Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1917 — GUARD WILL GO TO ANNISTON [ARTICLE]

GUARD WILL GO TO ANNISTON

M Company Will Be Stationed at _ Alabama, Following August sth Call. Washington, D. C., July 2.—Under the tentative plan of the war department, the Indiana and Kentucky national guard companies are to be sent to Anniston, Ala., when they are mobilized on August 5. Anniston is a town of 20,000 in the northeastern part of Alabama. It is on the Louisville & Nashville railroad. ‘ The decision of the war department to send the guard south as soon as it is mobilized was reached as a result of the urging of the war college that all possible speed be made in the training of the national guard troops in order that they may be transported abroad at an early date. The guard will not stay in Indiana long enough to receive the typhoid inoculation, but will, leave as soon as transportation facilities can be provided, it is said. The men in the guard will have ample time to arrange their affairs between now and August 5, so no excuse will be -accepted from any guardsman as to why he should have an extra day or two to wind Up his affairs. In the meantime, the war department is hard at work on commissions for those who will command the national guard and new national army troops. Indiana and Kentucky guardsmen, who will form a division, will have a major-general to be appointed by the war department. Who this man is to be no one at the war department seems to have an idea. The Indiana national guard troops will have a brigadier-general. It is understood that Colonel Harry B. Smith, now adjutant-general, is to receive this place. Also there is to be a brigadier-general appointed for Indiana and Kentucky regiments. The war department will also name this man. The names of the commanders of the national guard units will be made public this we?k or next. The war’ department will then take up the question of providing officers for the new national army. >The lieutenants and captains and most of the majors will be selected from men now in the officers’ training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The rest of the majors, lieutenant-colonels and the colonels probably will be chosen from the regular army. Brigadier-General Glenn, commander at Ft. Harrison, will in all probability be made a major-general to command the Indiana-Kentucky regiments of the new national army which will form a division.