Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-26
'fBPAnT: Of DjIR|IAI.F|:'T AFT TED MEN
!: TO FRANCE BY SPRING
Plap Is 70 Put Them Through Course
OF Intensive Training at
American Base.
TO LEARN RUDI,IENTs HERE
Expected. to Develop Much More Rap
.sHhily Close to Battle Front, and Re-
noval WilI Open Way to Training
of Additional Thousands.

FASHINGTON. u. c.. September %.
q rians are now ir preparation in the
HHh Department, according To infor-
1nnA3on obtained to-day 10 have
< lSpEe: proportion of the drafted men
ness entering training camps in France
bXSsarly spring.
-Tf is proposed to give the men tho
REGIMENTS 81 military duty and then
tor1rnnsport chem To the American
BGdc in France. There they will be
p6ttS trough a course of intensive train
ling. BY these means it is believed
thaS will 1ev"lop much more rapidly
as soldiers besides opening the wny
taSthe training OF additional hundreds
Qf,sthousI ,l,.s, 10 he secured through Il
secand draft,
sThis call will he much sooner than
has generally been believed, it is init
In21ed. and this is largely the reason
why the War Department is so much
interested a; present in proceeding
With the. Immediate examination of The
100000 Registered men who have
not yet bcea GATED.
Z This PROPOSE ion is tied up tempo
rarily by the Tact that an appropria-
ton is necessary before the work can
proceed. The xduuired appropriation Is
included in. The general deficiency bill
now before Congress.
HOPED TO MOVE MEN
ia; MIDDLE OF APRIL
the War Department these days. hut
Fl Is no Violation of the spirit or the
letter Of the censorship provisions TO
.Statc that.it is hoped 10 move approxi-
1natey 10000 To 100000 OF the draft
ed men 10 France 20 complete their
Framing there, 1t is hoped, in some
;.quarters, that this can he done by the
end Of April.
/ Thesg TROOPS would not be available
for trench work until late in the sum-
Amor at.the earliest. hut they would be
I'm France and tho political effect of
their nunbets would be great. The
Siiticulty Is not so much the transport
jng of the msn' themselves as maintain
ring thd.n once they are overseas Ex-
pert eStinla es PLACE the ratio at twenty
tons of shipping to maintain one man.
by alhoSt cont tnuous. movomcnt of
:arafted mcnsto France. after training
period here. :ihc War Department be-
5ieves tina instruction OF men here at
.khc camps can he made more effective.
selected men would he called upor in
comparatively small incrrmcnts To MI
,rhe gaps us rho earlier drafted men
were sent overseas. These men would
come into CAMPS where military train
Ing was we'll. along. whore rudimcntary
knowledge had been drilled into the
raw recruits. and under these condi-
tons. with men who had como through
the mill all around them TO help and
advise, the later arrivals would pro-
Eress much more rapidly In their work
1T is pointed out, than II brought in
rs they are being at PRESENTLY hun
drcds Of thousands
mOBlLlzATioN PROCEEDING
= on TItEMENpOUS SCALE
The nobilizatYors of the United States
forces is proceeding on tremendous
scaic--nne not even dreamed Of by the
laymeii but the fact remains that
While much success is attending the
Fovernm ent's5 Efforts, the transocean
movement is slower than is generally
.Selieved. Even the movement OF men
70 camps is on Il slow schedule
!: Where there was talk only few
Tveeks ago Of 100000 men in France by
Spring.l 'he PROSPECTS now are that tho
Ective hEhung forccs--rcgular and Ma
Hional lGunrd--wilf" be nearer 900. Don
tshan 7so.oOb.,A: National Guard has
'heen mohilizipg for six weeks. Ap-
.broSimhteiy 10000 men rcnlain to
.:,nove to camp, trut it. will be a month
before the movement is completed.