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VOL. 1.
CARE OF EXPLOSIVES
ISSUED BY
GENERAL
Attention Again Called to In
structions Issued March 2.
Carelessness Cause of 95 Per
- Cent of Accidents.
TRAINING SECTION.
Handling Explosives.
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.,
April 8, 1918.
The handling of explosives is now, or
soon will be, the constant work of the
members of the 28th Division. Ninety
five per cent, of the accidents are due
to gross carelessness. Realizing y lis ’
Major General Muir ordered the publica
tion and reading of a memorandum in re
gard to grenades. This order, as rea< .n
each organization, follows:
Headquarters Twenty-Eighth Divsion
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.,
March 2, 1918.
Memorandum No. 1.
Grenades.
1. Grenades (Hand or Rifle) must al
ways be considered as very dangerous and
as being always loaded, even when they
give the appearance of being dummies.
2. Unless under instructions of the
bombing officer of an organization, it is
absolutely forbidden to pick up Grenades
(Hand or Rifle) found in any part of the
training ground, excepting the dummies
used in training.
3. Should a grenade be observed on the
training ground, the spot -where it lies
should be marked off by a stick or piece
of paper and an officer notified at once.
The dftcer notified will at once report
presence of this grenade to his organi
zation commander who will detail the
bombing officer of the unit to destroy it.
4. Bombing officers destroying hand or
rifle grenades will carry out the follow
ing directions:
Hand Grenades. *
The grenade will be pickel up carefully
and finally removed and destroyed.
Rifle Grenades.
Ist American Type, Babbit, being a
percussion grenade, must be destroyed on
the spot by means of a high explosive;
under no circumstances should it be pick
ed up.
2nd French Type V. 8., should be pick
ed up carefully' and destroyed as soon as
possible thereafter.
5. This memorandum will be read by
all organization commanders to the en
listed men.
By command of Major General Muir.
Official: Edw. L. King,
David J. Davis, Lt. Col. General Staff,
Lieut. Col. Adjutant. Chief of Staff.
In every city with as large a popula
tion as we have in Camp Hancock, there
are daily many accidents -which result in
the death of it’s citizens, mostly due to
carelessness on the part of someone, but
this is no excuse for carelessness on the
part of anyone in Camp Hancock for in
this camp, .everyone is of mature age and
things are managed systematically. The
distribution of all explosives and other
dangerous material is made with great
care and each man is instructed as to
its use and cautioned about letting itget
into the hands of people who do not real
ize it’s dangerous qualities.
In the American soldier, there is a
very commendable spirit' of “Show Me,”
both as to the make-up of weapons and
material and the result caused by their
use. As commendable as this spirit may
be normally and if followed to reasonable
lengths, it becomes despicable when
through curiosity or a desire to “slip one
over,” one person endangers the life and
limb not only of himself but of Jiis com
rades by “experimenting” with explosives
or dangerous weapons. It is always the
pistol that is not loaded that shoots one’s
best friend; it is always the shot that
cannot go off that explodes just in time
to maim one for life; it is always the boat
that cannot be sunk which goes down
with all on board.
If we expect to be a live-wire, wide
awake organization, we must realize our
selves and we must impress upon every
one else connected with the organization
the necessity of using care and good
sense in every act we do. By using this
care and exercising good judgment, we
can eliminate 95 per cent, of the casual
ties which might occur to members of
this division. In order that every man in
the division might realize this, Maj. Gen
eral Muir caused the following order to
be issued and required every officer and
man in the division to either read it or
hear it read:
Headquarters Twenty-Eighth Division.
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.,
April 3, 1918.
Memorandum No. 1.
Explosives.
1. The attention of this command Is
called to Memorandum No. 1, Headquart
ers 28th Division, dated March 2, 1918,
which will be read again by' an officer to
the assembled company or similar unit.
2. In addition to reading this memor
andum referred to. Company and similar
unit commanders will explain to their as
sembled companies the danger in connec-
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General Foch and General Pershing..
PERSHING~SPEAKS FOR THE NATION |
General Pershing thus placed him
self under General Foch’s command:
"I come to say to you that the
American people would hold it
a great honor for our troops
were they engaged in the
present battie. I ask it of you, in
my name and in that of the American
people. There is at this moment no
CURRENT EVENTS
Germans Halted. Important
Congressional Action. Ameri
cans Brigaded With British.
Liberty Loan Number Three.
BY P. A. G? MACH EM ER.
For a second time the long heralded
German drive has come to a halt. This
stage of the Battle of Picardy which
began upon last Thursday has been
smothered in record time. The actual
thrust lasted but three days. Has not
the Hun war machine put forward its
greatest effort and failed?
In Congress.
While the eyes of the world will be
focused upon the two great drives, the
one in Europe and the other in Amer
ica, legislation of vast importance will
be taken up in the house and senate
this coming week. The house is con
cerned with bills extending the draft
law and army legislation. The prin
ciple point at issue in the draft law is
over the amendment which will charge
the draft quota from state populations
to number in the first class.'
The senate on the other hand will
consider chiefly bills which will deal
with German propaganda and espion
age.
American Troops to France.
Although the transportation of the
American troops during the first year
of .the war has been equal to our best
hopes the,news comes from Washing
ton that from this time on speeding
up measures are to in adopted. The
Battle of Picardy apparently has caus
ed this change.
The Americans are to be brigaded
with British units for a month’s train
ing. After this, they will be with
drawn and become a part of General
Pershing’s army. This indeed is wel
come news.
The Third Liberty Loan Drive.
