The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
Regiments in Iowa Canton
ment Will Be Badly
Broken Up
.HANGERS-ON ARE
MIGRATING NORTH
Four North Dakotans Re-
ceive Appointments As
Corporals

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here to the Eighty seventh division,
national army at Camp Pike. Ark.
may be delayed until the next in
crement Of drafted men has arrived.
so that present organizations Of
trained men in this camp will not
be broken into. has disappeared.
The organizations have already in
many cases selected the men 10 be
sent south and the first contingent
may start with the next few DAYS.
General f. II. Plummer. commanding
the Eighty eighth division of the
national army. has notified the war
department that Camp Dodge is
ready to receive and equip its final
quota Of men selected for military
service from Iowa Minnesota, North
Dakota and part of Illinois. His ac-
ton forecasts the call to colors Of
approximately $4,000 men. He ex-
poets the final increment to report
before or about Dec. 1. With the re-
porting of the final increment the
division strength will be brought to
more than 10000 soldiers. Quarters
and food supplies are now on hand
in sufficient quantities.
Asking For Volunteers.
In the transfer OF troops, volun-
teers are generally being called on.
and unlike the transfer to Deming,
In. M, and Houston. Texas. many
men are asking to be included in the
/ troops to be sent away. They feel
sure that the Eighty divi-
sion will be moved to France ahead
of the division here and arc anxious
to see active service.
The lists to be taken from the ma
chine gun battalions were completed
this week. A rumor that the men
might be given a few days furiough
to visit their homes before going
south was dispelled when the men
asked commanding officers about IL
and were advised they must be held
in readiness for training at any time.
1t is now accepted as a matter Of
/ fact that the men will go as soon
as transportation facilities can be
ARRANGED. The exact dates Of depar-
ture, however, will be withheld by
the newspapers as a matter of volun-
tary censorship requested by the war
department.
Artillery May Be Moved.
| On top Of this new movement OF
/ trained soldiers from this division
and recurring reports that the Eigh-
| ty- eighth will soon have developed
| into an almost purely depot division,
from which trained troops may be
taken to fill out other organizations,
comes the report that the 3S7th field
artillery regiment, and possibly the
I 339th artillery will be sent within
/ two months either to Cuba or some
southern training camp in order to
get winter training for early move
ment across to France. IL is general
Iy accepted as fact. also. that the
/ 313th engineers, will be one Of the
/ first regiments to be transferred
from this division, probably within
the next few months. or earlier.
The transfer of this divisions
quota of 10000 men selected or to be
selected from lists reported by regi-
mental commanders of trained men
under a total Of 81 occupational
heads for service in the aviation sec
ton Of the signal corps may hit this
division heavier than its percentage
proportion. The sixteen camps are
ordered by the war department to
provide 10000 men, or an average OF
1898 men to the division.
In the southern camps, however.
owing to a lack Of men by reason OF
the heavy negro population drafted,
there probably will be a smaller pro-
portion OF men available for this
service. This then win mean that the
northern camps must furnish the
heavier draft. Lists already sent to
division headquarters here Will total
considerably more than 5000 men,
over twice the quota for this camp
under the original call. The organi-
cation here will also lose several
hundred noncommissioned officers
when the new officers training school
opens. other special transfers of Of
ficers to training schools in the ar
tillery and to the quartermasters
corps will add to the number of lost
from this division. A note Of pessim-
ism sometimes creeps inadvertently
into the comments OF officers, who,
although they know the orders for
transfer are for the good of the army
and the service. dislike to see their
best men taken away after months
of hard work has whipped them
into good soldiers. They fear IL new
men do not arrive soon there win be I
no one but officers left in the camp. |
PIummer is Pleased.
After an inspection OF the base
hospital, Major General r. III. Plum |
mer, division commander, declared |
that conditions are excellent and Of |
ficers Of the medical corps were |
for the efficient manner
In which they are doing their work. |
Very little sickness prevails In the .
and those at the hos I
pitaI number only about 200 men.
The majority of these cases are OF
disease brought here from civil life.
disease has been rapidly
Quarters for medical Of
ficers on duty at the base hospital
will be erected within a few weeks,
the foundation having been started
the first Of the week.
First and second increment men /
who have made good since reporting
here will be selected within a short
time to attend the officers training
school at Camp Dodge. Jan. 5.
Platoon commanders viii report not
later than Nov. "a their selection Of
groups Of men considered At for
work. From 10 per cent Of the men
by the company command
srs, IL per cent will be finally chosen
to attend the school.
Camp Followers Opposed.
The hangers-on who have been
migrating north with the coIored
regiment Of soldiers from Alabama
10 Camp Dodge are TO be requested
10 remain in the south II various
here can secure the
cooperation Of the governor OF Ala
oama and the war department. At
held recently II was de-
cided to send a request "a the gov
srnor Oh Alabama asking that he \
check the influx OF the southern
negro to Des Molnes IL possible. The
action was taken following the
of General e. III.
piummer who has had a board ~
southern officers examining the con-
litionS among the southern negroes
who have come 70 Des Moines with
ne troops from that state. Requests
fave also come from the colored