Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-10
BRITISH AND FRENcH SENDING
TEN MEN EACH DIRECT TO
CAMP DODGE.
WILL INSTRUCT NEW
ARMY LATEST TRICKS
How to Go "over the Top" and Throw
Hand Grenades to be Taught Soldiers
at Camp Dodse-special Instructions
Regarding Hais's Latest 5arrass.
Special to Times Republican.

Camp Dodge, Oct. 10.-Ten commits
stoned and ten non commissioned Of
Ulcers direct from the firing line in
France and Belgium will arrive at
Camp Dodge before Nov. 1 to teach
Uncle Sans soldiers of the Eighty
Eighth division the fine points Of the
grim business over there"
Maj. Gen. Edward H. Plummer, camp
commandment, received dispatch from
the war department today, announcing
their coming. The war office further
advised they will be assigned to the
various regiments under the title OF
expert instructors
Five of the commissioned officers and
i've Of the tnon-coms's are from the
English army, and the remaining ten
are FTenchmen. All have been taken
from active service, picked becauae
they know the game from months of
experience.
Ihat twenty are coming is surprise
to the Camp Dodge divisional staff.
OFFICERS expected ten or twelve. Their
names have not been received as yet.
These officers will devote the day.
light hours in teaching the Iowa, Min
nesota, Illinois and North Dakota SOL
diers how to go '.over the top to throw
hand grenades with the deadly accur-
acy that Haig's men have developed in
practice behind the Flanders lines; TO
use the bayonet under the 1917 man
ual, that says, Get your man or he'll
get you," the slogan that has been
made mandatory by the elimination of
all moves that permit retreat; to use
poison gas and to fight it: to follow
the artilleryrnen to throw the barrage
curtain, and to build trenches and field
Notifications.
.Hais's Latest Device.
New devices, as yet unheard of in the
United States, are no; win use among
the French and sBritish, and it is un-
derstood at Camp Dodge the officers
from overseas will prepare the selec-
tives here to use them
Officers have heard of one Of Field
Marshall Haigis feats. After months of
and work. be has perfected
a double, barrage fire. in which the
suicide squad plays q prominent
part. Isl.
He has developed the use OF heavy
artillery as well as light held guns in
dropping the curtain Of FIRE that pre-
;cedes the attacking infantrymen as
they 60 over the top.
ssThis barrage is to keep tie &ermans
in their dugouts and prevent a. counter
.attack, aaig; has developed It to
point where the men in some instances
can follow 1t, only twenty to thirty
yards behind. The fire is lifted sud-
denly as, the Bosche trenches are
reached. M the Tommies are quick
enough they are at the mouths of the
German ,dugouts before Fritz realizes
the barrage has lifted and can come
out to repel attack A hand grenade
in the hand of q Tommy hurled into the
dugout means death If surrender does
not come tt once.
The first line taken. Tommy goes on
toward the second, behind the renewed
barrage: Oftimes Fritz. who comes out
Of his dugout with hands appraised and
yelling "Kamerad" in token OF surren-
der, turns treacherously after Tommy
has moved forward, picks up his dis
carded weapon and shoots Tommy In
the back.
Haig evolved a second barrage. in
which machine guns play a prominent
part. It follows just behind Tommy
as he moves on the second line trench.
And the German who attempts to fol-
low him to shoot from behind Is caught.
With the steel curtain before and aft
Tommy is doubly protected. That's
Haig's work. and it will be taught to
the Eighty Eighth division men.
Among the twenty officers will be
|infantrymen. machine gunners and
signal officers.