The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-12-24
(Henry q. Wales.l

General Headquarters of the, Amers
lean Expeditionary Force in France
chaumont. Dec. 2S.--U. N. S.)-(DsAs
layed.)-Bad a weather may imr'
pair the pleasure OF PresideHE
and Mrs. Wilson's trip to Gea3:
Pershing's headquarters on ChSist-z
mas day. 1t has been ratnip
steadily here for weeks, and mi
ground has become SO saturated thQ&<
doughboys were busy today co1if
structing 'duckboards" In every d.
rection across the deep mud tor tl3&
distinguished visitors to walk 0xer.<i
The skies are still gloomy and II y \
feared that more rain Will m
Wednesday. ~
1t Is unlikely that the AmettoS
their asrial .anticyasaxp pasuoaea ~ I1iIs 4
count of the weather. X s sFs,' y
President May Speak.
II is possible that the president
may make a short address to the
troops of the Yankee division near
Langres. >
The presidential party will not eat
from mess kits when they sit down
to n good old-fashioned noon-time
dinner at Montigpy-le- Roi. but ev-
erything will be Just as democratic,
as 1t is impossible to scrap together
enough crockery and silverware in
this section of France for 200 covers,
even II everything were comman-
deered.
There will be the regular tin forks
and steel bladed knives, aluminium
plate and big ellipse- shaped cup, the
same as the doughboys carried on
their way to battle when they were
sometimes compelled to utilize this
handy instrument for trench digging
purposes.
Menu Printed on Map.
An elaborate menu Is being pre-
pared. 1t will be printed on a topo-
graphical map of the sector the
division holds and will contain the
history of the divisions battles.
The dinner will be held in big
building that formerly housed
French hospital. and the great white
cross giving warning to raiding air.
planes of the character of the place
is still there.
The review will be held at a ham,
let containing 100 houses, a brewery
and cheese factory. 1t is just OUT
IL
road passes through it. The big
guns and tanks that are to take part
in the procession were brought up
on this line and dumped off into this
field.
Pass Hospitals and Prisons.
On the way from Chaumont the
president will pass numerous war
hospitals, including a base hospital,
and couple of prisoners camps,
whore German soldiers captured by
doughboys in battle are interned. The
huts are surrounded by great fences
of barbed wire. These captives are
employed chiefly as woodcutters, but
few are working on the roads fill
ing in the holes over which the presi-
Dental automobile will pass. The
presidential party will also pass an
aerodrome where machines guarding
the headquarters of the American ex-
peditionary force are located.
Mess Sergeant Proud. M
The noon dinner Is in charge OF
Mess Sergeant Hoy, and he is one
proud man. He handled the first
rolling kitchen that the United States
army received on the Mexican bOr-
der in 1916.
Sergt. Hoy's assistants are Noil.
Foss and Chapel, all of the 10tst
field artillery.
More than 1.200 motor trucks are
lined up to carry off the troops after
the review.
Maj. James D. Corviers. of Cald-
well, N. j., is in command of the
Twenty sixth division, the battalionA
Of which will be reviewed.
The president will be greeted At
Chaumont by patriotic and martial
airs played by the band from the
1o1st infantry.