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Show AMERICAN ARMY ARTILLERY PLANS War Organizations to Be Permanently Per-manently Retained, Except Trench Mortar Batteries. WASHINGTON, April 3 The Am- erlcan army will retain permanently some of the artillery organizations which are nn outgrowth of the war. Among these, according to reorganization reorgani-zation plans which have been approv-J ed are 155 mrue rifles, the weapons relied upon largely in the closing days of the war for barrage work, eight-Inch eight-Inch and 92-inch field howitzers; heavy rallwaj guns including 12-inch, 14-inch and 16 inch mortars, howitzers and rifles, trench mortar units and anti-aircraft batteries, including motorized mo-torized machine gun units for the purpose pur-pose of protecting troops on the march to attack from the air. In addition to the 61 regiments of field artillery provided for in the dl visional organizations, there are to be six regiments of army artillery to go with the field army organization to be erected. One departure from wartime organization organ-ization is the abandonment of trench mortar batteries with the divisions. Instead, a single trench inortar regiment regi-ment will be organized as a part of the army artillery to be assigned for duty by the army commander. Another new element is the assign ment of two anti-aircraft sectors to the army artillery. t |