Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-05
Fort Shafer Notes

| Especial Star Bulletin CorrrSpondencel
FORT SHAFTER, Jan. with the
rev year the fatigue duty that has
| held the center Ct the stage for the
| past two months at this post ceased.
| The weeks holiday lur all has likewise
! come to an end and officers and men
| will now take up straight" soldering.
The long layOfT from military in
structiOn has caused Col. French to
| order that a progressive scheme OF
| instruction be inaugurated whereby
the troops will he brought along by
degrees frcm the very beginning of
such instruction. To this end he has
directed that beginning with today all
| companies in the garrison commence
| instruction with the school of the sol
Gier and that that elem entary instruc.
! ton be continued with additions until
the whole command is carried through
| the squad and thence On into the
school of the company.
By reason Of this plan no battalion
drills will be held during the month
OF January, but the time not devoted
10 elementary drills will be utilized IN
| instruction of the men in bayonet
| work and the mechanics of the setting
| up exercises, with such time as may
be necessary for the .non-commission-
ed officers schools in the companies.
All officers, including the battalion
| commanders, will be required to be
present at these elementary drills and
| il is expected thst by the time the
real period of field training is reach
ed the individuals rs well as compan.
les composing the command will be
letter perfect in the foundation steps
as we'll as in signaling. first aid and
other kindred subjects. II
Beginning also with today battalion
parades at 1870 viii be resumed. The
LIST battalion Will parade on Mondays,
the, I'd battalion on Tuesdays and the
Cd battalion on Thlrsdays. Regiment.
al parade will take place at retreat on
Friday of each week Garrison school
for the officers is resumed likewise
today with sessions at 1:30 in the aft.
ernoon on all days except Saturdays
and Sundays. ....,.-.. ,....1
On Friday afternoon at the same,
hour the session of the postgraduate
course for officers will be held. For
this work the first session will be de-
voted to map problem prepared by
Maj. H. o. Williams. The garrison
school will take up recitations in mill,
tary law under Mai NJ. J. Lenihan, I'd
Infantry. These reeitations viii con-
tinue until February 60. when the ex-
animation in that subject will occur.
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The late dispatches from the main
land report that Lieut.. Theodore w.
Martin of the 18th Infantry has been
ordered transferred TO the I'd Infan-
try and ordered to join at an early
date. This assignment gives rise to-
considerable speculation as to the
plans of the war department, since
the I'd Infantry HIS now its full COM
plement of second Feutenants. there
being - in that grade on the regi-
mental rolls. 1t is taken by some Of
ficers to mean thar someone of thei
10 now on duty with the regiment will
be transferred for duty with regi-
ment on the mainland in order that
the work OF equalizing foreign service
may be begun. If that superstition be
correct other officers serving in Ha-
waii. may expect similar orders to re-
turn to the states.
As the matter C service abroad
runs in the I'd Infantry none of the
second lieutenants has as yet the four
years of service thu. a tour in Hawaii
is supposed TO continue. Lieut.. W. A.
Reed of the I'd mas. been stationed
here for a few months over threei
years, but has been absent for con-
siderable period OH leave and that has
been heretofore considered as operat-
ing to extend the hawaiian tour by
the amount granted in leave. Lieut.
S. II. Foster is similarly situated, as is
also Lieut.. E. L. Hoffman. Lieut.. W.
c. Rose may be TIE one for whom re-
lief from foreign duty is intended in
Lieut.. Martins orders. but that is not
thought likely since his tour of pre-
yious duty abroad, though in the Phil
ippines. was in the Constabulary.
where he was an officer for somel
time. That duty is not credited as
~ervice as a commissioned officer in
the armv
L to hidllSI Is one oi iiIlBOTJaDCo 10
all concerned and the follow up" or
der in Lieut.. Martins case will be !
awaited with much interest by all of !
ficers without regard to grade Who'll
have completed three wears service |
with the mobile army serving in Ha-
wall. Lieut.. Martin has had no pre-
yious foreign service, as he graduated !
from the military academy in 1912 and |
has been on duty with the 18th Infant |
~ in the states since graduation and |
assignment. He mas lately been serv- |
ing on the Mexican border with sta !
ton at Eagle Pass, Texas. He is ex.l