Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1917 — Look For Last Of The Draft Men Next Month [ARTICLE]

Look For Last Of The Draft Men Next Month

Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, De« 21.—Men of this district passed in the draft for the 84th army division, who have not yet been placed under arms, will be called to the camp as soon as sufficient clothing and equipment accumulates in the quartermaster’s storerooms. Thir-ty-five per cent, of the first quota remains to be called. It is said the provost marshal-general hopes to have the entire quota in camp here some time in January. The war department is said to have asked information concerning the amount of clothing needed. Activity of German propagandists is evidenced in reports of tales to the effected that a number of men were frozen to death during the recent cold spell. They have also been tales of men “dying like flies” of various ailments. As a matter of fact only twenty-eight deaths have occurred at the camp since the mobilization of the division. Training schedules in all the schools for soldiers here have been resumed after a delay of nearly two weeks caused by the snow. Large details of men were set to work yesterday shoveling snow from trenches and digging drainage ditches to carry away water. It will be several days before the trenches of the .infantry school of arms will be fit for occupancy by large forces. yesterday and several classes were Machine gun practice was resumed instructed in grenade throwing. Use of the service high-explosive grenade in practice is being deferred, until steel helmets arrive. Grenade work is the only phase of the training in which actual danger exists. Instructors will not use the' real article until assured that the men are well protected. Rifle grenades are expected by Colonel Thomas A. Wise, commandant of the infantry school of arms, to arrive within a few days. Captain C. F. Jeanes, the British army gas expert, has about completed preparations for conducting real gas attacks on trenches, protecting the men with masks.