HOME-READING COURSE FOR
CITIZEN-SOLDIERS
(Issued by the War Department and all rights to reprint reserved.)
This course of thirty lessons is offered to the men selected for
service in the National Army as a practical help in getting started
t in the right way. It is informal in tone and does not attempt to give
! binding rules and directions. These are contained in the various
{ Manuals and regulations of the l nited States Army, to which this
J Course is merely introductory.
LKSSON NO. 21
KXTKNDKD-ORDKR DRILL
Kx tended-order drill will give your
squad its first lesson in the methods
ot* advancing against enemy lines ac
tually used in present-day warfare.
You will first be shown how to deploy
as skirmishers. Moving at a run you
and the other men will place yourself
in one rank, the interval between men
being about 15 inches, instead of 4 in
may bo roughly defined as spreu*> <>g
out a body of troop* in thin open lines
When pushing forward in skirmish
lines you must rely in part on youi
own initiative and judgment.
The next step in extended-order
drill is to practice kneeling, lying
down, and advancing at a run. In the
meantime, you wi be getting piac
tice also in rifle loading, and a little
later will begin to carry your rifle
practice loading, aiming, and
from the skirmish line.
I so of t o\er
One of the most important features
of this part of your training will con
sist of learning to conceal course
from the view of the enemy by takmc
advantage of hillocks, trees, heaps ot
earth, rocks, gullies, ditches, door
ways, windows, or any other eovei
that may be at hand. Your object is
to reach the enemy. The more ski :
ful you arc iu the use of cover the
smaller the chan es of your being dis
abled during the attack. •
Cut you are not to remain too lorg
in one place, no matter how well you
may be concealed. Your value as a
soldier depends on your ability to ad
vunce from cover to cover, always se
lecting before you leave one place the
position you are going to occupy.
Learn that **a man running rapidly to
ward an enemy furnishes a poor tar
Kemember also that a man ly
ing tint on the ground is not easily ob
served from the enemy’s lint's.
This principle applies also it you
are ever tired upon while scouting or
acting independently; droy to the
to locate the enemy.
* These are some of the main points
to ke< p in mind; many others will
come up during your training. Grad
ually you will become highly skilled
m this form of attack. Not only will
your skill increase but also your con
fidence. You will learn in time that
troops standing on the defensive ^be
hind entrenchments seldom lire upon
an advancing enemy with steadiness
and accuracy. The greater determin
ation and energy you and your com
rades show in the advance, the smal
ler will be the chances of your sut
fering severely from the enemy’s fire.
The advance of a company in ex
tendeu order is directed by commands
transmitted to the1 individual sohiieis
chiefly bv the use of signals, since the!
noise of the firing makes it imprac
ticable to use the voice effectively.
Practice Fighting
The problem of each individual sol
dier is to obey the commands and at
the same time to use his judgment
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and skill in taking advantage of cover
as he advances. It is especially im
portant that you should obey at once
any directions that may be given to
you as to resetting the sights on your
rifle and thut the rapidity of your fir
ing should be controlled by the or
ders of your captain.
doing a step beyond the extended
order drill your company and regi
ment will take part in liela ^id com
bat exercises, in which conditions and
movements of actual warfare are re
produced as closely as possible. Here
you will put into practice everything
learned during your previous drilling.
You will practice correct methods of
attacking and of defending yourself
both with the rifle and bayonet and
'with other weapons now in use. Don’t
fail to enter into the spirit of these
exorcises with as much enthusiasm
and intensity as if you were on the
actual battlefield. Use your imagin
nation. See the enemy in front of you
and act precisely as you would act if
the enemy were real. Only in this
way can you get the full benefit of
these exercises.
Don't fail to keep in mind also that
you are a member of a big team and
that every member plays an import
ant part in contributing to the success
of the team. “The one requisite nec
essary to win the battle is intelligent
teamwork. The army is handled just
like a football team. A part is on the
first line facing the enemy. Another
part, like the half backs, is held back
as supports. Another part, like the
full backs, is held as a reserve. Each
unit, like each player, has a certain
duty to perform. When the signal is
given, all work together—all play the
game—teamwork.” (Manual for Non
i commissioned Officers and Privates, p.
' 149.)
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A. R. E. GUESTS
ENGLISHJROOPS
American Engineers' Training Camp
in England, Sept. 20. — (Correspond
ence ot The Associated Press). — A
large delegation ot the American Kail
way Engineers spent a day recently
as guests of the British troops en
camped at Aldershot, where the King
and (jueen, with other members ot
the royal family were present at the
largest program of held sports that
has ever been held on Salisbury Plain.
