Evening star., 1925-08-12
DISTRICT MILITIA
TO LEAVE FRIDAY
Engineers and M. P.'S Go to
Virginia Beach-Coast
Artillery to Monroe.

There will be a general exodus of
troops from the Capital Friday after
noon and night, when the National
Guard of the District of Columbia
leaves by motor train and ship for its
annual encampment. The 121st Regi-
nent of Engineers and 29th Military
Police Company, commanded by Maj.
John W. Oehmann. is to go to Virginia
Beach, Va, and the 260th Coast Ar
tilfery. commanded by Maj. Walter w.
Burns, will 80 to Fort Monroe, Va.
The troops will be away 16 days
The first movement will be that of
the Coast Artillery. which will depart
by motor train. leaving its armory at
the foot of Water and 10th streets
southwest at o'clock Friday after
noon. The Engineers and Military
Police will leave their armory at 412
l. street shortly after Z o'clock and
parade to the Norfolk and Washing
ton steamboat dock. where they will
board the steamer Southland. which
has been chartered and converted into
u troop transport.
Reach Camp Sunday.
The Coast Artillery. which will con
sist of about 90 ears and trucks, will
proceed TO Fort Humphreys. Va.
where the men will he placed in bar
racks the first night. preparing their
meals on the two large rolling kitch-
ems, cooking as the train proceeds
over the road. Up early SATURDAY
morning, The men will he fed. and
head for Richmond. reaching there.
according to their schedule Saturday
night, and pitching pup tents in the
tourist camp. if the weather is fair,
but if inClement they will bunk in the
armOry of the Richmond National
Guard. Sunday morning the final leg
of the march Will begin, ending about
noon at Fort Monroe, where the men
Will go into barracks near Battery
De Russy for their annual training
with the big guns which command the
entrance to CheSap peake Bay between
CapeS Henry and Charles.
The engineers. comprising the
largest contingent of troops. will as
Semble at the armOry at I o'clock.
when the men will put on their field
packs and prepare for the march TO
the boat Sleeping accommodations
have been allotted by the quartermas-
ters, and the men will be marched on
the boat directly to their rooms.
Three men have been assigned to each
stateroom. As soon as the troops are
loaded the vessel will slide out of her
pier and steam down the Potomac
River and Chesapeake Bay during the
night, arriving at the piers of the
Norfolk and Southern Railroad be
fore noon Saturday.
Have Special Trains.
Special trains will he on the piers,
and the men will step from the boat
to the pier and right TO the trains. The
train will be in four sections, and is
scheduled to arrive at the Virginia
Beach camp. p miles from Norfolk,
shortly after noon. The troops ar
rival has been timed so that the Dis
trict troops will reach the camp
shortly after the departure of the
Maryland National Guard, which has
been there for two weeks.
\ special train with the heavy camp
para phernalia will follow as quickly
as the ship can be Unloaded, and the
troops will Immediately set to work
making their tented city in which
they will live for two weeks.
Special details of guardsmen will
load the camp equipment at the ar
mory here, transporting it to the boats
by motor truck, where il Will be load
ed in the hold of the vessel, so that
everything will be ready for quick
departure as soon as the troops are
aboard.
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan, command
ing the local Guard and the 18th Ma
tional Guard Division, comprising the
troops of this city, Maryland and
Virginia. will leave Saturday morn
ing in the 29th Division headquarter' 5
automobile, which will be driven over
land bv A. p Troiana. who has been
detailed as the commanding general :
chauffeur during the period of the en-
campment.