Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-05
18 DIVISIONS .OF ALL ARMS .T0 COMPOSE
 ARMY
War Departments Plans As sure That Americas First Half Million Will Be Com pact Little Fighting Unit.
Is REGIMENTS OF
 HOWITZERS IN IT
Will Have 1S,538 Officers and 528,659 Men With Much Cavalry. Army Draft Bill To Reach Wilson Tuesday.
lRy Review Leased Wirel

Nby heFleW Leased Nlrel. WASHINGTON, May 1.-The full strength of the first war army organ ized under the selective draft bill will be 1S,53S officers and 52S.659 enlisted men, making up IS war strength divi- sions complete in every arm and sup plemented by 16 regiments of heavy field artillery, equipped with large calibre howitZers.
 Drafting Soon to Begin
 Virtually every detail has been care fully worked out and the selection of the men will begin as soon as the draft measure becomes law. Confer ences of the senate and house hope to agree upon disputed features to- morrow 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 oe. partment indicates that the western divisions of the first half million new fighting men will be formed as fol- lows:
 Thirteenth-Minneso Iowa. North and South Dakota and Nebraska.
 Fourteenth-Missouri. Kansas and Colorado.
 Fifteenth-Oklahoma and Texas
 Sixteenth-Montana, Idaho. Wash ingron. Oregon, California. Nevada. Utah. Wyoming. Arizona and New Mexico.
 Two Cavalry Divisions
 In addition there will be two sep arate cavalry divisions which proba- bly will be situated in the southwest near the Mexican border. Officers for the cavarly divisions will be trained at all of the Is officers training camps. which will open within a few days with 10000 prospective officers 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 infrmaries. The total strength
 Heavy Artillery Planned
 The total strength of the sixteen will be 15,022 officers and 439.792 men
 The two cavalry divisions combined will have 1914 officers and 32.062 fight ing men, including mounted engineers and horse artillery units, and each will have also its divisional hospital !ano camp infirmaries.
 The proportion of coast artillery troop0s to be provided out of the first 50.0O0 will be 666 officers and 20.000 men with requisite medical troops.
 Supplementing these tactical units will be the Is regiments of heavy field artillery, strength 76S officers and 21.- 104 men; eight aero squadrons or one new squadron to each two new infan- try divisions; eight balloon companies ten field hospitals, ten ambulance 22 field bakeries. six tele- phone battalions, sixteen pack com panies; six ammunition trains. and six supply trains.
 Many Recruits Obtained
 III AOi NnC CACiAuO task of training this great army. the existing regular establishment and tho national guard is being brought to full war strength. The regulars. when all i've additional increments provided for in the national defense act have been added will total 11.233 officers and 193 O0O men of all arms. Since April |. nearly 500O0 recruits have been ob- aimed bringing the army up to nearly lSO.O0O.
 Already orders summoning officers ,f the regular service for examination or advance in grade have been pre- pared.
 The result of this expansion will be o create 5461 vacancies in the grades ,f first and second lieutenants in the lrmy More than a thousand youths n civil life already have applied for for second lieutenant and 900 will be selected from the officers roipinU caroDc