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Show NATIONAL GUARD PL1SJPE0 Reorganization Places Utah in the Sixty-fifth Divisional Divi-sional District. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, July 16. In the reorganization reor-ganization of th.i national guard, announced an-nounced today by the war department, Utah falls Into tho sixty-fifth divisional district. Included with Utah in the district dis-trict are California, Nevnda, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. National guard h'oops aulhoriz-d for these states are: Utah One battalion field artillery, one field hospital company, one squadron cavalry. California K'ght companies coast ar-(Continued ar-(Continued on Page 11, Column 4.) III GUARD PUS CEP (Continued from Page One.) tillery, one regiment infantry, one battalion bat-talion field artillery, one battalion engineers, engi-neers, one signal company radio, one field hospital company, one ambulance ambu-lance company, two troops cavalry. Nevada One squadron cavalry-Colorado cavalry-Colorado One regiment infantry, one troop cavalry, cne battalion field artillery, artil-lery, one company engineers, one signal company outpost, one engineer train, one ambulance company. Arizona Ono squadron cavalry, one battalion field artillery. New Mexico One squadron cavalry, one machine-gun troop, one battalion field artillery. . WASHINGTON, July 16. Final plans; for the reorganization of the national guard on the sixteen-division basis, with divisional arena following the same limits as did -those from which guard divisions were organized for service against Ger-rnany, Ger-rnany, were approved today by Secretary Baker. Major-General Jesse McT. Carter, chief of the bureau of militia affairs, immediately immedi-ately sent notifications to the various 1 adjutant-generals of the units allotted to their states and of the readiness of the federal government to extend recognition after the required inspection has been made. The organization table announced today to-day provides for forty-seven regiments and eighteen battalions of infantry; six regiments, seventeen squadrons and nineteen nine-teen troops of cavalry; ten regiments, twenty battalions and seven batteries of field artillery and seventy-four coast guard artillery companies, with additional addi-tional forces of engineers, sanitary and signal corps. A maximum expansion to about 440,000 j men or 800 per senator and congressman is provided for, but the units for the I time being are to be organised on the j basis of sixty-five men per company of I hifantrv, as appropriations for the 'na- tional guard for the fiscal year 1920 per- mit only the organization of the guard I on the basis of 200 men for each senator i and -representative, giving an aggregate : strength of about 106,000. |