The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-10-16
NATIONAL ARMY
TO BE REORGANIZE0
Disposition Of Negro Troops Definite
ly Settled in the New Plan OF
Training Soldiers

Washington, Oct. s.-The inatlon-
al army is to be completely reorgan-
lied. Plans were announced today
hy Secretary of War Baker after
conference with General Tasker HI.
Bliss, chief of staff.
Every one of the Is cantonments'
except that at American Lake, Wash,
is affected. By the reorganization
each cantonment will train an army
division of $4,000 men, instead OF
$4,000, as originally planned.
Negroes.
Negro drafted men are to be dis
tributed in such fashion that no con-
siderable number will be under train
ing at any one camp. The negroes
will be organized into division at
an embarkation point as rapidly as
possible and will be sent to France,
where they will be divided into fight
ing forces and labor regiments. In
all there are $500 colored men, Ap-
proximately $1,000 will be sent into
the trenches. The others will be en-
ployed behind the lines.
AS a result of the reorganization,
which contemplates the immediate
filing up of national guard ranks in
the south from the conscript forces,
great shifting of the national army
will soon begin.
The training of a division to a camp
will leave surplus of 1900 men at
12 OF the camps. These men will be
transferred to the camps of ATLANTA
and Little Rock, there to form sepa
rate divisions.
The white men of the south, orig
inally assigned to Camp Gordon, at
Atlanta, and Camp Pike, at Little
Rock, as we'll as those assigned to
Camp Jackson, at Columbia, will be
drawn upon heavily to fill the ranks
of the goth, 31st and goth national
guard divisions from the same state
to war strength.
This will leave an insufficient nuns
ber of white men to form divisions at
each of the three camps, as the white
men from Camp Gordan and Camp
Fil.e. will be moved to Camp Jackson
to form division there
To camp Gordon, at Atlanta, then
will go the surplus white forces from
Aver, Mass, Yaphank, L. l., Wrights-
town, N. j., Admiral, Mr., and Peters
burg, Va; to Camp Pike, at Little
Rock, will be moved the surplus from
the cantonments at Chillicothe, Ohio
Battle Creek, Mich, Rockford, Ill.
Louisville, Ky, Des Moines, Iowa,
Fort Sam Houston, Texes, and For!
Riley, Kan.
AppGrtionment of Negroes
The negro troops will be scattered
as follows;
Camp Devens, New England, quota
COO; Camp Upton, New York and Por-
to Rico quotas, $500; Camp Dix, its
cwn and Florida quotas, 4,50O; Camp
Meade, it's own and Tennessee'S
quotas, 6,100; Camp Lee, its own
eouta, $500; Camp Sherman, its OWL
and Oklahoma .otas, 5000; Camp
Jackson, South Carolina quota, $500:
Camp Gordon, Georgia quota, $500;
Camp Pike, Arkansas and Louisiana
quotas, 5000; Camp Custer, its own
quota, 600; Camp Grant, its own and
North Carolina quotas, 1900; Camp
Taylor, it's own quota, 5000; Camp
Dodge, it's own and Alabama quotas
$500: Camp Funston, its own and
Mississippi quotas, s 300; Camp TRAY
is, Texas quota, $500; Camp Lewis
its own quota.
Explaining the plan General Bliss
said:
"The selected men that are now be-
inc gathered into the 16 national
army cantonmnrts will be used to
form the first force Of 100000 men
authorized by CONGRESS and to I'LL up