The Americans brought with them
a tug-of-war team which provided one
of the features of the afternoon in a
long-drawn contest with the champion
ship team of the British Engineers,
the result being finally declared a
draw.
The big fete was arranged by the
British garrison at Aldershot us a cel
ebration of the bringing in of its har
vest. For months past men ot all
ranks and regiments in the garrison
have been practicing, in addition to
their military duties, the patriotism
that seeks to defeat the enemy by pro
viding the nations with home-grown
food. Turf that had never before
known the ploughshares was ploughed
and sown, and men who hud never
learned the first rudiments of farm-'
ing toiled strenuously in their spare
hours under the guidance of their,
more skillful comrades. The result
exceeded all efforts. The Aldershot
harvest was so bountiful that men and
officers simultaneously agreed that a
great harvest festival was eminently
the thing, and that nothing would sat
isfy them short of the attendance of
the King and Queen.
The King, who knows a thing or two
about farming himself, accepted the
invitation and a committee of ar
rangements representing every unit in
the district began work forthwith on
a suitable program. The center of
the day’s festivities was a huge tent
with tables laden with samples of the
Aldershot harvest. There were fruits,
vegetables, grain, shrubs, and roots ol
various kinds. The Royal party mo
tored down from Windsor, arriving
early in the afternoon and remaining
for three hours.
The arena in front of the harvest
tent was surrounded by a great cir
cular “grandstand,” composed of a
double line of ancient and modern
transport wagons which afforded seats
for the soldiers and their friends. For
sixpence, the gate money all going to
local war charities, the American vis
itors found they could have their pick
of a number of desirable positions,
either in the drivers’ seats of big army
lorries, or on benches alongside friend
ly delegations of British Tommies and
Non-Commissioned Officers.
It was like a many-ringed circus.
While the field sports were in progress
on the ground, there was a continu
ous performance of high-diving, som
ersaulting, trapezing, and all varie
ties of aerobatics by a squadron of
British airplane men up alott. Relay
| ranees and tugs-of-war were the most
popular items on the program, but
there were many unusual and vei y
spectacular types of field sports, such
as a mounted wrestling competition,
in which both horses and men took a
part in an exciting struggle, the team
from the IJoyal Engineers finally de
feating the Army Service Corps on
points.
There was also a “Victoria Cross”
race, illustrating the methods by which
men rescue comrades in the actual
fighting of today. This was followed
by mimic exhibitions of bayonet fight
ing, and a blindfold drill competition,
in which blindfolded non-commission
ed officers of various units vie with
each other in putting their blindfold
ed detachments through the complex
movements of open field drill.
Meanwhile the women of the gar
rison had a baby show, in which Mrs.
Corporal Tootle's twin boys secured
an easy victory. The first prize med
al was handed to thorn by the Queen
herself.
Outside the circle of army wagons
were the side shows, including a comic
hull fight which the King declared the
best thing of its kind which he had
ever seen.
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MYSTERY SHIPS ARE
TERROR OF SUBS
LONDON, Sept. 24.-—Not until Ger
many has been lloored for the ten
count, will the world have a peep at
the mysterious odd shaped fighters
that are beating the submarine today.
In England they are referred to vague
ly as “mystery ships” and “hush
boats.” Imaginative people give them
fantastic shapes and endow them with
powers beyond the dreams ot the
greatest naval designers. So perhaps
the land faring folk will be disap
pointed when it's all over and the
hush boats come out of the haze to
be looked at by sea-port visitors.
Privileged visitors to the great na
val bases are extremely reticent about
the hush boats. For weeks the news
papers have been hinting about some
thing they know but have crossed
their hearts not to tell — something
about the new and mysterious sea
rowdies which despise naval footwork
but prefer to rush in headlong and
scrap it out with the L-boat till one
or the other goes down.
/ The mystery ship ranks with the
tank as a feat of invention and con
struction, according to the jealous
guardians of the secret. King George
inspected two new types of vessels
during his June visit to the grand
fleet. They were in a class of their
own, and the class was never men
tioned to the public. Sea monsters
mystery ships, hush boats- they ac
count for some of the high honors re
cently conferred on naval ofticers.
