Evening star., 1917-11-09
Instruction Given Daily.

French and British instructors, or ad-
visers. are putting in many hours a
day now with the men, imparting
knowledge that has been won at the
cost of hardship and blood in the
trenches of the war zones to the men
who are to compose the army Of lib
erty.
Bayonet work. trench work, signal
ing. field wireless and field telephone
installation and maintenance, machine
gun and automatic rifle practice and
grenade and bomb throwing are among
the courses Of instruction, to which are
soon to be added the aeroplane work.
Sergt. Maj. Harry Noonan of the
British army Is one of the machine gun
instructors. Noonan has been teach
ing the officers and men of headquar-
ters troop the mechanism and opera
tion Of the weapon. and is to do the
same work with every regiment and
battalion in the division. He is using
for demonstration purposes the ma
chine gun he used in the battle of
Mons. on the Aisne and in at least a
score Of other battles. Noonan has
been wounded twice. once through the
side of his head and the second time
through the thigh.
Noonan comes Of family of fighters.
two of his brothers having been killed
In the Boer war. while six others are
In the British forces in the present
brothers has been wounded at least
once. Noonan has with him also a
trench periscope such as those used in
watching the enemys trenches across
no mans land"
Teaches Art Of Boxing.
sergt Mai Clement A. Carroll of the
is another Of the instructors, specialize
ing in bayonet practice and also teach
ing jfu-jitsu and boxing In demon
strations a number Of officers. grad
omcers training camps. have tried to
touch Carroll with their bayonets, but
none has succeeded SO far. In a bout
yesterday one Of the American officers
thrust at Carroll. who defended himself
with his bare hands, and in what SEEM
ed less than second the Englishman
had closed with the American and
wrested the latter's rife from his
hands.
sergt. Carroll wears gold medal
which he won at a durbar in India.
when he defeated eight competitors,
one after another. in the bayonet exer-
cises. He is recognized as probably the
most expert man in the British armies
served as instructor in that branch OF
work for several years.
One of the foreign officers who always
attracts attention wherever he goes
of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers-
McCauley wears the kits and goes
around barekneed. as BELTS a High
lander. 1t was his regiment to which
the boches gave the name, two years
ago. of Ladies of He'll" because OF
the havoc these brawny soldiers in
skirts wrought in the German trenches.
Uses Many Weapons Well.
sergt McCauiey IL an expert in the
use of practically every weapon. used
in 1.-THE British army. He is an expert
a eAished broadswordsman, a master OF
the saber. a crack revolver shot and a
hfsf-ciass boxer and wrestler. He has
haA fifteen years service in the British
afH7y, having served in India, Egypt,
Soath Africa and. as he puts 1t. pretty
much all around the bloody shop" He
was Wounded during the Dardanelles
caHpaign and since his recovery has
been acting as instructor in the use OF
the various weapons. McCauley. in the
course OF a conversation, said:
The Hun hates the bayonet like sin,
but he hates the Highland dirk even
worse He has no stomach whatever for
cold steel in any form. have seen
boches chained fast TO their machine
guns to keep them from running away
when the ladies of hell came over al
them, and they were crying and Shrek
tnk 'kamerade' and wringing theii
hands like schoolgirls in Mysteries.
The red Indians of the west never
were more treacherous or more blood
thirsty than-the Hun" he continued. III
a millionth part of the barbarous
things they have done were to be
printed you Americans would have beer
in this war two years ago. because
yoHr people would not have permitted
the government to keep out. have seer
mon of my regiment crucified or nailed
up by the hands and feet TO trees, after
they had been intentionally mutt
lated Two Of our men were captured
in trench raid. and that is what the
Huns did to them. Later we captured
about fifty Huns of the command thai
did that They never got back to the
prisoners cages"