Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-24
FORM PROVOST GUARD
FOR PETERSBURG DUTY
New York Company Assigned to Aid
City Police as Camp Leo Popu-
lation Grows.
FRENCH OFFICERS DUE SOON
VIII Assist In Training Selected Men
for TrencE, Warfare-Many Re-
criits Visit Homes, While Others
Enjoy Sunday Holiday.
FRENCH OFFICERS DUE SOON
IFrom starf Correspondent. J

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|. CAMP LEE. VA. September 23.-
This" popuiation OF Camp Lee%wnl he
approximately $4,000 ofiicers and en-
listed men by tomorrow night. The
completion OF the second quota of H.
600 men will be effected by that time,
the arrivals to-day bringing the total
of men received to about 14.31l. The
remaining 5000 are scheduled to reach
tho cantonment during the carly after
noon hours Of tomorrow.
Coincident with the completion of
the second quota OF National Army
men. Major A. D. Ecke, comm andinS
the battalion of tho Forty-seventh
New York Regiment OF Infantry. on
duty at Camp Lee. has arranged to
establish n provost guard In Peters
burg, and tomorrow. under Captain
Ably, acting as provost-marshal, one
company of the Forty seventh will be
placed on duty in the Cockade City,
acting as military police and assisting
the regular police of the city wherever
they may be needed.
Some time ago Major Ecke conferred
with the chief of police of Petersburg
and agreed that. with the arrival Of
the many additional men and the In
creased population OF Petersburg, Il
was matter of precaution to estab-
lish the provost guard. The company
of infantry to be sent to Petersburg
tomorrow will remain on duty there
during the life OF Camp Lee. and will
be ready to serve on any occasion
when the situation cannot be handled
by the local police.
A total of 1896 selected men reached
Camp Lee to-day during a short period
Of Ave hours. It was the largest days
receipt since the mon began leaving
their homes last Wednesday for the
cantonment. Less than 5000 are now
needed to complete the second quota,
after tho arrival of which the camp
will settle down to an intensive mill
tary routine. to be pursued until the
third and last quotas OF men reach
the camp. They are expected during
the early part OF October.
PRACTICALLY ALL UNITS
REACH MINIMUM STRENGTH
tically all Of tho regiments and sep
uTatc uHltS arc htlcu dt
strength. This enables the orsaniza-
ton OF each command to be completed,
and when the final contingents reach
camp IT Will only be necessary to add
the required number of men to bring
the commands to war strength. This
can be effected with ease, because of
the fact that each unit will then be
on firm working basis.
OF tho total to-day. 4ba men were
from Virginia. several counties sending
in a few stragGlers. Practically all
OF Virginia has been heard from-to
be exact. only two counties have not
sent their quotas. but these are ex-
pected tomorrow. These counties ARE
buckingham, the men Of which will be
placed In the Three Hundred and Sew
enteenth Regiment. and Prince George
County, which includes Hopewell.
These will be assigned to the Three
Hundred and Eighteenth.
Two local boards from Norfolk city
| sent seventy-one men to tho camp to
day. and instead Of placing them In
the Three Hundred and Eishteentf, /,
Regime ent. where they were planned to
so, It was discovered that majority
of the mon were machinists. and they
were Immediately assigned with the
machine-sun battalion. This com
mand viii be composed principally OF
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