Washington, June 6.
The "Fighting First" Division would be one of the first units of the United States Army to move if America decided to send an expeditionary force abroad, it is learned.
Gen, Marshall, Chief of the Army, addressing the House of RepreSentatives Appropriations sub-committee, said the First Division was "a task force of first priority and as such gets 100 per cent. of the issues of any new equipment that becomes available" Certain other units would also get priority "because they are among those selected for possible use in certain eventualities."
The First Division, virtually at war strength, is stationed at Camp Devons, Massachusetts, It took the American Army's first German prisoners in the last war,—Reuter,
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