The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-03-14
TROOPS WILL Be
RUSHED TO FRANCE.
Orders Issued to Speed Move
ment of Selected Soldiers.
7 GENERALS IN ARMY SHAKEUP
Nal. Gen. March Declares Pershines
Demands That Only Commanders
Physically Fit Be Sent
Across.

Washington, March 13.-New orders,
of troops to France.
In consequence the drafted men are
to be dispatched to Europe as fast as
ships are available.
Seven Generals Relieved.
Sweeping changes in the command
ing personnel of the American army
were foreShadOwed when seven gem
eral officers We're relieved of field
commands and assigned to home duty.
The shakeup is a result of the de-
mand of General Pershing that only
commanders physically fit be sent
abroad
The officers affected are:
Maj. Gen. Thomas II. Barry, relieved
from command Eighty-sixth division,
Camp Grant, H., and assigned TO com
mand central department. Chicago, re-
lieving Maj. Gen. w. II. Carter, re-.
tired.
Maj. Gen. Edward II. Plummer, to
brigadier general , relieved from COM
man Elghty-eighth division, Camp
Dodge. la.
Maj. Gen. Richard w. Blatchford,
to brigadier general, commanding de-
partment of Panama.
Maj. Gen. Edwin St. j. Greble, to
brisader general and relieved of
command Thirty-sixth division, Camp
Bowie, Tex.
Maj, Gen. Charles c. Morton, re-
lieyed from command Twenty-ninth
division, Camp Mcclellan. Ala.
Maj. Gen. William H. Sage, to briga-
der general, relieved of command
Thirty-eighth division. Camp Shelby.
Miss.
Maj. Gen. William a. Mann, TO briga-
der general. commanding Eastern de-
partment, New York.
The reductions in grade were made
because all except Barry and Morton
were holding their higher grades only
for the period of the war on assign
ment to the National army.
All general officers abroad includ-
ing Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, it was
indicated, also must pass rigid
physical test.
National army commands We're the
first affected. because of orders To-
rush the draft divisions to France.
Allies Appeal for Troops.
The orders to speed up are reported
to have resulted from fresh appeals
of the allies for more American forces
TO help withstand the expected Ger
man OffenSives.
France, particularly, is said to have
renewed her urgings.
"The whole movement across" said
General March, lis being speeded as
rapidly as possible"
simultaneously with the shakeup
and orders to speed up transportation
came cheering news that all records
in preparations are to be smashed.
From the shipping board and dipio-
matte sources came assurances the
transportation situation is rapidly
clearing.
Food, clothing. shells and guns are
beginning to pile up in prodigous
amounts.
In the next year $500,000,000 is to-
be spent by the war department erect
ing huge depots for the rapidly ac-
cumulating material. Six of these are
to be erected along the Atlantic coast. |
Thirty depots are planned west of the
Alleghenies.
All records in training men haye
been broken. The draft army, after
six months, is as well trained as it'll
can be on this side of the Atlantic. !
1t was indicated at the war depart |
ment the selects were ready for the
final training in France.
Indicative of its tremendous prep
arations, the war department told
congress of its purpose to ask $375.-
100000 more in the huge military
budget of S761, 100000 passed by the
senate yesterday.