Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 2 | Regular Army Reserve Will be Called Out

REGULAR III RESERVE WILL 1 GALLED OUT Purpose Is to Provide New Regiments at Once, as Well as Furnish Working Work-ing Test of Law. MORE GUARDSMEN REACH THE BORDER Second Montana Reaches Douglas; Other Regiments Along Boundary. j WASHINGTON, July 0. Tho war dc- j parLmcnt announced tonight that it : would tll to tlio colors within a few ilftvs tho iTuIur army reserves, consisting consist-ing of Ivlwecu KWU and 5UU0 men who lin vo m tvl'iI in the army, in order to liaidrn organization of new units provided pro-vided liy tin army reorganization act Those who will be afloetud by tho order are enlisted men who have boon fur-ioiighed fur-ioiighed into the reserve since Noveiu-lier Noveiu-lier 1, 191"), alter having been iu active tier v ic o for three years. Tlio reserve may bo called iuto active " serviea under tho law in case o "war or emergeney. ' ' About 0,000 men nro needed for the additional units authorised for thib year by tho reorganization act. Purpose of Call. The war department is determined to develop these without breaking up tho existing units any more than is necessary, and it is understood the decision de-cision to issue a call to the colors grew out of this desire, rather than from any further need of troops in tho Mexican emergency. Officials believe the call also will furnish a fair working test of tho reserve system. Tho department's annouiieemont was mado in this formal statement: "Tho war department is going to call out the regular army reserves. Tho new national defense act, passed on June 3, provides for cerrain additional regulars for the army. The meu of the rescrvo are to bo used to till up tho ranks of theso new organizations. ' ' Available Since November. This will bo tho first time, the reserve has been called out since it was created by the act of November 1, MU2, and an actual reserve force has been availablo only since November 1 last, when tho minimum three-year period of active service ended. The army act of 11) 1U provides ;tn enlistment term of seven years, four of which aro iu active service ser-vice and three in reserve. Jt is provided, pro-vided, however, that men may he fur-loughed fur-loughed into tho reserve on their re-tptest re-tptest alter three years of active ser-v ser-v ice. The new units to be organized this year aro: Seven regiments of infantrv, t wo regiments of cavalry, three regiments regi-ments of tield artillery, "and two regiments regi-ments of engineers, in addition to a number of special troops.