Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-03
WAR GAME INSTRUCTION
FOR MEN At CAMP LEE
Troop Movement and Mancuvers
Worked Out With Miniature
French Sectors OF Clay.
RELIEF FOR WINTER NIGHTS
Complete Details To-Day for Open
ipg Small Arms Rifle Range on
Island at Dutch Gap-Richmond-
crs Win Promotion.
IBv n STAFF correspondent.1

1 lSiauu aU DutCI1 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ers Win Promotion.
! (By n STAFF Correspondent
CAMP LEE. VA, December =
Learning tho war game will not mean
all drill and strenuous training for
the men of the Three Hundred and
Seventeenth Infantry. Not that they
Will receive any less of this outdoor In
| struction, but the study OF troop move
ment and war maneuvers will take on
n rccreational aspect. This will be
| brought about by the men playing war
games in their rccreation-rooms dur
| ing the winter night. when small
replicas OF trench sectors will be made
from modcler's clay. and paper sol
diers be used in staging an advance
| against the enemy's positions.
| This is the idea which has been
worked out by Major Granville For
| tescue, commanding the Second Bat
| talon Of the Three Hundred and Seven
| teenth. Already he and his officers are
using blackboard for this work. but
/ to make it more realistic, and to show
| the exact lay of the ground. with
| trenches. barbedwire entanglements
she'll holes. and all the other charac-
teristics OF the front. clay will be
| used.
| With these. the men at night will
! rehearse the training they received
| during the day. 1t Will be like a game
| for them. and in addition to serving to
| pass pleasantly hours that would prob
ably drag. 1t will make their instruc-
| ton more firmly fixed In their minds
! in that the entire formation OF their
| command and its movements as a
whole can be spread ont before them.
1t will also afford an opportunity for
the troops to work out different
4 ~, Of alI nj
ments which would be OF great value
| TO their training.
BELIEVE WAR GAME WILL. DE
POPULAR THROUGHOUT DIVISION
| Major Fortescue is preparing to get
| this idea going in his battalion short
| ly. The men will fall into 1t imme-
diately, it is believed. and shortly war
games Will become common throughout
! the division. 1t will not be strictly
a part Of tho instruction for the men.
but. on account Of it's nature, as soon
as 1t Is shown to them, there is no
doubt but that they will take it up
| Immediately.
Major Fostescue before entering the
military service OF the United States
| was war correspondent for the Lon
don Daily Telegraph. having been en-
gagged by that newspaper at tho be-
| ginning OF the war to cover il for
them. He was in Belgium when 1t
was invaded by the Huns and later
went to the Russian front. and also to
the Balkans. He has seen every army
| of the allied nations in operation, eN-
cept the Italian and Montenegrian. He
has embodied the results Of his UNI
usual opportunity to see the great war
| in three volumes two of them cover
| ing his observations while acting as
correspondent for the London daily.
| The last is a book just issued, entitled,
| N . oil
Of the wonderful sacrifices made by
| the French people since the beginning
| of the war.
| All is about in readiness for the
opening of the big rifle range adjoin-
| ing the camp for small arm practice.
The following officers have been select
ed to make up the organization for
! the division target range. Lieutenant
Colonel Albert w. Foreman, range OFF,
GER; Major Hiram NJ. Cooper. adjutant
of the Virginia brigade, assistant range
officer: Lieutenant Alvah Ramsay.
medical officer: Lieutenant Henry l..
RingelinG, ordnance and supply officer.
A permanent range detail consisting
OF one sergeant. a corporal. and three
privates were also named.
COMPLETE DETAILS TODAY FOR
OPENING Oh RIFLE RANGE
Tomorrow morning the officers and
men will meet at the range and COM
plete all details for it's opening. BY
Wednesday. at the latest, it is believed
| that the range will be in full swing.
and the troops out with their Enfelds
receiving their first instruction in tar
get practice. This range will also be
used at this time by the machine gun
ncrs. and the operators of the Chnu-
chat rifle. the French gun which tx used
In advancing. and caD'ied by the men at
the hip.
ne GalI ~ wi ArI
nance commands are busily engaged in
going over their enlisted personnel
| for the purpose of selecting men who
Will DO sent to the ordnance schools,
which are being established by the
government at various places. This
method OF instructing the artilltrymcn
Is similar to that which is in use for
the men of the infantry. ard which has
proven so satisfactory in bringing the
latest war experiences of the allies
to the troops of the National Army.
The government is spending s27j 600
here in building roads in order that
transportation about the camp may be
facilitated. Two concrete highways
arc already under construction. and
others Will be built Where this class
Of road is not built and it will be
only on the most important thorough
fares in the camp. other material will
be used in producing road with a
hard surface, sufficient to stand the
heavy travel in the cantonment. With
the completion of these roads tho
present muddy condition will be rem
edicd. 1t has also been announced that
the trolley line from Petersburg to
the camp would be extended through
the cantonment to the artillery section
which Will mean much TO the men of
that command. These men now have
to make their way in wet weather
through depths of mud in order to
reach the ear line.
TWO RICHAIONDEnS WIN FURTHER
PROMOTIONS IN THEIR DIVISIONS
Guy o. Bcale, of Richmond, who has
held the rank OF sergeant In the head
quarters company of the Three Hum
dred and Eighteenth Infantry, has won
another promotion. He now holds a
warrant attcstinS to the fact that he is
sergeant major of the First Battalion
of the reE:mcnl. and aSSiunnl 10 dntr