The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-30
MEN WHO HAVE
 BEEN '4OVER TOP"
 NOW IN ANN|STON
Fly H. H. KRoH

sion, Camp Mcclellan, Anniston, Octo- Der 30.-He is small and his eyes are brown He wears uniform of army blue with four stripes on the arm. On his breast hangs the CroiX de Gnerre. He captured 12 Germans sim gle handed with the mere wave of his hand plus an exploded grenade. He has come out of France. He is Sergt. Ga briel Desmaryl.
 He has arrived at Camp Mcclellan after a service of more than two and half years in the trenches, as the four golden stripes on the left sleeve show He proved himself hero over there and his government has taken him from the fighting fronts of Yer dun, the Somme, Champagne and vimy to teach the American troops at Camp Mcclellan the uses of automatic rifles. He has come as the second of the group of about 10 allied soldiers who are being sent here to instruct the blue and the gray division, some of them French and some of them English. The first of them to reach here was Lieut.. Raymond DAiguy of the Chaussers pied who came in sev- eral days ago, and who, like Sergeant Desmaryl, Is an automatic rifle eX- pert
 "France has never been so strong as she is now" said the lad from across the seas.
 AMERICANS ARE GOOD
 He was at the American training camps as an instructor and said they were good soldiers. ''Too good for the Germans he said with smile He thinks the war is nearly over.
 It was easy for him to capture 12 Germans at once he said. He tossed a hand grenade into German dugout, killing many of them. The 12 who re- mained alive surrendered to him and he lead them to the French lines. He didn't see how many he killed, he said. He didn't have time. The war cross was waiting for him, but he didn't know it. With all of his fighting he has never been wounded although he was at Veaux when the Germans made their terrific assault upon the Verdun forts
 The Germans have reached the end of their man power, he told the corre- spondent Of the 12 men whom he captured, he said most of them were boys IF and IS years of age, and this was sometime ago. He has been in America but a week, but he speaks English quite well. He acquired his knowledge of the mother tongue in England several years ago, where he was located for over a year.
 LESS FORMIDABLE
 The programme of intensive train- ing has been made less formidable with the completion of last weeks work and the troops will tomorrow launch forth in the second weeks work of the more advanced section of the schedule. While rifle practice, bayonet work, grenade throwing, bombing and gas combat are the principle subjects of study this week as last, the work has been advanced to far more important and interesting stages and the instruction will lead the men during the current week into the more elaborate tactical work.
 The engineers and the signal bat talion men, those who will be liable to attack by gas, are to be given spe- cial instruction this week. The work will start tomorrow night in the en- gineer regiment and they will be given further lectures on the subject on Friday night. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night the signal corps will be given instruction in gas combat and defensive measures Lieut.. George c. Tillman of the medical officers re- serve corps is giving the lectures.
 Col IT. c. Fisher, who came here from the surgeon generals depart ment at Washington for the purpose of making an exhaustive inspection of the camp, has completed his work. He spent several days here and thorough : ly investigated sanitary conditions in all parts of the big 16.000-acre reser- vation. He was accompanied on his in- spections by Lieut.. Col. C.. R. Snyder, the division surgeon, and by Major Ullrich of Baltimore, the division sam itation officer.
 SANITARY INSPECTIONS
 Colonel Fisher has charge of the sanitary inspections for the entire de- partment of the southeast, but works directly with the office of the surgeon general at Washington. He said that he would make a report to General Gorgas covering his findings in Camp Mcclellan. When questioned as to what the report may embrace Coll onel Fisher declined to go into de- tail. but said that he had found the , ;,, K