Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-17

lISt II deN'l
mended by Brigadiers General Fred
erick w. Stillwell. Albert ]. Logan.
C. T. O'Neill and William T. Price;
all of the national guard. Their bri-
gades are numbered, respectively,
Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Infantry,
Fifty-Third Depot Brigade and Fifty
third Field Artillery Brigade.
National army troops from North
ern Pennsylvania, together with
troops from New York state outside
of New York city, will form the Sew
nty-eighth division and will be COM
manded by Major General Chase w.
Kennedy. They will train at
Wrightstown. \. ].
National army troops from South
ern Pennsylvania will compose the
Seventy-ninth division and will be
commanded by Major General Kuhn.
until recently chief of the war col
lege. They will train at Camp
Meade, Maryland.
All the divisions except those COM
posed of the national guard of Penn
sylvania and the national guard of
New York will be commanded by
majors general of the regular army.
Most of the brigade commanders and
the chief of staff of each division are
also regular army officers.
In this assignment of division COM
manders the former army system
has been entirely obliterated. No
importance than another, and the
whole army will be commanded by
the general staff here in Washington.
General Leonard Wood has been
| assigned to command the Eighty
ninth division OF the national army
at Fort Riley, Kansas. which would
seem to sidetrack the ablest officer
in the United States Army as COM
pletely as it could be done.
His division has yet to be drafted.
so that in actual Importance as part
of the army General Wood stands
far below Major General Clement,
of the national guard of Pennsylva-
MIA, who has an actual division under
his command, and who will prob
ably take that division to France in
the near future.
Assignments Announced
Assignments announced include:
Twenty-eighth Division, Camp Han
cock, Augusta, Ca. Troops from
Pennsylvania. Major General Charles
NJ. Clement, commanding. Lieuten-
ant Colonel E. l.. King, chief of staff.
Brigadier Generals Frederick w.
Stilwell, Fifty-s1Xth Infantry; Albert
]. Logan, Fifty-slXth Infantry; c. T.
O'Neill, Fifty-third Depot; William
G. Price. Fifty-third Field Artillery.
Seventy-ninth Division, Camp
Meade, Annapolis Junction, Md.
Troops from Southern Pennsylvania.
Major General j. e. Kuhn, COM
manding. Lieutenant Colonel Ten
ney Ross. chief of staff. Brigadier
General E. E. Hatch, One Hundred
and Fifty-seventh Infantry; w. j.
Nicholson, One Hundred and Fifty
eighth Infantry; w. H. Gordon, One
Hundred and Flfty-fourth Depot; A.
Hero, Jr., One Hundred and Fifty
fourth Field Artillery.
Army Completely Reorganized
Complete reorganization of all
branches of the American army to
conform with European standards
as recommended by Major General
Pershing, is provided for in army
orders revealing that the recently an
nounced divisional reorganization
plan is to be carried down into the
regiments and companies.
The administrative unit of the in
fantry arm hereafter will be a COM
pany with $50 enlisted men and six
commissioned officers, in place of
something over 100 men and three
officers. The company will be divid-
ed into four platoons, each in COM
mand of a lieutenant.
There will be two captains as first
and second in command, one first
lieutenant and three second lieuten-
ants. Reports of the review of Amer
lean troops in France yesterday show
that this plan already has been car
ried out in General Pershing's forces.
The object of assigning two cap
tainS to each company, it is under
stood, is to provide against disor-
ganization of the unit through the
loss of it's commander. The second
captain, under the European system,
does not go into battle line with the
company If his senior is present. He
is held as a reserve to reorganize his
company if necessary.
Under the new plan, each regiment
will have three battalions of four
companies, making a total of 1000
men. supplemented by the regiment
al headquarters, supply and machine
guns organizations the strength of
the new regiments will be brought
up to approximately $500 men, as
against little more than 1000 in eX-
listing war strength regiments.
The unit organization of the field
artillery and other arms of the serv-
ice has not been changed. AS a re-
suit of reducing the number of regi-
mentS in division, the division in
stead of $4,000 men, will total here
after about 10000 men, $1,000 of
them infantry.
The advantages of the system, in
addition to the better adaptation of
the divisional unit to trench warfare,
lie chiefly in the reduction in over
head expenses. One colonel and his
regimental staff including his three
battalion commanders, will now han
die 800 men instead of little more
than 1900.