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Show ALLOTMENTS HELD UP. There are to be iweeping changes in national guard affairs according ac-cording to the following dispatch from Washington Before making definite national guard unit allotments for the national guard of (hi several states the war department plan.- to send a board ol army officers into each state to confer with Btate authorities and determine pis i whai units are mo?t suited for the locality. It will be some time before definile allotments are made f nder the new armv law. general reorganization of the national guard is seheduled 'n take place hut the department deems it unwise un-wise to attempt an allotment based on information now at hand It is not in position to know the relative strength of infantry, eaval-ry eaval-ry or artillery whieh the several states can reasonably expert to raise and maintain. It is t gather this loal information and to Ret data on -which to make permanent allotments, and at the s-ame time to eo ordinate the guard of states in a given locality, that the trip of the board is proposed. From this it would seem as though no one ifl in position to iftj what the federal government Will ofter in the form of financial aid to the national guard in I'lah. until after the board of army officers appointed for thnt pnrpose, goes over loea1 COnditig-llS |