Omaha daily bee., 1917-10-01

.ffeu 10 I'M dntry ORGANIZATIONS
HARRIES COMMANDS BRIGADE
General George Harries in charge
of the Nebraska brigade will remain
in charge Of the Fifty-ninth depot
brigade. Colonel P. L. Hall and Lieu
tenant Colonel Mack of the Sixth will
be attached temporarily to this bri-
gade.
Companies A, B and c Of the Sixth
are assigned to division headquarters
as military police. Colonel N. P.
Hyatt, Second Iowa, commander, aid
Major H. L. Harries. second in COM
mand.
Company D becomes an ambulance
company, The officers of this COM
pany, Captain Phil Risch and Lieu.
tenants Gillen and Mcdonald, are
transferred to the Fifth regiment.
The Second battalion of the Sixth.
together with the headquarters COM
pany, including the band and the SUD-
ply company under Captain Teten. are
assigned to the division engineers
corps.
Company |, Norfolk, Third bat
talon, is assigned as an engineers
train.
The Third battalion. less Company
/, becomes a supply train.
Form New Brigade.
The machine sun company, Sixth,
under .Iaptain -Iuehler Metcalfe, will
remain intact, but will become a part
OF the 10th Machine Gun battalion
OF the Sixty-seventi brigade.
Companies L, F, G and H, Second
Iowa infantry, will be consolidated
into two companies of machine guns
and with the Sixth gun company will
make up the battalion.
The First Iowa and the Fifth Ne
braska, remaining intact, will be
known as the 1881 and 134th In
tantry respectively, and all compose
the Sixty-seventh brigade under Cen
eral H. A. Allen.
Companies & and D, Second Iowa.
will be merged into one machine gun
company and with Companies A and
3, Second Iowa, and with Troop B,
First Iowa, and the machine gun com.
pany, Third Minnesota, will make I'D
the. ll5th Machine Gun battalion, at
tached to the division. -
Making New Regiments.
The machine gun Company of the
Fourth Nebraska regiment and the
Third Battalion of the Second Iowa
and Troop { of the First Iowa cav
airy make up the l27th Machine Gun
battalion of the Si3ty.eighth brigade.
The First and Second Minnesota
regiments are assigned to this
brigade. The Third Minnesota, less
the machine gun company; the First
Iowa Field artillery and the Fifty
ninth Field artillery, heavy artillery,
are to be known as the l25th artillery
and Twenty-sixth and l27th Field ar.
tillery, respectively.
Signal Corps Duties.
The Nebras ka signal corps becomes
wire company in the divisional bat.
talon. The Iowa signal corps be.
comes an outpost company.
The Sixth Nebraska sanitary de.
tachment becomes a part of the l27th
Field artillery and the Nebraska Field
hospital now at Mineola becomes a
part of the Fifty-ninth depot.
The new order becomes effective
Oct. /.
The Sixth regiment will give up its
beautiful camp to the South Dakota
cavlary. Tuesday will be moving day.
The order which came today was not
altogether surprise. Rumors of such
! reorganization have gone the rounds
for the last week. And instead oi
gloom, Encouragement and sullen-
ness, nothing but the most serene
sheerfulness and optimism prevaile in
the camps of the Sixth Nebraska regi-
ment.
Good Showing at Review.
In front of each mess shack camp
fires are burning brightly. Members
of Company D serenaded Captain
Risch, while the band first played up
and down the regimental street, then
marched at the head of the procession
| Of the Sixth officers to the camp of
TIL. Fifth Nebraska regiment, where
a reception was given by the officers
OF the Fifth.
Colonel Herbert Paul, in addressing
the officers OF the Sixth, compliment
ed them on the splendid manner in
which they accepted the new order.
He declared that the Sixth Nebraska
regiment had made the best showing
Of all three regiments at the brigade
review held yesterday.
Friday the first and last brigade
review was held by General Harries.
Six thousand OF Nebraska's fine,
strong men were massed together on
one large field and passed by in re-
view. The showing made by the
Sixth regiment won enthusiastic
praise from regimental, brigade and
| division commanders