Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1917 — TEN OF CO. M SENT AWAY [ARTICLE]

TEN OF CO. M SENT AWAY

TRANSFERRED TO FIELD ARTIL-LERY-WILL BE AMONG FIRST IN FRANCE. Ten members of Co. M will be among the first in France. Captain Garland Monday selected ten of Co. M to reinforce the First Indiana Ar»tillery, which was recently selected by the military heads, as a part of the pew Forty-Second or “Rainbow Division,” which wilg be amonl the first of the National Guard troops to see service in France. In order to give the various batteries the maximum war strength, each militia company was ordered to send a certain number of its men to report with the artillery. It is reported that about 1,200 men will be taken from the Third Regiment by this action. Owing to the censorship which the newspapers exercise in co-operation with the government in regard to troop movements, no publicity was given Monday to the order affecting the local men and they departed with but few being aware of the fact. The men went from here to Fort Harrison to join the other members of the First Indiana Infantry who are mobilized there. According to, information from Washington, their next movement will be to Mineola, Long Island, where they will be mobilized with other Units of the feder-

alized national guardsmen from lowa, - Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and other states forming the new national guard Forty-Second Division. It is believed that the men will hot be held there long as no cantonment or camp will be constructed there, and that the guardsmen will be sent overseas at once and will receive their training on the other side. At the most it will probably not be oyer a few weeks before they set sail for England, enroute to the front in France. While all the guardsmen will see service soon in France, a peculiar honor attaches to the men who will be the first to see service on foreign soil, ahd the members of Co. M who will represent Jasper county in the first guard division to land in France will without doubt reflect honor, to the company in which they were trained and to the county from which they came. ( Twenty-one men were taken from Co. C of Monticello.