Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — MAJOR HEALEY TELLS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED [ARTICLE]

MAJOR HEALEY TELLS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED

Writes Entertainingly On the Work Being Accomplished by Indiana Troops—Long For Home.* % Llano Grande, Tex., Oct. 5, 1916. Editor Republican: ~— It has been some- time since I last wrote a letter for publication. During periods of brief interval I have -started one or two letters which have not been completed and they have not co-ordinated in a way to justify later completion- We are living sort of hand to mouth here now, betwixt rumors that we are coming home and rumors that we are going to remain all winter. We haven’t the faintest idea. Traniing is being intensified and diversified and the Indiana troops are making much progress in military science. Recently maneuvers by regiments and brigades have been held “and my battalion held a prontinent place on the firing line in a hastily promulgated problem last week and I feet that our disposition on the firing line and for support and flanking protection met all the requirements of the problem. Today we had trench making, embodying the construction of gabions, fascines and hurdles. The instruction is required by a bulletin from, the district commander at Brownsville and each battalion went out this morning to const rue ta trench large enough for two squads. Tn ordinary soil this should be accomplished