Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-11 | Page 20 | Officers' Transfers are Provided For

OFFiCERS1 TRABSFERS JWE PROVIDED FOM 276 Slated to Be Taken From Quartermaster's Corps in 60 Days. Officers of Ihe quartermaster corps of the army who arc fit and qualified for overseas duty or line service with mobile troops are to be transferred from the corps to the line, iceordinp to an announcement an-nouncement just made by Bripadicr-Gcn-cral U. E. Wood, acting quartermaster general of the army. A rra npemen t s for the t ransf er hf yo been made with the adjutant general s office and a list of 276 officers has been prepared fcr the first transfer operation. The transfer is to be effected in a period of sixty days, one-third of the total number num-ber bein? transferred every twenty days. The plan of ihe acting quartermaster creneral is one designed to help meet the demand for phvsieallv fit and otherwise qualified line officers. The places of men released from the quartermaster corps are to be filled -with officers who are not up to the standard of requirements for overseas over-seas service or for duty with mobile troops. The first quota of officers to he transferred trans-ferred includes forty-six captains, 121 first lieutenants and 106 second lieutenants, it is announced. All officers of the quartermaster corps attached to the quartermaster general s office, depots and posts and other stations sta-tions in the United States and ihose not serving with mobile troops are being: ex- : amined lo determine their physical fit- , ness for line service. Such as are found : fit for line service will be p.ssipiud there , as other officers not fit become available I to take their plaecs. i