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Show I FAMOUS 75'S OF WORLD WAR NEW STANDARD American Weapon Declared to Be Only An Experimental Experi-mental Gun. ARTILLERY IS SCARCE Reserve Corps Officers To Be Called to School at Ft. Sill. 55 WASHINGTON'. Jan. in '.By the J associated Press) Training of regu-Jfir regu-Jfir army troops with American mod-mllimctrc mod-mllimctrc cuns will Ik I ntln-Ifted ntln-Ifted and i ra in i nr. with the rrenth 7S's 'f ill be extended to artillery units of line regulai establishment, the Nation-li Nation-li Quard and offki ra i.r tlc organised reserves. rders already r.vn ecn Jfcsued by the chief of field artillery, it Ivae learned today, directing orp.-iniz-a-t lions In the recmlar army equipped pith the American models to turn Jhem in for the French type replace-: replace-: inenls. .rt"!"I' IIP S STMARD II it is the policy of the field artillery thief to equip all field artillery brigades bri-gades stationed in the I'nlted States ;ith the French gun.". They have been Accepted as the standard light sun for ihi regular army and the National Guard and in time of national emcrg-Hjicy emcrg-Hjicy would be issued to the orgunlzed reserves. The American 75 millimetre gun " stays an official communication issued by the office of the rhief of field ar-tttftryi ar-tttftryi is an experimental split trail Plfh. with which several regiments liajro heretofore been equipped. The sjjprlage of field art'.lleo t limps makes I L inadvisable to continue lurtiier ex-pBrlmental ex-pBrlmental work with this gun " Nl.W DKPARTUR " In extending the instruction to organized or-ganized reserve officers, the letter says a new departure in army training lias been made 'Heretofore courses have been maintained main-tained for regular officers and for National Na-tional Guard officers," it say.-. "Wo are now Inaugurating the systematic Instruction of the third component of the army of the I'nlted States the organized or-ganized reserves." Sufficient fundu are available at the present time, the letter continues, for j conducting a courso of instruction in j field artillery subjects at Fort Sill, klahom... for a limited number of ar- I illlery reserve corps officers. The plans tentntlvely approved call for two dKJccrs from each corps area to attend lie- ten weeks course which L.piii .fl.irch 1. |