UNITED STATES ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 298, 10 September 1908, Page 7

UNITED STATES ARMY.

' PROPOSED ADDITION. i . - (di TEt-Eaairn—rnrsa association'—corritioirr.) New York, September 8. Prosident Roosevelt proposes to ask Congress to add 25,000 men to the United States army. PLAN FOR STANDING ARMY. In June tho United States War Department outlined a scheme for tho amalgamation of tho Regular and Stato troops called the National Guard into a standing army of 250,000 men. ( General Oliver, Assistaiit-Socretary of i War, who attended the recent army manoeuvres at Pine Plains, whero tho mimic warfare produced a well-equippd camp covering an area of 12 squaro miles, says that tho scheme is tho first move in a plan to make the United States a military Power. Hitherto the Federal Government has had no authority over State troops. The Government proposes to organise tho State troops and all the Regular forces into eight army corps,' and the regiments of tlie New England States, New York, , and the other States of the military division known as the Department of the East would constitute tho first army corps, with Pino Plains as its training camp.