Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-15
REGULAR ARMY ORDERED
UP TO FULL WAR STRENGTH
Organization OF FOrty-Four New
Regiments Will Begin To-Day,
With New Efforts ut Recruiting.
MUST ENLIST 118,455 MEN
Officials Confident That Full Number
Will Have Been Enrolled as War
Time Volunteers Before June Is.
Expansion Post at Fort Mycr.
fBy Associated Prcss.l

| fBy Associated Prcss.l
| WASHINGTON, May li.---Ordcrs to
| bring the regular army to it's full war
strength of 2a3.o0O men were an
nounccd to-day by the War Depart
mcnt. Organization Of forty-four now
regiments will begin tomorrow. with
further efforts to stimulate recruitint.
and bring in the 1lG.455 men needed
| to I'll up the ranks.
Since April l 6T.4t3 men have been
accepted. and officials are conndcn,
| That the full number Will have been
enrolled as Rhine volunteers be-
fore juno Is.
Expansion OF tho army will be ac-
complished by converting each existing
battalion into n fun regiment
In tho Southeastern Department tho
Fifty-first. Fifty-sccond. Fifty-third.
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-ffth and Fifty
sixth Infantry will be raised at Chicku-
manga Park. Ga. The Seventeenth In
/ fantry. now divided between Forts
MCPHERSON and Oglcthorpc. Ga. will be
one of the three to be expanded to
form these new regiments. Guard duty
at the Georgia war prison camps will
be taken over by companies OF war
prison barracks guards. now being
formed. The Twonty-sccond and
Twenty-third Cavalry also will DO
raised at Chickamauga
Syracuse, y. y. Will bc tie largest
single expansion post. There tho
rhirty-eighth. Thirty ninth. Forty
NTH. Forty sixth. Forty-scvcn
Forty eighth. Forty-niuth and Fiftieth
Infantry Regiments and the Fifteenth
Field Artillery will be raised AT
least three infantry regiments now on
the border will be sent Immediately TO
Syracuse for expansion. but the reg
iments assigned have not been an.
nounced.
FORT MIER ASSIGNED
AS EXPANSION POST
Other points I'm the Eastern Depart
mcnt assigned as expansion posts are
Fort Mycr. Va. where q battalion of
regular Held artillery will be converted
into the Twelfth Field Artillery: Get
tysburg National Park where the
Fifty eighth. Fifty-ninth. Sixticth and
sixty Infantry Regiments will be
raised. and Montauk Point l.. l..
where tho Nineteenth and Twentieth
Field Artillery will be raised.
In the Central Department the For.
tieth and Forty-first Infantry will be
raised at Fort Smelling Mimi; the
Forty-third and Forty-fourth at For,
Douglas. Utah: the Tenth and Eleventh
Field Artillery and tho Twentieth and
Twenty-first Cavalry at Fort Riley
kans.. and tho Sixteenth and Seven
teenth Field Artillery at Sparta. Wis.
In the Southern Department the
Thirteenth and Fourteenth Field Ar
tillery VIII be raised at Fort Sill. Okla
while the T'ifty-scvcnth and Sixty
fourth Infantry and tho Eighteenth and
Twenty first Field Artillery will be
raised at points I'm the department 20
he designated by tho department COM
mandcr
In the Western Department tho
Fortyfourth Infantry will be raised
al Vancouver barracks Washington.
The Sixth-sccond and Sixty-third In
fantry Will be raised at San Francisco
md tho Twenty-fourth and Twenty
NTH Cavalry at Fort D. 4. Russell.
Wyo.
Quartermaster officers already have
been assigned 10 construct necessary
quarters at the points named. and n
large number Of regular army officers
have been ordered UP for promotion
preparatory to taking advanced grades.
The movement of troops from the
Southern Department to carry out the
orders Will begin at once.
REMAINING PORTION
THEN MUST ne FILLED
In addition to the new regiments
TO be raised mt each point the remain
Ing portion OF each existing regiment
which Is divided 10 furnish a nucleus
of officers and men FOR the new unfit,
must be filled UP again 10 war strength
Thus, at Syracuse there will be twelve
full regiments of infantry. and two
regiments of artillery. In all, prob
ably 10000 men must be taken care
OF at that point. At ChickamatEa
there Will he nine regiments Of infar.
try. and four Of cavalry, or more than
full infantry division.
Orders have not been issued as vet
for the expansion of the other arms
OF the service. such as tho Enginecrs.
signal Corps, Coast Artillery and Hos
pital Corps. They will he announced
shortly.
When the expansion Is complete, the
regular army Will have seven full di.