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Show ( V.i I) TK( NEXT Tl:e next ..'.raft movement, which , is to Hike place from October 27 to 31. will consist entirely of colore".! troops, say an announcement from j the Western Department headquarters headquar-ters of the Railroads' War Board at IT. Market street. San Francisco, j C. J. McDonald, assistant to Chairman Chair-man William Pproule. says the total j. numb.T of colored troops to be moved is about S'!.iol Of this number. num-ber. Camp Lewis' quota is only four hundred, or less than one per cent of the 4 '5.1 up troops raised in the Western West-ern Department. The plans of the War Department calls for organizing the National Army of 500.000 into sixteen divi-, sions of white troops and one of col-j 'ored. Instead of concentrating all the colored men in the few cantonments of the Southern States, the policy of the War Department, it is said, will be to distribute them more or less evenly throughout the sixteen National Na-tional Army cantonments. No definite date has yet been set for the moving of the balance of the National Army, amounting to fifteen per cent, less the colored contingent. |