Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-27
Pennsylvania Lads to Learn
Mode rn "Ruthlessness"
From Invalid Officers
Use DUN MMIES FIRST
lie Morte Homme and Vimy
Ridge to Be Reproduced to
Make Training Realistic
ryen,no Ledger star Correspondent


,bsv will be seasoned in the use of the
,.,est and most terrible instruments of war
That is why they have been sent to this
.emp for intensive training, and 1t is why
,hs War Department intends to assign in
va,id officers to instruct the men In the use
~ bombs, hand grenades, the latest methods
y, attack with the bayonet and the difficult
sssk of charging fortfications protected by
harbed-wre entanglements.
Announcement to this effect was made
.odav by an officer on General Clements
staY He declared that the men would be
ssnecially instructed in throwing hand
srenades and bombs and that, in order to
nrotect them from these fearful missiles,
dummy grenades would be used until they
nod become accustomed to them. Wher
,hev do learn to handle such device" "''n
realities" will be issued to them by ordnance
oficers assigned to Camp Hancock .tcn
the surrounding country will think the Ger
mans are upon them. for the hills and
woods will reverberate with the explosion
Of bombs, grenades. the roar of the ~
6eldpieces of the artillery regiments and the
crack of the infartrymen's rifles.
ordnance officers on the field declare that
The soldiers will have to be extremely care
mi in handling the bombs, because they ex-
Mode very easily. But 1t Is considered far
safer TO give them this training now than
the highly developed art of modern war;
fare.
To carry out this feature of the program
there will be constructed in miniature a
"yimy Ridge" and lie Morte Homme."
Pennsylvania troops will thereby be given
opportunity of practicing fighting the enemy
with conditions as realistic and as true to
! life as possible.
There are about 10000 acres of undulat-
Ing land off from the camp which will be
used as a military range. The men of the
artillery regiment will march to that range
daily and learn to use the Al gun until they
become proficient. Intensive training will
start as soon as the entire division is re-
ported in camp. This is the plan whereon
General Clement now is working. An elab-
crate system of trenches will be dug and the
men who will train the Keystone State boys
will be French officers who are unfit for
further service in the trenches in France
BOYS ANXIOUS FOR WAR WORK
Every officer and man on the field is ex-
tremely anxious to get down to the actual
war work, because the personnel of the
division is ambitious to get across the water
before the New York division. Every officer
and enlisted man is confident that the
Twenty-eighth Army Division will be pre-
pared and ready for overseas service long
before the New York boys are in fighting
trim.
General Clements staff, while still re-
hining mess and sleeping quarters at the
hermitage, a cottage in the exclusive resi-
dentlal section of Augusta, started to trans
oct official business at division headquar-
ters In the field this morning. The frame
building is, 90 per cent completed so it
was possible for the Generals aids to place
desks, writing tables and trunks in the
structure. The only work done in camp yes
terday was upon this building. Starting
this morning. thirty men from each COM
pany on the field were assigned to the con-
uruction quartermaster to aid carpenters
md laborers in rushing general construc-
ton work.
1t is expected by officers of the Generals
stan that the end of the week will see
tgreat many additional units Of the Twen-
g'eighth Division in camp. The field will
IN shape to accommodate the entire di-
VISION by Thursday night. 1t is also ex-
pcted that troop movements will be con-
unuous after that date, until all of the men
are on the field
when the first unit reports the contem-
pated reorganizations will be effected 1t Is
unaerstood that the personnel Of the division
.m sn oe reduced to 10000 men, though the
ancers VIII not discuss this plan. 1t also
Y reported that the brigade strength will
weouced and that the strength of the regi-
mehts VIII be increased from $50 to $50
men In each company
,esterday was a quiet day in camp. the
ssuns ulers resting after week of the most
..snsous sort of physical labor. They
suended religious services in the morning
ms Roman Catholics going to a field mass
e,ssorated In front of what will be the di-
sa headquarters, and others going to
A.. Hpscopal service. Major General Glenn.
s~ aho MS stan attended both After the
es.,S' ees' the men left the camp in SQUADS,
roundInr oe',s eus.a ana tramping over the sur
.luns on the outskirts of the citv and The
% r IN large numbers went bathing.
HSaptaih Nicholas Biddle, of PhiladeInbia
k,. memper Of the First City Troon
remoree eeh ordered to take charge of the
has her, station here. Captain Biddle, who
horssh oeeh IN Missouri and Kentucky buvjnp
x.r xSorses. @ will have probably 5000 horses mns
ser mis- supervision, "'-
First c,.i .h,ladelphia organizations, the
EsiS euy Troop and Battery L, Second
opIcL Artillery, artillery, have established records for
marro,r work and efficiency which are re-
that especially In view of the fact
.ns,. nss most of the men of these units arc
ths they e new to soldering Battery II has
asIa mest' nest most spotless camp site on the
ths aithough less than a week ago when
mali ~ arrived here. it's section was a
trees .ns p,ne forest. The men cleared the
thai ,es stumps away in short Crder SO
Rad quay with mess halls constructed and
10 rs.', " pe screened, everything is in shane
mert I'VE the remaining units Of the regi-
Sonth wnich, , 1t is expected, will be rolling
svu.h within two days. "e
Shr YELLow-JACKETs AND FIRE
me ane First City Troop is encampel in
a. Sne grove in the western sector. Satur-
vsi,. msht members Of the troop performed
IN liant service in fighting fire discovered
Can't pine forest about half mile from
tIIns IIn Ihayer's headquarters. In bat
hors. with the flames the men stirred up n
RooS OF yellow-jackets. No regiment OF
NJ thes could put up a sitter fight than
om.,i lssiment Of bees. but the men con-
ssrs them and the fire, too, with the
trees green prahches cut from
AZ .ter was not available at the scene
! me nre and therefore the troopers had
Thss. time fer half an hour or more,
ssrIor. ready response probably avoided
Aamans trouble. for 1t appeared as IL the
blaze. 'pieau' 80 nerce was the
s,n.s me advance cavalry details consists of
nsw rsht men. all but seven of whom are
Mra. me troopers who saw service at the
missio,sa nave In the majority. received COM
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