Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-29
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FRENCH OFFICERS CONE
FRESH FROM TRENCHES
They Will Teach SeIectme nat CAMPS
III Latest Methods of Euro
pean Warfare.
ALL HAVE SEEN SERVICE
FIRST of Twenty Instructors Who Will
&c Attached to School OF Arms of
EiShtieth Division-CoIorcd Re-
cruits Continue to Arrive.
ALL HAVE SEEN SERVICE
from Staff Correspondent.


CAMP LEE, VA, October 2s.-Fresh
>rom the trenches of the western battle
front and experts In the methods of
warfare now being employed By the
French and British. three officers and
TWO noncommissioned officers arrived
III camp Lee to-day. They are detailed
TO the Eighticth Division for duty with
the school Of arms to be established
here. in which the officers of this com
'nand viii receive their instruct in,
which will enable them to prepare their
men for the German enemy,
The officers are Captain Jerome l.. f..
Toujan, Of tho Four Hundred and Sew
eh'eenth French Infantry; Lieutenant
Emile SchloesinE. OF the Field ARTILLERY.
and Second Lieutenant Claude d. Dome
zan, Of the First French Infantry Tho
noncoms are Sergeant Yres NJ. Evan
ana sergeant Rene Peletan. All Of them
nave seen service since the first of The
war and have been decorated for mn
ncrous acts of bravery under fire.
IL was just about the MONDAY mess
that the French lighting men arrived.
Lieutenant Colonel w. H. Waldron.
/ chici OF staff, received the officers, and
after lunch they were taken in hand by
Lieutenant Horace Harding, aid TO Cen
eral Cronkhite, and went on n short
tour or the camp. The officers will be
Guartercd in a specially constructed
! building, which has been erected for
the use OF all the foreign attaches who
i hn as
ing the regulation French dress uni
form. Of light blue material, with
touches of gold and color, the officers
presented striking contrast with the
somewhat severe olive drab worn by
the American officers.
TWENTY FOREIGN OFFICERS
COMING RIO CAMP LEE;
The Frenchmen arriving to-day are
the first officers and men TO reach the
camp of the total of twenty who will
be assigned to Camp Lee. There will
be an equal number of British and
French officers and men who will be at
tachcd 10 the division school of arms
and these will be arriving from time to
time, AS the school soon will be in op-
GRAFTON. Major ]. w. Stillwell is head
OF the school, and he will have with
been TO Fort Sill, Oklahoma. and re-
ceived the special course OF instruc-
tion which has been provided there
There arc now six officers, among them
being LicutcnantColonel James NJ
Love, Jr., of the Three Hundred and
Eighteenth Regiment, who are taking a
five-weeks' course i'll the school of fire.
Over in the headquarters troop. where
the noncommissioned officers will be
quartered, they were the center OF all
interest, and withStood a bombardme n {
Of questions that for quantity outnum-
bered perhaps the attacks made on
them by the Germans Sergeant Evan
and Sergeant Peletan, however, proved
obliging to the men and gave them
many interesting accounts of life in the
French army. and some of their cx-
periences during the three years they
have been lighting for their country.
Both of the men wear the war cross.
with stars indicating the number of
times they have won especial recoGni-
tion. They have also. been wounded in
battle, this being shown by small gold
bars being worn on the right sleeve.
On the left sleeve there are gold bars
indicating the period of service of the
men, and an insignia showing the
branch of service. The rank of ser
Geant is shown by n small gold bar
near the cuff on the left sleeve. The
dress uniform Of the noncommissioncd
officer is similar in color TO that OF the
commissioned officer. They also wear
q belt somewhat Ike the Sam Brown
belt which the American officers will
wear when they get to France.
TWO GERMAN SPIES
DISCOVERED on LINER
No fear was felt by the men on their
way over because OF the fact that two ,
German spies were discovered on the
liner. and it was felt certain that the
would not attack ship
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