The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-03-30
Order PUTS NAVY
OH WAR FOOTING
Strength Is TO Be Increased
to $1,000.
ELEVEN REGIMENTS CALLED
Guards to Act as National Police In
Important DIstrlots-Two New Mill
tary Departments Created In At
lantlo Coast Region.

Important DIstrlots-Two New Mill
tary Departments Created In At
lantlo Coast Region.
Washington, March 26.-Steps have
been taken by President Wilson to
put the nation on war footing. By
executive order, he directed that the
navy be recruited without delay to full
authorized war strength Of $1,000 en-
listed men. Taken In connection with
emergency naval construction already
ordered, this means that the president
had exercised the full limit of his
legal powers as commander in chief
to prepare the navy for war
For the army, the president direct
ed that two new military departments
be created in the Atlantic coast re-
gion. The order means that the task
Of organizing whatever army congress
may authorize will be divided among
six department commanders instead
of four, In the interest Of speed and
efficiency in mobilization.
The third step was to assume as a
national duty the task of protecting
American industries from domestic
disorders in the event of hostilities.
For this purpose, eleven full infantry
regiments, two separate battalions and
one separate company Of national
guard were called back into the fed
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in important districts. Supplementing
these troops, regiment of Pennsyl-
vania guard and two companies OF
Georgia infantry, en- route home from
the border for muster out, were or
dered retained in the federal sevice.
The presidents orders were made
known in terse Official statements is
sued by the state department.
The navy must enroll Immediately
approximately $4,000 men to reach the
required strength. The war depart.
ment statement follows:
MANY states have deemed 1t advis'
able to call out the national guard for
police purposes Of protection. As the
necessity for such steps arises from
issues which are more national than
local. It has been deemed advisable by
the president to call into federal serv-
ice for the above mentioned purpose
the following organizations of the ma
tional guard:
Massachusetts, Second and Ninth
regiments; Pennsylvania, First and
Third regiments; Maryland, Fourth
regiment; District of Columbia, First
separate battalion; Virginia, Second
regiment: Vermont, Co. B, First regi-
ment; Connecticut, First regiment;
New York, Second and Seventy-first
regiments; New Jersey, First and
Fifth regiments; Delaware, First bat
TALON, First regiment.
"The following organizations which
are now in the federal service will
not be mustered out: Thirteenth
Pennsylvania, A. and B companies Of
the First Georgia"
Congress must determine the sys-
tenn under which an army is to be
raised The presidents action pro-
vides more elastic machinery, found
necessary as result of the recent
border mobilization. the enrolling and
training of a great army, whether
raised as volunteers, by CONSUMPTION
or through universal service BILL.
The object of the creation OF the
new departments of the northeast
and southeast was to distribute among
three center commanders the work Of
modifying in the states most thickly
populated and from which the great
est number of soldiers must come.