Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-15

r through instructions from the
| war department received this
week at the reserve officers train
ing camp, Schofield Barracks, the /;
foregoing men have been called to &C
tive service in the federal army.
Their pay has been raised cores
pondingly in accordance with the
grades to which they have beer
named. These men had already re
ceiyed their commissions as reserve
corps officers before entering the
camp. and will remain until the end OF
the camp for training
Practically all are residents of Ho
nolulu and well-known here. Lieut.
Osborne is of the Hawaiian sugar eX
pertinent station, Capt. Stafford, local
attorney; Lieut.. Doty of the Sugar
Planters; Lieut.. Ross, athletic coach
at Mills school; Lieut.. Carter, Homo
lulu Iron Works; Lieut.. Emerson. Ha
waiian Pineapple Co.; Lieut.. Watkins
Hawaiian Electric Co.; Lieut.. Rawson
Y. NJ. c. A. stai.. Lieut.. Brown, Ha
waiian Trust; Lieut.. Laid. Y. NJ. c.
A.; Lieut.. Murray, Davies & Co.;
Lieut.. Henry, Smoot & Steinhauser;
Lieut.. Englehard, Standard Oil: Lieut.
Baird, Y. NJ. C. A; Capt Withers,
U. S. Army.
With a hard week just closing this
afternoon, candidates and instructing
officers at the training camp are look
ing forward with interest to the com.
ing week and the prospects it offers.
Start Trench Work
For next weeks work is to be near.
er to the real thing" in modern war
fare than any that the preliminary
training thus far has brought forth.
One who visits the training camp
grounds will find back of the big bar
racks deep gulch, on whose craggy
sides there cling grass clumps and
guava bushes. Across on the level
ground is to be seen a network of
strings leading in all directions from
two front lines of strings that lie par
allel to the gulch.
Here in the red soil next Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, the 100 can.
didates are to spend their daylight
hours with pick and shovel, for these
strings mark the location of trenches
of which the embryo officers are to
take charge.
Bright and early Thursday morning
the group will leave the comfortable
barracks and with full fighting and
field equipment will enter these
trenches. From this time on, through
Thursday, Thursday night and all day
Friday, the narrow gashes in the red
soil will be held with all the reality
of war save the actual bullets whist
ling over head or the impact of gren-
AIDES and artillery shells about them.
In the farthermost trenches to the
rear will be stationed the cooks with
field ranges and soup kettles, while
near by bomb proof dugouts are to
be built fer the men to sleep or rest
in while off duty. Changes of troops
On the fighting line are to be made
in the dark on Thursday night with
all the quietness and care of real war
fare.
The trenches are to be left for fur
ther use. 1t is not expected that the
three days during the first part of the
week will allow their being fully com.
pleted, and later on during the course
additional trenches will be dug to COM
plete the system.
Reviewing the work of the week
ending today, Capt. Elvid Hunt, COM
mander of the camp, expresses all
with the progress shown
by the candidates..
1t has been hard and busy week."
says the officer, but one that has
been extremely gratifying. Capt.
Thomas H. Lowe has had charge of
the bayonet work with the men and
they have caught the spirit of it.
Their lunges: thrusts and jabs are be-
ing delivered accurately and with
strength and snap. Also they are
learning the art of cohesion or work
ing together as unit
Captain Hunt pointed snilingly to
the guich that lies besides the bar
RACKS.
This gulch is not nearly so deep"
he said, as it was early this week
when the candidates began making
charges up and down its sides with
bayonets fixed. They canter over it
now with ease
On the side of the gully next to the
parade grounds, Captain Love and
Capt Frank J. Riley have laid out
big system of bayonet dummies. One
Of the old systems has begun to look
like the breaking up of hard Win
ter marked tribute to the aim of the
bayoneteers.
This new system is to be another
sample of the real thing. ln:the first
place there is the five or six foot banS
from which the candidates are to go
over the top and at en-.
Out in front Of the CHARGERS there
is a complex arrangement of hurdles,
wire entanglements. bitches and dunn
mics. There are to be five lines of
dummies. a prone man and stand
ing man at each. and five rows OF
obstacles. One glance at that system
is enough to convince the spectator
that the charge will be no mere Jump
the rope" contest.
During the past week Captain