Connecticut western news., 1917-07-19
GUARD CALLED
 TO J. 5. C0L0RS
Troops of Eleven States Mus
 tered In Today.
TWO WITH FULL DIVISIONS

New York and Pennsylvania Have Tac- 1 ticaI Units Complete-125,oo ,ooo Men In 1 First Section of Militia Called Out.
 Transports Being Got Ready as Men
 Are Ordered to Southern Camps For Training Before Being Sent to France. The government has taken the first step to muster in an army of q million 1 men.
 Approximately 125.000 members of the national guard are mobilized under m executive order in eleven states They comprise the first increment of the militia to be drawn into federal service.
 They will be held at their state camps for several weeks and then sent to mobilization camps in the south There they will have a short period of intensive training and then go to France. They will be lover there not later than Oct. ].
 The Army War college has laid out a complete program for their use in the war. This program includes the exact time they will Dc held ill mobilization camps and the dates on which they will be sent overseas.
 Getting Transports Ready. | Meanwhile the war and navy de- partments are busy securing trans ports. It is expected that a great fleet sufficient to carry the forces the war college has decided upon, together with all their arms and equipment, will be ready on the appointed dates. 1 The forces ordered are only the first of three increments. Others will fol ] low July 9 and Aug. 5. On the latter date Nthe entire militia establishment will be drafted into the federal service and will stand on the same plane as the regular army. The troops now as- sembled are:
 New York. which will go to Spar tansburg, S. C.; Pennsylvania. which will camp at Augusta; Ohio and West Virginia to Montgomery; Michigan | Wisconsin to Waco, Tex: Iowa. Min nesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota to Deming, N. NJ.
 Each camp will accommodate a con- ] plete division. In the American army a division is about 30,OOO men. After the troops are in camp there is a possi- l bilhy that the divisions would reorgan- izey on the European basis of 15.OnO to ! 10000 men. Under this plan the New York guard would make two divisions But each camp would still have 30.OO0 i Many Promotions Corning.
 If the army is reorganized OH the European division basis q great num- bcr of vacancIes will be created in ! higher ranks. Double the number of brigadier generals now required would be needed, and there would be q mov- ing up all through the army.
 As soon as the troops are in camp at least fourteen brigadier generals will be required at any rate. Only two states. New York and Pennsylvania. have full guard divisions with their own major generals. Other divisions are comprised of number of states. A major general to command each of 1 these fourteen divisions will be re- l quired. Recommendations as to the men have been made to President Will 1 son, and he is expected to send the nominations to congress for action by the time the troops reach camp.
 The regiments mustered today are l for the most part under strength, as is the entire national guard. To fill the ranks to war strength 142,00O con- ] scripts to be selected through the draft will be assigned to the guard regiments