Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-26
STATE DRAF TEES
co TO CAMP DIX
Group Totaling l4l Men Expected
TO Reach Wrightstown
Today.

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. j., April
26. delaware draftces to the number Of
lil will come TO this camp today. of
this number 81 are from Wilmington.
Captain Warren t Acker, of Scranton,
Pa, was yesterday appointed by Major
General Scott as camp police officer His
will be the duty of seeing that the camp
Is kept spick and span at all times, main
tanning a reputation that IL has already
won for sanitation and cleanliness of
grounds.
The fact that an officer of the Court
martial Board was discovered to have
hecn holding his position without legal
appointment saved Private George g..
Schwankc, of Camden, n member of the
1lth Engineers, from one OF the severest
penalties prescribed by division court
martial. Schwanke was accused OF using
disrcspectfu language against the Presi-
dent, of declaring he would never 60 to
France and that he would never tight
against Germany He was sentenced
to 20 years at hard labor, To forfeit ali
paw and to be dishonorably discharged
nj the end of his term Then luck in the
form of a technicality saved him. Tor
General Dean, the reviewing officer,
declared the action against the prisoner
must be held null and void
.hlIcT NcItElCElilH SDlllc Oi lit StNtitSb
fighting on the British front and serving
for the last slx months IS member
of the Foreign Corps Of instructors IN
trench mortar practice mt this camp,
Sergeant License, of the Royal Fusiliers.
was badly injured by the premature
discharge of a nfoI tar yesterday during the
demonstration in honor Of Bngadler
General NcRae, new commander of the
18th Division. The Sergeants hand was
still over the muz2le of the mortar when
the bomb. fortunately p dummy, was
cIcrted by the firing shell. The hand
WAS badly torn, hut surgeons ut the base
hospital believe they can save 1T
\ few minutes before the accIdent the
battery to which Sergeant License was
attached he'd registered Il direct Int on
the onc-storv frame building on the top
OF '.Narnc Hill 1t has frequently been
!: target and Shell holes put the ground on
All sides, but heretofore the exploding
bombs have never touched the building
itself The sixth shot, under ideal range
finding conditions, plunged through the
roof there WIS i flash of flame and the
walls WeIe torn apart.
General McRea and his guests also
saw clever American machine gunnerS
cut designs on the target with n spray of
bullets from Nickers and Chaucat guns,
and later watched a spectacular clash be-
tween havonpt teams from the division.
DuSt-hegrimed, but enthusiastic over
their three-dav experience in the open
cannoneers of the 307th Field Artillery
returned last night from forced march
10 a site near Lakehurst, a tactical battle
and gas attack and other thrills that
might come 10 the command In actual
warfare. Two nights they slept in shelter
tents were fed from their field kitchens
and went through other experiences of
intensive training. The march was the
first arranged for field artillery regiments
bv Brigadier General {. G. lIearn The
;;0sth Light and the 309th Motorized
Held Artillery VIII make similar trips next
week
With clenched fists, men Of the 18th
Division last night heard the Countess |
Iu-a de Turcynowitz of Poland, conclude |
her account ot the wrongs that befell her
adopted country during the first Hun
invasion Of Russia Then they pledged
her IN a dramatic demonstration that
they would help 10 free Poland.
1t was the first time that the countess, |
whose stories of the war from behind the
Russian front were the frst to reach
America. has had an opportunity to talk
10 the men III q training camp. Her re-
cItal Of her personal experiences when the
Boche drove through lower Russia gave
the soldiers here 4 true appreciation of |
the type OF creatures they must fight in /
Europe Her talk was calculated 10 do more !
Ia raise The fighting blood OF the Light |
ming Division than any event that has |,
transpired since the opening Of the camp. /
Incidentally. the countess asked the /
division TO recover FOR her famous old /
clock stolen from her palace near War /