The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-12-05
ENGLISH BATTLE
=. cry AT DODGE
English officers, Now at Camp Dodge,
Teaching Boys in Khaki the
Enuijsk Battle Cry.
SHAM sAYoNET ATTACKS NOW
First Battle Will be Fought Between
Captains and Majors and Ileuten'
ants-Will lunge at Each Other


DIVISION HEADQUARTERS,C Camp
Dodge, Dec. 4-(Special to the Review
"Over the top and give 'em HI"
That's the English Tommy's battle
cry as he leaps the parapet OF MS
trench and carries on" with bayonet
at guard, headed for tho scrap III Tic
dugouts of the Huns.
/ Soon it will be heard at Camp Dodge.
English officers will shout 1t. Ana II
will be taken up and carried along
"A line of charging khaki clad soldiers
ns II swings across the bloOdless and
bulletless No Mans Land in the pas
toral fields of Polk county, Iowa.
There will be casualties, real cas-
ualtics. but none serious. For they We
adoptcd a system of bayonet practice
for tho soldiers Of the Eighty-cighth
division that is about the nearest TO
The real thing that any man desires,
pcrlaps too near for some. u is not
idle jest to say there will be casuai'
tics.
beginning this week. sham bayonet
attacks will be staged in the trencn
works of Camp Dodge. The hrst Datlc
will be fought between the captains
and majors OF the division on one sue
and the lieutenants on the other.
A. the Men Come Out.
He who stands in the side lines and
watches the attack will see odd things.
The men who come out Of the trenches
will be cncased, head and shoulders,
in a wire cage, capable of sustaining
y severe lab without being pierced.
1'hey will be armed with what appear
to be regulation army rifles. But on
tho end OF the bayOnet will be seen
a little dark Oall. With the head anu
neck thus protected and thus armed.
tho majors and captains will swing
across the terrain to meet the lieutcn-
ants as they leap from their trenches
to "repel invaders They too will be
similarly equipped.
Then there will ensue fierce fight
ing. Officers will lunge at each other,
iabbing hard in whole souled effort
to "kill" the other. The killing Will
be adiutlgesl "a ACCOMPLISHED when the
vanqlished man has been hurled 10
the ground by the thrust of his op'
pOnent.
Thc rifles used In this new bayOnet
practice are wooden. The balls on
tho end are OF soft rubber. pneumat'
ic. Outside Of thati everything Is
real.
Two Ribs Fractured.
Such drill is SO real that Lieut.. Wm'
r. Farley, the officer who will teach
it at Camp Dodge. came back from
the intensified training school at Fort
Sill, Okla, with two fractured riDs. "A
iab from a rubber balled wooden gun
did it.
"Sucl Casualties are numerous i'll
~ Iinntpn2nf
CIV. THE officers arc taught and the
men will be taught as the officers are
graduated, to enter this practice 1isnt'
jnr with all the spirit and vim at their
command. Who wins is decided ny
the men put out of action by bayonct
thrust It's no child's play, Is TINS
training. We expect some fractured
ribs and some bad bruises. But lts
the training that counts. It's ques'
tion of the mans ability and not his
wcaDon when it's hand to hand Tor
life =.
The Englisl, officers who came d.
rect from Haig's fighting line to III
tensify the training of the Americans
will be on the sidelines. directing the
- charge and defense. Their duty VIII
be to get the ginger into 1t that TOM
NV has been taught to put into 1t over
there.
Watch for the casualty lists.
"Gas Huts" Ready.
Everything is In readiness for an
oven more serious Irritation with death
for the Dodge boys. The gas huts'
rs the English officers call it. where
officers and men will be taught not to
fear poison gases, was completed th'S
week -,
Americans call it the gas bungalO.'
It's one room affair. about 2ox3O teet'
that looks like an old fashioned smoke
house in many respects. Medical ON.
GERS will be the first to be initiated
in the deadly dangers of the hun
mustard" and chlorine gases. They
will enter the gas filled house with gas
masks adjusted to get the feel OF the
thing and then they'll study all the
warnings and symptoms OF an attack.
Thcn will come the commissioned OIL
GERS, next the non-coms and lastly the
privates. Every man must 80 through
the gas house test that he may nave
confidence when he reaches the front
and a real gas attack comes that MS
gas mask viii Keep soul and body to-
gcthtf. n2''" so !EN"
.F'fSi' HAM for "snipers."
"a still hunt IS OH throughout the d.
vision for marksmen and sharp shoot
crs, Lieut.. George Yates has been as
(, signed to the duty OF making snip
crs" of them. The French and Eng
lish have learned many tricks in the
trade of sniping. The art of camou'
tlage is part of the snipers business.
He must see and hear. but not be seen
and heard. His duty is to occupy a
position of advantage in the front line
trenches aud shoot instantly and ac-
curately the moment the peak or a
/ German helmet peeps over the trench
cs. He must fire If hand or only
finger is exposed. His duty is to Keep
the enemy in continual proximity to
the hospital or death that his morale
will be weakened.
No Permanent Reflections.
An important change in exemption
regulations that has not been given
much prominence by the military de-