The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-21
PENCIL PUSHERS PLAN
TO INVADE HUhlAMD
One Form of Yankee Occupation Not
Contemplated by Enemy Mobiles
for Triumphant Entry.
BULGER'S FLYING CIRCUS"
Press Division Promises to Open Eyes
of Astonished Natives as 1t Follows
Fighting Forces Across the Rhine.

Barbecue. France. Nov. 15.-tDe-
layed. )--One form of American IN
vasion probably never contemplated
by the Germans Is now modifying IN
this town of Bar-le-Duc, famous for
that species of jam which costs nifty
cents a portion in all best regulated
Broadway cafes.
You couldn't life fifty cents worth
of jam in Bar e-Duc now. The
forces assembling here constitute the
press division attached to the Ameri-
can army in France. They are other
wise known as Burgers Flying Cir
GUS" the commander OF the press
division being Major Bozeman Buiser,
former weIl-known- New York base
ball writer. He Is the chief press
officer Of the army. While hostiliues
were on he had his headquarters at
whatever place was nearest the lines
and also nearest convenient teie-
graph wire,
The press division has chased the
army from the Marine to the Meuse.
Now. ii follows the fighting forces on
into Germany. Ii is reasonable to
assume that the Germans are going
to be considerably astonished when
they get view of the flying circus
The Germans are bound to make
eyes when they see the press division
in all its glory. The parade moves
tomorrow. The roll will be twenty
correspondents. travelling in fifteen
automobiles With them will be ten
army officers and thirty-four enlisted
men.
I The officers are in charge of the
censorship. They include, besides
! the field artillery, chief red pencil
wielder of the department. Morgan
was never able TO find a blue pencil
| in France, so a red one had to an
swer his purpose.
Has Wrought Havoc.
1t wrought havoc in the ranks of
hostile words during the past few
months. Lieutenant Arthur Hartzell,
a forrner- ca4s,e editoR Is assistant
leeMsnr1 Hartzeli was ast ing As cesl-
lducting order officer with Floyd Glib
hons, the Chicago correspondent
when Gibbons was badly wounded in
Beleu wood. Hartzell could have
escaped Immediately. but heroically
lay with Gibbons In the wheat field
for three hours to get the wounded
man back.
Lieutenant Arthur John Delaney, a
New Yorker, is another officer in the
press division. Lieutenant Conger
Reynolds. of Iowa. is still another
The division is nominally an offshooi
of the intelligence department army
commanded by General Dennis Wolan
but il works pretty independently.
Probably never before in the his
tory of American journalism has such
an organized covering" OF story
been launched as the expedition
which pulls out tomorrow In the wake
of the army. The flying circus
carries ALI its own para hernalia. II
has kitchen and cooks for its division
mess,
Every man carried his own bedding
in a roll for use in the field, as ii viii
be couple of weeks before the army
reaches a German town. Trucks vii
follow the division cars with the lug
gage of the outfit
James +. Wilson. formerly OF the
st. Louis Republic, remains behinc
in Barbecue with Glenn d. Merri
man, "a gilt-edged press operator
from Pittsburg and Chicago. TO sene
out the product of the folding type
writer's. as ii Is relayed back by
courier. Wilson and Merriman Were
imported by the division to handle
the press. They are both enlisted
men.
Fifteen thousand words nigh
were a cinch for them. They use
American bugs in sending, while
the French press operators pick away
on queer contraptions that look like
piano keyboards,