Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-23
WILL BE PART OF SECOND ExPE.
DlTIoN TO BATTLE FIELDS OF
WESTERN EUROPE.
FIRST CONTINGENT OF
REGULARS LEAVE BIG GAP
Balance of Standing Army Torn to
Pieces to Form Skeleton For Organ
ization Of Forty Five New Regiments
One Battalion Of Veterans and Two
of Recruits to Form New Regiments.
Special to Times Republican.

SDeCldl 10 L Times -ftepuDlIIolA
Washington, May 25.-When the
Iowa National Guard is called out next
month. drafted into the federal service
and sent to q. training camp to become
part Of an army division, it may be the
prelude to orders to sending the lowe;
noldiers to France as part of the sec
ond expeditionary force of American
troops.
Present plans of the war department
cali for drawing the next overseas
army from the national guard since
that arm of the military service. army
officers believe, affords the only sub
stantial force from which a second eX-
petition can he drawn within the next
TWO or three months.
The war department is bending every
energy toward the immediate mobiilza-
ton of a division Of regulars, OF APP
proximately $4,000 men, with regi-
ment of marines, 1900 men, adued.
This force will he the first fighting
contingent sent to France tho nine
regiments OF engineers for work back
of the lines IN France are about re-
cruited.
Withdrawal % This force will tear a
wide gap in the regular army mobile
forces, as the bulk of the forces re-
manning have been withdrawn 10 form
In. skeleton for the organization OF
forty five new regiments TO bring the
regulars up to war strength of 2sS.Upu
These new regiments are 10 be formed
by using one battalion Of veterans ana
two battalions OF recruits TO form q
regiment, and one regiment Of veterans
10 be expanded, by adding two regl-
nlents OF recruits, into brigade. TINS
and the withdrawal Of regular army
officers to train the new national army
of 500 600 is believed 10 preclude any
further heavy drafts from the regulars
in the near future for foreign service
The national army TO be called our
by selectlve draft will not be in train
ing camps before september, TWO
months after the entire national guard.
under orders to recruit to war strength.
have been modified in divisional
camps. When this mobilization takes
place the national guard will be draft
ed into the federal service, which
means that It will be subject TO serv-
ice abroad II the president orders ii
10 fTdnCp. anu hiit pltSNIk !AiHA""~
lions are this order will go out as soon
as the guard is ready in numbers and
equipment to go abroad.
Expects Protest From Oes Moines.
The war department expects to hear
q roar from Dies Moines since action
was taken in selecting the fort at the
capital as the site for a training camp
for 1850 colored officers. The depart
ment explained that while most OF the
student officers of the camp will come
from Howard. Tuskegee and the other
colored schools in the east add soui~,
IT will be cheaper to pay Transports
ton of students than 10 build new
quarters, and with the Sixth cavalry
on the border Fort Des Moines has bet
ter available quarters than any other
army post.
At the solicitation Of W W. Marsh.
democratic national committeeman,
who came to Washington NJ the re-
quest Of Governor Harding, the war
department has taken steps 10 urge
steel companies 10 provide material for
construction of store houses for the
Iowa guard at the state mobilization
camp.