Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29

ARE IN CRUCIAL
PART OF BATTLE
Central Portion Represented
in Allied Drive in Rheims
Scissors Salient

the important developments alonf
the Marne and in the great allieC
drive through the Rheims-Soisson.
salient in France. Central Pennsyl
Vania is largely represented in thi
crucial struggle and many of he
sons have already made the s%prem'
sacrifice.
General Peyton c. March, chic
OF the general staff, has announced
at Washington that four Regular
Army and three Guard divisions were
participating in this drive.
The three Guard commands are
the 26th, or New England Division
commanded by Major General Clar'
ence Edwards; the 2sth, or Pennsyl.
vania Division. under Major Genera
Charles H. Muir, and the 42d, which
is the famous Rainbow" Division
under Major General Charles 7
Menoher. These three commands IN
clude units of all arms from thirty
six states and the District of Co
1umbia.
States represented are New York
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massa'
chusetts. Connecticut, Rhose Island
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
Ohio, Alabama Iowa. Georgia, North
and South Carolina, Minnesota, In
diana, Illinois, Tennessee, Nebraska
California, Maryland, Texas, Michi.
gan, Wisconsin. Kansas, Oklahoma
Colorado, Virginia, Missouri and
Louisiana.
Major General C. H. Muir is COM
manding the 2Sth (Keystone) Divi-
sion. which comprises the Pennsyl-
vania troops of the old National
Guard.
The four National Army divisions
to which was given the honCE OF
leading the great selective draft or
ganizations into the fighting line are
the nth, or Camp Upton, Division,
under Major General George B. Dun
can; the 18th, which includes selec-
tive draft men from New York, New
Jersey, and Delaware. under Major
General Games n. McRea; the S0th,
comprising the drafted men of Penn
sylvania and Virginia, under Major
General Adelbert Cronkhite, and the
SD, with Alabama, Georgia and
Florida draft units, under Major
General William P. Burnham.
Major General Cronkhites divi-
sion comprises Pennsylvania and
Virginia troops as follows: 159th
Brigade of Infantry, 317th Regiment
of Infantry, 31Sth Regiment of In
fantry, 314th Machine Gun Battal-
ion; 160th Brigade of Infantry, S19th
Regiment of Infantry, S20th Regi-
ment of Infantry, 315th Machine
NTun bdlldllOUs lDOln ITlSdue Ol AT
tillery, 3lSth Regiment of Field Ar
tillery, 314th Regiment of Field Ar
tillery, 315th Regiment of Field Ar
tillery, 305th Trench Mortar Bat
terry; Engineer troops, 305th Regi-
ment of Engineers: Signal troops,
305th Field Signal Battalion; Trains.
305th Headquarters and Military Po-
lice, 305th Sanitary Train, 305th
Supply Train, 305th Engineer Train,
305th Ammunition Train; Division
Units, Headquarters Troop, 313th
Machine Gun Battalion.
General March said that the mum
Der of American divisions engaged
in the fighting near Rheims had not
been increased. These divisions are
the first, second, third and fourth
Irregular Army, with two marine
regiments in the Second Division)
26th (New England National Guard)
and 2Sth pennsylvania National
Guard), ali in the operations west
of Rheims and the 42d (National
Guard, known as the Rainbow
Division), and a regiment of negro
troops from the 93d Division, in the
operations to the east of Rheims.
The Seventy-ninth Division, or
ganized at Camp Meade and now
brigaded with the new Fifth Corps
is commanded by Major General Jo-
seph E. Kuhn and composed of men
from the District of Columbia and
Maryland, and the following portions
'.of Pennsylvania: Cities of Allentown
Chester, Easton, Harrisburg, Lancas-
ter, Norristown, Philadelphia. Read
ing, Scranton, Williamsport, Wilkes
Barre, and York, and the counties OF
Adams. Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Car
bon, Center, Chester, Clinton, Colum.
bia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Della.
ware, Franklin, Juniata. Lacka-
wanna, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehieh
Luzerne. Lycoming, Miffiin, Monroe
Montgomery, Montour, North Amp
ton, Northumberland, Perry. Pike
Schuylkill,, Snyder, Sullivan, Susoue-
hanna, Tioga, Union, Wayne, Wyom-
ing and York.
Many colored draftees from Penn
sylvania are in the Fourth Army
Corps which contains the Ninety-sec-
ond Division. Two of the regiments
OF that division, the Three Hun
dred and Sixty-eighth Infantry and
the Three Hundred and Fifty-first
Field Artillery were trained at
Meade and were composed mainly of
the colored selects from Philadel-
phia and other .parts of Pennsylva-
mia, Maryland, the District of Co.
lumbia and Tennessee.
The Keystone Division, entirely
composed of chaps from this state,
has seen active fighting at the Marne
as a part of the Second Army Corps
and is the first state to have such a
large unit in battle. In addition there
are Pennsylvanians in the Rainbow
Division, also in the fighting, and
now comes the Seventy-ninth Di-
vision of the National Army to Join
their brethren abroad.
The Second Army Corps, of which
the Keystone Division is a part, is
commanded by Major General Rob
ert L. Bullard, promoted to a corps
commander from the First Division
OF the Regular Army, the pioneers of
the Americans in France.
The Fifty-ninth Brigade of Infan-
t.y was commanded when it left this
country by acting Brigadier General
George f. Kemp, the colonel of the
Third Regiment. The units of the
brigade are the One Hundred and
Ninth and One Hundred and Tenth
Infantry Regiments and the One
Hundred and Eighth Machine Gun
Battalion.
The One Hundred and Ninth is
commanded by Colonel Millard d.
Brown, of Germantown, and is an
amalgamation of the old First and
Thirteenth Infantry. The One Hun
dred and Tenth is commanded by
Lieutenant Colonel Henry w. Coul-
ter, of Greensburg. 1t is composed
of the Third and Tenth Infantry and
includes a number or Harrisburg
men. The machine gun battalion
Is of the old First PappsvIxya .i a