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Show TO PERPETUATE f I TRADITIONS Names of Heroic Armies Will Be Perpetuated, General March Says. Organization Proceeding on Peace Strength Basis of 509,000 Men. WASHINGTON", March. 20. Retention Reten-tion of the names of fourteen national guard and national army divisions witn brilliant war records in the permanent military establishment in order to preserve pre-serve their traditions, ' was announced today by General March. For this purpose in tho twenty-one divisions proposed to be organized iu the now army, fourteen will receive the following designations: Twenty-sixth, to be based on Camp Deveiis; 27th, Camp Upton, N. Y.; 28th, Camp t)ix, N. J.; 29th, Camp Meade, Md.; 30th, Camp Jackson, S. C; 32nd, Camp Chester, Mich.; 33rd, Camp Grant, 111.; 30th, Camp Travis, Texas; 37th, Camp Sherman, Ohio; 81st, Camp Taylor, Tay-lor, Ky.; S2nd, Camp Gordon, Ga.; S9th, Camp Funstoii, Kan.; 91st, Camp Lewis, Wash. Locations Designated. The First to Seventh divisions will retain tho designations of soven regular divisions now in France, comprising the First and Second army corps, and will bo located as follows: First division, Camp Pike, Arlc; Second, Sec-ond, Camp Dodge, Iowa; Third, Camp Lee, Va.; Fourth, Camp Kearny, Cal.; Fifth, Panama, canal zone; Sixth, Honolulu; Hono-lulu; Seventh, divided between Philippines, Philip-pines, Alaska and Mexican border. In each case where a division has been given tho designation of a national na-tional guard and national army division, it will be recruited from the district surrounding the camp named as its base and from which the original division of that designation was drawn. General March said that the war department de-partment was proceeding with the organization or-ganization of the army on the basis of i a peace strength of 500,000 men. The tactical organization will comprise five army corps with an aggregate strength of twenty infantry divisions and one cavalry division. Whether this organization organi-zation will become permanent, he said depends entirely on future legislation. Way Withdraw From Italy. Regarding the forces in Italy, while no recent advices have come to the war department,' General March said indications indi-cations were that preparations were being be-ing made to withdraw the 332nd infantry infan-try from that country. In the reorganization of the army not only the divisional designations will be retained, but also the designations of the brigades, regiments, companies ' and other units in each division. The special spe-cial insignia authorized for each division di-vision during the war will be continued. In explanation of the absence of the designation of a number of famous divisions, di-visions, including the SeveDty-seventh the Eightieth from the proposed reorganization reor-ganization list, it was said at the war department that the plan was based upon regional representation, and therefore there-fore it was necessary to abandon one of the two divisions representing each section, even though, in some instances, both might have brilliant records. General March announced today that he had ordered soldiers discharged within with-in forty-eight hours after arrival at demobilization de-mobilization camps, unless special conditions condi-tions made it impossible. He said the ' demobilization total now had passed the million and a halfi mark. Many men object, General March explained, "to being be-ing held for parades or for any other purpose. The chief of staff made it plain that the war department was not opposing the parading of returning units where the men desire to remain in the service for that purpose. He said, however, that no men would be kept against their will to await the arrival of other units of their division hereafter. Demobilization statistics today show 1,460,641 men and 88,049 officers discharged. dis-charged. Reserve commissions have been given to 27,237 officers, including twenty twen-ty colonels, and 15,310 officers have applied ap-plied for regular service commissions. |