Evening star., 1923-08-05
Army.

draft of the regulations has been for
warded to the corps area commanders
for review. They are to be returned
TO the War Department together with
their comments and recommendations
Appointments, promotion and tram
ing of the reserve officers are fully
covered in the new regulations, and'
although they will appear in seQa-
rate pamphlet, they will be in reallty
amendments to Army regulations
There will be no material difference
between the revision and the present
regulations but the new edition will
be an expansion of the basic princi-
ples contained in the original regula-
t tions.
NJ Reserve officers generally have
widely discussed the promotion sys-
tenn which has existed, many OF
whom found ii faulty. Under the
new draft a reserve officer, II ne foi-
lows the instructions given In tne
new regulations. can advance hlmseif
from the grade of second lieutenant
to that of a general officer providing,
of course, that he will devote con-
siderable amount of his time to mill
tary work.
Figures prepared in the War De-
partment as of July IS show that
$500 young men were accepted for
A course in training at the cltlZens
. military training camps this summer.
II has been estimated that the s2.0oo,-
600 appropriated by Congress for this
purpose would provide training for
slightly over 2S,000 young men. but
"fby means of enforced economy the
War Department was able TO stretcii
this figure so. that 10000 of the youth
p tcf h. trN ht accommodated
at the camps this summer. The sd
Corps area camp has been concluded:
the 5th. Sth and 9th Corps areas COM
menced their training activities the
past week. while the other five corps
areas viii begin their instruction this
week
The greatest demand for this train
Z ing comes from the I'd. 4th and 9TH
Corps areas. while the demand for
training was smallest in the 1St Corps
area About $4,000 of the applicants
came from the I'd, 4th and 5th Corps
areas, which is really more than SO
per cent for which the appropriation
was made New York. Delaware and
New Jersey compose the I'd Corps
b. area; Indiana. Kentucky. Ohio and
West Virginia include the 5th Corps
area. while the states east of the
Mississippi river and south of Nir-
ginia and Kentucky comprise the 4th
Corps area.
AS the result of a thorough test
made by the cavalry board in con-
junction with the ordnance depart
ment. the War department has dp
proved four distinct features which
will he included in the future manu-
facture of the Army As automatic.
Awkward in handling. pinching of
the skin between the thumb and fore
finger by the safety lock and tend
enCy OF the pistol to shoot low, which
Il.
because the weapon was topheavy.
a few of the objections raised
against the pistol.
"a. In view of scanty appropriations
the new features will not be made on
the old type. but will be incorporated
only on the newly manufactured ma
terial. The old AS will be issued to
troops until they become unservice
able. at which time the modified auto
matte will be issued.
1t is being contemplated by the
chief of infantry to hold a refresher
course during the coming fall at fhe
Infantry School. Fort Benning. Ga.
The question of mileage funds and
rhe serving of the best interests of
s the various infantry organizations
will be deciding factor in the Sc
{ lection of the field officers who will
: compose the class, which will be of
moderate size.
ne tHleI VI lnldnlTS lS OeSlrOuS
that field officers who would like to
attend this refresher course submit
their applications to this office. A
number of general officers will in all
i. probability be included in the roster
of the class. According to tentative
. arrangements, the period from Octo-
q, her Is to December 30 appears to be
the most likely for conducting the
course.
Commander William Seaman Balm
bridge, L. :. y. NJ. r. C., who repre-
sented the United States at the second
congress of the International Con-
gress of Military Surgeons, which
was held in Rome. returned to New
York city on the steamship Homeric
July 26. Delegates from thirty-four
nations gathered at the Rome ses-
sions, the main purpose of which was
to become acquainted with the ad-
& vances made in surgery. medicine and
sanitation which was developed by
the world war. Commander Balm
bridge also attended the London
meeting of the International Surgical
Congress while he was abroad.
, Two years ago the first of these in
nternational medical gatherings was,
held in Brussels, Belgium. The choice
for the 1925 meeting went to Paris
France.
. Recommendations for a regimentaI
reorganization of the Coast Artillery
Corps has been made by Maj. Gen.
Frank w Coe, chief of Coast Artil-
1ery. and up to this writing the pro-
posed plan outlined below by Gen.
= Coe has the tentative approval of the
Secretary of War pending a detailed
study of the reorganization plan
which is now being worked out in
! the generals office. Being the only
units of their kind in the Regular
Army. the 1st Sound Ranging Bat
terry and 1st Trench Mortar Battery
will not he included in this regimen
tai reorganization but will continue
'Nas separate batteries. Expansion of
the three existing anti-aircraft bat
"talions, two of which are in the
. United States and one in the Philip
pine Department, and the one rail-
way battalion in the Hawaiian Coast
Artillery District. into regiments, is
included in the proposed plan. No
complicated designations such as
. 'Ry.. "A. A.. etc. will be used and
all coast artillery regiments will be
given numerical designations such as
,51st Coast Artillery, 62d Coast Ar
tillery. etc.
OF the serially numbered companies
u now assigned to duty in the fixed de-
lenses, a total of seventeen regiments
. will lIk organized. viz: Eleven in the
United States. two in the coast de-
-.fenses of Manila and Subic bays and
g two each in the Panama and Ha-
composition of each regiment will
+. consist of headquarters battery and
either seven or ten lettered batteries
: this dependne upon the number
:. Two principal reasons were given
'Fas the deciding factor in this regi-
mental reorganization. The first and
most important is that the esprit de
corps is much higher in the coast
artillery regiments and battalions
. in,