The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-10-02
army OFFICERS TO
! make UP CLASSIN
new TYPE WARFARE
School In Bombing viii Be Open
ed For Regulars At Scho-
field Training Camp
GRADUATES WILL TEACH
THEIR REGIMENTS LATER
Orders Issue That Special Atten-
ton Shall Be Paid BY Army
To Modern Methods .

Insistence upon intensive schooling in
grenade warfare, modern bayonet and
trench preparation formed the gist of an
important general order issued yester.
day by General Wiser to the entire de-
| partment. Such work Is to be con.
Quoted at the Training Camp trench
plateau, all TO be supervised by Captain
Charles +. Leonard, First Infantry,
who was yesterday directed to assume
the duties of cOmmandant of the camp
and auxiliaries, in succession to Major
Elvid Hunt, I. =. A., who has been
detached and Is to proceed to Washing.
ton. ..l"E
The new bombing school is establish
ed for the purpose of training officers
and selected non commissioned officers
in the three branches of new warfare,
and the eommandant win have as his
/ assistants, Captain Thomas II. Lowe,
! Send Infantry Captain Frank Riley,
First Infantry, and Second Lieutenant
Alfred r. GFeenway, ORG, First In
| fantry, who are detailed in the general
orders as Instructors. ...'E
The school will be under the direct
supervision Of the commanding officer,
SchofeId Barracks, Colonel Durfee, who
will furnish troops and material for
| such construction and installation as
may be necessary. ~ .&
Students Become Instructors . .a't
That the bombing school will assume
wide proportions with reference to all
| the regiments in the department is evil
denced from the fact that the order
directs the commanding officer Of each
/ regiment of infantry and cavalry to
submit to the headquarters in Homo.
lulu the names of one company officer
| and two noncommissioned officers from
each battalion. or squadron, and one
additional officer and two noncommis,
stoned officers from the regiment at
large who will be selected with a view
to their use as instructors in their or
CARNATIONS after completion of the
course at the school The duration Of
the course of instruction will be for
! two weeks, after which one commission,
/ ed officer and two noncommiasioned of.
' Gcers from each regiment will be select
! ed for detail as instructors for two
weeks. In other words they will be
/ students for two weeks and instructors
for the following two weeks.
| Regimental commanders will require
proficiency of all units of their com
mands in all branches of modern war.
fare, and they are directed to devote
special attention to the development
and training of grenadiers.
Form Grenadier SQUADS
Attention Is called TO the require.
ment Of training every enlisted man in
the infantry and cavalry as grenadiers
and in addition, to the formation of an
expert grenadier squad in each com
par consisting Of Mt least two noncom.
missioned officers and fourteen privates
Officers and nOncommissioned officer
who complete this course, other than
those selected instructors in the school
win be returned to duty with their regi
ments to assist the regimental com
manders in the instruction of Their
units. u
Over in Europe they term these ex
pert squads Of grenadiers the tSuicidt
SQUAD" but that is merely their little
joke. IS" '' Pa"
The bombing work will be conducted
in the vicinity of the training garrison
The trenches which were first establish
ed by the students of the trimming gar
rison. for which they were especially
complimented by General Wiser, hav,
already been extended. as details from
the First and Twenty fifth Infantry
regiments and other regimental unit.
will he detailed to them for shOrt
periods. &c
Dream Is Realized 49,
The use OF the Reserve Officers
| Trninin0 Damn IA n I1armanant troi nj N