Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-19
REAL WARFARE PLAYED
:. BY FORT MYER STUDENTS
More Than 1000 Young Men Get Re
alistic Baptism In Trench
VS. EfNE-0N


real warfare to-day on the hills %
old Virginia overlooking Washington.
More Than 1900 young men p;cXed as
aha best type % young America 10 lead
The great national army aEat.sI n:
Germans as aow- n trenches seve.a!
feet deep with mud E-5 waie- az ria
ing over uneven ground thriving Up
batteries ana un,.nSeErg -lt@ th-es-
DcE Euas q re atId ARTILLERY
The men i 80 ;.eachS are u-!as
bomb -ifts O. throwing the -5asthsil"
bombs BY hand !; IS sri9 va --.=
that is hst-r played IL spite .. muddy
ETopnc a1E al TIE Units are throwing
themselves :aio the simulated war
fare wiki = zeal Ia: K t@l!Er;iaE the
reE1lar army c:ac+- instructors
This new war game comes as result
OF reo'gsnIza;!c. Of the camp yes:-r-
day, While the uin- com Iani@s O: in
tsat-E, three batteries ot -e.6 art!ll--;
and, ;he one troop q 6!sraov-,.d cav
airy are preserving tier formation and
roster. each one q these tzciica! units
is divided Tor drill purposes This IS
done SO ihat intensive drills can be
given IN pe-la!iziag on particular
weapons OF Cnenre
Each squad Is being trained t. make
II Just Is proacien; as possible in The
use Of The LEWIS machine gun. IN.
baseball Womb. The bomb rife or Is
expert rihenen who vii! &C. az snip
ers"
Latest pictures obtained conHten.
italy from -ic ngla3G showing The mos,
recent iC.ErG.ssntnts on me Enclsen
system are beng shown 20 ihc .Il-r il
oroer 10 per:rc; :hei. executions. IN.
English system has been a!optec =;
/. FORT MEef, and through he co-opera.
ion OF the military authorities Of
= Great Britain pictures, papers by ex-
4 pe!ts in the various lines and Other
he!ps are being received at the Ec,,
Mysr camp direct from England.
The three batteries are takin;, turns
IN mounted drills hitcAed 10 gun car
RACES on The gun park and on tho
+ rldins held. both Of which have been
L cut unto deep muddy ruts by tho heavy
K carriages on the rain soaked soil Tn.
eight companies Of infantry nov in
camp and the troop o: d!smountcd cav
airy are experiencing even worse dis
comhture, for they have to dash
q through the heavy and sticky mud
along the rifle runs, evading the wir.
! entang leIncnts, stabbing at the dummy
Germans and leapinE into trenches
lnae are seNeT7! feet deep with mud
There was much disappointment, IN
canp to-day when more than $50 ,v,,n
nave applied for appointment 10 ~.
\ aviation ground schools learned ,har
orders have been changed by the war
Department. and that no NOR. mo, -
aviation schools until the close Of ire
training camp.
Some hope is found in the state,n.,,
that some men already have been dtsir-
4 mated by the camp officers VINO M.
not yet been informed Of their selection
FOR the aviation school
Those reserve officers who a, ~,
K close OF the camp wish 10 enter IN.
4 aviation schools must sprrenccr ma,
8 commissions. II they make good g.
the aviation schools they viii bc co,,.
missioned as first leutenants in The
signal corps. II they do no, maj,
good they VIII go back home and n,
subject to CONSUMPTION.
Another disappointment came :,
many men in camp to-day. when T.
was, learned that the quota from FOR
Myer who will he commissioned =,
secdnd lieutcnants in the regular arm
has been cut TO sixty II was Original
1y announced that go men from N.
II camp would be chosen so that the ar,
3 poraonment has now been cut to on.
: fourth. When the men took their az
amfnations before the board Of cam,
gohicers they were told that $40 me
q would be picked to take tho phvsic.,
4 examination on July %. Now thn, los
q than half that number Will be taken
e@there is considerable disappointment
among the 40 who had been desi,,
,s3nated