Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-29
LOVE takes COMMAND
OF VIRGINIA REGIMENT
Succeeds Colonel b. II. Wells as
Head OF 3fStl Infantry
at Camp Lee.
RICHARDSON TO DEPOT TROOP
Is Brigadier-General and Graduate
of West POint-l'ought in Span
ish War-Was on Duty In Alaska
Until Outbreak Of War.
(By STAFF Correspondent

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CAMP LEE. VA. December 2s.--
Colonel Il. II. Wells. tho commanding
officer of the Three Hundred and F.igh-
teenth Infantry has been ordered away
from Camp Lee. and to-day Lieutenan
Colonel James -. Love assumed com
mand OF the regiment. Where Colonel
Wells has been sent was not disclosed.
Orders, which were received from
Washington for this transfer were
learned with regret by members Of his
command. He has been one of the most
popular officers AT the camp. Every one
VIII be Interested III learning to what
destination he will be ordered. The
personnel Of the Three Hundred and
Eighteenth Infantry is composed en-
tirely of Virginians, including the Rich
nond contingent. The regiment has
been developed into one OF the best in
camp. AS Colonel Love is To be the
commanding officer for the line Of
icers' training school which will be
opened here on January s, II Is thought
that he is only in command until a new
colonel has been assigned to duty with
tho regiment.
Brigadier-Gcneral Wiles p. Richard
SON arrived In camp yesterday and as
stunned command of the depot brigade.
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West Point, veteran of the Spanish
American war. and until the outbreak
of the war had been for @ number Of
years on duty in Alaska.
Few civilians realize what a depot
brigade is. Here men when they ar
rive from the local boards are now as
signed and when regiment in one
OF the other briSades needs additional
men they are obtained from the depot
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the firing lines. but when men are lost
in action on the other side. their places
will be filled by men from IL.
I 100 on BURROUGHS
FOR FIvE-DAY VISITS
Fifteen hundred men left camp to-
day. Orders which we're to allow ) per
cent TO leave to-day and, after their
return men, should leave at the rate OF
. per cent 4 day until the entire enlisted
personnel had visited their homes have
been amended to read that per cent
Will leave each day beginning with to-
day until the folks. back home have
seen the development that Uncle Sam
has made with the green product tia,
reached here less than four months
ago. This will allow 90 per cent Of the
men to be at home on New Years day
instead OF per cent that would have
enjoyed this privilege had the old
order stood. The Atlantic Coast Line is
operating a special train out of Peters
burg every day to Washington to care
for the increased traffic. Tho new
orders were issued as soon as the
railroads advised that they were in
position to care for the men.
Ten thousand books. which have beer
forwarded here by the American
Library Association have arrived and
within the next few days the selectm CT
will be given the full benefit Of their
use. II. 6 Green is the librarian. Ir
order that the men may receive the full
benefit OF tho library the aid OF Y. NJ
c. A. secretaries has been enlisted. and
IL man wants particular book ne has
only to notify any OF the scvcnty-three
secretaries in envy OF the eleven Y. NJ
c. a. buildings. They will present the
reGu:sition 10 the librarian who will
forward the hook to the 7. NJ G. :, hut
designated the following day. Hero
the Sarnnnic can get II from the secre-
tary. and he will have two weeks to Se,
the benefit OF its contents. or course
every enlisted man and officer will he
welcomed at the library building The
aid OF the 7. NJ c. A. is solicited to re-
licve them from the long walk to the
building from the distant points OF the
camp.