The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-09-27

Division Headquarters, 8Sth Divi-'
sion, First Overseas Army, Camp
Dodge, Ia, Sept 19.-1nterest at Camp
Dodge today centers in the coming
transfers of men to the ranks OF the
Thirty-third division at Cody, Deming,
N. M. National Guard regiments
there were depleted by the draft Of
thousands to go to France with the
Rainbow division. Five thousand men
will be required to bring the division
to war strength.
Plans are now to draft the men from
the first 5000 who report at Camp
Dodge under the call for the second
increment of selectives beginning to-
day. It IS calculated that all the
men who are sent from their home
stations the first day and large part
of those dispatched the second day
will make up the draft contingent.
They will go south without delay. No
doubt they will see service in France
weeks before the First National army.
They will train with seasoned guard
troops which the war department
hopes to send across before winter is
over.
Camp Dodge is ready for the $4,000
men who began pouring into the great
cantonment September 10 and the
four days following. The men are be-
ing turned into the skeleton regiments
that have been formed with the men
who came in the first five per cent
increment
Four regiments of infantry, two Of
heavy field artillery, three battalions
of machine gunners, regiment OF en-
gineers and a depot brigade, together
with ammunition trains, signal corps
battalion, ambulance and supply
trains, are being organized
Into Field Artillery
The soldier boys from Iowa, H.
inois, Minnesota and North Dakota
who go into the field artillery regi-
ments will furnish the barrage fire
that will pave the way for their in.
fantry comrades to attack. They will
use ~ inch guns that have range
of six miles. They will be stationed
close to the front line trenches and
through constant communication with
aviator observers, observation bal
looms and artillery observation points,
will drop shells into the first line
trenches of the Germans to wreck the
dugouts, destroy barbed wire entangle-
ments and shatter the nerves of the
front line Teuton foes.
A trench mortar battery, the 315th,
but French geography at Camp Dodge.
This unit will be equipped with club
by trench mortars that will hurl large
explosive shells high into the air to
fall into the German trenches and ex.
plode on contact.
Learning French
Soldiers will learn not only French
Glasses were organized upon the ar.
rival of the men and within few
weeks. the recruits will be able to
pronounce the names of French cities
and towns and know whefe in the
battle line this city and that town are
located.
Every man at Camp Dodge now is
undergoing what no other soldier IN
the world has undergone. They are
receiving the newly perfected dual in
incubation for prevention of typhoid
fever and para-typhoid. When the In
iections were administered separately
fifty-one days we're required to treat
the soldier before he reached the i'm
munity stage.
By giving him the combined serum
he will be ready for hard work attel
20 days.
Churches Services
Church services will be provided
for all denominations. Catholics vii
attend mass and Jews will celebrate
their own rites. Protestant chnrche:
will join in services under tie regl
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