The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-20
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Hugo 6oettger, in Training at Fort
Smelling, Sends Clipping Telling
Changes Being Made
MANY COME TO DIES MONIES
Students Not Assigned to Coast or
Heavy Artillery, Field Artillery
or Aviation Remain at Fort

Nearly 1000 students from Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska and North and
South Dakota who are taking Off
GERS training at Fort Smelling will
leave this post within few days fol
other camps to complete the second
period Of their training. The engi
neer company, $50 in number, will
leave Friday afternoon for Fort Leav
enworth and so students of the coast
artillery arm will leave late this week
for Fortress Monroe, Va About SOC
students who are seeking commissions
in the field artillery arm will leave
soon for Sparta, Wis, to complete
their training on the government ar.
tiIlery range.
About 100 students eventually will
be drawn from this camp for the of.
ficers' training school for the aviation
branch Of the service at Princeton
university. The first increment of
aviation students is expected to leave
Smelling in few days. as the Prince.
ton camp is scheduled to open June
10.
The student personnel remaining in
camp, approximately 1900 in number,
will cOnfine the last two months of
training to infantry work. One troop
of cavalry, about $50 men, will be or
gahized from the student personnel to
provide Officers for the one regiment
of cavalry in the Thirteenth division.
but as this regiment is to go to
France dismounted its prospective Of
ficers at Smelling will be trained as in.
fantrymen.
No Leave This Week
The second period Of training be.
gins next Monday. StudeAts will not
be given leave of absence Saturday or
Sunday. These two days will be uti.,
lied TO reorganize the student body
infantry companies, artillery batter
les and one cavalry troop. Three field
artillery. batteries are TO be organized
to provide officers for three field ar
tillery regiments in the Thirteenth di.
vision. Each company of infantry or
ganized from the student body is pre-
snmed. to provide officers sufficient
for each Of the infantry regiments in
the Thirteenth division The engineer
company will provide officers for the
engineer regiment Of the Thirteenth
division.
1T is probable all the staff officers
for the various regiments in the Thir-
teenth division will be supplied from
the regular army. but the majority of
line officers will be the men receiving
commissions at the Smelling training
camp, or at other camps where the
students from this division may be
sent to complete their training, If
the first division Of the national army
in the Thirteenth district is organized
near the Smelling reservation, all the
students going to Fort Leavenwortll
and Sparta, Wis, will be returned to
this post after they have completed
their training and have been recon-
mended for commissions. Location of
the cantOnment site for the Thirteenth
division is to be determined soon.
Students not assigned to the coast
and heavy artillery, field artillery and
aviation branches OF the service will
remain at Smelling to train two more
months as infantry. All the stundents
receiving commissions at Fort Smell
ing or at the field artillery and engi-
neer camps to which they have been
transferred from Smelling eventually
will be ordered to Des Moines, Iowa,
to officer and train the Thirteenth d.
vision Of the draft army. The staff
officers for the Thirteenth division
probably will be selected from the
regular army, but most of the line Of
ficers will be selected from the stu.
dents commissioned at Smelling or
other camps where the Smelling stu.
dents are sent. e,