The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-13
General March Announces That
100000 Have Gone.
About 100000 Men Organized
for Active Use.
THREE ARMY CORPS FORMED
Rainbow Division Placed in
First Corps.
35th Division Is Part of the
Second Corps.

Washington, July 13.-In announc-
ing today that American troops al
ready abroad or in transit have passed
the 100000 mark, General March,
chief of staff, also disclosed that three
army corps of American troops now
have been organized in France.
Each contains from 225,0OO to 250,-
900 men of the regulars, national army
and national guard.
Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett tempo
rarily commands the first corps; the
other two commanders have not been
selected, but when the corps COM
manders are finally selected they will
have the rank of lieutenant generals
Beside this the chief of staff dis
closed important information of the
exact troops which go to make up the
corps. This information never has
been given before to the people at
home.
The rate of transportation of troops
for July, General March said, was
keeping up with previous months.
More than $4,000 troops were trans
ported last week alone. The most i'm
portant developments of the week, the
chief of staff pointed out, had been
in the Albanian theater of war. There
IS no indication at the war department
or when the next German thrust will
come on the western front, but all the
allied commanders are confident of
their ability to withstand it.
ActiVltles along the various fronts
nave been of minor character during
the last week, General March said
Ihe process of small raids along the
French line have been continued with
practically UNMARRIED success for the
allies. . ..---.---.-..., =.
The most striking advance has been
of1 1xr D-i4; ;-J-
and Italian monitors operating from
the sea, general advance over a
crescent-sha ped sector of eighty miles
IN length has been made, the advance
being twenty-five miles at its deepest
point The former crescent into the
allied line there has been wiped out
and a straight front substituted. The
advance was carried out largely by
Italian troops, General March said,
but they were assisted on the right
flank by French.
General March said no official re-
ports attempting to explain the delay
in the German offensive had reached
the war department. He indicated his
own opinion, however, that the time
that has now elapsed since the last
German drive is not greater than
would have been necessary to prepare
adequately for an assault of the scope
of that which the Germans are be-
lieved to be contemplating.
The fact that ASserican forces are
being rapidly shipped to France is re-
garded as possibly the reason for even
more extensive German preparations
General March had little to say re-
garding the military situation In
France, but stated that the shipment
OF troops was proceeding without any
let-up whatever, the same rate being
maintained for July as for previous
m onths.
In announcing the organization of
the army corps General March showed
that five regular, nine national guard
and four national army divisions have
ben used to make up the three corps.
The first army corps comprises the
following: First division, regulars,
commanded by Maj. Gen. Robert L.
Bullard; second division, regulars,
| Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy; twenty sixth,
national guard. Maj. Gen. Clarence r.
Edwards; Forty-second, national