The sun., 1917-08-17
'GEN. WOOD SENT
TO FT. RILEY IN
ARMY SHAKEUP
Forces ReOrganized and
Welded on Lines Urged
by Pershing.
BELL GOES TO YAPHANK
Regiments Enlarged, While
Department Commanders
Powers Are Shorn.
BELL GOES TO YAPHANK
Special Despotch 10 Tu. Srs.

issued To-Day nnally dispose not only OF
the complete reorganization and coordi-
nation of the National Guard and regu-
lar sand national armies into a harmoni-
Gus war machine. but announce the per-
manders and chiefs of staff for the Ma
tional Guard camps and the national
army cantonments.
A complete shufling and reasslsnment
Of many Of the older general Officers and
virtually all Of the Major Generals and
Brigadier- Generals recently created is
accomplished to provide division COM
manders for National Guard camps and
the sixteen cantonments Of the national
army
Among those transferred Is Major
Gen. Leonard Wood. who Is sent TO COM
mand the Eighty ninth Division of the
national army at Camp Funston. Fort
Riley. Kan.
Transfers Cause Surprise.
The transfer Of Gen. Wood and other
department commanders causes surprise
| in view OF the recent order which seemed
to limit their authority.
The shifting OF department command
ers, the highest officers of the army un-
der the peace regime. to divisional COM
| mands forecasts the subOrdination of the
departmental organization to the d.
visional, relegating the departments to
virtual clerical duties in command OF
retired officers.
| Pending the organization OF divisions
and army corps into armies there will be
no means of telling what the Depart
ment has In mind with respect to the
preferences to he given the Major Cen
erals in command OF divisions.
Major-Gen. Clarence Edwards. re-
Gently withdrawn from the Canal Zone
and placed In command Of the new
Northeastern Department, is shifted t1
the command % the Twenty sixth Divi
sion, National Guard. to be in camp a.
Camp Greene. North Carolina.
Major-Gen j. Franklin Bell. the new
commander of the Department OF th'
East, will be In command OF Camp Up
ton at Yaphank. l.. l.. where the Ne"
Workers in the national army Will b'
trained.
Many Shift. Made.
Major Gen. Ligsett, commanding thu
Department Of the West. will command
the division at Camp Fremont, Call
fornia.
: Major-Gen. Barry. Central Depart
ment, will be in command at Cam
Grant. Illinois.
Major -Geu Kuhn. chief Of the Wa
College division. General Stafr. will com
mand the Seventy ninth Division, a
? Camp Meade. Maryland. Gen. Kuhn ha
been prominently mentioned as in lin
for Chief Of Stan In the near future.
The personnel of the organization a
I Camp Upton. Yaphank. under Gen. Bel
will include Lieut.. Col. +. r. Booti
=. Chief Of Staff. and Brig Gems. f. Wi,
tenmyer. l53d Infantry; T.. NJ. johnson
154th Infantry Brigade; G. w. Reat
, l52d Depot Brigade. and J. d. Barret
172d Field Artillery Brigade.
Major-Gen. John F. O'Ryan Of Me-
York will command the Twenty -sevent
q Division, National Guard. at Camp Wads
= worth. s. c.: Col. II, II. Bandholtz wi
!. be Chief Of stan. and the brigade con
- manders will he Brig Gems. r. T..
, Niche, Flfty-third Infantry Brigade
Henry De Witt Hamilton. Fifty -fourt
Infantry Brigade James w. Leste
. Fifty-second Depot Brigade. and c.
: Phillips. Fifty-second Field Artiller
Brigade.
: Pershing's Advice Followed.
y The reorganization OF the army col
!. forms with European standards,
II recommended by Major-Gen Pershin
The administrative unit of the infanti
arm hereafter will be n company vii
$50 enlisted men and six commissions
officers, in place OF something over II
men and three officers. The compar
N will be divided into four platoons. ea'
in command OF Lieutenant. The
f,,v nj ne rat
s. in command. one FIRST Lieutenant al
d three Second Lieutenants Reports
l. the review OF American troops In Fran
l. Yesterday show that this plan alrea'
,e has been carried out In Gen. Pershinl
forces.
4, The object Of assigning two Captai
n to each company IL to provide again
IF DISCRIMINATION of the unit through Z
t. loss Of it's commander, The second ca
tain, under the European system. do
not 20 Into battle line with the compa'
II his senior Is present. He Is held as
reserve to reorganize the company
Z, necessary.
Under the new plan. each regime
>. will have three battalions OF four COZ
~ panies, making total of 5000 me
Supplemented by the reglmental hea
o., quarters, supply and machine gun orga
vs ixations. the strength Of the new rel
n ments will be brought up to appro
Nv mately $500 men, as against little me
" than 1000 In existing war strength re-
by ments.
!. Unit OrganisatiOn stands.
he Tho unit organization Of the field I
III. tillery and other arms OF the service
or not been changed. As result OF
he ducing the number Of regiments in
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