Arizona republican., 1918-03-13
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND WILL bE CALLED OUT
 BY 1913 DRAF I
First Increment of 95,0O0
 Called to Colors In Five Days Commencing March
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WASHINGTON, March 12.-Eightl hundred thousand men are to be called to the colors gradually during the pres ent year. under the second army draft, which begins on March 29.
 An announcement today by Provost Marshal General CroWder of the num- Der to be called was followed closely by an order for the mobilization of 95,000 men during the five day period begin ming March 29, some 15,000 of them to be assembled under the second draft. Eighty thousand will be men of the first draft of 6S7, ,000 not yet summoned into service.
 Will Care For Harvesting
 Details of how the second draft is to be applied will be made public later af ter congress has acted upon proposed legislation providing for the registra- tion of youths attaining the age of 21 years and for basing state and district quotas on the number of registrants in class one. In his first official state ment on the subject, however. General CroWder assures the country that no sweeping withdrawal of large numbers of men at one time is contemplated and that care will be taken to avoid inter- ference with harvesting.
 Men Called Needed at Once
 The 95,900 now called, it is under stood, are needed at once to fill up di- visions and other units scheduled for early departure or to take the place of men transferred from other divisions to make up such deficiencies. Newly organized regular divisions are partic- ularly short of men and heavy drafts on national army divisions to make these good have been necessary, ser iously interfering with the training work of the national army division drawn upon. The call for new men makes it probable that no further 1 transfers will be necessary.
 Forty Full Infantry Divisions
 The S00000 men to be summoned this year represent the number necessary to fill up all existing divisions, to create all the army corps and field army troops to fill out the war machine for which the framework already exists and to provide a quarter of a million replacement troops. When they have been mobilized, which will not be com pleted before the first of next year, there will be more than 40 full infan- try divisions of 27,700 men each and all the additional units necessary Nc additional divisions of the national ar my or natonal guard VII be created this year. although the program. for the dIlliy. HOW COlupOSeQ Ol SlSu ul infantry and one cavalry division, may be enlarged.
 To Hold 100- Mile Sector
 The first purpose of the war depart ment is to complete the first field army in France Probably this will be com posed of five army corps of six infan- try divisions each. It has been esti- mated that with that force and it's nec- essary auXiliaries at his disposal, Gen. eral Pershing would be able to hold a 100 mile sector of the battle front, re- lieving the strain upon French man power during 1918 to that extent. What : that would mean to France may be judged from published statements of ,French officials that on January 1, 1918, the Belgian army held about fif- teen miles of the western front. the British front, the British forces about } 105 miles and the French $50 miles.