Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-06-23
Location % COMPANIES.


Location of Companies.
Companies of state troops that will
respond to the mobilization call are
stationed as follows:
First Regiment-Five companies in
Milwaukee, enc each in Oconomowoc,
Fort Atkinson. Neenah. Beloit, Madi-
son. Whitewater, Monroe.
Second Regiment-Fond du Lac,
Beaver Dam, Sheboygan, Ripon, Osh-
kosh two, Manitowoc. Appleton, Ocon-
to, Marinette, Marshfield, Rhinelander.
Third Regiment-La Crosse two,
Sparta, Tomah, Eau Claire, Superior,
Menomonie, Neillsville, Portage, Wau-
sau, Mauston.
Tenth Separate Battalion = Chippe-
wa Falls, Rice Lake, Reedsburg, Ash
land.
Troop A, First Cavalry Milwaukee.
Battery A, First Artillery ilwau
kee
Hospital Corps Milwaukee.
Must Re-Enlist to Cross Border.
There is no danger that any member
of the Wisconsin National guard will
, have to face shot and shell unless he
wants to do SO. Under the enlistment
law the president has power to order
the National guard only within the
borders of the United States. He is
without power to order any guardsmen
into Mexico. To get the guards into
position to be sent across the border,
it will be necessary to ask each guard
to enlist as a volunteer. Only after
such enlistment may he be ordered in
to Mexico. That does not mean that
he may not have the opportunity to
get into battle, as he will be required
to oppose raids or hostile attacks from
the American side.
Badger Guard Second to None.
According to the latest report of
Gen. Miles to the war department di-
vision of military affairs, the Wiseon-
sin National guard is second to none
in efficiency and excellence. In per-
centage of companies marked "excel-
lent" very good" and good" it
ranks with that of New York, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Minnesota, and all other
states. These states are excellent only
in number of men.
The war department gave the Wis
consin National guard the highest
compliment in years when, in 1912, it
issued a special order in which it stat
ed.
The Wisconsin National guard may
well serve as model in efficiency, dis
cipline and business administration"
Much credit for this is due to the
efforts of Brig.-Gen. Charles King of
Milwaukee, former adjutant general,
who for many years has been detailed
by the war department as inspector
instructor.
Included in the Wisconsin National
guard are three machine companies
one to each regiment and each equip
ped with four machine guns. These
guns are carried by mules. They are
set on one-foot tripods and fire slips
OF 30-caliber shells containing thirty
cartridges in IA seconds. They aver
age 500 to 500 shells per minute, each
shell capable of travelling 81 miles
and penetrating forty-eight inches In
pine at range of 300 feet. These
guns, of which there are 1900 in the
state, pour out streams of lead as a
garden hose pours out streams of wa
ter.
Battery A has four guns of S-inch
caliber, capable of firing shrapnel or
high explosives, effective upto six
miles.
The rifle which the National guard
uses is the same one used by the army.
1t is the 1908 magazine rifle, firing
SO-caliber bullet which weighs $50
grains. The shell contains so grains
of powder The magazine holds five
shells. which can be fired in rapid
succession. The muzzle velocity of the
bullet is 2,740 feet per second. The
bullet travels 81 miles. 1t will kill
man at range of one mile, but the
naked eye cannot distinguish q man
at that range. Effective firing Is pos
slble only at about 1000 to 1900 yards
Will Cost 5000 Day.
Adjt.-Gen. Holway estimates that it
will cost the state $4,000 a day from
now until the Wisconsin troops have
been modified into federal service.