The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-22
That Is the Opinion of Well In
formed Military Men.
The Artillery Force on the BOr-
der Is Sufficient.
ROCK CHALK YELL IS HEARD
Famous War Cry of Twentieth
at Union Pacific Depot.
Troop Trains Pass Through En-
Route to Fort Riley.

The men of Battery A stand excel
lent chances of being a unit of the
forces which will probably strike at
Mexico City from the east coast of
Mexico if war be declared. That was
the opinion of military experts here
today. Army officers refused to COM
ment, but others familiar with the
situation pointed out there is prac-
tically enough artillery on the border
to cooperate with infantry invading
from the north. The battery will
leave tomorrow it was said today.
Topeka was center for troop
movements today. Shortly before 10
o'clock this morning a Union Pacific
special train carrying the quartermas-
| ters and supply corps of the First in
fantry, thirty men, Captain Wagstaff
commanding, from Lawrence, and
Company H of the First infant from
Lawrence, Capt. Samuel G. Clark COM
manding, and Company of the First
infantry, Kansas City, Kan, Capt
Archie Rupert, a Kansas City news
paper man, commanding, pulled into
Topeka 1t waited on the Union Pa
cific sidetrack for the lola signal corps
in command of Capt L. A. Fox.
The lola corps arrived here shortly
after 10 o'clock, and the train carry
| ing all the companies left for Fort
Riley at 11:45. Eighty-one men were
. in Captain Rupert's command One
| hundred and five were with Captain
| Clark. All the companies left officers
in their home towns to recruit more
men. The Union Pacific special was
the first train through here.
Rock Chalk Battle Cry
The Kansas university battle cry.
that has been heard on battle fields
| around the world, will be heard again
in Mexico if the troops "go in The
cheered the men on in the Twentieth
Kansas bloody campaign in the
Philippines. Men carrying the stars and
stripes shouted it when they forced
the gates of Pekin in the Boxer re-
belIion. 1t has been heard in the
European war.
A magazine writer. telling about a
charge of the French Foreign Legion
at Verdun, wrote:
''Thse men of the Foreign Legion,
mostly men who are not too proud to
fight, seem to be strangers to fear.
They go into battle singing. An of
ficer told me how one regiment
charged the Germans.
The men leaped from the trenches
and there was that hesitancy always
following the order to charge with
bayonets. A tall, unshaven fellow
leaped forward and from his lips came
the strangest sounds the French regi-
ments had ever heard. 1t pleased
mouth and went across the field sing
ing it,
x. C. Students.
With the Lawrence company were a
score or more of Kansas university
students. Tony James, captain of last
years football squad, is 2 private.
Rook Woodward, fuHback: Tod Reed,
and Red Minor. center, regarded as
the best of material for this years
squad. are members of the company.
Tomorrow Company NJ, First infan-
try. will start for Fort Riley. Prac-
tically every memb Der of the company
is university student or a graduate.
| 1t is differed by professors and
teachers.
1t was a cIean.cut. clean-dressed
bunch Of men that went through here
| waited for the lola corps A poor
| tenor started the ''Old Family Tooth
: brush to the tune of the "The Old
Oaken Bucket"
His efforts met with approval.
America. I Love Thee" came next.
It was greeted with a roar of approval.
someone started Just Before the Bat
tie, Mother" He was hooted down
with cries of 60 soak your head -
and Tell it to the Mex
There were parents. friends and rel
atives the depot platform this
Y morning to bid goodbye to the Law
l renee. Kansas City and lola men.
t Many of them have relatives in To-
peka and friends by the score, as was
. proven this morning
1 Tells of Piciett's Charge.
A negro, a veteran of the black
t troops of the Civil war. furnished
l amusement and just a little serious
thought for the men in khaki in the