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Show RAILWAY COMMITTEE TO TMJEFEilSE Officials of Roads to Learn From Wilson Wants in Case of War. NSW YORK, Feb. IT. The special committee on national defense of the American Railway association, composed of presidents or other officials of eighteen railroads In all parts of the country, will hold its first meeting at an early date in Washington to learn from President Wilson and the council for national defense de-fense what would be aEked of them in time of war. Railroad officials who participated in the discussion here yesterday when the special committee was appointed believe that these Instructions would fall under the following heads: Movement of troops, transportation of supplies, classification ,of equipment, equip-ment, building of new terminals at strategic points to make possible the rapid unloading of troop trains and the construction of new road demanded de-manded by the system of defense mapped out by the army. The committee represents geographically geographi-cally the four departments of the army and the members in each of these four divisions will co-operate with the staffs at the army headquarters situated, respectively, re-spectively, at Xew York, Chicago, San Antonio and San Francisco. |