Upon the plains of Picardy there is
taking place the “great German drive,”
so-called but upon Saturday last there
began a drive in America which is go-
Continued on page ten
APRIL 10, 1918.
other question than that of fighting.
Infantry, artillery, aviation —all that
we have—-are yours ,J.o dispose of as
you will. Others are coming, which
are as numerous as w::t :je necessary.
I have come to say to you that the
American peopte would be proud to be
engaged in the greatest battle in his
tory.”
LAST CALL FOR
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE
April 12th is the last day on which
soldiers of the United States may take
out government insurance except thos-,
who have joined the army after December
14, 1917. Those who joined the service
before that date were automatically in
sured until February 12th. At that time
automatic insurance ceased but the time
during which a soldier might insure was
extended until April 12th. No better of
fer has ever been made. Each soldier
should carry SIO,OOO insurance on his life
as a guarantee of protection to his de
pendants or loved ones. This is an ex
cellent investment also as it is under
stood that at the close of the war ar
rangements will be made by which the
insurance can be carried at a reasonable
rate.
It is understood that those who have
joined the service since the first of the
year have a hundred and twenty days in
which to take government insurance, al
though as stated above they are not auto
matically insured.
ABANDON BEER EFFORT
Washington, D. C.—Efforts to supply
the German people with beer made from
turnips and beef have been abandoned,
consular dispatches said today, because
the vegetables are needed more urgently
for the manufacture of coffee substitutes
and for fodder.
RE . E RIE S
Biting Off More Than He Can Chew, i
It is a shame that while our mothers
and sisters at home are scheming and ]
depriving themselves to sr— ” " _
should be wantonly wasting Mr Ge o 13
wheat-bread, vegetables art ’•24 East £
at mess. Don’t overestim&U jour ca
pacity and waste what you cannot eat.
Travel Light.
Have all your equipment prepared,
clean and in good order for a long trip,
yiu will need good, strong serviceable
things. There is just as much climate
over there as here —and more mud. We
will ride in all kinds of conveyances
between here and there, so don’t be
overloaded when you are climbing on
and on.
TEUTON PLAN
FAILS AT SOMME
SCHEME TO DIVIDE ALLIES
REBUFFED
French and British Lines
Closed After Germans Reach
Mont - ,Didier. Strategy Re
vealed.
(Extracts from report of Frank H.
Simonds.) x
The first phase,of the second battle of
the Somme came to an unmistakable
pause in the night of Wednesday, March
27th. The extreme points of German ad- ’
vance there were Albert on the north and
Montdidier on the south. Such fighting as
followed through the next few days was
purely local. The first German blow had
spent its force and pending the delivery
of a second, there was necessary' a pe
riod of rest and reorganization to the as
sailant ,who had moved thirty-five miles
in seven days over torn and devastated
country and in the presence of a hard
fighting foe.
It will be a matter of months and of
expert analysis to disclose all the vari
ous circumstances and details of the Ger
man method in their opening attack,
which succeeded on March 21, and 22, but
in the large, it is to be recognized as the
application of all the lessons of all the
other offensives. None of the miscalcu
lations which wrecked all other such un
dertakings of the western front, both al
lied and German, preparation was com
plete and perfect, the front attacked was
sufficiently wide. Nowhere did the Brit
ish defense persist and hold up the whole
front. The thing that all commanders
and general staffs have dreamed of ac
complishing in trench warfare since the
beginning, was accomplished by Hinden
burg and Ludendorff in the first two days
of the second Somme.
But, In addition to breaking through,
the Germans had carefully thought out
the advantages which were to be ac
quired, once the penetration had been ac
complished. They had chosen to attack
upon the front where the British and
French lines met. The Oise was the point
of contact. Thus, when the British line
collapsed for some thirty miles between
Scarpe and the Oise, the Germans were
ready with huge forces to push straight
into the gap and effect "a permanent sep
aration of the two armies.
In a word, German strategy, looking to
the time when they should break the
Britain trench lines was strangely remin
iscent of Napoleonic strategy in the
Waterloo campaign, not in detail, but in
conception. Napoleon’s plan had been to
interpose between the British and Prus
sian armies, defeat either the British or
. the Prussian, before the army attacked
could be aided by its ally. He did inter
pose between Wellington and Bluecher
and he did defeat Bluecher at Ligny. But
Bluecher subsequently succeeded in com
ing to Wellington’s aid at the crucial mo
ment at Waterloo and Napoleon was
routed.
Now the Germans sought to drive im
mense forces right into the gap that had
opened between British and French
armies, widen the gap as they advanced,
take Amiens and then roll the British
army back to the north upon the coast
and away from the French armies and
also away from their own bases at Havro
and Rouen. And from Friday, March 22,
to the following Wednesday night, when
the French halted the thrust outside and
west of Montdidier, the Germans were be
tween the British and the French.
In exactly the same way, although this
Is a minor detail, by comparison, the Ger
mans sought to separate sections of the
British armies, isolating and overwhelm
ing them, by interposing between these
and the main forces and General Maurice
director of military operations, has re
ported that on Saturday, March 22, and
Continued on page ten
| Keep Out and Keep Your Friends Out.
Traveling over there with a guard
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Hodge jek Maria" here. Policing
!Bth St 3 under fire is tedious af
me novelty wears off.
What a Soldier Has to Know,
In the old days part of the C. O.'s
work was to find something for his
men to do; nowadays, there Is not]
enough time for an enlisted man to
learn the essentials of his work. In
these days a man often haa to work
out his instructions alone. At the
front a capable man may suddenly find
himself in a position of command,
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