Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
1,2OO,ooO TROOPS
 TO COLoRS SOON
40, ,OOO Men In Officers Train
 ing Camps Today.
WILL GALL NATIONAL GUARD

Consoription of 800 In Every Congress
 District to Bring Militia to War
 Strength Next Move of Administra-
 tion-Thirty- nine New Regiments of
 Regulars ordered-5oo,ooo More Men
 Under seIective Draft.
 With 10000 men from the l1omes of the nation under canvas today train ing as officers of the new national army, America has begun to take on : the appearance of huge war camp.
 At sixteen camps, covering the na- tion from coast to coast, today begun a three and one-half months siege of intensive training for the men picked to lead the nations legions into battle. Each camp has a personnel of from 2,500 to $500 Out of these military hoppers the war department believes that by August will be poured grist of sturdy military men, fit and capable of leading Americas first million against the enemy.
 With telegrams to the war depart ment indicating that the camps are getting under way with military pre- cision and dispatch, the government moved rapidly toward other plans. President Wilson, following a confer ence with Secretary of War Baker, is sued an executive order authorizing the raising of 1S3,OOO men, in four in- crements, to bring the regular army to war strength.
 War department officials let 1t be known that plans were under way to bring the national guard into the fed eral service immediately and that camps were now being selected as training bases for the militia forces. which will be increased to war footing.
 War Department Plans.
 Here is what the war department in- tends to do:
 First.-Put under training forthwith 750,- 900 men of the regular army and national guard as rapidly as the two organizations can be brought to full strength.
 second.-Have the training of these troops we'll under way by Aug. 1, when the first increments of the conscriptive army will begin to pour in; also there will be ready by this time the 10000 officers whose training begins tomorrow. They will take over the leadership of the selec~ tive army.
 To every recruiting office in the country orders have gone to begin "the big drive" so long planned by the war department, but which has been post poned from day to day and week to week as the slow moving congress con- sidered the necessary legislation and appropriated the necessary funds.
 Straight conscription will be resorted to in the case of the national guard. Each congress district in the country will be forced to supply It's quota of 800 to bring the guard to its war strength of approximately 330,00e. The difficulty is obtaining recruits for the regular army leads to the view that it will be almost a hopeless proposition to obtain volunteers for the guard, and for this reason President Wilson Is eX- pected to act soon under the authority conferred upon him by the national de- fense act to order the draft applied, the men who must serve to be deter mined by lot.
 Plan For 100 Camps.
 Plans of the war department today called for more than hundred camps, dotting the country from coast to coast. within the next three months.
 Heavy work on selecting sites for these camps Is now being done by the southeastern department, under com mand of Major General Leonard Wood, recently transferred from Governors island.
 The greater part of the regular army. now largely concentrated along the Mexican border, will be transferred to other parts of the country, leaving the patrol of the Rio Grande to cavalry di- visions of both regulars and guardsmen.
 The guardsmen, some 60,0O0 of whom are now either mobilized at their state camps or engaged In police duties, will soon be mustered into the federal serv- ice. You are the United States army, not the New York militia or the Oregon militia or any state body" will be the governments word to the guardsmen
 100000 Men Within Year.
 The militia regiments will be mobi- lized at their state camps, and then will be moved to federal camps, according to the present plans. Under these plans and others being worked out by the Army War college, the first army of ap approximately 100000 men will be completely trained and ready for serv ice in from nine months to year.
 The new regiments authorized by the president will be mobilized as follows:
 Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth infantry Syracuse, N. Y.; Twelfth field artillery Fort Myer, Va; Forty-seventh to Fiftietl Gnclusive) infantry, Gettysburg Nationa park; Nineteenth and Twentieth field ar tillery, Montauk Point N. Y; Fifty-frs to Fifty sixth Qnclusive) infantry, Chicka mauga park, Ga; Twenty-second ant Twenty-third cavalry, Chickamauga, Ga.
 Fortieth and Forty-frst infantry, For Smelling, Minn; Forty-second and Forty l third infantry, Fort Douglas, Utah. Tent and Eleyenth field artil,nrv Enrt Rinr