The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-17
Peace FURRY Doesn't Affect q,
s. War Plans.
War Dept Completes Biggest
Organization in History.
NAME CHIEFS FOR 81 DIVISIONS
Wood, Coming to Kansas, Is
Ranking Officer in Army.
Navy Is Believed To Be Launch
ing Aggressive Plans.

Washington, Aug. N.-The army
and navy are forging ahead today
with war work, disregarding any sug-
gestion that peace can come now.
The war department has completed
its organization of the biggest fight
ing system the country has ever
known.
The navy it is limited, will take up
an aggressive, rather than a defense
plan, against the U-boats, as result
of policy conferences between Presi-
dent Wilson, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels. Admiral Mayo, Atlantic fleet
chief, and Assistant Secretary Roose-
welt.
The draft is complete in many dis
tricts Pennsylvania being farthest
behind. When the first quota of $751;
600 has been drawn, examining sur
geons will be discharged until the sec
ond call next pring.
Army reorganization has been made
to meet the needs of modern warfare
and to accommodate the hundreds of
thousands of youths to be trained.
Department Commanders to Field.
The organization methods have al
ready been detailed, but the latest step
is assignment of majo generals as dl-
vision commanders for the thirty-two
divisions.
Men, now in supreme command of
departments. are ordered to field duty
while older, retired officers will prob
ably be given the departments which
hereafter will be virtually stripped of
their Importance.
General Leonard Wood, ranking Of
ficer of the army, and now in charge
of the Southeastern department, was
assigned to the Eighty-ninth national
a Funston.
sas.
5000 in a Full Regiment.
Under new army regulations each
regiment will consist of three bat
talions of four companies of $50 men
each which supplemented by supply
and machine gun organizations will
bring each infantry unit UP to
strength of approximately $500 men.
From the $1,000 officers recently
graduated from training camps, a
considerable number will be detailed
for a course of intensive training in
trench warfare with the expedition
airy forces already in France. In ad%
dition some officers probably will be
sent to French and British officers
schools to study the methods of the
allies.
REEVES Talk, Wood Sidetracked.
Washington, Aug. assignment
of Gen. Leonard Wood to command
the national army division at Camp
Funston, Kansas, caused renewal to-
day of talk in some quarters that
Wood was being sidetracked.
Those who have seen in every re-
cent move an effort to take power
away from Wood held that he ought
to have had a command which would
have taken him sooner to France
than a division of raw recruits.
On the other hand. it was pointed
out, the war department is anxious to
get the best commanders it can for
every service and that in picking
Wood to shape up new soldiers, it was
really paying a tribute to his ability
to mold them into a good fighting
unit
Both brigadier generals from Kan
sas-Brig. Gen. Charles 1. Martin and
Brig Gen. Wilder s. Metcalf-are
given important assignments IN the
encouragement from Washington.
General Martin will be assigned to
command of the Sixtieth brigade
depot at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill,
Okla. Command of the Seventy sew
enth infantry brigade is assigned Brig
Gen. Metcalf. who will be stationed at
Camp Beauregard. Alexandria, La
Lieut.. Col. w. c. Sweeney will be
chief of staff under Maj. Gen S. c.
Sturgis at Camp Pike, Little Rock,
Ark. Lieut. Col. Sweeney was former
ly Instructor of the Kansas national
guards and for several year station
ed in Topeka.
Commands of the Kansas troops in
the national army at Camp Funston.
Fort Riley, have been announced as
follows:
MAJ. Gen. Leonard Wood. cum
handing; Lieut.. Col c. f. Kilbourne
chief of staff; Brig. Gen. F. L. VIM
Nth infantry brigade: Brig Gen. T.
c. Hanson, 17Sth infantry brigade:
Brig. Gen. G. X Hunter, 164th depot
brigade; Brig. Gen. w. L. Henley.
'164th field artillery brigade.
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