The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-05-11
EIGHTEEN DIVISIONS
FOR FIRST WAR ARMY


FOR FIRST WAR ARMY
Those Two Forces Will be Brought
In to War Strength, and Then From
Their Ranks Will Be Taken 200,-
600 Officers and Noncoms for New
ArmJ.
Washington, May 4.-The full
strength of the first war army. or
ganized under the selective draft Dill
will be 1888 officers and 528,659 en-
listed men, making up Is war strength
divisions complete in every arm ana
supplemented by 16 regiments OF
/ heavy field artillery equipped with
large calibre hoWitzers.
/ Virtually every detail of plans OF
. raising, training, equipping and Or
ganizing this force has been carefully
worked out by the war department.
! and the selection Of the men Will
begin as soon as the draft measure
! becomes a law. Conferees OF the SEN
ate and house hope to agree upon cls-
+, puted features tomorrow so as TO seno
the bill to the president for MS Sig
nature early next week.
A revised list of officers training
camp districts issued today by the
department indicates that the a,Vls-
ions of the first half million new flght-
inc men will be formed as follows:
First Division-Troops from all New
! England States.
second-New York Congressional
District l to 26 Gncluding, Long lf
land, New York city and strip north
of the city,.
Third-RemainGer of New YORK
State and Pennsylvania Congression-
al Districts 10, II, IA, Is, Is, q, 70.
( Fourth District-Remainder OF
] Pennsylvania State including PhiIa-
delphia and Pittsburgh.
Fifth-New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land. Virginia and District Of Colum-
bia.
+! sixth-North and South Carolina
and Tennessee.
seventh-Georgia, Alabama and
! Florida.
! Eighth-Ohio and West Virginia.
/ Ninth-Indiana and Kentucky;
Tenth--Illinois.
observation-disclosures and Wiscon-
sin.
! Twelfth-Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Thirteenth-Minnesot Iowa, North
! and South Dakota and Nebraska.
/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Kansas and
4 Colorado.
/ observation-disclosures and Texas.
Sixteenth-Montana, Idaho, Wash
!! ington, Oregon, California, Nevada
4 Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and Ne"
Mexico.i
Two Cavalry Divisions.
In addition there will be two sepa-
rate cavalry divisions which probably
], will be situated in the Southwest, near
the Mexican border.
Officers of the cavalry divisions
will be- trained at all the Is ofhcers'
4 training camps, which open within a
few days with 10000 prospective OIL
GERS under training.
Each, infantry division will consist
of nine full regiments Of infantry
three ri regiments Of field artillery, one
regiment of calvary, one regiment OF
engineers, one division hospital anu
four camp infrmaries. The total
! strength Of the 16 will be 1922 Off
GERS and 439,792 men. The two cav
! alry divisions combined will have
/ 1,214 officers and 32,O62 fighting men
/ including mounted engineers and
horse artillery units, and each
also have it's divisional hospital -
camp infrmaries.
The proportion of coast artillery
troops to be provided out of the first
100000 will be 666 officers and 10000
men with requisite medical troops.
Supplementing these tactical units
will be the 16 regiments of heavy field
artillery, strength 1853 officers and
i 21,104 men; eight aero squadrons, or
one new squadron to each two new
/! infantry divisions, eight balloon COM
panies; ten field hospitals; ten am
bulance companies; % field bakeries;
six telephone batallions; 16 pack COM
( ranies:. six ammunition trains and six
supply trains.
Recruiting Present Force.
! In preparation for the enormous
task of training this great army, the
existing regular establishment and the
National Guard is being brought to
full war strength. The regulars, when
all five additional increments provid-
ed for in the national defense act
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