have been received from the sale of subsistence there will be a transfer to 1924 of a sufficient amount to take care of that deduction.

Mr. ANTHONY. You have taken advantage of those credits?
General WALKER. Yes, sir.

DISPOSITION OF ARMY BY CORPS AREAS.

Mr. ANTHONY. General Harbord, can we ask you to tell something of the geographical disposition of the Army at the present time? Have you the figures here?

General HARBORD. I have not any figures here but I can tell you in a general way that every permanent post we have is now occupied except Fort Logan, Colo., Fort Meade, and Fort Lincoln, in the Dakotas.

Mr. ANTHONY. So that the Army has gone back to the occupancy of all those permanent quarters.

General HARBORD. Yes; and the three I mention are not occupied because they are considered as the home station of certain troops down on the border; Meade and Lincoln for Cavalry regiments and Fort Logan, which has a battalion, is supposed to be the home station of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, which is at Nogales, Ariz., in temporary shelter.

Mr. ANTHONY. I think it would help the committee if you would place in the record the present geographical distribution of the Army, as to its enlisted forces, and also as to its commissioned officers; that is, the duties to which your present commissioned personnel is assigned.

General HARBORD. I can not give you the figures exactly on that but I can say that having in mind the mission of the Army in connection with these summer camps, we have endeavored to put what we call a reinforced brigade in every one of the nine corps areas; that is to say, generally, the Infantry components, the two regiments of Infantry, and when we can, a battalion of Field Artillery, and in all of the corps areas, I think except two, some Cavalry. That, in general, is the distribution in the United States. Then, of course, in the Eighth Corps Area we have considerably more than that.

Mr. ANTHONY. Which one is that?

General HARBORD. That is the one along the Texas border extending to California. We have between twenty and thirty thousand troops down there when they are filled up.

Mr. ANTHONY. The figures you will place in the record will show the number of troops in the United States, the number in Panama and Hawaii, the Philippines, China, and also in Germany?

General HARBORD. Yes, sir; there are less than 1,200 in Germany, officers and all.

Hon. D. R. ANTHONY,

WAR DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF,
Washington, December 6, 1922.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. ANTHONY: On the occasion of my recent appearance before the Appropriations Committee certain information was requested by the committee which I agreed to forward at a later date. One of the requests of the committee was that they be furnished the geographical distribution of the Army, both enlisted and com

missioned, and in accordance therewith I am inclosing a tabulation showing the distribution by geographical areas, itemized under the following headings: "Overhead,' With organizations," "With National Guard," "With Organized Reserves," "With R. O. T. C."

In explanation of the large number appearing in the column "Overhead," you will note at the bottom of the sheet the distribution of this overhead in the various corps areas and departments under the following activities: "Headquarters." "Camps and posts." "Arsenals and depots," "Schools," "General hospitals," "General prisons." "Recruiting."

Hoping the information requested is in the form desired by the committee, I am, Sincerely yours,

J. G. HARBORD, Major General, United States Army.

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123

068

5,675

103

162

1,204

12,508

Mr. ANTHONY. Has there been any increase in the number of troops sent to Panama and Hawaii?

General HARBORD. I do not think any more have been sent to Panama except recruits for organizations already there. There was one skeleton regiment sent to Hawaii, which was intended to have gone before last year. The Nineteenth Infantry was at the Presidio and it was kept there until the October boats because of the possible necessity of using them in strikes, but they have since gone out on transports, completing the division out there.

Mr. ANTHONY. The statement has been made a number of times that there were not enough troops in the United States for training purposes, and it has occurred to the committee that we had sufficient troops for that purpose if they were taken from some of these outlying stations where they are now located. Has the department ever considered the advisability of bringing home enough Regular Army troops for training purposes?

General HARBORD. Taking them from the foreign possessions?
Mr. ANTHONY. Yes.

General HARBORD. They have considered that and have tried to weigh what they considered the need of adequate garrisons there against the need of them in this country.

Mr. ANTHONY. It would look as if the number you have now of 125,000 would probably be the settled policy for some time to come, and it seemed to the committee it was not wise to maintain so many outside the continental limits of the United States.

General HARBORD. We have denuded the Philippine Islands pretty well of white troops. The Coast Artillery there has been brought down to pretty nearly a caretaking detachment. As I said awhile ago, we have brought home the Regular Cavalry that was there and substituted native troops, and we have gone as far as we thought we properly should in that direction.

Mr. ANTHONY. How many men do we keep in China now?

General HARBORD. We have two battalions which would roughly be less than 1,000 men, probably 800.

Mr. ANTHONY. How many marines are on duty in China?

General HARBORD. I am not accurately informed, but they speak of them as a legation guard, and I assume there are about 100 men, but I am not sure of that.

Mr. ANTHONY. I notice that you recently assigned a brigadier general to China to command the forces there.

General HARBORD. Yes, sir.

Mr. ANTHONY. What was the object of that?

General HARBORD. The man we had out there, who commanded a regiment and had to give the detailed attention to that sort of duty which a regimental commander should give, was not able to do the other part of his job, which was keeping more or less in touch with the ambassador. Those troops are out there, of course, in the interest of the protection of our legation and the railroad from the coast up to Pekin. It is better to have a man with a broader outlook there, and we are sending out one of the best men we have. That is the object of it. There has been some talk, on the part of the joint board, that a good many things would be better served if both the marines and the Navy contingent out there were under a single command. They