New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-13
ARMY REGULATIONS
STRICTLY ENFORCED
MEN IN UNIFORM GET ORDERS
NOT TO WRITE TO HOME
PAPERS.
GOVERNMENT PROVIDES FUNDS,
FOR DEPENDENT FAMILIES
OF MEN.

OF MEN.
There is an army regulation which
prohibits men in uniform from writing
| news letters to their home papers and
this regulation is now evidently being
more strictly enforced than was the case
when the Minnesota troops first went to
the border. Thomas Pfaender, son Of
VIM. Pfaender of this city, Joined the
militia shortly before they left for Fort
Smelling and up to a week ago had
written regularly for the Review, telling
OF camp life. His letters were uniformly
cheerful and made the best of things that
were not too pleasant but last week he
received orders to discontinue sending
reports to be printed and for that reason
there is no news direct from the front
for our readers this week.
In place of the letter hereafter readers
will have to content themselves with
reports as given in daily papers and with
such news as comes by way of private
correspondence. The Review will be
very glad, indeed, to print any letters
or portions thereof which friends of the
boys receive here so that a more general
knowledge of conditions as the boys live
through them may be had by the citizens
in general.
It looks as tho those who have the
management of things down in Texas
might be anxious to keep under cover
some of the facts as they are presented
to the enlisted men but the order may be-
simply matter of carrying out army
regulations strictly and the result of
somewhat exaggerated stories sent out.
by the correspondents of the big city,
papers. who were obliged to make the
shatever subject presented itself
in the monotony of camp life on the.
border.
Governor Burnquist has been officially
notified by the war department of the.
100000 appropriation by congress for
the aid of persons dependent upon the
men serving on the Mexican border.
The department plans on making pay
ments direct to such persons. So far
such work has been carried on in Mime
sofa entirely from voluntary contri-
buttons.
With the passage of the bill allowing
for the appropriation the war department
has revoked the order permitting the
discharge of guardsmen who had persons
depending upon them.
| when are the boys coming home
from the front?" is question that can
be heard almost every day on the streets
of New Ulm. Many reports contra
dictory with one another, have been
received the past two or three weeks
and even as yet no one but the men at
the head of affairs can give definite
answer and thus far they have RETAINED
from doing so.
Recently contracts for half a million
dollars worth of provisions, hay and
grain in addition to the regular contracts
which are weekly being filled, were let
by Chief quartermaster, Colonel II. L.
Rogers.
Other things that would indicate that
the boys will not be home so very soon
are the completion of $3.50 hospital.
the erection of large warehouses along
the tracks, the purchase of $3.50 900
worth of horses and mules, contracts
made for feed and fodder for about 600
horses and mules and the purchase of
food and supplies for months ahead.
With those things and others equally az
bright (?) it does not indicate that the
soldiers will eat Thanksgiving dinner.
with the home folks this year. In spite
OF all there is still ray of hope that the.
boys will be able to return to their
homes by January 1. This is little
information that has been given out by
an officer who is in close touch with
affairs.
A monthly pay roll for regiment Of
infantry is approximately 100000 ands
with eight regiments of infantry at
Llano Grande this amounts to $40, 900
month. With two battalions Of ar.
tlllery, the hospital and other auxiliaries
bring the monthly pay roll up to 5000, 900.
It costs $1,000 to feed the men for one
day and besides that there is the cost of
supplies, food, forage and other materials.
There are more than 100000 militia
men on the border.
Regardless Of what the boys may
think, from all indications the govern
ment did not take them down there for
demonstration purposes but are actually
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