Washington, May 12, Army Headquarters today announce the reorganization, effective on July 1, of the Coast Artillery Corps, in jer materially to reinforce that branch of the nation's defences against an air or sea attack.
Mr, Harry H. Woodring, the Secre-of War, declared that the nsference of officers and men from administrative to combatant units would create 18 additional gun batteries for continental United States.
The equipping of these eweres with modern mobile anti-aircraft guns, which have already been ordered, he said, would add about 83 per cent. to the Regular Army's defence against air-raids.
Some units, continued Mr, Woodring, would' man the long-range guns reinforcing Atlantic and Pacific harbour defences.
Four of these units, he declared, would be assigned to the New York city area,—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.