Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-10
Of the vice chancellor were adopted
without alteration.
NATIONAL ARMY
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tional Guard and to Camp Jackson,
there will be organized a National
Army division made up of surplus
white men drawn from Camps Devens,
Upton, Dix, Meade and Lee; and at
Camp Pike. after It's white quota has
been transferred to the National Guard
and Camp Jackson there will be form
ed National Army division made up
Of surplus white men drawn from
Camps Sherman, Custer. Grant. Tay-
lor. Dodge, Funston and Travis.
This plan, though somewhat diff
ferent from that originally adopted by
the war department Of forming a COM
plete National Army division compos-
ed exclusively Of men from each Of the
is national army areas is in full COM
pliance with the spirit Of the law or
May IS. because under 1t each white
National Army division still repre-
sents a distinct geographical area. the
one at Camp Jackson being made up
entirely from the white men Of the ex-
treme Southern states, the one at
Camp Gordon being made up entire
ly from the surplus white men Of the
extreme Eastern states, and the one
at Camp Pike being made up entirely
from the surplus white nan Of he
great middle western section. On the
other hand the colored division will he
made up Of representatives from evcly
part Of the nation and will be truly
national division.
ALSO under this plan, it is possible
to fill each National Guard division
with men drawn from the same
geographical area from which the Ma
tional Guard division is drawn"
The new plan adds division to the
National Army orga nization making
II divisions in that force to supplement
the II National Guard divisions.
The Negro Division
The Negro division will probably be
designated as the 92nd division, Ma
tional Army. 1t will be modified as
for duty. The force will be the larg-
est fighting unit of Negro troops in
the army and the majority Of its off,
GERS will come from the Negro officers
Training Camp at Des Moines, Ia.
The division will take in nearly 10000
of the $4,000 Negroes registered under
the draft law. There will be organized
in addition. however, service units for
work behind the lines. Orders were
published today authorizing "a Of these
to be raised by voluntary transfer of
drafted or volunteer enlistment from
civilian population.
experimenting Gen. Bliss explana-
tion the department issued a summary
Of orders governing the allotment Of
quotas of Negro drafted men to the
cantonments. With the exception Of
Camps Jackson, Gordon. Pike and
Travis, each cantonment will accom-
modate all of the Negro quotas from
the states from which Its white troops
are drawn. Supplemental assignments
Of colored contingents to these camps
have been made as follows: Camp Up
ton Yaphank. n. Y. its own supple
mented by Porto Rico quota, $780,
Camp Dix, Wrightstown, n. j. its own
supplemented by Florida quota, $500;
Camp Meade, Annapolis Junch ION. Md.
its own supplemented by Tennessee
quota. 500; Camp Sherman. Chilli
Gothic, Ohio. its own supplemented by
North Carolina quota. 700: Camp
Dodge, Des Moines, Ia, it's own sup
plemented by Alabama quota $500:
Camp Funston, Fort Riley. Kas., it's
own supplemented by Mississippi quo
ia, $500.
500 Negroes for Aver
Among the cantonments which will
take only their own. or part of their
own. Negro quotas are:
camp Devens. Aver. Mass. abou,