Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-09
FRENCH AND BRITISH
OFFICERS To TEACH
TRENCH SYSTEM HERE
Representatives of Leading En-
tente Powers Are Expected
to Reach Camp Gordon
Within. Week
Bx WARD nroREHoUsE.

ATLANTA JOURNAL BUREAU.
Camp Gordon. Oct. S.-tTen French and
British officers will be at Camp Gordon
within a week from today . teach
trench warfare 20 the officers and men
of the Eighty-second division.
This was announced Monday morning
AZ division headquarters. where notif-
cation has been received from Washing
ton that the officers have been assigned
10 Camp Gordon. for how long. the COM
munication does not state, but it is as
sumed for the complete period of train
ing OF the men now in camp.
The French and British officers will
be given spacious quarters in two
story building near division headduar-
tiers. where they will be in close touch
with the division commander and his
stan.
The ten veterans will oe the first for
eign officers TO be assigned 10 the camp.
Fort oglethorpe. Ca, where the second
officers training camp is located. now
has several French officers as instruc-
tors, but neither the reserve officers at
Camp Gordon nor the selectmen under
them have had. heretofore. the benefit
OF the practical knowledge Of modern
warfare. as the game is played in Eu-
rope today. which the Frenchmen and
the Britishers will give them.
IL is expected that with the arrival
OF the French had British officers, prep
srations will be begun for staging mimic
warfare in DeKalb county in a series OF
trenches that will be dug and occupied
by the men for long intervals at time,
with all movements based on the as
sumption that actual warfare is in
progress
s25 SELECTMEN DISCHARGED.
Eight hundred and twenty-five select
men have been discharged from
military service after reporting
10 this cantonmeat. according TO
an announcement made at the
division headquarters this morning.
Df this number 500 were found physi-
csIIy disqualified for service, while
twenty-five were discharged On account
Of being exempted from service by yari-
Gus district boards after reporting al
the camp
The physical examination OF The Sc
Isctmen arriving in the second coEtin-
cent was completed Saturday. Examina-
ton of the men coming in the third con-
tingent will begin Tuesday.
IL was also announced today that
there are now $4,000 selectmen in the
camp. They include 2.7sS negroes who
have arrived since October 8.
The first hike in which the negro Sc
Iectmen have taken part occurred this
morning Fully $4,000 men went on
three-hour march with Major General
Ebens Swift, camp commander. On the
return the selectmen were reviewed by
General Swift. who took up a position
at Jackson avenue and Gambler road.
Each man, including the negroes. saluted
ss they passed the commander and to
each Of the negro organizations General
Swift and Brigadier General James B.
Erwin spoke a word of announcement
as they marched by
Practically all OF the whites and
about 10 per cent of the negroes were
in Uniform. Members of the division
headquarters troop carried the Enfield
rifles recently handed out TO them. This
was the first time rifles have been car
RED BY any organization on a hike
Following in the wake OF the mixers
came two ambulances which gathered
ND the men who collapsed during the
long marsh. There were only few,
however. mat found the pace too much
for them
Members OF the Liberty bond commit
tee. will visit the camp this afternoon
snd speak before the various organiza-
lions These speakers will explain how
the soldiers can give further aid IN
winning the war with Germany by sub
scribing 10 the second Liberty Loan.