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Show PUS OF if 1 HIE SHAPE1 Regulars and Guard Will Be Expanded and Train- ! ing System Devised. ' i WASHINGTON', May 10. -"o an- mouncement lias been made from the war department, but well-informed eir- , elea here are confident the reorganized military establishment will be planned under three principal heads: An en- , larked regular army with strong re- i serves; an expanded national guard, and a form of national training whereby where-by the military instruction will be entirely en-tirely subordinated to the academic and j vocational. . ; In the enlarged regular army, it is expected, will come a material expansion expan-sion of the coast artillery corps. The expansion of the national guard, Secretary Sec-retary Baker has indicated, will be along the lines laid down in the Hay-Chamberlain Hay-Chamberlain bill, a skeleton organization organiza-tion of sixteeu complete combatant divisions di-visions being provided. Indications that the war department is prepared to resuomii hl i ne special session of congress opening Monday a bill authorizing the reorganization of the army on the basis of about 538, 0U0 officers and men, and to press for its approval were strengthened today when an official report was published showing show-ing the ordnance material to be completed com-pleted for the army. The howitzer program pro-gram includes 380 of the 240-millimeter caliber, and this number, the report stated, was based on the equipment necessary for "the equipment of one army with 100 per cent reserves." "Existing stocks and proposed completions com-pletions of the principal items of ord- i nance are amply sufficient to provide the full equipment and reserves for the proposed army of 538,000 officers and men." The announcement added: "Exceptions "Ex-ceptions are heavy tanks and the special spe-cial bix-ton tanks. Also the prospective prospec-tive supply of six-ton tanks does not provide for a full 100 per cent reserve. I As tanks are still in the experimental I stage, the accumulations of large stocks of the current designs is considered inadvisable. in-advisable. ' 1 Items in the ordnance program, showing show-ing guns already available, include the following: 75-millimeter guns, 300; 4.7-inch guns, 750; 155-millimeter guns, 450 eight-inch howitzers, 83; 9.2-inch howitzers, 44. |