The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-05-09

Their Ranks Will be Taken 200, 900
OilicerS and Noncoms for New trmy.
TWO Cavalry Divisions TO be Added.
! WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 4.--Thc full
| strength Of the first war army organ
! lied under the sclectivc draft bill VIII
, be 1898 officers and 52S,G59 enlisted
men, making up IS war strength di-
visions complete in every arm and
supplemented by lG regiments OF
heavy field artillery equipped with
large calibrc howitzcrs.
Virtually every detail of plans of
raising, training cnuipping and or
ganiznS 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 law. Confcrccs OF the SEN
ate and house hope to agree upon dis
putcd features tomorrow 50 as to send
the bill to tie president for MS sig
nature early next week
\ revised list Of officers training
camp districts issued today by the
] jdcpa!tmcrt indicates that thc divisions
iof thc\fil half mi,lion new fighting
mon will bc formed as follows:
/ First Division Troops from ali New
/ england S;atcs
| Second New York Confessional
( Districts / 10 2G Gncludtng Long Is
+ land. NCW Work city and a strip north
OF the city>.
T Remainder OF New York
Sta nd Pennsylvania Congressional
/ Districts 10. u, II, Is, lG, 81, %.
Fourth District Remainder Of
Pennsylvania State including philadcl-
phia and Pittsburgh
Fifth-Ncw Jersey, Delaware Mary
land, Virginia and District of Colum-
bia
Sixth North and South Carolina
and Tennessee
Sevctnh Georgia, Alamaba and
Florida.
Eighth-Oho and West Virginia.
| Ninth-Indiana and Kentucky.
| Tenth Illinois.
Eleventh Michigan and Wiscon-
sin.
observation-disclosures, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Iowa, North
and South Dakota and Nebraska
Fourteenth Missouri, Kansas and
Colorado.
observation-disclosures and Texas
Sixteenth Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington, Oregon, California Nevada,
Utah, Wyoming. IArizona and New
Mexico.
In addition there will be two scpa-
rate cavalry divisions which probably
will be situated in the Southwest. near
the Mexican border.
Officers for the cavalry divisions
! will be trained at all the lG officers
few days with 10000 prospective Off
GERS under training.
Each infantry division will consist
Of nine full regiments of infantry.
three regiments of field artillery, one
regiment Of cavalry, one regiment Of
engineers, one division hospital and
four camp infrmaricS. The total
strength Of the 16 will be l5O22 Off
GERS and 1912 mon. The two cav
airy divisions combined will have
l2li officers and 32,OG2 lighting men,
including mounted engineers and
horse artillery units, and each will
also have its divisional hospital and
camp intirmarics.
The proportion OF coast artillery
troops TO be provided 0ut OF The first
100000 will be 66G officers and 10000
men and requisite medical troops.
Supplementing these tactical units
will be the l6 regiments OF heavy field
artillery, stronGth 7GS officers and
2l,l0l men; eight aero snuadrons. or
one new squadron 10 each two new
infantry divisions. cight balloon COM
panics; ten field hospitals ten am
bulancc companies; % field bakeries;
six telephone battalions; iGpack com
panics six ammunition trains and six
supply trains.
In prcNaratior for Tie enormous
task Of training this arna arD'", the
existing regular establishment = The
National Guard Is bcira lrou 10
G,l, wor atran~th mhc ra When
tcontinuol On Iiost paecJ