Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — Getting Ready For Over Seas [ARTICLE]

Getting Ready For Over Seas

Judging from the preparation that is being made, it will be but a short time now until the ten Company M men who j were detached from that command and made a part' of the “Rainbow Division” of the national guard, will be sailing toward France, the longed for goal of every man now in the service. An early departure from Fort Harrison is indicated by the following which appeared in the Indianapolis Star: “The 1,800 men of the First Indiana Field Artillery Regiment, soon to go overseas, were equipped yesterday with woblen breeches, blouses, shirts, socks, overcoats, underwear, slickers and blankets, which will be required to protect them against the rigors of a winter in France. The. shipment of equipment, awaited before the .regiment would break camp, included 3,600 woolen uniforms, 1,800 overcoats, 1,800 slickers, 3,600 suits of underwear, 9,000 pairs of socks and 5,400 blankets—three heavy blankets to each man. “The time for the departure of the regiment for Camp Mills, near Mineola, L. 1., to join the other units of the Rainbow' Division of the national guard selected for early service in France, has not been fixed definitely, but it is expected that it will say farewell to Fort Harrison and Indiana within the next two or three days. It is not because of any special reason for secrecy that the difinite ho ir is not announced, since the war department already has stated where the division is being mobilized, but because Col. Tyndall will not know himself until another consignment of equipment, expected any time, has been delivered.”