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SEWARD AS SEEN BY
ONE WHO IS A STRANGER
in the September issue of the Over
land monthly, we find the following
well-written story of Seward, as seen
by Miss Grace A. Hill, in her short
stay here while a passenger on the
“Northwestern" from Nome to Seat
tle, August 2‘Jth to September 11,;
1P16. It appears in this month’s is- i
sue and says:
“We awakened at two o’clock this
morning, September .‘1, to find our
selves in Seward. We had been lour
days and a half on the water, and
were making our first landing. We
came on deck sleepy and shivering, ex
pecting to > e, as in all towns farther
north, the distant lights of a town,
with a lo.v line of hills in the back
ground. We found ourselves a little
glow-worm at the feet of a great,
black silhouettte of a mountain, which
towered straight above us.into the
sky. It was as though a great black
blot had covered half the starry sky.;
And to add to the strangeness of the
scene, a fringe of northern lights was
sending up its quavering fingers above
the mountains. The bright lights ot
the town were beside us, and danced'
on the water all about us. When we*
looked about it was easy io imagine
ourselves in a quiet Jake hemmed in
by imposing mountains. Almost im
mediately, “gray dawn” began to ap
pear, and before we left at five we
were taking pictures.
“Seward is modern as well as beau
tiful, with wide streets and paved
sidewalks. There is a picturesque
grouping of shade trees near the
waterfront, and behind rise snow
streaked Matterhorn-like mountains.
These are clothed far up with trees
and a rich green grow th of shrubs and
mosses. As we steamed out, then
tops were bathed in a pink glow from
the rising sun, and they threw a beau
tiful reflection out upon the water.
“Kesurretcion Bay, as we crept out
between its w-alls of tree-clad, snow
laden mountains, was like a fairy-land.
It was so fresh and wild in the cool,
clean, morning light that it seemed
we were the first human intruders
upon Nature’s choicest retreat. And
all was so still it seemed the world
was awed by its own beauty. When
we passed Resurrection Cape it was
draped in a band of billowy mist which
was rolling in from the sea, and into
which we shortly sailed.
Rive hours later we stopped at La
touche, where we were to load with
copper ore.”
LARGEST CAMP
IN THE U. $.
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TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 24.—Squads
of soldiers from Pacific Coast and In
termountain States are taking theii
first army drill at Camp Lewis on the
shores of American Lake near Taco
ma.
it is the largest army cantonment
in the United States and when the full
force of the selective draft is carried
out, not later than October 5th, it will
contain 46,001) officers and men. The
cantonment site covers 75,000 acres
and embraces seven lakes, forest,
stream, prairie and salt water reser
vation. It was presented to the gov
ernment by the people of Pierce Co.,
Washington, of which Tacoma is the
largest city. They bonded themselves
for $2,000,000, bought the land and
turned it over to the government. At
that time it was intended to use it
for a division post as war had not been
declared.
The site was selected by Maj. Gen.
J. Franklin Bell, now commanding the
department of the East, who first sur
veyed it in 1895, and saw its value as
a training ground and strategic point.
When congress created the nation
al army the government built on this |
site a military city in eight weeks,'
employing 10,000 men and costing $4,
000,000. This is exclusive of the base,
hospital now under construction which
will cost $504,000 and will have equip
ment worth another half million dol
lars. It will have a capacity of 6,000
beds. Permanent water, sewerage and
lighting systems have been installed
sufficiently extensive to meet the
needs of a city of 200,000 inhabitants.
The barracks and mess halls are built
in rows for miles. The stables at the
remount station will accommodate 15,
000 horses and mules.
The Nisqually prairie where maneu
vers will be held, is seven and one
half miles long and four miles wide.
1 The climate of the Puget Sound re
gions will allow for training twerve
months a year. The earth formation
sheds water easily.
Maj. Gen. H .A. Greene, a soldier
for more tlian forty years, was mdde
commandant at the post, with tour
brigadier generals under him. Mun>
of the younger officers, 1400 in all.
were trained at the Presidio, of San
Francisco, at the first officers' camp.
Provision has been made to teach
the men every form of modem war
fare, 'french work, throwing of hand
grenades, machine gun pra^ice, rifle
usage and the like. Camouflage also
will have its place and men from the
moving picture studios of California
will aid in this.
Postal authorities have urged the
correct addressing of mail so that ' ^
thousands of soldiers will have Ao
trouble obtaining their letters. Here
is a correct way to address u letter:
Private John Smith,
Company H, 264th Infantry,
Camp Lewis, Washington.
The company and the regiment, as
well as the arm of the service, is nec
essary to insure delivery.
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FISH PRICES
Price at noon, Sept 18th, at
Seattle, as reported by the Bu
reau of Fisheries, are:
Halibut, 15%c.
Sable Fish 4%c.
Red Snapper, 2%c.
Pickled Sable Fish, $14 per
bbl.
Pickled Herring, first grade, j
$16 per bbl.
Pickled Salmon, pink, $14.60 j
per bbl.
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