Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
OFFICER FRESH FROM BATTLE
SCENES OF EUROPE IN CHARGE
AT FORT SMELLING.
COLONEL ENCcH YOUNGEST
MAN IN CHARGE OF CAMP
Every Member of Third Iowa to Be
Supplied With Five Guns--lowa
Troops Remaining at Home For
Training to be Short Of quipment-
Winter Clothing to be Supplied.
EBy z. G. Dougherty.1 l.

Washington, Aug. 24.-Iovans desig-
| mated to undergo training at the off,
, GERS reserve corps camp at Fort Smell
| ing, which opens next week, Will be
! taught that kind of warfare pr2cticed
today in European battlefelds by an
| officer who actually has been in the
| thick Of the fighting on che Austro-
Russian front.
The war departments selection OF
| Lieut.. Col. Berkeley Enochs as COM
mander of the Fort Smelling camp and
senior instructor of the students there
has brought this about. Colonel Enochs
was a military observer attached to
the American embassy in Vienna IN
1915 and in this capacity he wac q
close student OF the -erritc warfare
that enabled the Austrians t. pene-
trate so much Of the Russian terri
tory.
Colonel FnochS was one of the in
structors at the first camp at Fort
Smelling and had charge Of most or
the advanced fighting measures that
were drilled into the thousand students
who today are a part Of the new ma
Enochs is recorded in the army di-
rector as a distinguished graduate OF
the Army School of the Line in 1909
and an honor graduate OF the Army
Staff College in 1870 He served dur
ing his captaincy as a member of the
general staff Upon his return from
Vienna he made a detailed report or
the intensive warfare Of the Russians
and Austrians. and il was upon MS
knowledge that the War College was
materially aided in drafting the ~
tenSive instruction that features the
training of the reserve officers at the
training camps.
Colonel Enorhs is the Youngest COM
mandng officer of a training camp
TO be named by the department. He
won the distinction. however, by his
peculiar fitness for the post of senior
instructor in modern warfare.
Guns For Third Iowa.
Every member of the Third Iowa in
fantry which is to accompany the
Forty second division to France, will
be equipped with five rifles. The ord
nance department of the army today
decided to slight the national guard
troops not selected to go Immediately
to France by diverting the supply of
small arms intended for them TO the
mobilization camp now being prepared
at Minoola n Y. in order to fully
equip the Rainbow division for the
winter campaign IN French trenches.
The Iowa infantry also will be fully
equipped with winter clothing and 9TH
er equipment Supply to do the men,
h<I r-- n q
puartermaster corps OF the army to the
Mineola mobilization camp for trans
portation to France when the Forty
second sails.
This war department announced to-
day that the equippng Of the regi-
ment to sail Immediately for France
will mean that only the essentials OF
the equipment for the Iowa guard and
other state troops that are to train in
the southern camps will be forthcorn-
ing soon. In fact very little hope was
held out TO a complete equipment Of
the troops that will train in the south
was given by the quartermaster gem
erals office. due 10 the fact that six
months supply is neces sarv for the
Rainbow division and a similar quan-
titv will be needed for the Twenty
sixth or New England division which
soon is to be ordered to follow the lead
Of the Rainbow division. Efforts,
however, will be made TO have the
Omaha supply depot respond to all
reuuisitions that are sent to it. Quar-
termaster General Sharpe today said
that many Of the Iowa guard COM
panies and others in the middle west
I, FaiIaI n nrNnpr1V make on
reuuis itions for supplies. and this has
prevented the depot quartermaster at
Omaha from filling the orders.