Putnam patriot., 1917-08-24
Plan is to Unite Connecticut
Units TO Provide New Reg.
mental Strength
COMBINED FORCE 500 MEN
VIII se Part Of the 51st Brigade
Prxparations indicate That the Men
viii soon Go to Franoe-Eur.
louehs Have Ceased.
Hartford

Connecticut National Guard. will be
combined into one regiment to be
known as the 102nd Regiment OF the
Fifty-first Army Brigade and they ex,
pect soon 10 go to France.
All the line officers will retain their
commissions Patriotic work will be
found for either Col Richard J. Good
man OF the First or Col Ernest L. Is.
bell of the Second outside of the regi-
ment and in like manner for certain
officers who duplicate certain work.
There will be six battalions. The
combined strength of the two regi-
ments will be 3.700 men. The First
some 2,065. A few men may be weeded
out by strict physical examination.
sickness and perhaps the penalizing of
the prisoners.
The coalesced regiment would have
battalions averaging about 600 men,
or about the average of fighting units
in several sectors of the French front,
units stripped TO the leanness of ath-
letes. The number is less than in
many representative regiment of the
British. In the British army the word
regiment is usually as much geographic.
cal as military. The Royal Irish Rifles
has had as many as twenty-eight bat
talions The East Kents have some
six or seven. The Kings Own Scot.
fish Border Regiment has as many.
The Sutherland and Argyll Highland
ers have a large number.
Burroughs for more than day have
ceased at the New Haven camp.
Passes and leaves Of absence are be-
ing given only in moderation.
Para typhoid NEGOTIATIONS are being
rushed In the camp at New Haven.
All hands have received smallpox
and typhoid NEGOTIATIONS by surgeons.
Orders are issued to company COM
manders calling for full lists of certain
lines of equipments except light cloth
ing, shoes, ponehos, heavy tents and
other items An order calls for full
lists of equipment needed for full war
strength.
There certainly seems to be prepare
ton and the command may soon start
for France. To the argument that the
work In the Charlotte camp would be
thrown away, reply is made that the
camp will be needed for the draft
army The command Is due for a
change before long and that 1t will be
in France before the first OF January is
good bet. 1t may undergo a short
period of training in Cuba.
Major-Gen. Clarence r. Edwards is
to command the Twenty-sixth Divi-
sion. A dispatch to the New York
Times from Washington has 1t that
the parts OF the New England troops
not needed to fill out the division will
be turned over to the Forty-third Divi-
sion along with units from numerous
other States and that this division will
be organized at an early date for
training in France.
Gen. William A. Mann commands
the Forty-second. which is to mobilize
at once in Mineola, n. Y. and which
has troops from twenty-five States and
the District of Columbia
Hartford gave no paFdue TOT nef out
going soldiers when the lads left the
city for New Haven. though thousands
crowded the streets and waved fare
well. But New Haven is to give a
parade and a sendoff when the First
and Second regiments start. Mayor
Campher has appointed a committee
to arrange for an official demonstra-
ton Col ] Richard North has been
appointed marshal of the parade He
is in command of the Home Guard in
and near New Haven. Military com
panies Of New Haven and from the VI
entity will perform the escort duty and
it is figured that about $500 to 5000
men will be in line. II is planned to
have the mayor make parting addresses
at the Yale Field and at the armory.