Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-05

Washington, May 4-The full strength Of the first war army organ ized under the Eelective draft bill will be 1s.5Ss officers and 528.65s enlisted men. making up eighteen war-strength divisions complete in every arm and supplemented by. sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery equipped with large calibre howitzers.
 All Details Worked Out.
 Virtually every detail of plans for raising, training, equipping and or EantZing this force has been carefully worked out by the war department. and the selection of the men will be- gin as soon as the draft measure be- comes law. Conferees of the senate and house hope to agree upon dis puted features tomorrow so as to send the bill to the president for his sigma ture early next week
 4 revised list of officers training camp districts issued today by the de- parrment indicates that the divisions of the first half million new fighting men will be formed as follows:
 New England First Division.
 First division-Troops from all New England states.
 Second-New York congressional districts i to 2e (including Long Lsl- and. New York city and a strip north of the city-)
 state and Pennsylvania congressional districts. 10. Il. A, Is, Is. 21. 25 and
 Remainder of f'ennsylvania state including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
 F'ifth-New Jersey, Delaware, Mary land, Virginia and District of Colum-
 sixth-North and South Carolina
 Seventh-Geo-g1a, Alabama and Florida
 Eighth-ohio and West Virginia.
 Ninth-Indiana and Kentucky.
 Tenth-Tllinois.
 Eleventh Michigan and Wisconsin
 TweIfth-Arkansas, Missiippi and Louiiana-
 Thirteenth-Minnesot Iowa. North and South Dakota and Nebraska.
 Fourteenth = Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.
 Oklahoma and Texas.
 Sixteenth-Montana, Idahd Wash iugton. Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. Arizona and New Mexico
 Two Separate Cavalry Divisions.
 In addition there will be two sepa- rate cavalry divisions which probably will be situated in the southwest near the Mexican border: Officers for the of the sixteenth officers training camps, which will open within a few days, with 10000 prospective officers under training.
 Nine Regiments in Each Division.
 Each division will consist of nine full regiments of infantry. three reg fments of field artillery, one regiment of cavalry, one regiment of engineers, one division hospital and four camp inirnar1es. The total strength of the sixteen will be 15.202 officers and 439.- 7s2 men
 The two cavalry divisions combined will have ], 1,214 officers and 32, ,062 fighting men, including mounted en-
 
 each will have also its divisional hos pita1 and camp inhrmaries.
 Coast Artillery Corps.
 The proportion of coast arti1lerya troops to be provided out of the first 50o. 900 will be e66 officers and 10000 men with requisite medical troops.
 Supplementing these tactical units will be the sixteen regime ents of heavy field artillery, strength 76S officers and 21.10z men: eight aero sQuadrons, or one new squadron to each two new infantry divisions; eight balloon com psnies. ten field hospitals: ten ambu- lance companies; twenty-two field bakeries; six telephone battalions; six teen pack companies; six ammunition trains and six supply trains.
 Task of Training. Tn preparation for the enormous task ing regular establishment and the na- tionaI guard Is being brought to full war strength The regulars, when all five additional fncrenents provided for | Tn the national defense act have been l added. will total II ,233 officers and i 2S3 900 men of all arms. Since April | 1 nearly 50,O00 recruits have been ob- | bringing the army up to near | Iy 1s0, 900. Upon the presidents approval of the 1 army bill. the first increment will be | added to the regulars. Details of officers and designations | # new units already havo been ar i -anged- As soon as possible thereafter | he remaining increments will be ere 1 ted, existing regiments being divided | md expanded to form the new units. | Officers for Examination. Already orders summoning officers f the regular service for examination f or advance in grade have been pre- ,ared- Fifteen lieutenant colonels of .avalry will become colonels; twenty even cavalry majors will become lieu enant coloneis; sixty-three captains