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Show SHAKE-UP IN ARMY. Retirement of Lieutenant-General Young "Will Result in Many Important Changes. Washington, 1 Jan. 20. Many Important Import-ant changes Will occur In thc army during thc next few days, resulting from the retirement o . Liout.-Gcn. Young and tho promotion of Maj.-Gen. Chaffee to be a Lieutenunt-General. Maj.-Gen. William A. Kobbe and Brig.-Gcn. Alfred Mordccal were retired re-tired today, and Maj.-Gcns. Joseph I'. Sanger and Alfred E. Batcy and Brlg.-Gens. Brlg.-Gens. Harry L. Haskell, F. II. Hathaway Hatha-way and Frank M. Coxe will follow them on Friday. Brlg.-Gen. Francis S. Dodge will become paymaster-general. Saturday Maj.-Gen. Wallace F. Randolph will retire and Gen. George L. Gillespie becomes a permanent Major-General and assistant chief of the general staff, while Brig.-Gen. Alexander -MacKenzle will become chief of engineers. Brig.-Gen. John P. Story will succeed Gen. Randolph as chief of artillery. Cols. A. C. Taylor, Artillery corps; John G. Butler, ordnance ord-nance department: Jucob Kline, Twenty-first Infantry; William E. Dougherty, Dougher-ty, Eighth infantry; Charles J. Allen, corps of engineers, and Theodore E. True, deputy quartermaster-general, will be mado Brlgadler-Generuls and retired at once. Col. William S. McCaskc-y, who has been confirmed as a permanent Brigadier-General, will be relieved from duty in the Philippines and ordered to com-1 com-1 mand one of the -vacant military reservations, res-ervations, probably tho Department of Dakota. The confirmation of Col. Albert Al-bert Mills as a permanent Brigadier-General Brigadier-General probably will not change his present duty as superintendent of the Military academy. |