Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-05

With the bands playing f1dtl, fidlI,
and Aud Lang Syne Major General
Charles NJ. Clement, commander of the
Twenty eighth division at Camp HAN
cock, returned to camp yesterday after
noon at $50, after an absence OF several
weeks in France
1t was not generally known that Cen
eral Clement would return to Camp Han
cock yesterday and as result, hundreds
of civilians missed one of the greatest
sights ever presented in this country-an
entire division of troops standing at At
tention."
lined the Wrightsboro road, extending all
the way from the entrance to camp, to
the road leading to the post ONCE. ON
the right were the infantry brlgades ana
machine gun battalions and on the lett
stood the brigade of artillery and sanitary
train The drill field was mass OF
horses and men, all in fine condition, and
it must have gladdened General Glenn
ent's heart to see his division in such
perfect form
General Clement has been at his home
in sunbury, following his. report to Wash
ington and in an interview given to the
Pitfsburg gSszette Times at his home ~
tsssahfIrN he makes some interesting
Ttssgaents Tie following afzfele - 1E8sa1
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Tg1lfaf HIS command and pI3gHaHIS fNgA
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sent to France during TIE next Few
months is the opinion OF Major General
Charles NJ. Clement, commander of the
Twenty eighth Division, Pennsylvania
National Guard of the American army,
who is spending a few days at his home
here, following his recent return from 2
six weeks stay at the theater OF war in
France.
During December it lis quite likely that
$4,000 men Will be sent over and II Bra
ell provides promised transports twice as
many will go next month is the opinion
of the general After the first of the year
the men will be rushed across just as
rapidly as possible.
The general would express no opinion
as to when the end of the war will come.
but he does believe that when the end
Death in Every Wind.
He spent twenty-one days along the
French and British lines in France and
on several occasions was within zones
who're death rode whistling in every wind
G. rged with torment and destruction.
On October %, his birthday anniversary,
he was so near the battle lines that one
of the French officers informed him that
if it were q clear day, instead of being
rainly and cloudy, he would have been
extremely lucky to have left the place
alive. They were within easy range Of
the German guns and shells dropped all
around them, and the adverse weather
conditions alone prevented the Boche
gunners- getting range of the building
where the. party of which General Glenn
ent was a. member was sheltered
Within a radius Of an eighth of a mile
the earth was frequently rent with great
deep. On another occasion he was along
the French line of battle so close that a
big shell exploded, within $50 feet Of him.
Once his automobile skidded and an auto
mobile 'lorry" driver turned his own car
into the path of the generals and saved
it going over a 60-foot er1bankment.
On the Messines Heights a shell burst
close to the general as he was walking
towards the trenches. French officer
remarked:
"They have the range of this crater
and we would not dare to be here two
minutes il the sun was shining"
There are several dents in the English
helmet the general wore on his tour of
the trenches. This he brought home with
him together with one of the gas masks
used at the front.
General Clement also met and dined
with General Pershing. An engagement
had been made to eat at restaurant,
but when the time came General Per-
shing had to hurry to a different point to
confer with an allied war council and he
wired Clement to meet and dine with him
ON train. To do this General Clement
had to make a speed Of nearly a mile a
minute to arrive at a junction point in
time to meet Pershing.s party.
.lG Germans Glad tt, See Him.
France has been cEurneds into clay
pit the general says. The mud every
where is from four riches to two feet
deep The soldiers stand for hours. in
mud. that reaches half way up to their
knees.