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Show LJMEHT PLAN HOIKED OOTJ STIFF Full Division Each of Infantry In-fantry and Artillery to Be Assembled at Two Cantonments Can-tonments for Training. WILL FILL DRAFTS SENT BY PERSHING Necessity of Sending Forward For-ward Raw Recruits to 7'ight in Europe Is Expected Ex-pected to Be Obviated, WASHINGTON". Feb. H - l'?e. to hi h t-tveral national army cantonments art now put may be completely clmnged vhr:i they are a t a t e d by t r oo p s no w under training, as a re? 'lit nf general stftrY Mudie: of the handling of divisions f.-hril ;led for emlwrkmioo for Kurope anil o: tie traitnn--; of re pi.i cement troops. Vnder the plan, the whoie system of d:v:s:o:v.l depot br.g.idt-s to handl re-pla.vtnent re-pla.vtnent troops ouid be a handoned. Instead, a i u 1 J 1 vision each of infantry and artillery. pruv.s.. orally orcanut'd for traininc purro.fS, would be asj-rmbUxi at t w o ca n t-m :ne n t s a r. d ad d ra 1 i.- of n ie n t.i fill caps i:i re-uimen:s at the front wou'd go forward troni those two central depots. Sim. In r replacement forces lor all s'.cual corps troops, except the aviation sei':ce, would to organized at another t anionment. A replacement cantonment lor the t-rciners id now being constructed construct-ed at Belvoir, Ya. More Embarkation Camps. As to The embarkation problem, it has been decided iliat two additional em-barsa em-barsa ion camps must be provided. Camps Im and Lee may be selected for that Purpose. Under preer.t embarkation arrange-rrerts. arrange-rrerts. an ouibreak of d;.ease at the con-cenirat:on con-cenirat:on . camps, to which troops are sent before they co aboard ship, misfit result in tjuarantir.e and a complete tie-up tie-up of the flow of men to France. With two additional camps available, there would be little likelihood of such a difa-cuiiy. difa-cuiiy. In addition, troops will be he'd longer at the embarkation camps, and. while there, old uniforms and equipment could be taken up and replaced by the outfits t- m" used in France, saving the isaue T-- -n : e r. t in Europe that woric. Will Overcome Obstacles. Creation of replacement divisions for "V Lr.e troops would overcome one of the sjef obstacles to training national army crs have encountered. The transfer o; national army troops from present depo; brigades to regular divisioris and the withdrawal of many men fitted for assignment to techntcai units for which Genera! Pershir.g has called has greatly hampered training. In some cases the enlisted en-listed personnel 'of national army units has changed completely two or three times Within the last few months. Camp M jO'.elland. Annifiton. Ala., would be selected for the artillery replacement replace-ment division. There is a new antiliery ranee in that vicinity and continuous tramine with the guns could be carried on Lie re. It has been suggested that the infantry replacement division might be located at Camp Meade, although that cantonment might be found more suitable for the signal corps and some other replacement re-placement units. Aviation Different. The aviation service must continue to be filled from the existing twenty-five or more aviation fields and camps, supplemented sup-plemented by any new fields established. The nature of aviation training prevents consolidation in a single cantonment, it is thought. The new questionnaire method of the selective service obviates the difficulties heretofore experienced in filling calU for technical units. Such men are now called out directly by the provost marshal general gen-eral working through the local boards. Where the qualified men fail to enlist voluntarily in sufficient numbers, they can be drafted without deiay. Drafts of casuals are now eent forward regularly to fill the traps in regiments in Vi ance caused by oasu allies, sickness or transfer. Under the new plan, replacement replace-ment detachments would be made up at the cantonment of the replacement division di-vision as needed, ail surplus troops being concentrated there for training and thus avoiding the necessity of sending forward raw recruits. |