Washington, Aug. 23.
The House of Representatives yesterday approved the joint conference report on the bill authorizing President Roosevelt to call National Guard and reservists into active service for one years intensive training. The measure returns to the Senate for concurrence, after which it will be sent to the White House for the President's signature.
The bill makes National Guardsmen. and reservists liable to duty to swell the present strength of the present army of 280,000 men.
Meanwhile, as the Senate debate on the Conscription Bill continued yes-the Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, told the press that the Army has enough basic Cauipment to train men under the conscription programme if Congress enacts the bill. The Army, he said. Las ample stocks of rifles for 3,000,000 men and plenty of gas masks artillery and mortars.
The Army probably will not need to call up all of the 117,000 reserve officers in the country to carry out the training programme, he said. The tentative programme, he revealed, envisages obtaining as many reserve officers as possible on a voluntary basis and -then taking unmarried reservists without dependents.
"If this does not suffice," General Marshall said, "we might be requ ed to call others,"—United Press.
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