The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-10
DRAFTED ARMY
TO Be DIVIDED
FIFTH OF FIRST QUOTA WILL
BE ~ TRAINING FIRST
OF SEPTEMBER.
TEN MONTHS IN CAMP
Quitting biggest Task Any Gov
ernment Has Ever Under
taken.

Washington, Aug. Only 20 per
cent. of the men drafted for the ma
Jional army in Kentucky and Indiana
will be called for training at Camp
Taylor early in September. The same
percentage will apply at all of the
cantonments
The entire national army of 6S7,-
OOO men will not be called to the
colors before the latter part of Oct
ober.
Official, though informal, an
nouncement of this fact was made
today by officers in the Provost Mar
shall Generals Office, who explained
that insurmountable difficulties make
il impossible to get the entire army
into training before the close of
October.
The men at Camp Taylor will be in
training for approximately ten mon
this, and il is not likely that they viii
be ready to board transports for
Europe before September /, 1918.
The machinery of drafting will be
completed by the last of August and
the Provost Marshal General will be
ready at that time to meet any call
by the Secretary of War for the full
quota of men sought under the draft.
As Gar as the work of this Office is
concerned, tie men could be moved
to the cantonments by September l,
the original date set for the begin
ming of training.
ACCOMPLISHMENT Big Problem.
In the first week in September
Provost Marshal Crowder will notify
the Secretary of War that the draft
ed army is subject to call. 1t is the
purpose of the War Department to
then call about 20 per cent. of the
number from their homes to the re-
.spective environments. II is estimated
that not more than 100000 OF 15O,-
900 men can be taken care OF in the
first week of September, and fully six
weeks will expire after that time be-
fore the cantonments are completely
organized and the quartermaster's
Office is ready to- supply the needs OF
this vast army of men called from
civil life.
According to plans about 100000
men will be sent to the environments
to organize them and prepare for the
reception OF the others. The railroads
have notified the Government that
they can not transport that great
number of men 20 environments in
one day. This is one of the physical
difficulties which force the Govern
ment to abandon its plans of calling
the army into active being in one
day throughout the nation.
The ACCOMPLISHMENT of the new civil
liam army is the biggest problem any
Government has ever undertaken.
These men coming from civilian life
must be fitted from head to foot with
military clothes and ammunition and
arms. When the National Guard was
Federalized there was nothing that
need be supplied.
Year Before They Go To Front.
Representative Fitzgerald. Chair
man of the Appropriation Committee
said to-day that the qnarternasters
Office was unable to obtain SUFFICIENT
supplies for the selective army and
that therefore not more than l5O,'
600 would go into camp in September
and the rest of the force would not
see camp life for months after.
II is estimated that at least ten
months will be required to train the
selective army for real service and
military authorities who appreciate
the inability of the Government to
get supplies now say that 1t will be
year from next September before any
of the draft army will he fitted for
duty i'm Europe. A. large contingent
may be sent before that time for In
tensive training in France, but none
of the men drafted into the army
will be put into the trenches In
France In less than a year.
Statements issued to-day by the
War Department show that prelim
mary figures place the total force oil
National Guard taken into the Fed
eral service August 5 at 1908 Of
feers and 4l9,S34 men. Another