Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-27
LEARN HOW TOUSE
1 BAY0NETS0NH
: Men at Camp Meade Practice
( for Trough StufF IN
ii the Trenches.
WASHINGTON MAY SEE NJ. P.

CAMP MEADE, ADMIRAL. Nd, Oc-
tpober 37.-After nearly q month In
anmp; after having learned how to
.tnaroh and 20 through the various evo-
buttons necessary In soldering; after
hours Of setting up exercises and moro
hours Of foot bail. base ball. hand bah.
medicine ball. etc. the soldiers In this
inan's army are starting in on tho
Dough STUD.
: All around the camp one may see
men. directed by their oficerA going
through Q mysterious series Of move
stnsnts with rifles and bayonets. Tho
snen make fierce lunses At big bags
hAs size of a human being. They drive
me bayonets into tho dummies as deep
~ - possible. give kind OF lifting
berk and twist, draw back and repeat
ths movement
Tho dummies are bags stuffed with
line straw and sand. They represent
Huns and the men are learning the
proper method of giving the Huns what
khey most particularly do not relish
that II. cold steel.
Oflcers and commissioned ofncers
pf the French and Canadian ana Bit
ksh and Belgian armies are arriving to
Aet as Instructors. These ofncers tell
The men of this mans army how tho
Hun hates the bayonet They describe
how whole companies on tho Somme.
the Aisne. at Ferdun and In Flanders
Throw down their guns. hold up their
hands and yell "kamerade, kamerade,
Z when the poilus, the Tommies. tho
3elgians or the Anzaes go over the
Cop and start for them with the steel.
These men know what they are talk
Ing about They win not stand for in
Ssrviews, ana they will not talk II they
Han help 1t of the things they have
seen and the struggles they have taken
part In But sometimes. during the
brief resting periods. they grow reni-
Qiscent and recall episodes of the grim
struggle somewhere in France. Then. II
one does not grow too insistent In CUES
fioning. they speak OF how tho Huns
face grenades, bombs. the crashing
thunder OF heavy artillery and the
staccato Of the machine guns with q
Ixrtm courage and determination that
even their enemies are forced to adj
tnire, and then cringe and whimpsr and
Ery when the cleaning cold steel comes
ut them
Hun "Queer Beast
He is a queer beast. the Hun" said
Capt Laintz of the French army. "A
E. beast, yes; a brave man. yes, some
times; but other times coward. and
always queer. And how he does dread
those bsyonets."
Because this is so the men OF the en-
&ire National Army, Of which the 18th
: Division IL only a small part. are be-
ing taught all there il to know about
using the bayonet-how to drive It
deeply and quickly. how to keep 1t from
becoming wedged in-well, In tho place
where tho American soldiers are being
caught to drive it-how to recover att
or the thrust. and at the same time
how to parry the enemy's lunges. main
xain ones own equilibrium, and DO al
ways ready for another lunge.
As rapidly as rites are received and
Of handling them the hayonet work 10
being taken up. As yet the members OF
the 312th Machine Gun Battalion have
had no bayonet work, because they
have not received their rifies and side
arms. The rifles used by the guard de-
tails from the three companies are
merely borrowed, and the sighting and
instruction in rife mechanism has al!
been done with single gun. In the
squadrooms. Rifles and bayonets are
expected within few days. however.
when the District men viii also begin
TO learn how to do to the Hun what no
. especially does not like to have done
to him.
Today was the regular Saturday half
holiday. all men not needed for police
and other fatigue duty being released
/ Rt o'clock During the afternoon ath-
! lstic games, including a ten-mile cross
country run, were scheduled. The Dis
Srict men. composing tho 212th Machine
Gun Battalion. had no games Of any
: hind scheduled.
!, Camp Meade's liberty loan campaign
. - to have its grand wfnd-up tonight.
F.. when the officers and men of the 18th
Division are TO assemble around a hugo
bonfire, hearisome speeches, sing some
. songs and receive the congratulations
Of Maj Gen. Kuhn and other divisional
and brigade officers on the generous re-
. Spouse made TO the liberty loan appeal.
Cardinal Gibbons Is to visit Camp
Meade tomorrow afternoon to preside
At the dedication exercises to be held
et 4 o'clock in the new Knights OF CO.
4umbus building. The Y. N. C. A. build
afternoon, the exercises at which Gen.
Kuhn and Senator Sutherland are to
speak, to be held at 2 o'clock. Rev. J.
Wilbur Chapman. the evangelist. Is to
morrow morning and again in the even
ing.
Camp Meade will be open again to
visitors tomorrow, no passes being re-
CURED to enter tho camp. Visitors win
: De permitted to remain until 8 o'clock.
For Duty in Washington.
Announcement was made yesterday
That the military police Of Camp Meade
Are to be detailed as occasion arises for
and other places outside the camp.
When on this special duty, according
- announcement of Col. William c.
Rogers, in command Of tho Camp Meade
military police. they will aid the reg
Mar police force, with special reference
% looking after soldiers who may have
oYerstayed their leave, stragglers from
the camp. members of the 18th Division
taken into custody for infractions OF
eaw while away from camp, and the
Alike. They will also assist II called on
In handling crowds and any duty tina,
falls to the lot Of members of the reg
ular police forces.
4, Tho military police are to be distin-
Guished by the blue brassard on the
left arm bearing the letters NJ P
standing. of course, for military police
When on duty In the city they will be
armed with pistols and will carry the
long, heavy espantoons or batons, some
what similar TO those carried By police
men on beat, but longer F. G. H