The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-06-29
GUARD IS REDUCED
UNDER RIGID TEST
u. g.. hlCAl ExAMiNA IONS
MAY / Innate 10 PER CENT
OF tcoNslN TROOPS. va
MAY CA OR 500 RECRUITS
Arms and lipment for 5000 Men
Arrive at Camp Oouelas-Otficers
Do Not Expect Move to Bor-
der Until All Are Mustered.

Camp Douglas, June 27.-Wisconsin
troops will not be sent to the Mexican
border at once as requested by Gen
Funston Monday night unless Gen
Barry changes his orders to muster In
the guardsmen into federal service
before leaving for the south, and 1t Is
not probable these orders VIII be
changed, as the muster in is well I'M
der way, according to Capt. Lorraine
T. Richardson, u. S. A., who is IN
charge of the muster in.
Gen. Funston has authority to or
der the regiments to the border AFTER
they have been mustered in SAID
Cant. Richardson. But the orders to
muster in the troops come from the
department headquarters at Chicago,
and any change in orders must come
from the same source. or course the
change may be made and the troops
mustered in after arriving at the Dor
der This is not probable. however.
the physical examination by federal
officers, which will take some time,
could be waived and made on the Dor
der if the department wanted to move
the troops Immediately"
No orders from the war department
or army headquarters have been re-
ceived at Camp Douglas for the sol
Cfiers to leave at once. 1t Is settled
that the troops are not ready, because
they must be armed. equipped, exam
ined by federal physicians and mus
tered in before they will be in the
state of efficiency which the state OIL
GERS want them to be when they leave
Wisconsin.
Many May Be Eliminated.
Scores of men and probably num-
Der Of commissioned officers will be
eliminated by the rigid physical ex-
animation which is being conducted
under the direction of Col. Kennedy,
United States army hospital corps,
who came from Jefferson barracks to
take charge of the work Privates and
noncommissioned officers in the cav
airy, troop, the battery, the various
infantry commands and the field hos
pital have been eliminated until the
reduction In many commands is as
high as 10 per cent. The reduction in
the field hospital, which originally
consisted of seventy men, was 10 per
cent.
Call for 500 Recruits Probable.
A call for 500 more recruits may be
sent out through the state for YoIun'
teers to take the place of men who fail
to pass the physical examination now
being given the men There are
enough men In camp TO replace those
discharged TO date, but If more go
volunteers will have to be called to
keep the troop up TO war strength as
now required.
Men in some commands who were
thought to be among the soundest and
whom their officers considered among
the most valuable soldiers, have been
eliminated in the federal eXamina-
tion and now the lieutenants. captains
and other commissioned officers are
wondering who among them Will be
ordered out OF service by the regular
army physicians.
Preliminary Test Mild.
Many men were sifted out in the
first examination conducted by the
National Guard physicians upon in
structions from the war department
hut that examination Is considered
mild as compared to the one the army
representatives are now making. Men
are ordered out because of slight de
fects which in many instances were
not even noticed by the officers who
conducted the first examination.
Vaccination against typhoid fever
has been ordered, and all Of the men
will have to undergo the treatment
before they leave. II Is probable that
they viii have to submit TO yaccina
ton for smallpox also as that disease
is prevalent in Mexico.
Uniforms and full equipment to The
number Of $40 outfits have arrived
from army storehouses at st. Loui'
and were taken In charge by the chic
quartermastcr who viii distribute
them TO the regiments at once. The
guns and ordnance supplies havni
also arrived every one Of the 5,0OI
men will be armed, equipped and il
uniform probably by Wednesday night
Five Wisconsin National Guard Off
GERS OF high rank on Sunday took th'
oath which made them officers Of thu
regular army.
Adjt-Gen, John G. Salsman o
Madison, was made colonel. Maj c, Il
Williams, quartermaster of Cam