Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 4 | Chisholm Appeals to War Veterans

CHISH APPEALS TO II Ml Addresses Soldiers Who Saw Service in Clash With Spain. WASHINGTON, March 30. Veterans of the Spanish war were called upon today to show their patriotism and loyalty in the present crisis with Germany in an appeal by their commander In chief, D. V. Chisholm, announcing that he expects to raise "troops in each state to be offered of-fered to the government for protection against any foreign foe" as soon as congress con-gress "defines some programme." "It is the intention of national headquarters," head-quarters," said the appeal, "to recruit, if necessary, companies in every department, depart-ment, composed of experienced men to be officered from our organization, whose sen' ices will be tendered to the government." govern-ment." Commander Chisholm announced that he would furnish experienced officer veterans vet-erans to drill civilian organizations. He has sent personal letters to every department depart-ment commander in the United States, the Philippines. Porto Rico, Panama and China, and said today he believed he could gather at least 150,000 men able to pass the physical test who would be 'ln- valuable in a crisis."