Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — Soldiers of the Sea. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers of the Sea.

Washington, May 23. —An immediate jump in volunteer enlistments in the United States Marine Corps is expected, by' officials of the corps as ,a result of the sending of 'a regiment of “Soldiers ot the Sea” to France with the first expedition and the assurance that further contingents wLI be sent as rapidly as transportation can be secured. Many young men who had previouslynot wanted to enlist with a probability of being kept in this country an indefinite time and perhaps never getting to the firing line wfH, it is believed, now enter their count try’s srvice as “Soldiers and Sailors, too.” The Marine Corps expects to reach its full war strength of 30,000 men by the Fourth of July.