The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-05-02

Camp Wheeler, Ca, May 2.-uHl-
GERS and enlisted men o fthe Thirty
first Division resumed their school
work Monday and for the remainder
0 fthe week this will be their princi-
pal training. A number Of the off,
GERS will finish school work Friday.
The school for majors which is being
conducted by Major Jules Bellot,
French instructor, will close Friday.
The platoon school for officers in
charge of Col. James A. Lynch, will
also close at the end of this week.
The 123d Infantry, formerly the Sec
ond Alabama Regiment, is on the
rifle range. They will spend two
weeks there in charge Of range off.
GERS, who will endeavor to have ev-
cry man qualify. The 117th Field
Artillery will spend this week on the
artillery range. One battery at a
time will be marched to the range
every day.
Major Hartman l.. Butler, Capt
John T. McEwen and Lieut. Harris R.
Potter, personal aide to Gen. Francis
H. French, have been appointed as a
board to pass upon all candidates rec
commended for the fourth training
camp which will open at Camp
Wheeler on May 15 The board will
begin work before the end of this
week.
Company commanders are author
tied to appoint s per cent Of the
strength of their commands for the
training school and per cent Of the
number are selected. Commanders
are cautioned to be careful to select
as many of the old seasoned enlisted
men as possible and those physically
Mt to make officers.
According to reports the 1O6th
Train Of Engineers have received or
ders to proceed somewhere in North
Carolina" where they are to build a
railroad. Capt. Walter Gray, of Way
cross, Ga, will be in command. The
engineers repaired bridges, laid out
camp sites and improved the high
ways for the division maneuver two
weeks ago. They made such an ex
cellent showing until they were Sc
lected for the construction work ir
North Carolina.
Lieut. Col, Louis G. Duncan, division
surgeon, who was among the division
officers who accompanied detach
ment Of troops to an Eastern port las
week, has returned to camp. Tn,
other officers were granted shor
furlough and are said to have wen
on to New York, after finishing al
: official business. They are not ex
pected to return before the latter par
of this week
Since so many of the troops hav
been moved from Camp Wheeler, tn
officers have begun to wonder whel
new men will arrive. They ar
. thought to be coming within the mex
: few weeks. At present, there ar
more than twelve thousand Georgis
Florida and Alabama men at the d
: vision
= An officer at headquarters has yer
tured the opinion that the next ne,
= men will come from the west. The
!" are expected to be men who hay
. been in training for som etime an
= who could be shipped abroad o
u short notice for foreign service. TIL
" Georgia men now being drafted an
= sent to Camp Gordon will renal
~ there to be trained, according to tn
\ opinion of Camp Wheeler officers, a
though it is possible portion {
Is them may be sent here.
> Rumor has it that the Eight Fiel
> Artillery of regulars, part of til
8 Seventh division, will move soon. TIL
~ headquarters detachment of TIL
's unit has already gone to Waco. TIE.
III as. Commanding officers here of tn
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