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Two Additional Arny)
Corps Have Been Or
ganized in France
FIVE CORPS NOW
IN EXISTENCE
Liggett, Bullard, Wright
Reed and Bundy Are I
the Commanders
(Rv Associated PresH.l !

| Washington, July 27.-Trained
combat American troops from
France have begun to arrive in Italy,
| General March announced at HIS
| regular conference with newspaper
men.
Neither the number nor the place
where they are to be used, has bean
communicated to the war depart
ment, the general said.
Two additional American army.
corps have been organized in France,
General March announced. They
are the 4th and 9th, commanded by,
Major Generals George W. Reed and
Omar Bundy respectively.
Summing up the battle situation
on the Aisne-Marne front, General
March said that It had resulted, ac-
cording to official advices, in fore
ing the Germans back eleven miles
further from Paris and shortening
the allied line by ten miles.
The positions on the flanks of the
salient near Scissors and Rheims are
relatively unchanged, General March
said.
Center Being ShelIed.
The German withdrawal from
Chateau Thierry toward the center
OF the salient continues and the inn
portant German center of Fere-en-
one-half miles Of the allied lines
and under constant shell fire.
The most striking advance since
last Wednesday which General
March noted was by British forces
just west of Rheims. This advance.
of mile and a. half on a. four mile
front he said, marked a special
source OF danger to the enemy, plac-
ing his forces to the south in an
awkward position.
| AS a. result General March said,
the French already are beginning to
advance northward from the Marne
against the enemy forces IN the
pocket on the side of the salient.
The German attack at Epieds on
ly delayed the American progress
and these troops are again moving
onward
The French advance from Dor
mans nOrthWard on the Marine, the
chief Of staff pointed out, is across
precipitous and wooded terrain,
making progress necessarily slow.
The Two New Corps.
In announcing the formation or
two more corps, General March e1-
planned that the divisions compris-
ing them and other corps are as
signed before leaving this country,
( to be modified as corps when
| training has been completed.
| this understanding he said the
| National army major General 81
GLENN, seth National army CE
| der General Frank L. Winn) s9h
National guard major General WI
liam s. Farnsworth), 29th M
guard (MaJor General Charl
Morton), Goth National army
General Henry B. Allen). 92n
gro), National army major Genes
G.. G. Ballou), have been assie
the fourth corps.
General March announces
temporary commanders of the
corps as follows:
First corps. Major Genera
ter Liggett.
Second corps. Major ~Geners
ert L. Bullard.
Third corps, Major GeneraL y.lI4
liam M. Wright.
Fourth corps, Major General
George w. Reed. '-.
Fifth corps. Major General Omar
Bundy.
General March said the s2nd Ma
tional guard division, composed
principally of Michigan troops and
commanded by Major General Haan
is now in the Vosges on quiet geo-
tor.
The fifth army corps included tha
9Th regular division major General
George LIE r. Irwin), Thirty sixth
National guard Major General VIII
liam r. SMITH, Seventieth Ma
tional army, Major General Joe.
E. Kuhn, Eighty-fifth National army
major General w. G. Kennedy.
91st National army, (Brigadier Gem
eral Frederick s.. Foltz. temporarily
in command) and 18th National aHs
my (Major General Henry Oh
Hodges. Jr).