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Show oo NEW MILITIA LAW ! HAS GOOD EFFECT Washington, July 20 Application of the new militia laws to the national guard ha caused a heavy paper mortality mor-tality among the highly ornamental militia officers. The requirement that the militia conform in organization organiza-tion to the regular army standards has heen met by all of the states except South Carolina with the start-line start-line result that there already have heen dropped three major generah, thirty brigodier generals, more than one hundred colonels, and a corresponding corre-sponding number of officers of las rank. As a result of these changes there has been a great improvement In th? physical fitness of the enlisted force of the militia nnd progress in the in struct ion of officers who arp now really availing themselves of the kind ly criticism of the inspection officers of the I'nited States army working among thorn. |