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Show RADICAL CHANGES i ORDEREDBY BAKER SECRETARY OF WAR ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION OF GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. Five Divisions Are Formed to Have Charge of Various Branches of the Work. New Methods Will Fix Responsibility. Washington. A general reorganize tlon of the general staff of the army was announced by the war department on February 10. The new plan provides for five main divisions. Each division will be under an assistant chief of staff. The chief of staff and the war council are to co-operate In the general administrative duties of the general staff. The sweeping changes provided for have been under consideration by Secretary Sec-retary Baker and his chief advisers for several weeks. The secretary stated that a reorganization of the department depart-ment was in progress on his first appearance ap-pearance before the senate military committee after the investigation of the conduct of the war was instituted. The reorganizations of different divisions di-visions and bureaus of the general staff will continue. The names of officers who are to occupy oc-cupy the positions provided for in the scheme were not given out. The nami of Edward R. Stettinius, recently appointed ap-pointed surveyor general of supplies, comes under the third, or purchase and supply division. The duties of the chief of staff will be taken over soon by Major General Peyton C. March, ordered home from France to succeed Major General Bkl-die, Bkl-die, assistant chief of staff, who has been acting chief in the absence of General Bliss. For the present General Gen-eral Bliss will continue to hold the title of elilef of staff while representing the United States in the supreme war council abroad, and General March will be designated acting chief. The general reorganization of the staff is viewed in some quarters as a result of the congressional agitation for a war cabinet and a munitions director. di-rector. At the war department It Is declared to be a natural outgrowth of the rapid development of the war program. pro-gram. There were about forty-six members mem-bers of the general staff when war was declared. This number was increased in-creased immediately and now is about eighty. Most of the present member j are in France. . ' |