Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-13
ITALIAN INDEPENDENCE
5 DAY TO Be CELEBRATED
Elaborate Ceremonies Will De Hell;
at Camp Lee OH Sep
tember 20.
WILL NATURALIzE l,4oo MEN
Cantonment Receives 700 Typicn
Plainsmen, Who Will Take Courst
In Veterinarians School-Impor
tant New Orders Become Effective
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CAMP LEE. VA. September IA
Italian independence Day. September
20. will be celebrated with elaborate
ceremonies at this camp by the 5000
Italians who are now serving here I'm
the United states Army. Efforts arc
being made to have Il prominent Italian
deliver the principal address. \ full
the exercises will he held in the Y. NJ.
c. \. Auditorium on the night OF Sep
TENDER 20, at o'clock.
one of the features or the day will
be the naturalization of 100 foreign
ers. al least half Of whom will be
Italians: Governor Thomas w. Bickett,
be the principal speaker at the excr
cises The naturalization ceremonies
Will be made part OF the Italian pro-
gram of that day.
CAMP LEE VETERINARY
HOSPITAL SOON TO OPEN
The Camp Lee Veterinary Hospital,
which has facilities for caring for 500
sick animals. will be opened within
the next few days. The hospital will
be attached to the veterinary training
pose Of caring for the animals and
for the training of officers and men In
the school. 1t will have force of
John V. LacroiX- will be In charge of
the hospital. but it will be under the
general supervision Of the command
u.
Seven hundred Westerners. typical of
the plains, from which they were
drawn, arrived at the veterinarian
school last night. They come from
were forwarded to that camp from
Montana They are we'll above the
formed in veterinary and base hos
pitfalls for service in France.
The school now has. $500 students
and 500 officers. The list of students
q ri nf off xt.hA
graduate veterinarians. who are now
receiving "A short course of military in
structions and instruction in military
] 200 negroes who are qualifying for
the service. None OF the men are
candidates for commission. y vet
Urinary hospital has quota of 800
men and the base hospital a quota of
l44 men.
Work will begin Immediately on
barracks. which. when completed. will
be capable of accommodating 1000 en-
listed men. These buildings will be
erected in vacant spaces between
Seventeenth and Zero Streets. None
will be constructed in hre-b breaks.
CIVILIANS EMPLOYED
IN CAMP NUMBER 1000
There are now employed at the camp
1000 civilians, who are employees Of
construction companies engaged In
making additions to the cantonment.
Orders now in effect require that
neither officers nor enlisted men may
he in Petersburg during hours set aside
for drill. without written passes.
4 Another order now in force prevents
officers or enlisted men whose families
reside in Petersburg from spending the
nights at their homes. The order is
one issued several months ago, which
states that no officer or man may sleep
out of camp except on Saturday nights.
and then only 10 per cent of any COM
mand may avail themselves of this
privilege
At headquarters to-day attention was
called TO the fact that If any person
having pass to enter the camp, should
present same at hours other than those