The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-05-07
WAR ARMY 70 Be
528,G50 STRONG

enlisted men, making up eighteen
war strength divisions complete iii
every arm and supplemented by six
teen regiments of heavy field artil-
lery, equipped with large calibre how
itzers
Virtually every detail of plans of
raising, training equipping and or
ganizing this force has been carefully
worked out by the War Department
and the selection of the men will be-
gin as soon as the draft measure be-
comes a law.
Conferees of the Senate and House
hope to agree upon disputed features
tomorrow so as to send the bill to the
President for his signature early next
week
A revised list of officers training
camp districts issued today by the de-
partment indicates that the divisions
OF the first half million new fighting
men will be formed as follows:
First division-Troops from all New
England states.
Second-New York Congressional
districts l to 20 (inciuding Long Is
land, New. York City and strip
north of the city.
Third-Remainder of New York
state and. Pennsylvania congressional
districts 10, II, IA, IS, 10, 21, Is and
%.
Fourth-Remainder of Pennsylvania
state, including Philadelphia and
Pittsburg.
Fifth-New Jersey, Delaware
Maryland, Virginia and District of
! Columbia.
Sixth-North and South Carolina
and Tennessee.
seventh-Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
Eighth-Ohio and West Virginia.
Ninth-Indiana and Kentucky.
Ienth-Illinois
Observation-Disclosures and Wisconsin.
observation-disclosures, Mississippi and
Louisiana
Observation-Disclosures, Iowa, North
and South Dakota and Nebraska.
Observation-Disclosures, Kansas and
Colorado.
Fifteenth-Oklahoma and Texas.
observation-disclosures, N1daho, Wash
ington, Oregon, California, Nevada,
Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, and New
Mexico.
Two Cavalry Divisions.
In addition there will be two sep
arate cavalry divisions, which prob
ably will be situated in the Southwest
near the Mexican border.
Officers for the cavalry divisions
will be trained at all of the sixteen Of
ficers training camps, which a. will
open within few days.
Each infantry division will consist
nine full regiments of infantry,
three regiments of field artillery, one
regiment of cavalry, one regiment of
engineers, one divisions hospital and
four camp infrmaries. The total
strength of the sixteen will be 15.O22
officers and 439,792 men. The two
cavalry divisions combined will have
1,214 officers and $1,000 fighting men,
including mounted engineers and
horse artillery units and each will also
have its divisional hospital and camp
inhrmaries.
Already orders summoning officers
of the regular service for examina-
ton for advance in grade have been
prepared.
The result of this expansion will be
to create 5,461 vacancies in the grades
of first and second lieutenants in the
army. More than thousand youths
in civil life already have applied for
examination for second lieutenant and
| 4,UOU VIII be selected from the officers
training camps.
To provide general officers to COM
mand the eighteen divisional training
camps, that number of army colonies
may be examined. AS there exists al
ready one vacancy in the grade of
brigadier general, nineteen new gen
eral officers must be appointed soon,
and the army bill provides that the
President may select these men from
any source. In any event, the present
general officers of wide experience
probably will be selected as far as
possible to command divisional
camps.
329,e54 in Guards.
The full strength of the National
Guard units now existing will be g.
847 officers and 329,954 men.