Expansion of military training In the United States and the Increase of Reserve officers from 100,000 to 220,000 was recommended to-day by the Chief of Staff of the, Army, Gen, Maun Craig.
The General emphasized the necessity of completing and maintaining the programme for the modernization of the Army, including the purchase of 100,000 gas masks each year and the acquisition of additional acrosafety."
Planes, "solely to insure national
The Chief of Staff pointed out that during the seal year the army will Teach a strength of 165,000 men for the first time since the World War.
Gen. Craig also revealed that the War Depariment Appropriation Bill provided $3,160,973 for Pacific Coast harbour defences, $3,141,780 for Howallan Cost defences, and $024,104 for Panama defence works, The strength of the Army Air Corps, Gen, Craig said, will on July 1, 1937 be about 7 per cent. of what the law authorizes.. "The need for anti-aircraft guns, however, 1s acute, he pointed out, as the present equip: ment is sufficient only to train the regular Army in its use—United Press.
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