Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-20
100000 SOLDIERS
READY FOR SERVICE
In Addition to 100000 Guards
men $4,000 Regulars Pro-
pared for Strike Duty.

Washington. July 20. 49, Federal
troops TO tho number OF $4,000 arc
available in Continental United states
TO supplement tho 100000 National
Guardsnen, which may be called on
strike duty In the cool-producins
States.
Figures obtained Mt tho War Do
partment show that on May l combat
units OF Federal forces throughout tho
nine corps areas and In the District OF
Columbia wcrc as follows;
Infantry, S4,24o men; cavalry. s,124;
ncld artillery. 11.4i+. engineers. 3.22g
and aviators. 1871. The National
Guard OF all the States reaches n total
OF 1874 officers and 1bo.S23 mon, but
several OF the States maintaining largo
militia organizations, such a. New
York, Massachusetts. New Jersey,
Wisconsin, California and Minnesota,
are not coal-producing States and
their forces will not be called out until
Federal forces used To supplement the
~Eusrdsmen of tho coal States have
been exhausted.
!, with tho exception of the First
Corps area, composed OF the New Eng.
. land States. md tho Second Corps
area, comprising New York. New Jer.
aey n Delaware. coal States ar,
found In all territory included In corp,
areas throughout tho couptry. Fed
sral troops. War Department Official.
said. n be moved promptly into an,
!, coal mining regions.
The militia maintained In tn,
twenty-eight al-producins States Il
as follows: Alabama, 152 officers. 2.
. 4bb men: Arkansas. 20 officers, LEO
= men; Colorado. l<s officers, 2.elS men
Georgia. 129 officers. 2,ss1 men ulli
nois, 3b5 officers, 6,806 men: India mr.
900 officers, 4,8a2 men: Town, II
officers. g,b36 men; kap~s, ITO of
fcers. 2.527 men: kentucky. 70 officers
lao men; Maryland. tes o~fIicers, 2.
: &15 men; Michigan. 77s officers, 4,
76a men; Missouri, 227 officers, 2,
fa4 men; Montana, 40 officers. ~
=, men: North Carolina, ia officers. 2,
, 21s men; North Dakota, AZ officer
11,1o2 men; New Mexico. As ofnoer'
+" $40 mon; Ohio, sos officers. s.lIs me
oklahoma. 15e officers, s.7s5 men
Oregon. 11s officers, 2,2ss mon Penn
sylvanie, $50 officers. ll,se4 men
-. tbhAh 1hN'lNr " piittfNt WV uiNi
" Tennessee. 56 officers, 7T5 men; Texs
326 officers, 1881 men; Utah. "a OF
ficers, 710 men: Virginia, 1872 OF
ficers. 3.2bs men Washington, 1913 o.
:. fcere. 2,27s men; West Virginia,
officers. 1919 men and Wyoming.
officers, a40 men,
States having large National Guard
which do not produce coal but !
within striking distance OF coal-pr'
ducins sections. are: New York. lie
officers, 20.47s men; Msraohusett
ASA officers. $3.50 mon: New Jerse
ala o~ff,cere, 4,50a menI Wisconsin. 4.
officers. GAO man, Mnnpeeots- ais o
fccrs, 4.78T men, and California. u
n officers 3.9se men.
y Federal forces Figures upon white
do not include on,cers, ara distribut.
a. follows:
First CORPS ARIA New Enslar
70 States. Infantry, i.se3; cavalry, Al
I. neld artillery. tT4l engineers. az; a
eervicA I,
Second Corps ares. New York, Ne
Jersey and DelawAre-Infentry, 7,se
Oh cavalry. rs: field artillery. eel; ems
neers, sos; air service, 7l5.
% Third Corps area, Peansylvan
Maryland and Virpinie-Iufantry.
272; cavalry. "a; fed artillery. rs
lo engineers. 79o; air service, LOO.
Fourth Corps area. rest Of Southc
~ States. east OF the Mississippi rive
We including Louisiana and exclude
rN Kentucky-1nfentry. <.72s; cavsl'