Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-08
6 DIVISION CORPS
 PLANNED IN N[W US. ORGANIZATION To Reorganize Army For Three Line Trench War
 fare on French Front.
WORK TO GIVE GEN.
 PER;s:;;E5INy 4 SECTOR
War Department Rushing Training and Organization of Full Field liriny So As to Take Over
 Full |. S. Sector.

Washington. March Biased upon the three line metl1od of trench | warfare evolved in France, the war department, it was learned today, has approved a plan of organization which fixes six divisions as the strength of army corps.
 Three or more corps will constitute 1 a field army and the immediate pur- pose of the department is to con- plete the organization of the first l! field army in France in the shortest 1 possible time to give General Per shing the strength to hold a fully "Americanized" sector of the front. 1 the plan leaves to Geenral Pershing the determination of the number of l corps and the number of field armies needed and also authorized him to re- commend commanders for the higher units.
 By the six division army corps plan each corps will occupy a front ! sector with two divisions, whle two replacement of reinforcement lines of two divisions each will back them up. The effect is to produce the line of depth necessary for the type of warfare now in progress.
 Replacement troops sent from the United States are fed into the warl machine in France at the third line They move forward in regular order as their training progresses and ar rive at the front line trenches to fill in casualty gaps only when they have been thoroughly seasoned.
 To fulfill the function of an army oo,,nc. if hoe boop fo,1pI poooccar,- to place under a corps commander, in addition to his six infantry divisions, approximately 30,000 men known as corps troops. These comprise artil lery units. engineers, and all types of service battalions for work on the communication lines of their own corps. A similar organization of about 130,000 men is necessary for each field army of three corps. These field army troops maintain the lines from the advance base of the army back to the sources of supply. In the case of General Pershing's forces this line connects with the ocean transport service.
 Included in the corps troops are many units of heavy artillery, equip ped with guns ranging up to 10 and 12 inches in calibre both for fixed emplacement and for mobile artillery. This comprises the artillery reserve of the corps. The great general ar tilery service of the field army is under direct command of the army commander and included in his so- called army troops.
 The organization schedules show that General Pershing is to be equip ped eventually with artillery of all calibres on a scale not heretofore dreamed of. The proportion of artl- lery to army rifles adopted by the war department is greater than that of either the British or French armies and the tendency of the department is to increase the big guns.
 Included in the heavy Artillery as- signed to corps of field army conl- manders will be whole brigades of anti-aircraft guns, mobile howitzers of six, eight, ten and even twelve inch calibres, rifles of similar size nclud- ng heavy long range naval guns and probably as soon as they are avail able, batteries of the monster Amerl- can 16 inch naval rifles recently de- veloped. With this array of guns, enemy depots 20 miles or more in the rear of his trenches could be kept
 under bombardmcnt.