Evening journal., 1918-06-26
NEW BRAND Of obs
IN DIX RECRUITS
Italians Get Fever of Fight
ing from News from
Home Land
MEN DON'T
WANT TO TRAIN

CAMP DIX. Wrlghtstown, n. j., JunC
26.-The officers Of Company as. Of the
Depot Brigade. into which are mar
shaled all the conscientious obiectors
to military service. draft deserters and
! plain skulkers, have discovered a new
kind Of "objectoF" through the transfer
/ 10 the organization Of a group Of young
Italians called In the last draft. Unable
TO make out what the Italians We're
saying In apparent protest 10 orders,
officers Of the training company mis-
took them for collectors" and gave
them the usual shift TO the &C. o."
OUTFIT
An interpreter was procured, and the
Italians were offered assistance in max
ing out OF the formal QUESTIONABLE eX-
planning their reasons for refusing mill
lary service. As the interpreter eX-
planned the protests became more vehe-
ment. They gesticuated and fairly
shouted their opposition. The inter
prefer listened a moment and then a
smile lit up his face.
"They no object TO fghting-only
want TO flght queek." he explained to
the officers. Been reading Italian war
HtNes " hNA " tNA III AAt AlN0 push :
Been in Italian army and know how
Don't want TO do training. Wanta fight
noww
When lt was explained that under
the circumstances the quickest way
they could get into "da biga push" was
TO train with the American forces and
hope for duty in Italy, they went back
happy to their training battallons.
Information is sought by camp head
quarters regarding Private Alfred C..
Parry, formerly OF the 30Sth Field
Artillery, now, in the Casual Depart
ment. lie has been missing several
days, and is thought to be wandering
in a dazed mental condition about the
camp or nearby country.
Firing or driving trains that will
carry American soldiers, ammunition
and supplies over American-built rail-
roads in American-made trains from
French seaports TO the front will be the
manner in which locomotive flremen
called in the last draft will have an
opportunity to do their bit" on the
other side. Fifty Of these rallroaders,
called in the last draft from New Jer-
sey and New York and selected through
the personnel office. yesterday took the
first step in their training for overseas
duties when they were transferred to
special school OF instruction at Lehigh
University.
The flremen viii be given every adj |
vantage OF a speedy training course. |
Those who show proper experience ana |
qualifications will be made engineers. (
The educational value Of the course will /
be OF great value TO the railroad men |
in their occupation after the war, while /
10 viii assure the War Department OF /
capable crews in maintaining the tre-
mendous schedule necessary on its sup
ply lines at the front
Hundreds OF soldiers who have been
invited to their home towns to partici-
pate in Fourth OF July celebrations will :
be granted the privilege OF reduced /
fares in cases where their towns are
such a distance from camp that fire. /
quent visits are Impossible, according .
TO announcement made by Maior-Gen- I
eral Scott. General Scott added to the .
previous list granted such special passes (
men from Burlington city and town /
ship, this State; Kingston and Ulster /.
County. Troy and 0swego, n. Y.
The present week sets a new record
In evening entertainment for soldiers
at the camp. Back in their home towns