Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-05-19
new ARMY Will
Be TRAINEDON
MODERN Lines

WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is. -
Soldering will take on an aspect en-
. tirely new to American military sci
ence when training Of the forces to
be assembled under the draft bill be-
gins at the Is training environments.
Careful plans laid by War Department
officials provide for the application
Immediately Of every lesson learned
from European battlefields, and much
Of the work to be done will be new
even to men recently in army instruc-
ton camps.
The Army War College has prepar-
ed new training manuals based on
the latest information from the
trenches Of the fighting fronts, gath
cred from many sources. Supple
mental regulations will cover even
more detailed information brought by
the British and French officers here
as members Of the war missions.
The American training system prob
ably will follow to some extent that
used in Canada, where the instructors
have made every effort to reproduce
as closely as possible conditions at
the front. Sections of trench have
been built at the Canadian camps,
duplicating important parts Of the
lines In France held by Canadian
troops. Training in extending these
works and running saps or erecting
entanglements has gone on to the &C.
compartment Of actual shell fire 80 as
to harden the nerves OF the troops as
well as their muscles.
To carry out this scheme the Cana
dams have placed batteries opposite
the trenches and kept up steady fire
at certain designated points. The In
fantrynen under training have done
their work night and day with shrap-
mel bursting close to them. The OF
Ulcers, Of course, know the posts 70
be pounded by the guns, and keep the
men out Of danger
Another work that VIII be new to
American troops viii be bombing
practiee. Every company win have
fits section Of grenadiers TO clear the
way into q disputed trench. It re-
duires practise to perfect men In this
revised art Of war, and X requires
practise also Co teach men to act m
stinctively In repelling bombing par
ties.
Machine Gun Work All New
Machine gun work VIII be revoiu-
tionired In Great Britain q separate
machine gun corps has been created
20 turn out complete machine gun
companies, which handle the heavy,
water-cooIed yickers-Maxim guns on
defensive lines. In each company
are skilled mechanics to make repairs,
highly trained gunners, packers ana
ammunition handlers. Among the
line troops are scattered great nuns
bers OF light machine rifles for OF.
tense, one man carrying gun and
several following him up with ammu-
nition as he creeps forward from shell
hole to shell hole In the very front
line OF each attacking wave. With
the artillery al the complicated me-
chanism for curtain and barrage fire
must be provided for. Il takes long
training to ct gunners for this work,
and absolute certainty OF the lines OF
communication with the observation
posts.
So for each element OF the army
there are days OF endless toll ahead.
The signal men, engineers, ayiators,
balloon men; the men who work the
great guns far behind the fighting
lines, the personnel Of the transport
trains and ambulance corps; every
cog In the intricate machinery ofmod-
ern warfare must be taught its place
and trained TO coordinate to form q
great fighting machine.