters al Kan
sas Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska,
| Wyoming and Colorado.
18th Division, headquarters at San
Antonio-Ne& Mexico, Oklahoma, Tex
| as, Arkansas and Louisiana.
10Th Division, headquarters At San
! Observation-Disclosures. Oregon Wash
+ ington. Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada
and Arizona.
PIETRANTONiO SEEKS FREEDOM.