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Show NEW ARMY TO BE IN FUCEIfl SPRING MEN NOW IN AMERICAN CAMPS TO COMPLETE THEIR TRAINING TRAIN-ING IN FRANCE. Additional Hundreds of Thousands of Fighting Men to Be Secured Through a Second Draft Which May Be Made Any Time. Washington. Plans are now in preparation at the war department, according to information obtained on September 25 to have a large proportion propor-tion of the drafted men now entering training camps in France by early spring. It is proposed to give the men the rudiments of military duty and then transport them to ,the American base in France. There they will be put through a course of intensive training. By these means it is believed they will develop much more rapidly as soldiers besides opening the way to the training of additional hundreds of thousands to be secured through a second sec-ond draft. Preparing for Second Call. This call will be much sooner than has generally been believed, it is intimated, inti-mated, and this is largely the reason why the war department is so much interested at present in proceeding with the immediate examination of the 7,000,000 registered men who have not yet been called. This proposition is tied up temporarily tempor-arily by the fact that an appropriation appropria-tion is necessary before the work can proceed. The required appropriation is included in the general deficiency bill now before congress. Figures are extremely taboo with the war department these days, but it is no violation of the spirit of the letter let-ter "of the censorship provision to state that it is hoped to move approximately approx-imately 123,000 to 200,000 of the drafted draft-ed men to France to complete their training there. It is hoped in some quarters that this can be done by the end of April. These troops would not be available for trench work until late in the summer sum-mer at the earliest, but they would be in France and the political effect of their numbers would be great. Where there was talk only a few weeks ago of 750,000 men in France by spring, the prospects now are that the active fighting forces regulars and national guard, will be nearer ;100,000 than 750,000. |