The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-24

are received and checked over. Two
 weeks at least calculation will be re-
 auired to check in the property of the
 National Guard now charged to the state, and have it reissued, on account of the
 federal government, together with such new equipment as is to be distributed among the different companies.
 IDEA IS NOT CREDITED
 Officers Tn charge of the mobilization at Montgomery are inclined to ridicule
 the idea that the various units of the
 National Guard are to be sent into camps among the border for mobilization, direct
 from their home stations. It will require
 less time, it is stated, to bring the troops
 to the munitions and supplies with which they are to be equipped, at Montgom- cry, than it would take to convey these
 same supplies to the troops if they were scattered along the border.
 One of the most experienced of the
 Guardsmen, an officer in the Spanish American war, predicts that the Alabama brigade will not leave Montgomery until
 the latter part of July and that the troops of this state will be the first to report equipped, fully recruited and ready for
 service at that.
 'The assumption that green and unpre- pared troops will not be sent at once to the border is based on the knowledge that the men in control of the military affairs of this country will not do a vain and foolish thing" said one of the officers in command here.
 The Secretary of War has authorized
 modification of the call for Alabama troops so as to include one field hos , pital company and one ambulance com pany. These two additional units are now being recruited with selected men from many parts of the state. One of
 the companies will be allowed 52 men, and the other SO men. The organization, according to the adjutant general, will be enlisted, equipped and ready to move with the rest of the Alabama troops. SUPPLEMENTARY COMPANIES A headquarters and a supply company will also be organized with men selected for the duties that are to be required of them. There will be office men, team sters and men familiar with the handling tof horses and mules, chauffeurs. Per haps, and others of training adapted to the service they are to perform. There
 will be 55 men in the two companies and
 many of these, 1t is stated have already been assigned in some of the regiments. Each regiment will be allowed a head quarters company and supply com pany. The pay is the same as for the same rank Tn OCner DranCneS or infantry. Some latitude from the usual examna-
 tions is allowed in filling these places, it is stated.
 General orders No. Il, issued several days ago, but not published until Friday
 night, makes the detail officers of the camp, Brigadier General Graph J. Hub-
 bard, camp commander; Maj. Thomas c. Locke camp adjutant; Maj. George c. Scherer, camp quartermaster; Mai Rob- ert c. Mahry. assistant canlD Ollarter- master; Capt. Burt c. Moore, assistant camp quarterma ster: Capt. Winner M. Finn, assistant camp quartermaster; Maj. Cliff s. Price, In charge of rifle practice; Maj. Everett M. Jackson, inspector gen. eral; Maj. John W. Watts, medical corps, sanitary officer. The camp commander is designated to perform the duty and to supervise the details of the preparations of the mobilization camp, and the order for muster in. The orders afe signed by the governor and c. J. Hubbard, brigadier general.