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Army and
Navy News
Observation-Disclosures;
Continued from Page Nine.)

/ A44ettAL9 iaISe Dbd1es Oh troops.
/ In referring 70 the departure of the
/ District Of Columbia National Guard
for the Massachusetts maneuvers, the
Washington Star says:
General orders have been issued from
headquarters, National Guard, District
of Columbia, giving further details Of
annual field exercises, which will be
held IN Massachusetts from August II
TO not later than August 27.
The brigade, except the 1st Battery,
Field Artillery, and the details with
horses viii embark on the r. S. Army
transports Sumner and Mcclellan on
the evening of August H. The exact
time and place Of assembly will be an
nounced later.
The 1st Battery, the detaehments
with gatling guns, Signal Corps detach-
ments with two signal corps wagons,
details with horses, and about 125
horses will go by rail to New York and
embark there IN accordance with de-
tailed instructions to be given later.
In the field exercises, the regiments,
the LIST Separate Battalion and separate
organizations win prepare themselves
TO operate independently, arranging all
details concerning their own transporta-
ton, hiring of horses, subsistence and
similar matters after conference with
the heads of the various staff depart
ments.
During the exercises each officer and
enlisted man viii be supplied with one
olive drab shirt, to be worn at all times
during active operations. and with one
dark bl5a 11nnel shirt 10 be carried in
the blanket roll and to be used Tor
sleeping.
The quartermaster' s department viii
furnish the necessary transportation
and viii assign officers and organiza-
tions TO quarters on transports.
The escort wagons and ambulances
allowed for the movement will be fur
nished at points of debarkation.
Quartermasters of organizations will
confer with the quartermaster, Nation
al Guard, District of Columbia, con-
corning necessary details.
The subsistence department will
make arrangements for the subsist-
ence of the command on transports and
on shore.
One eommissary sergeant and one
cook from the United States Army
will be assigned to each transport; the
remaining cooks will be supplied from
the National Guard
Each company, band, separate or
ganization and the division field hos
pital will have a kitchen with pre-
scribed equipment.
One cook and one assistant cook will
be allowed each kitchen, except list
Battery, Field Artillery, which viii be
allowed one cook and two assistant
cooks.
Enlisted cooks will be used wherever
practicable, and for the field exercises
this year will be paid the difference
between their pay as enlisted cooks
and the rates of pay for cooks and
assistant cooks. The payrolls for civil
ian cooks and for extra compensation
of enlisted cooks will be prepared by
regimental commissaries for their regi-
ments, and by commanding officers of
separate organizations for their organi-
cations.
Officers messes will not exceed one
for militia headquarters, one for divi-
sion field hospital, four for each regi-
ment and one for each separate or
ganizaticn. No allowance is made for
the hire of cooks for officers messes,
and these cooks will be paid by the
officers. While ON transports a mess
officer will be designated to run the
officers mess on each transport.
No ammunition of any kind will be
carried on transports.
All organization commanders will
oh ~se
ing at Washington and before embark
ing for the return trip to see that this
order is enforced.
The ordnance department will make
the necessary arrangements for dis
tribution of blank ammunition for the
rife, revolver, field artillery and gat-
ling guns, which will be distributed at
points of debarkation.
The following officers will be mount
ed: The commanding general and
staff, the regular officers detailed for
duty with the National Guard, the
colonel, lieutenant colonel, adiutant,
quartermaster and commissary of each
regiment; the major, adjutant, quar-
termaster and commissary OF each bat
talon; the medical officers of the COM
mand, the GHcefS OF the ISL battery,
Field Artiller, the officer commanding
signal company. The amount allowed
for horse hire will not exceed SO per
horse per day. Five mounted order
lies will be allowed militia headquar-
ters; one mounted orderly, one mount
ed noncommissioned officer and two
horses for gatling gun, and not to ex-
coed four mounted Hospital Corps men
viii be allowed each regiment; one
mounted Hospital Corps man and one
mounted orderly will be allowed the
LIST Separate Battalion.
The medical department will furnish
the necessary medicines and medical
attendance, and viii organize the Divi-
sion Field Hospital, as indicated in
recent memorandum from headquarters
Department Of the East.
Government employees will be given
certificates for duty performed under
the requirements of this general order
WITT CITY EsDAA TONG