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Show Vnse act." Tills number Includes about 1,000 men still In Germany. Among troops In the United Stntes the greatest cuts were made In tho coast defenses nnd mobile furees, the lutter term applying to those units available for "emergency purposes, for protection of our southern border, as a model nnd demonstrating force for citizen soldiers and as a basis for expansion in the event of hostile threat against the United States." The War department statenuflt added that It was found Impossible to reduce ti e "overhead" administrative force fi.r the three-part army to any appreciable ap-preciable extent or In proportion to the reduction mnde In line troops. ' 1005000 ARE GUT FROM 0, S, ARMY Third Reorganization in Year and Half Forced by Congress. 86,723 ENLISTED m LEFT Greatest Cuts Made,. In Coast Dcfensas and Mobile Forces It Was Found Impossible to Reduce the "Overhead" "Over-head" Administrative Force for the Three-part Army to Any Appreciable Appreci-able Extent Statement Tells What Has Been Done. Another reorganization plan for the regular army, the third to be drafted In the last year and a half as a result re-sult of cuts in strength ordered by congress, has been completed, and the War department In a statement showed just what had been done with the regular forces to carry out successive suc-cessive laws. "This completes," the statement said, "a reduction which has been virtually vir-tually continuous for eighteen months, totaling approximately 100,000 men, or 45 per cent of the actual strength." The department's statement said the plans were now being carried Into effect, but that redistribution of the troops in permanent spots, which the project contemplates, was beinK delayed "In order not to Interfere with the training of the civilian components com-ponents of the army during the summer sum-mer .camps' Regulars Perform Same Missions. Explaining the difficulties encountered encoun-tered In planning a reorganization to conform to. the enlisted strength of 125,000 as fixed In the lat appropriation appropria-tion acts, the statement pointed out that no change had been made In the missions assigned to the regulars In the national defense act of 1920, under un-der which an authorized strength of 285,000 was declared necessary In the Judgment of congress to carry out the military policy then laid down. "The total present strength," the statement said, "Is 155,000 less than authorized by the act which resulted from- the lessons of the World war, and assigned the missions to the regular reg-ular army, and 102,000 less than the authorized prewar strength before the three-part army was created." The first problem taken up In the reorganization was apportionment of the authorized strength among the branches of the service In order to I keep the military machine as well balanced as possible In view of the Beci(rlli;ed units which must be retained re-tained as a war precaution. Allotments Allot-ments were made with the reductions In ench arm from the nntloual defense de-fense act strength also shown ns follows: fol-lows: Infantry, from 110,000 to 40.12,') men;, cavalry, from 20,000 to 9,871; field. artillery, ,1)7,000 to 17,173: const artillery, from 30,000 to 12,020; engineers, en-gineers, from 12,000 to 5,020; air serv. Ice, from 10,000 to 8,050, and slgnnl corps, from 5,000 to 2,184. In noncmn-batant noncmn-batant branches, tho quartermaster corps was reduced from 20,000 to 8.000; ordnance, from 4,500 to 2,307; finance, from 0OO to ,'!09 ; chemical warfare, from 1,200 to 445; medical, from 14,000 to 0.850. 96,723 Men Are Available. Under the reduction plan there remains re-mains available for use In continental United Stall's 90.723 enlisted men "for the performance of the many duties as!i;ne1mti!T' the national do- |
