The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-12-04
SOLDIERS LEAVING
CAMP DODGE
About 5000 Soldiers Have Been Hon.
orabIy Discharged and Many
More Will Leave Soon
AeouT~5co DISCHARGED PER DAY

After the Number Now Selected to be
Discharged There Will Still be
$4,000 Men Left in Camp
CAMP DODGE, Dec 3-The first in.
stallment Of soldiers to be discharged
marched proudly to the several trains
awaiting them on the sidetracks in
the big encampment. For week work
preparatory to the interesting occas.
sion has been going on and about 5000
men have been honorably discharged.
Every man is subjected to rigorous
physical examination before being Civ.
en- his honorable discharge papers and
his final pay check. The first three
and seventh batallions, one white and
one negro development battalion will
be kept at the cantonment indefinite
ly according to Major Grierson. The
task of examining the enlisted men is
an enormous one and medical officers
have been engaged on it for some time
In instructions already received, Off
cials are directed not to discharge
soldiers suffering from social disease,
but to retain them in development
batallions until such time as they are
cured. BY far the largest number to
be discharged first, officials now say,
will come out of the depot brigade.
The brigade includes the provisional
detachment for conscientious object
ors who are listed in announcements
from Washington as being second in
line for discharge. About 500 men are
discharged per day. After the full in
crement determined upon for dis
charge. leave the camp there will still
be about $4,000 men left. These men
are going through all of the military
maneuvers that were required Of the
army that was sent overseas Rifle
practice, grenade throwing, machine
gun practice, signaling and the l1ason
work, featured by the airplanes that
are here afford the men plenty of
strenuous exercise. BY liason work is
meant the part airships play In sig
mailing to the army and the answers
given by the army to the aviators. The
airplanes here are under the command
OF regular aviation officers and those
who have been watching the maneuv-
ers have been thrilled with the won
derful stunts that have been pulled of
high i'm the air. Exhibitions by await
0rs at state fairs is TAME and conf
tll6nplace compared with the mGneuv-
ering that is part Of the regular
army training.
More Than $4,000 Raised for y. w. W
4 With total Of $12,S27.11, the con-
ttibution of officers, enlisted men and
organization workers at camp to the
United War Work campaign is more
than twice the amount it was esti-
mated would be raised for this fund.
The estimate has been placed at
$4,000.
Absent Without Leave
Corp. Arthur J. Nebbe, Co. I, and
Private w. iJ. Brewer, headquarters
company End infantry, and Private
F. H. Robey, Co. 80, 163d depot bri-
gade, were brought back from Omaha
by military guard and are now facing
charges Of being absent without leave.
Iowa Guard to Demobilize
Not more than 40 per cent OF the
original members of the First and
Second Iowa regiments will be found
in these units when they return to
the state for Rehabilitation, according
to Adj Gen. Louis G. Lasher. The
remainder will be replacement, troops
from all over the country. After be.
ing mustered out the original men,
bers of the regiment cannot organize
again as national guard units without
securing authority from the federal
government. m t'
More Wounded at Fort Des Moines
The latest arrival of wounded from
overseas consisted Of 116 men. They
bore all kinds of marks of hard and
vigorous service. Some were taken to
the ambulance on stretchers, but the
majority OF them we're able to take
special. street cars that were lined up
to receive them. The train bringing
them was labeled in large letters the
full length of the cars. Hospital
Train" Officers and attaches from
Ft Des Moines were ready to receive
them 1t is long Journey from
France to Des Moines. especially SO
when the journey must be made on a
cot or hammock. The women Of
half dozen states did not forget the
1850 wounded men Thanksgiving.
All kinds OF delicacies were sent them
aid they enjoyed great feast. The
government has cancelled the lease on
TIE Ford assembling plant and on st.
GATHERINGS home and will use the
base hospital at Camp, Dodge for the
Wounded men who cannot be accom-
1laodated t3at Fort Des Moines. New
Buildings are under way and this will
enable them to care for several hun
dred more men. Machinery and equip
ment Of every description has been
installed and the crippled men are
learning trades best suited to their
handicap. Some of the best instruc-
tors in vocational work in the United
States are on duty. Physicians and
sureons of national repute are per-
forming operations in every possible
case that promises permanent restora-
tion. Bone grating is one of the
modern methods for restoring shat
tered limbs.
When the Boys Come Marching Home
Some big events are just ahead at
Camp Dodge. 1t is expected that the
Rainbow division which saw some OF
the hardest fighting on the French
frOnt will Eho rat,lrnad t0 fhis cnlIntrV