Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1918 — SOME DRAFT UNITS TO MOVE AHEAD OF THE GUARD [ARTICLE]

SOME DRAFT UNITS TO MOVE AHEAD OF THE GUARD

Washington, D. C., March ■ 13. The inspector-general of the army has reported that several national army divisions are ready for final training in France. These divisions will be moved across the Atlantic early this spring. Some of these national army divisions will go to France ahead of certain national guard divisions. The war departmenf will not say what units were passed by the inspector-general’s office, and officially it declined to indicate the number of national army divisions scheduled for France this

spring. It is known in a general way that the inspector-general’s office has found at least ten of the sixteen national army divisions prepared for final training abroad. Not one of the sixteen divisions, it is said authoritatively, has set a Idw standard, and it is pretty well understood that all the sixteen divisions could, in the estimation of the inspectors, be sent forward this spring or certainly during the early part of the summer. Naturally, the decision of the war department to send to France some of the national army divisions ahead of some of the national guard divisions has created disappointment in certain quarters. Many of the national guard divisions, it is pretty well understood, already have gore to France for their final training and those that have not gone undoubterly will cross this spring or summer.