Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-08-24
u, S,PICkS GUARD
TO GO ABROAD.
26 States and Districts Con-
tribute to Force.
CALLED RAINBOW DIVISION"
Reading, Lancaster, Easton and Beth
lehem Companies to be Part of First
National Guard to Go.


National Guard to Go.
The first of the Pennsylvania
national guardsmen to go to France
to face the Germans will be four
companies of the Fourth infantry,
from the heart of the "Pennsyl-
vania Dutch" country.
The war department announced TIE
makeup of a division of national
guardsmen which will be the first OF
such troops to be sent abroad.
It will be based on the French or
ganization system, recommended by
General Pershing for trench warfare
whereby the division, with all auxiliary
troops, is made up of less than 10000
men, instead of the $4,000 under the
present tables of organization in the
United States service.
This division Will be made up Of
troops from twenty-siX states and the
District of Columbia. and was prompt
Iy dubbed "the Rainbow Division" in
Washington because of it's composite
makeup.
Discussion of the time and place of
mobilization or Of its departure for
France are not permissible under the
voluntary censorship, but it is inferred,
from tie tone OF Washington despatch.
es. that its departure will not be great
ly delayed.
The four Pennsylvania companies
chosen, COMPOSING the third battalion
of the Fourth infantry, are Company I.
statioled at Reading; Company K, sta.
tened Il Lancaster: Company L, sta
toned at Easton, and Company NJ, sta.
toned at bethlehem.
Many Of the men Of these companies
are more familiar with that quaint
patois of interior eastern pennsylva.
MIA known as "Pennsy!vania Dutch"
than they are with ENGLISH, and have
been brouoht uD in s1rrcun pnes and
among cns'or's running straight back
to the Fat er'a"d.
They arc va'i1nt fighting men: come
Of a stock w,ri"h rravad itGef many
times on tattlnfc7IG Of the civil war
and in en- roocrno"tG of the Spanish.
American wnr anI last summer on the
border shovel Themselves TO he good
soldiers. u one company cf the same
regiment. that from Hamburg. Pa,
most of IT, conversation Is conducted
in Cernan ar1 il Tavas last sumner,
El Paso visitors to the comm were as
ton;shed onc7 siCIaTv 70 hear the off.
GERS give or'ers in German.
It IS evre"tod the Pennsylvania bat
talon viii be commanded by Major
Guintcn Q. Reitzel. of Lancaster. semi.
or major Of the Fourth, who has had
special machine gnn training for the
past few months at Fort Sill, Oklaho
ma.
The fonr con,rories will become the
machine cua b7t'a1ion of the division,
and vii, - numbered Machine Gun
Rattali~n 80. Other states contribut.
ing to TIE division will be Louisiana,
Wisconsi1, New York. Ohio, Georgia,
Alabamq. iowa. Illinois, Indiana, Min
neso'a. Wo~yranA South Carolina, Cali.
fornia. Missouri Virginia, North Care.
lima. Kansas. Texas, Michigan, New
Jersey. Tennessee. Oklahoma. Nebras.
ka. Co'rrn5o and CraGon.
I've New Jersey contingent in the
division III be the First Ambulance
Germany of New Jersey.
pr'oaGier General w. A. Mann, OF
tho regular army, now chief of the d..
vision of military affairs Of the wal
dencrtnent. has been appointed to the
command cf the division, and will BE-
made a moior general. His chief OF
s:ars will 10 Colonel Douglas MacAr.
thur, son sf the late Lieutenant Gen
err t.acA'!'iur.
Tie division will be known as the
foriyscaond OF the arm.'. The second
sep rate trooD of cavalry of Louisiana
will be division Headquarters troop.
The Pernsy!vanians will be the dtvls.
ion machine gun battalion.