Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-26
EXPERTS EXPLAIN
BROWN GUN
! Generals at Camp Dix Surprise
Men With Their Sharp
Shooting.

Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. j., March
20. That the new light Browning gun is
aa clean hitting as an ordinary rifle
IN the hands at an expert markanpn
and that commanding officers of big
military organizations here are quite
capable of setting a pace Tor their men
in sharpshooting, has been demonstrnt-
cd hv the latest trial of the new weap
ons, another outfit of six having ar
rived for use of the division school of arms
The new gun was tested out on the range
Yesterday, and men who have been hand
ling The Wears, Lewis and other auto
matics were able to improve then original
acores with few exceptions the first
time they handled the Browning
Shooting from prone position, one
South Jersey corporal attending the di-
vision school astonshed ordnance es-
perts hy making perfect acore on a
SIX inrh bull S eve at lD yards.
The most spectacular feature was the
preliminary test on the | .0O0-inch range.
lieutenant Kenneth 7 King. Federal
expert from the Springfield ARSENAL.
and his assistants f~rrprants Grhi"lln
and Cheney. were doing some art work.
cutting outlines 81 human honds. birds
and nther objects. on a paper target ~
the presence of l'uradIct General J !.
l1can. commandment 1T the 18th IIvsl
sion. pupader General Mari k Her
soy. and other prominent officers Nooo
one suggested that the generals Try
the pliu Hno after another they tired
then turned II on the paper iarprte and
deftlv threw bullet rdtlcn outline
around tho expert pictures that lett
the ordnance mon almost gasping With
astoniehmcnt Their surprise abated
somewhat when thcy discovered that
among the officers of high rank ~ amp
NlN are eunlc 81 the bcst shots ~ America
as memhcrs nt army rife teams
\ class ~ - officers At the school oi
arms took ~ practico work with the
nov Rrounngz. Instruction they have
had IA uec nf other autrmatics will per
ut tie limiting ~ the course to fouf
da,a whon the gums viii Ne PASSED over
- other rlassoe
TRfNFNTIuV ptrlFH lUAN 'rRf
Tho theory that an ounce of prrven-
tion IS worth pound ~ rure was applied
with nov emphasis At Camp Dix to-day,
Whom officers wcrc ordered tn inspect
their companies daily tn Soc that evcrA
man Who shows arl signs II illrose IS
rrprt,i ~ once for medical attention
he ,a,icr y tho nlrnning nf campaign
to teach the mcn ~ the ranks the supreme
Importance II keeping Ut phvacally
IN general or,let Najor General scott
declares i Is patrlntlc duty t"l
soldlor who fools the least ont of sorts tn
report hrs case t. hls company nc.llral
officer for diagnosis. ~ order that hc may
PERSONAL, w kept ~ fighting tiln and
to prevent the infection " hl4 comrades
~ ca7c hc haprena 80 he elckening for
contagious uaIa,lv Medical officers have
found hat neglected colds have been
developing to an alarming extent in aorn"
unlt-. aud as the camp Is after new
hoaIth record the new order will l'c
~turtly enforced
Pneumonia caused the death II tvo
soldiers ~ the base hospital toda,
~crgean, Wlll,am Il li,cli uf COMPANY
= Depot Brigade candidate iaf
commission at the officers training
school dlod after i lflet illness lic
was Regular Army volunteer recruited
at pori Slocum and sent hcro tnF training
His bod, va- shlprcd to hie homo N
Tallahassee. ! Ia frlvato RAYMOND
JourncaN. oi Nattcn ~ ln~th llold
Arttllcr, slccumlc,i during the night
Hls bod, was sent ~ I-coula this STATE
for Iutcfmcnt
Arrangements hayc lccn completed foI
the use of moving pictures On wldCr
scale IN rushing tho training ct troops
here \ series ot MILITARY subjects
hong presented ~ the Kcd Triangle
Auditorium aIr thc Liberty Theatre Will
bo used for a like purpose later IN the
week