Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — FIRST LEG OF TRIP TO RERUN VIA PARIS TO START SOON [ARTICLE]

FIRST LEG OF TRIP TO RERUN VIA PARIS TO START SOON

Although no official notification from heads of the Indiana War Department has been received by Captain Jerry B. Garland, of the local company, it is the general belief now that Monday, September 10, will find the members of the local company entraining for Fort Benjamin Harrison, on the first leg of the journey which the soldiers say is to terminate in Berlin. The belief is based upon the fact that Captain Cray of the Monticello company received word Wednesday morning from the war heads at Indianapolis to report at Fort Harrison on next Monday. The Monticello company is in the Third Indiana, the same organization to which the Rensselaer company belongs and this fact adds strength to the belief that Rensselaer is soon to see the departure of her fine young mem If Company M does not leave on this day there can be but small doubt but that the matter of their departure will be only a short time later.

Company M was mobilized in this city on Sunday, August sth, and since that time they have been undergoing a rigid training ordeal to put themselves in condition when the time of their call did come. The men, now about 128 in number, have been instructed in the various forms of military drilling and . Camp Kurrie for the past month has had a military appearanqe at all times. The only drawback has been the shortage of accoutrements of war, but this shortage is expected to be ended when the' men reach Fort Harjison. During the time that the company has been mobilized here the new v men have made considerable progress and have increased their military bearing to such a degree that it is hard to tell which of them saw service on the Mexican border during the summer of 1916. There has been a feeling during the past several days among the soldiers that their call was only a matter of a short time, and their en-

thusiasm is running high. They are ' tired of remaniing in Rensselaer, 'where there is no chance for action, and time and again they have asked ■ the question, “How can we get the Kaiser here in Indiana?” These men, full of vigor and vim, are waiting for the leash which now binds them, to be cut and permit them to get started on the trip, which they say will not end until they are parading through the streets of Berlin. Once a soldier is inside of a uniform, he is pining for action and this is especially true of the American soldier. Following the call from the local station, the company will report at Indianapolis, where it is expected they will be held until the completion of the qantonments at Hattiesburg, Miss. Just how long the men will be stationed in Indianapolis there is no way of telling, but no doubt it will not be for long. Such glowing reports of the splendid camp that is being prepared for them at Hattiesburg has reached their ears that they can hardly wait until the orders sending them to the Mississippi camp are received. Upon reaching the southern cam tonment the men will for weeks, anff perhaps months, undergo the most gruelling kind of training—training which will fit them for the hardest kind of hardships on the European front. When the bulk of the American fighting men will be ordered to Paris is merely a matter of conjecture. Some maintain that they will be on French soil by January Ist, while others maintain that the earliest call will not come before the spring of 1918. No matter when they are called, however, the men beneath the khaki uniforms of Uncle Sam are going to be ready and Old Kaiser Bill and the Hohenzollern family and their junkers are not going to meet an army of unprepared weaklings, as they have seen fit to call the American army, but are going to have their war dogs tamed by the men now working in the interests of the United States of America.