New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Marines Will
Go to France
With Pershing
Colonel Doyen to Lead
Regiment of Picked
Fighting Men
Force Abroad Will
Number About 100000
Guard May Be Selected
for Second u. S.
Expedition
[From Tho Tribune Burc,uI

Washington, May l9.-Wlth Ma
jor General Pershing's expeditionary
force of American regulars will go a
regiment of marines.
Counting the nine volunteer regl-
ments Of engineers now being recruit
cd for immediate service abroad, the
total land forces Of the United States
which it is expected will be operating
in France or Belgium this summer
will not be far from 10000 men.
No definite figures lave been or will
be given out. But 1t is known that
the division of regular army men VIII
be more than $4,000; the marines will
be more than 1900 strong and the
engineers upward of 10000. The for
estry regiment also going across will
be moro than !, 900. The strength of
the naval force now operating in Eu-
ropean waters has not been revealed.
Doyen TO Lead Marines
The regiments Of marines will be
under the command of Colonel Charles
A. Doycn, who has been in the corps
for thirty-four years. The men IN the
corps will be the picked fighters of the
corps, marines who have seen service
during the last two years in Hayt,
Domingo and Cuba. They have been
engaged very recently in actual fight
ing and are as fit as, if not more so
than, the regulars of the army.
General Pershing and his stat Will
sail for Europe ahead of the troops, as
there is much to be done on the other
side tospavc the way for final training
or the force. and for the huge army
tho ITniter States, which is preparing
n nour across the seas after 1t as
ranidlv as men can be trained ana
equipped
For obvious reasons, no information
as 70 the time Of the American COM
na,der's departure or his destination
will be made public. When Rear Ad-
miral Sims, commanding the destroyer
force. was sent on his important mis-
sion. the first word of his errand came
from London after his arrival there.
Pershing Works on Plan
When General Pershing leaves, every
detail of the organization and equip
,rent of his troops will have been
worked out. He will know exactly
what preparations must be made ana
what use is to be made OF his division.
prosrmablv he will have wide discre-
tionary powers to cooperate with com
,orders of the French, British and
Belgian forces.
Colonel Doyen has been on duty IN
Washington two years as commandah'
Of the Marine Barracks. He was IN
charce Of the marines on the Hancock
stationed in Dominican waters, IN 1914
and previous to that he served on ,ne
ost coast and in the Philippines. lie
was graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1881. and was class
mate of Major General Commandant
George Barnett, of the Marine Corps
H. received the rank of colonel Janu-
orv IA 1909. He was born September
1859. in New Hampshire.
Guard in Second Expedition
II NAV be said that up TO now the
war Denartment has not decided upon
Tho number or character of the troops
which will be in the second american
exneditionary force. The regular army
has been so broken up, divided and sub
divided In order to train quickly the
row increments that not a regiment
battalion or company can be spared
much less the officers.
Il is gossiped about the depart
mont that the best trained regiments
of the Guard may be honored by places
in the second expeditionary force New
York State regiments. several OF them'
come in this classification.
Tho srst units of the selective draft
will not be sent on foreign ser.
Go before the spring or summer OF
1918. ~. rovos, mar.
sbaI General to-day clerks oesat -
Ind ont the necessary blanks wnich
are 70 be used by local au,hori.ies
evervwhere on June to register 'he
10 600 900 men between 'he aseJ W
.,,,oO.,,o,e and thirty-one from whom
~ e.. 5oo 600 drafted men are TO be
taken. A. c,.rd
In all parts Of the country, also, state
officials redoubled their efforts at re-
o,,,;,ing the National Guard TO war
strang,b Authorization reached them
airaost spontaneously with the signing
of the army bill. The War Department
unfolded new elements oil us plah lot
the Guard. disclosing the departments
in which each division Will be trained.
A similar table OF geographical dis-
,r;hu,ion of divisions for the ne" Sc
lectiye army also was given out: ~
follows closely the lines OF the Natlonai
Cnard divisions. For purposes OF dis-
,irc,;on the War Department mas
named the new forces the National
Amy concurrent resolution TO nave
nrinted 1885, 900 copies OF document
Containing the selective draft Dill, the
registration rules and President VII
sons proclamation was adopted during
the day by the House.
(Plans for registration under draft