Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-10-29
SOLDIERS At HOME
Il OVER week END
Delaware "PirateS" at Camp
Dix Get Chance TO Win
Commissions
FRENCH OFFICERS
AMAZED AT WORK

snecial 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL,
CAMP DIX. wRIGHTsToWN, n.
j Oct 29.-Because OF the many fur
1ouehs handed out on Saturday Camp
nix was almost deserted yesterday
hundreds Of the men having left the
camp 10 visit their homes for the
weekend. More than half OF the
Delaware men took advantage OF
their opportunity 70 get away, and
the pirates barracks were not the
scene OF the activities that make
them the centre OF he life OF the
camp when all the mon are here. All
the boys returned last night or this
morning.
Opportunities TO win commissions
as second lieutenants will be onereo
III 44O drafted men of Camp DIN
under orders issued by Major General
Kennedy carrying out the War De-
nartments scheme for the organiza-
non Of an officers training school IN
ZACH cantonment with three
months intensive course. The camp
nix school will open January D and
continue 20 April 8, and indications
arc that there will be q great rush
~ anniicants both from artillery ana
nfanfrv regiments, for the army
taschoIarships." Enlisted men who de-
sira In trv for commissions must
maize their applications to their
romnanv commanders before Decem-
Hor
A board Of three officers, to be ap-
no,nted nv Major General Kennedy
viii select from the list OF applicants
~ men hest qualified for promotion.
points counting in the selection WIZ
he conduct, leadership, ability 70
iearn quickly, ability to instruct
others general suitability and mn,
to~v annearance. The training school
viii he organized from the camp
ancers Major General Kennedy 10
snno,nt the instruction personnel,
Tandldates Will be divided into ohe
,rtantrv company and one battery OF
artillery. Pay and allowance ot .ns
soldier pupils will be that oI 49,
rank when they enter the training
Hrndreds OF drafted men have been
dnigently studying up on illillals
tactics since they came 10 the con-
tonment Many OF them are never
S~sthout a training manual on au'
,.oncod work In their pocket ana the.
rea their snare moments digestlhl
~ contents The new school IS
foronloto fulnllment OF the Govern
4 r,cnt's nromise that every poessts.lnl
,ssis,auco would be offered amoiuou
recrnitsito win commissions. a.,
Fresh from the trenches on "
v-cstorn front whence they we
Sro,vn IN become instructors IN So
cioli7od work for new American trool
IN thls country, three young frencl
mon Yesterday Joined Captain ia
Condo. the first OF the foreign militaI
teachers 70 arrive here, and for tWeN
hours since their arrival they nav
donc little but talk I'm terms or dellgh
"a asfonlshment and almost Of awe. {
the bicness Of Uncle Sans prepare
fions 10 hurl a great army into IN
tyorld-battle for human liberty.
This training camp Is so Dig s.
grand have already been lost nv
fines" said Adlutant Henry Oh. GO
rnsnd' three years with the French In
fantrv and a veteran OF the Somme
Fort vaux at Verdun and the Chemn
des Danes. lie had been sent into Al
sace-Lorralne when summoned TO re
port for duty IN tho United States.
Training Camp Dix sisnalmen i
flashlight signals and aero-wireles
range-fnding methods viii be the dut
n Sergeant A. Bouiler, OF the Eight
French Engineers He was IN charg
m a dugout sienol station at Fort Sou
iile. near vordun, when summoned {
oln tho American instructors corps
H.owirg UP German dugouts an
trenches OF Argonne forest and on th
ra'lfornic plateau has been the strenr
cus subterrenean occupation OF Ser
Gcent Gustav c. De soniouly since N
war began. Ne was serving In Algeri
when tho Kaiser mndo his dash towar
France through Belgium, and was o
he nrst French engineering CORPS :
be used "a the war lie was at IN
iron. continuously un.l few week
neo, when he was called 20 a militar
school 20 provide special training n
American Instructors. All three French
men speak Engllsh fluently.