THE UNITED STATES ARMY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 9 May 1914, Page 5

THE UNITED STATES ARMY

PROPOSAL FOR INCREASE. By Electric Telegraph—'""■opyrightl [United Prehb Ahbootatton.i Washington, May 7. Senator Chamberlain has introduced a Bill, providing for the increase of the United States army to above the 100,000 men allowed by the present law. In accordance with the traditional practice, the war army of the United States is a large volunteer force raised ad hoc, partly from existing State militias and partly from civil life. The legal maximum enlisted strength of the Regular Army is 100,000, but the actual administrative maximum is lower. In 1912 the strength was 87,975. The organised militia (the State forces referred to above) had a total strength in 1913 of .about 122,000. The war strength of Mexico, on paper, is 185,000 men, trained and untrained. The armament of the regular army is al-tra-modern, thanks to the inventive genius of the Mexican General Mondragon, who has designed the rifle and the field-gun on the semi-automatic principle.