Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-29
COMPANIES TO Be
RECRUITED TO THE
FULL WARSTRENCTH
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McRoberts Of Twin Falls. so men;
| Grangeville has 65. Other company
commanders have made Just as favor
able reports.
( Major Amos H. Martin, designated as
chief mastering officer for the Second
Idaho who has been in the northern
part Of the state checking the various
commands, has been recalled because
| OF his duties as mastering officer.
Captain John ]. Mudgett will continue
the inspection until it is completed
Major Martin has been in the service
26 years. He was stationed at Fort
Wright, Spokane, for some time but
later was sent with his regiment to
Alaska
HEADQUARTERS AT PORTLAND.
The headquarters of the Second
Idaho will be Portland, the western
states having been divided into three
| districts In the first district are the
states Of Idaho, Washington, oregon
and Montana. Colonel John l., Hay
den, now in command of the coast. de-
! lenses of the Puget sound, wilr be in
command with headquarters at Fort
| Worden. Wash. The second district
! comprises Utah, California and Ne
| Vada, headquarters San Francisco.
with Colonel Richmond p Davis in
| command His headquarters will be
! Fort Winfield Scott. The third dis
trict comprises parts Of California and
Nevada, Colonel Wilbur e. Wilder in
command.
IT IS announced that members OF the
| Second Idaho who are in adjoining
states are expected to report to their
commands. Transportation win be
sent to them. This has already been
done in a number Of instances.
WANT UNIVERSAL SERVICE.
A movement is under way in Boise t.
have petitions addressed to Senators
Borah and Brady asking them to urge
universal army training signed. 1t was
started by D. II. Moon and Harry FaIk
| The petitions made their first appear
ance last night and are being literally
signed The object, if attained, would
put into effect a plan requiring all
young men to learn the fundamentals
of military training so as to take them
out of the class Of raw recruits.
FOREIGN LEGION TO TEACH.
John W. Graham, a member of the
public utilities commission, who re
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Falls, where he was on commission bus
mess, stated today that on the train ne
met a member of the Foreign .egiol,
an American enroute to Portland. who
has just returned from France where
he participated in the defense of Vcr-
dun, and was informed by him Cat tn..
allies plan to release $4,000 Americans
/ fighting against Germany so they may
struct the volunteers Of this country IN
modern warfare.
This soldier Of fortune" said Cob
! missioner Graham, has been through
some of the worst fighting in France
! When l, with many others, talked 20
= him he was in the uniform of his req
mont and wore one of the bullet proof
/ helmets, denied in many places from
contact with bullets. His statement the
Americans who have been through some
] Of the bloody wars in France, or the
| Foreign Legion, may be returned &c
! America for the purpose Of giving in
atructiun TO our troops in modern war
fare, is important.
SAY ALLIES WILL WIN.
He told us that the general feeling
with the allies is that they will win the
war, and that Germany is going to he
defeated When the war started, he
said, the German gums we're much SUI
perior to those of the allies, but the
allies have since so perfected their
great cannons that those of Germany
are far inferior to them now. The Ger
man trenches in Belgium and France,
built, it was believed, to be impossible
to break down, lined as they were with
concrete, reinforced with steel. crum-
bled before the artillery of the allies
during the past few months. This SOL
der says the fire was terrible. shell
from an allies .gun exploding in Ger
man territory tears up an acre OF
ground. The Germans simply could not
survive the terrific fire and we're forced
to retreat
Speaking of the trenches. the soldier
informed me with the utmost uncon-
Germ that it was never uncommon to
find the utmost destruction, with dead
and wounded everywhere, to which the
soldiers became hardened. He said he
potted a German every day and that the
Germans were still fighting in masseh
formation"
REPORTING FOR SERVICE.
Nearly loo men have reported for
service at lne ntauq uarterS of COM
pany VI in the armory at Thirteenth
and Main streets. Not all the men
are members of company H, however.
Eleven arrived last night from Pendle-
ton. They are members of company
=, but reported at company ii head
quarters. Several members from Twin
Falls came in Wednesday night. The
actual strength of company H is now
m 4
telephoned notice of their coming. it Is
expected that the 100 mark will be
reached Friday.
The officers of company H are high
~ pleased with the fine condition of
the men reporting for duty and also
the spirit which they are showing.
one of the members said the maya
zine writer who declared members or
the national guard would not reDort