Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1916 — Troops Believe They Will Not Be Home Until Spring. [ARTICLE]

Troops Believe They Will Not Be Home Until Spring.

•Llano Grande, Tex., Oct. 12.-—Like conquering heroes the Third Indiana infantry marched into camp at 7:30 o’clock tbrnghlTafter havirig“struggled through many miles of mud and rain on the last leg of a four days’ hike which had extended to Progresso, along the Rio Grande to the Donna pumping station to the sugar mill, and through the town of Donna to the base camp. Rain had fallen each day the Indiana men were absent from camp and the roads over which they skidded in completing their task can be likened only to pig wallows. The men of the Third proved themselves real soldiers on this trip. Camp life .at its best is a little rough and has its discomforts and inconveniences, but after having slept in the tiny pup tents three nigtys and marched four days untier trying weather conditions, it was like getting into a cozy, comfortable home for these men to get back into the Llano Grande camp. Indiana soldiers have despaired of returning home in time for the November election, and the opinion <s growing that it will be a long time, possibly not until spring, before all of the Hoosier organizations will have returned. In army circles the belief prevails that there will be nothing like a general movement from this camp at anything like an early date. . It is the uncertainty of the situation which bothers the’ Indiana soldiers more than anything else. If they only had some idea of when they would be returned they, could shape their business and home affairs accordingly, but as it is scarcely know how to act on different home and business problems which confront them. I