Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. JATTALION OF DEATH FORMED Hoosier Units Organized Into Machine Gun Unit at Camp Shelby— Division Being Planned on the French System. Hattiesburg, Miss., Oct. s.—The“battalion of death” —a machine gun aattalion —has been organized at Camp Shelby out of several Indiana National Guard units. It will be attached to Brigadier Geenral Lewis’ brigade. The reorganization of the National Guard companies is not completed, it was learned. Several more changes will be made, but every effort will be made to keep companies together. Two companies, one from Portland, and one from Anderson, have been entirely broken up and the men distributed, among other units. The division is being organized on the French system.