Evening journal., 1918-08-05
STATE BOYS HOPE
TO GET in SOON
Transfers to 59th Pioneers
at Dix, Indicate Early
Movement
MEN ARE TRAINED
DOWN HARD FOR WAR

CAMP DIX, wrightstown, N. j., Aug.
b.-Heavy transfers OF recruits from tho
Depot Brigade to the seth Pioneer In
iantry. whose case has been troubling
politicians in. Delaware and Washing
ton for several weeks, indicate that the
War Department is at last planning TO
make use OF this efficient organization,
formerly the Delaware National Guard.
The unit was transferred from Camp
Mcclellan to Camp Dix last winter,
largely, II has since developed accord
ing 10 recent reports from the National
Capital, as a political rather than 4
military maneuver. Several hundred
men will be assigned TO the Pioneer dur
Ing the next few days. bringing the or
ganlzation up to war strength and ready
Tor overseas service whenever the order
comes through, for which the Delaware
boys have been anXiOusly waiting for
months. The Pioneers, well prepared
for service when they reached Camp
Dix, are now trained down to fighting
weight by months Of drill and raange
work, and every mothers son Of them
Is keen to get into action "over there"
Details from the 3i2th Engineers
who for a week have been drilled in
rowing pontOons on the COOkstOwn
Lake, will get their first opportunity to
sss the big barges in bridge construc-
bon today.
Captain Louis E. Poodle, Captain John
B. Ferguson and Lieutenant Edward r
?. Murphy, OF the Medical Corps here,
% oH
No. IS, at Fort McHenry.
On the trench-scarred top Of "Marne
HILL" where on weekdays thousands OF
soldiers practice at making and destroy
Ing Notifications. Armenians serving
rs soldiers in Uncle Sans great army
training here met last night in a ser
vice typical Oriental TO pray for the
sfilicted people OF their homeland The
unique gathering was the climax OF
visit 10 the camp OF the Rev. Y. II.
Shabbaz, Of New York with the first
district message that these Armenians
have had Of the fate that Overoame
their native communities in the Kurd
massacres. The clergyman is probably
the first man TO reach America, having
escaped from this Turkish captivity. Big
audiences Of soldiers in Huts Nos 2 and
Q heard the visitor tell OF his personal
experiences IN the centre Of the zone In
which millions Of Christian men, wO-
men and children were massacred or
met wores fates at the hands OF Turks
and Kurds, apparently with full ap-
proval Of German officers.
DR.. Shabbaz put a brighter touch to
his message in the prediction that Rus
sia will come back strong for the
Allied cause, and he lauded the Cossack
forces as the best hope OF that dis
tressed nation for the re-establishment
Of stable government.
Announcement was made that the
"eent-a-soldier" fund raised here at
the request Of Mrs. Joseph R. Ashmore,
Of Trenton, for the relief Of Belgian
orphans, has reached a total Of S45OSS,
which has been turned over TO the re-
lief organization. The fund was col
lected in every organization in camp.
contributions being limited TO a Jenny
First Lieutenant James Beattie has
been appointed 10 succeed Lieutenant
Peter A. TULIP, RECENTLY promoted 10
captain and transferred to another sta
tion, as assistant camp personnel adju-
tant. Lieutenant Beattie was recently
transferred from the S5th Division, at
Camp Custer, Mich.
Lieutenant Joseph F. Hanley, adju-
tant OF the iiOth Battalion OF the Depot
Brigade. has been promoted 10 captain
and placed in command Of the 10th
Company. First Lieutenant Francis
Upham, Jr., has been appointed bat
kqliOn adiutant