The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-08-25
WILL CATALAN
RETURNS HERE
ANXIOUS To ENTER NATIONAL
. ARMY NOW BEING
DRAWN

returned to Goldfield yesterday after
o o from the officers training camp
at the Presidio and he appears 10
years younger than when he left
here and a stronger argument for
military training never existed. He
shows the benefits of the strenuous
course of training he has been
through and has nothing but the
highest praise and greatest enthusi.
asm for the army and the benefits
to be derived from hard work and
discipline.
Lieutenant Catalan is now in the
reserve and expects to be called into
the national army within six months.
He states that he has no ambition to
re-enter the service in the regular
army, but that he will %anxiously
await his call into the national army.
1t was noted that Arnold Howe,
while he entered the regular army.
requested that he later be trans
ferred to the new army and Catalan
shows the same desire to serve with
the civilian soldiers now being
drawn. They both agree that the
national army will be the greatest
body of men ever raised in any coun-
try and they want to get into it.
Catalan explains the difficulty of
securing a commission at the camp.
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country were there and hat by far
the greater proportion of candidates:
possessed previous military training
in some degree. Discipline was of
the strictest character and the men
worked long hours and slept little.
The officers had such large numbers
to pick from hat previous training
counted and only men especially
qualified in some respect were
chosen.
During his stay in the camp Ca
halan learned much of war and be
fore leaving he was present at an
address by a captain in the Aus
t~railian forces who entered the Wal
as a private. was wounded 20 times
sent DdCh u AuSlIdlld " l6CuDCi
ate, and was then returning across
the United States to re-enter active
service.
In telling of this captains talk
Catalan was the first mar to come
to Goldfield and tell of the war as
he heard it from one who had been
in action.
His conversation on the Austral-
ian's address is intensely interesting
to persons who are we'll read in
subjects relating to the war, for in it
he checks unconsciously the disput-
ed questions and SHOWS that infor-
nation reaching this country from
England as part of English propa-
ganda is correct, according to this
officer, who was two years at the
front.
The Australian captain told til,
men in the training camp that stoi
les of German atrocities in Belgium
had not been exaggerated and that
diers by Germans are true, il
he had found such bodies on enter
ing German trenches. He also told
of the claim of the allies that they
Ead solved the problem of making
an offensive more costly to The n
envy than to themselves and stated
that this is true.
He told of British heavy artil-
lery standing wheel to wheel for a
distance Of 500 yards and Smelling IA
short section of German trench
from a distance of IT miles, totally
O~bliterating enemy trenches before
the infantry vas n u to cOnsoli-
date them. He made the seemingly
remarkable statement that in his
Two years at the front he had V
seen a bayOnet used, checking stor-
les of quick surrender by Germans
when they see allied steel. He said
that a German 500 yards away with
a machine gun is a good soldier,
but that at close quarters he is
worthless.