The Washington herald., 1917-10-17
DISTRICT BOYS
GOING SOUTH
Part Of Units at Camp
Meade Ordered to
Atlanta.
ny ANpRnw 3. KELLEY.

Camp Meade. Admiral, Nd. Oct. 49,
Its long. long trail to ''over
there" and the news that eishty-five
Of the Washington boys win take the
rattlers Saturday for Camp Gordon.
Atlanta, Ca. where they win train
with q National Guard unit that may
soon move. caused gloom In the big
camp.
Not that the District soldiers fear
the approach Of real sight Of the
Boches. On the contrary most Of
the Washingtonians are eager to give
the Kaiser's cohorts little taste Of
real Americanism and show why We
will win this war, through the muzzle
of q machine gun.
But the District boys are happy
family. They are quartered in three
barracks withonly company streets to
separate them. And they have just
begun to get acquainted. Every man
Is proud to be in the 312th Machine
Gun Battalion and every ofiicer 10
proud of the caliber Of men that the
nations capital has furnished.
Regret TO Lose Men.
Capt. Russll Lombard, one Of the
finest officers who ever received COM
misunderstanding to the boys of Com
pany B-expressed the sentiment of
the battalion when he said, II am
exceedingly sorry to lose any Of the
Washington boys. don't know yet
who will leave as, but I do know
that wherever they go they will be
credit to the country and reflect
glory on the city which them"
Nobody knows yet who the Dis
trict bays are who will be selected
to move, to Atlanta. In fact, none
OF the company commanders were Of
ficially aware that any of the boys
would be ordered to move. Divisional
headquarters has ordered that a group
be selected from the Washington SOL
diers and 1t is up to the captains to
elect who win entrain for Atlanta.
To get down to the real hard work
OF the day. the boys had their first
lesson In the use of forty-hve auto
MATES. They have not been supplied
with their side-arms yet, but they
received a lecture today on how to
load them. discharge them and refill
them. Soon they will all have these
reyolvers. for the machine gun COM
pany do their effective work with pis-
tolls. rather than rifles.
In addition to- the hikes and the
steady grind of drills, the men were
instructed on the semaphore system
of signalling. By this method they
can communicate from company to
company in action and they watched
the instructions with the closest at
tention.
Some Are Rejected.
A number Of the District conscripts
were sent home today as physically
unit. They were Miriam Nahaka-
sian. Calvin g. Holland. Theodore C.
Crump. Martin Mendelsohn, and
Vincton d. Pierce.
Company C announced a number Of
new corporals tonight They are:
Samuel J. Leonard, James L. Peter
son. Francis Harper. John c. Irwin,
John +. Kelly. Robert L. Sanders,
Clarence Cashmere, and Charles NJ.
Brown.
There are also three new cooks In
Company c. These cooks receive a
sergeant's pay and they get none
the worse OF 1t on the eats" Ac-
eordingly 1t is a promotion and a
desirable one. The new men in this
kitchen will be John I. simons. John
A. w. Ludke. and William E. Smith.
Today the new visiting regulator
90 into effect. On Wednesday after
noon, Saturday afternoon and SUM-
day tall day. visitors will be admitted
without passes. On other days they
Will only be admitted In cases Of