Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-10

 THE NATIONAL MAINTENANCE MADE PUBLIC
General Bliss Makes Public Many Changes In Plans for the Training of Big Force. Negro Troops Are Segre- gated.
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 WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.-Orders is- sued today to commanders of national army cantonments disclose fro the first time the war departments com plete plans for the training and or ganization of the first half million Of the National army.
 Negro Troop Division
 Shortage of men in the three Ma tioDal Guard divisions in the south. the S0th. S1st and 39. coupled with a decision to form a new national army division of negro troops. has made necessary readjustment of the forces at 15 of the Is cantonments. The geographical complexion Of three na- tional army divisions will be changed entirely as a result.
 General Bliss. chief of stan. issued this explanation:
 Sixteen Cantonments
 The selected men that are now be- ing adhered into the IS national army cantnOments will be used tO form the first force of 5OO.OOO men authorized in the act of congress provided May IS. 1917. and to fill up the National Guard division 10 practically the max imum strength of the new organiza- tion. The balance of the 6S7.O00 se- lected men will be used to supplement the voluntary enlistments for the spe- cial and technical troops that are such an important part of the organ ization of a modern army It is ex- pected that the voluntary enlistments for the regular army will be enough to keep that branch of the nations forces filled up to strength without transferring men to it from this first selection of the national army.
 White and Black
 "The force of 500 900 men will be organized into 16 white divisions and one colored division. One white di- vsiion will be organized at each of the Is national army caniOnments. and the units of the colored division will be organized at the various can comments where the number of col ored troops is sufficient to organize divisional unit.
 Instead of concentrating all of the colored men in the few cantOnments of the southern states. the policy of the war department will be to dis tribute them more or less evenly throughout all of the 16 national army cantonments.
 In the South
 "In the southern states whose quo tas go to the cantonments at COlum- bia, $. C.: Atlanta. Ca. and Little Rock. Ark. Camps Jackson. Gordon and Pikel. the number of white men required to fill up the National Guard divisions furnished by those states IS so great and the proportion of col ored ot white in the populations of those states is so great. that it has been found physically impossible to organize three National Guard and three national army divisions at full from the white QuO,as of these states. and therefore the war department has decided to take all of the white men from these states. both National Guard and national army. and organize them into four full strength divisions (three Nation al Guard and one national armyl. This national army division will be organized at Camp Jackson from the men left over at Camps Jackson. Cor don and Pike after the three National Guard divisions (30th. S1st and S9thl. have been filled up to strength.
 Camp Gordon
 "At Camp Gordon. after its white quota has been transferred to the Ma tional Guard and to Camp Jackson. there will be organized a national army division made up of surplus white men drawn from Camp Devens. Camp Upton. Camp Dix. Camp Meade
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