Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-10
ARMY
FOE TOOPEN FIGHT
Draftees at Meade Will Be
Taught Old-Time
II Tactics
WILL DIG OUT HUN S
Lesson Taken From British Fail
ure to Follow Up
\ Victory
WILL DIG OUT HUN S
By a std6 Correspondent


CAMP MEADE. Admiral Nd. Nov. 10.
within one month after the Pennsyl-
Vanians in the seventy-ninth Division iand
an France they will be in the trenches
This statement. which may surprise the
relatives and friends Of Little Penn soldiers
A not based upon conjecture, but comes
direct from a ranking officer at this camp
Coupled with this statement the othcer as
serted that the American war chieis were
making plans to drive the Huns out Oh .ne
mud filled trenches and end the war oy 'he
aid ia shioped methods of open fghting
To accomplish this 1t has been necessary
20 make radical changes In the training
oroRram of the National Army ana these
changes will become enectiVe "itni' ie"
days. A., -
chiefs 70 deyeIop the greatest lighting ma
chine in the history of the woriu Is as
eured and no time Is to be lost III All e'i'''
TO execute the plans. -,
When America entered the war r.e's
were two courses which war chefs mapped
nut for the American army one inVoiNeo
4he continuation of trench warfare, WIN
all the horrors of gas ana iqu'u lIo a,
tacks: the second involved what army oii-
GERS styled as the old-fashoned methoos OF
Open-feld attacks. , II.
The latter plan has been adopted. and II
e,,ccessful will end the st and -on -and-take
6Rhting in the trenches. Brlefy' IL wiz
Sorce the Germans to fight In the open, ana
once the fighting Is conducted In that tash-
lon the American officers are convinced tnat
they can drive the Huns from trench SOIL
The Importance Of open-held hghtihs mas
been emphasized in recent movements on
the western front for several tunes, ,ne
British, owing to their lack OF tra'i,lis
in this style of fighting. have not been apie
20 follow up their victorious assaults on
the Hun trenches.
Drawing "A lesson from the experience OF
the British. the American war chiets VIII
have the national army prepared TO take
advantage of trench victories and folio"
up the successes to such an extent that the
Germans will be unable to return to the
system of underground fighting.
Major General Joseph L. Kuhn, comman-
der of the camp. christened the rifle range
General Kuhn fired the first shot and scored
q clean hit at 400 yards.
The commander of Pennsylvania's citizen
soldiers used | modern Enfield rife, and as
the bullet smashed the black circle on the
target his chief Of staff. Lieutenant Colonel
Tenny Ross, slapped him on the shoulder
and said:
III we do that kind of shooting in France
we will make things hum for the Kaiser
On Monday few selected men from
each regiment will be given rife practice
but II will be two or three weeks before
all of the men IN take a shot at the tar
gets. Announcement was made today a.
division headquarters that practice with gas
masks will follow soon as the gas station
Ia completed. y few masks have arrived
but cannot be used by the selected mer
until the officers learn how TO use them
French officers will direct the training ir
this branch OF the service.