Evening star., 1925-09-06

toDer L. The courses Will be dfferent
from 1924-1925 and everything will
be materially improved. Reserve Of
ficers actively enrolled as students on
June 80 who did not complete the
subcourse upon which they were
working will continue the same sub
courses with the 1924-1925 lesson
sheets upon the opening of the 1926
1926 school year.
The reserve officers who enroll as
students subsequent TO the opening
of the school year will not be re-
quired to do the full annual minimum
of 80 hours TO maintain their enroll
ment They will be able to keep up
their standing in the courses by doing
the prescribed annual minimum OF
one hour tor each week of their en-
rollment.
Students who were on the active
list on June |, 1925, will not nave 10
make a new application for enron
ment, as they will be continued as
active students on October and VIII
continue the subcourses theS
working Oh.
Branch schools in the Sd Corps
Area will conduct courses as folloWs'
Cayalry-Headquarte 62d Cavalry
Division. York road and Allegheny
avenue, Towson. Md. This school Is
for all officers and enlisted men Oh
the 62d Cavalry Division ana ali
Cavalry reserve officers hvlnS III 'iie
Sd Corps Area ,,s, u,;ald
Artillery group, room 2Ol Dauphili,
Ruilding. Harrisburg, Pa All fleiu
Artillery reserve officers residing III
the Sd Corps Area can take the
courses conducted by this school. o.
Coast Artillery-Headqua ou
-,
Va. This school is for all Coast Arlll-
,erv reserve officers and enlisted re-
servists in the Sd Corps Area.
military Intelligence - Assistant
chief of staff. headquarters Sd corps
Area. Standard Oil Building, Baiu-
more Nd. The course conducted py
this school is for any reserve ollcers
enrolled in military lntelleehcS'
Infantry-The branch schools EN-
brace three divisions, the I9th DlVi-
sion. headquarters, Schuykin Arsenal
262O Gravs Ferry road, Phlladelphla'
Pa. SOth Division. headquarters. sec
ond floor, Post Office Building, R1cn-
mond Va, and 99th Division mead
quarters, room $40, Westinghouse
Building. Pittsburgh, Pa. infantry re-
serve officers living in Washington
ID G.. and vicinity who are not at
tached or assigned to units In these
divisions can take the courses oftered
from the division designated by 80
Corps Area headquarters.
THESE schools will be divided into
subbranches corresponding to the serV-
ices under the direction of the com
mauding general, Sd Coast Artillery
district the chief of staff on duty
with each division and the chief or
staff of the Field Artillery group. Ine
members of the Corps Area stan Will
handle courses referred to them by
Sd Corps Area headquarters.
Enough funds were available for the
purchase OF text books ana maps re-
ouired for the 1925-1926 course to
make possible a further reduction
over last year in the number of texts
the student is required to purchase.
A number of texts for the coming
courses have been purchased by
using the fund for the establishment
of reserve unit libraries and the
fund allowed for Army correspond
ence course texts. As result OF
the use of the reserve unit libraries
fund one-half of the supply of texts
will be placed in the libraries for
loan to reserve officers, whether they
are enrolled for the course or not.
The remainder will be loaned
through the proper agencies to re-
serve officers, enlisted reservists and
civilian candidates enrolled for the
courses.
A course in aviation medicine will
be conducted by the Aviation School
of Medicine, Mitchell Field, Long
Island. n. Y, and the joint approval
of the surgeon general of the Army
and of the chief of Air Service is
required for acceptance in this
course.
A board of Medical Corps officers
has been appointed by corps area
Headquarters to conduct a practical
test of Washington reserve offlcers
and determine their fitness for
certificate of capacity The board
will meet in Washington, D. G., at
the call of its president. and is COM
posed of the following officers of the
Army Medical Corps: Col Harry {.
Fisher, Lieut.. Cols. George NJ.
EkwurZel. Arthur Nj. Whaley, Majs.
Lloyd A. Kafauver and Robert ii:
Lowry.
The 343d Engineers general serv-
ice). XIII Corps. local reserve or
ganization. completed a unique tour
of active duty on August 30 This
regiment was selected to try out in
the Sd Corps Area a functioning in
the field of "a regiment composed OF
reserve officers and enlisted men.
The manner in which the 343d Eng1-
neers, Lieut.. Col. II. Brand, jr., Engi-
neer reserves, commanding, carried
out the plans drew praise from Lieut..
Col. John Scott, Infantry, U. S. a,
in charge of Washington reserve
headquarters.
The personnel of the regiment left
Washington, D. c., on August l6 ana
proceeded to Fort Humphreys, Va,
where the necessary preliminary ar
n ~
ing supplies, preparing to make cash
disbursements en- route and indlVldual
reports.
The regiment started on its field
exercises on August II. and returned
to Fort Humphreys on August 2S.
During the intervening period the
regiment was chartered in tents,
camps being established at Fred
ericksburg Va, from August lI-2l, at
Chancellorville from August 21-24, at
Culpeper August 24-25, at Warrenton
August 25-27 and at Centerville Au-
gust 272S.
Besides studying the battles and
visiting the Civil War battlef1elds or
Fredericksburg, Chancellorville, VIII
derness, SpotSylvania and first and
second Bull Run, various terrain eXer-
cises were carried out and daily infan-
try and calisthenics drills were held.
The exercises involved the duties of
n combat engineer regiment as part
of a division engaged in active war
fare. Among the exercises We're open
ing up a line Of communications for
an advance, preparation of road cir
culation scheme prior to an attack,
stream crossing under fire, engineer
troops acting as infantry in an attack,
organization of a position, covering a
withdrawal by demolitions and the de-
fense of a position.
Each problem was solved by the