Initial Force of 400,000 With 6,000 Planes Ready Washington, May 2. Details of the revised mobilization plan, giving the United States 1,000,000 men under arms within three months of the outbreak of war, were revealed today.
An initial fighting force of 400,000 men, with 6,000 aeroplanes, is contemplated.
The details were revealed by Colonel J. H. Burns, a high official of the War Department, when a dressing a meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Col. Burns stated that approximate. ly 10000 manufacturing firms had already accepted schedules showing what would be expected of them in wartime.—Reuter,
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