Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-03-27

the war department that he will be re-
neVed at once of his command and the
rank Brigadier General will again OBJ
tain, which was his rank when in the
regular army. He has been ordered
to report for duty at Fort Sill, Okla
homa. Gen. Plummer has made for
himself an enviable record here. In
spectors sent here from time to time
have reported this cantonment to be
In the best possible condition. When
Gen. Plummer was summoned to
France early in the winter it was be-
l1eved that he would take his men
across, but it seems that the war de-
partment is looking for younger men
for this service. Gen. Plummer is 81
years old.
CAMP DODGE TO BE BALLOON
TERMINAL.
Aeroplanes and kites and observa-
ton balloons may be flying over Camp
Dodge within the next few weeks.
Tentative plans have been made to
use Camp Dodge as a terminal for
aviators flying between Ft. Sill, Okla.
and Des Moines.
While they are here, the aviators
will maneuver with the artillery bri-
gade, working out problems in indirect
fire and barrage fire on the artillery
range near Granger.
Two purposes will be served by con-
Quoting such flights. It will give avia-
tors an opportunity for long distance
flying.
They will receive practice in pro-
curing firing data, and officers of the
artillery brigade at Camp Dodge will
learn to work with aeroplane observ-
ers.
Two stations between here and Ft.
Sill will undoubtedly be established at
other environments. The distance be-
tween Des Moines and Ft. Sill is about
700 miles.
INSTRUCTION IN BOXING.
Mike Gibbons, division boxing in
structor at Camp Dodge, is organic
ing a regular school of boxing instruc-
tors. And the lessons taught the
classes by this world-famous middle
weight will be passed on to the new
rockies, who arrived recently at Camp
Dodge. Gibbons expects to have more
than 100 men in his instructors class.
The instructor will demonstrate the
technique of the boxing game. Each
day the scholars" will learn the les
son which they will pass on to the
rockies the following day. "This form
of exercise is important. because it is
so closely allied with bayonet fight
ing" Gibbons says, "Bayonet fighting
Is largely boxing with a gun in ones
hands. In hand to hand fighting es-
pecially, this knowledge Of boxing will
be valuable"
GAS. MASKS USED IN PRACTICE.
That necessity is the mother Of in
vention" is clearly indicated in a study
OF the gas masks used. The face piece
with glass or celluloid eyepieces, is
connected by flexible tube with a
canister carried in a knapsack. The
incoming breath comes through the
canister, which is filled with several
layers of chemicals which neutralize
or render harmless the gas laden air.
Outgoing breath passes outside the
face piece through q small valve. The
student In gas defense soon learns to
get his mask on in a hurry, six Sec
onds being the standard time: when
the knapsack containing the mask is
hanging at his chest in the alert po-
sitton. After intensive training, a gas
attack is arranged. The class ia put
In trenches, and without warning,
clouds of smoke and chlorine are lib
Grated by the instructors, masks are
hurrtedly put on, alarms sounded, and
sleeping men in dugouts aroused.
When the attack ceases the trenches
are cleared of gas, tie air is tested
and permission is given to remove the
mask. "