The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-08-01
Body of Fighting Men GO
From France Where They
Had Been Training,
March Announces.
1885, 600 NOW OVERSEAS
Five Full Army Corps Have
Been Formed-Chief Of
Staff Optimistic About
Battle Outcome.

Washington. D. c., July 29.-With
10000 troops sent last week. the NUM-
YER Of American soldiers transported
,verseas during July Is expected to
reach q record Of 800, 900, Secretary
Baker n General March. chief Of
taft. today told members Of the Sem,
tie military committee.
With the shipment Of men last week,
he total number of American troops
tmbarking for France was 1.26o.o0o.
Troops to Italy.
Trained combat American troops
rom France have begun to arrive In
tally, General March announced today
t his regular conference with news
aper men. Neither the number nor
he place where they are to be used
as been communicated to the war
apartment, the general said.
Two additional American army
orps have been organized in France.
~ieneral March announced. They are
he fourth and fifth, commanded by
fajor General George w. Reed and
mar Bundy.
Summing up the battle situation on
he Aisne- Marine front, General March
aid 1t had resulted In forcing n
Germans back II miles farther from
Paris and shortening the allied line
" 10 miles.
Huns Falling Back. -
- The positions on the tanks Of the
y aliepts near Scissors and Rheims are
elatively unchanged. General March
ss1aid. ~
The Germans withdrawal from Cha
u-Thierry toward the center Of the
alient continues and he important
German center of Fere-En ~-TardenoisfH
Tow within three n a half miles OF the
lllied lines n under constant shell
are. 2 q
The most striking advance since last
Wednesday which General March noted
was by the British forces just west or
Rheims. This advance Of a mile and q
half on a four-mile front, he said,
marked a special source OF danger to
The enemy, placing his forces TO the
south in an awkward position.
AS a result, General March said, the
French already are beginning to d
vance northward from the Marine
against the enemy forces In the pocket
on that side of the salient.
The German attack at Epieds only
delayed the American progress and
these troops are again moving for
ward.
The French advance from Dormans
northward on the Marine, the chief OF
staff pointed out, lie on a p~recfpitouS
and wooded terrain, making progresa
necessarily slow. II
Five Corps Organized.
III dHIOuIlClHS tHe luTHldtIoI VI tWV
more army corps, General March ex-
planned that the divisions comprising
them n other corps are assigned be-
fore leaving this country, to be mo-
bilized as corps when their training has
been complete. With this understanding
(Maj. Gen. e. F. GLENN. Eighty ninth
national army BRIG. Gen. John s.
Winn). Thirty-seventh national guard
(MaJ. Gen.. VIM. S. FarnswOrth), Twen-
ty-ninth national guard (Maj. Gen.
Charles G.. Morton), Eighty-ninth a
tional army (Maj. Gen. Henry b. ,Allen).
Ninety-second (negro( national army
(Maj. Gen. c. c. Bailou). nave been
assigned to the Fourth corps.
General March announced the tenn
porary commanders Of the five corps as
follows.
First corps, Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett.
Second corps, Maj. Gen. Robert I.
Billiard.
Third corps. Maj. Gen. VIM. M.
Wright.
Fourth corps, Maj. Gen. Geo. w. Reed.
Fifth corps, Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy.
Sixth regular division (Maj. Gen. Geo.
LIE r. Irwin, Thirty sixth national
guard (Maj. Gen. William N. Smith),
Seventy ninth national army NAL
Cen. Joseph e. Kuhnl, Eighty fifth ma
tional army MAI. Gen. G. w. Ken
tANNS/' Hd SlOIlal army
(Brig. Gen. Frederick s. Foltz, tenn
porarily in commando, and Seventy
sixth national army (Maj. Gen. Henry
C.. Hodges, jr.).
General March said the Thirty-sec-
ond national guard division. composed
principally OF Michigan troops and
commanded by Major General HAN,
now is in the Vosges, on a quiet sector.
Major General John hickman has
been assigned to command the north
Atlantic coast artillery district, Gen.
eral March announced.
Moro Units Planned.
The chief Of staff said it would be the
policy Of the department to continue
organizing additional divisions as those
in this country are sent abroad.
Secretary. Baker told congressman so
Tar 1853 Of the Haviland-t a%irplanes
have been completed in his country
and more than 400 shipped to France.
The last report from. General Psrshing
said CT had been received. but he had
made no report regarding the number
actually now In use on the American
front.
Secretary Baker said General Per-
shing had criticised some OF the Havi-
land machines suggesting structural
charges.
Five thousand heavy Browning
machine guns, the secretary said. have
been completed. but have not yet been
sent to General Pershing. Quantity
production of both the heavy and light
Browning. lie added, is increasing.
General March also announced the
composition OF the first four regular
army divisions. among tho first to be
sent to France They follow:
First division-Sixteenth. Eighteenth.
Twenty-siXth and Twenty eishth In
fantry: Fifth. Sixth and Seventh field
artillery.
Second diyis.on-Fifth and Sixth
Marine regiments: Ninth and Twenty
third infantry: Twelfth, Fifteenth and
Seventeenth field artillery.
Third division-Fourth. Seventh,
Thirtieth and Thirty eighth ir''"trv;
Tenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-six : 'c;d
artillery.
Fourth division-Thirty-n nth E>Ttr-
seventh. fifty-eighth n Ff.v-n'n!l
infantry, and thirteenth, S'Ste&n:E sr1