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Show TWENTIETH MT11Y TO IPfflAT FORT Guard Duty Instead of Service in France, Is the Present Outlook. That the fate of the Twentieth infantry will he to remain at Fort Douprlas and do special puard duty in the vicinity of Salt Lake for some time is Indicated hy orders received at the post yesterday. These .orders are to the effect that various detachments'of the regiment will he used for special guard duty at Car-field, Car-field, Utah, and Grace. Idaho, for six-week six-week periods. The detachments on duty at these places will be relieved every six weeks by units fresh from the regiment. Officers and men of the Twentieth have-been have-been hoping that with the opening of spring the regiment would receive orders to depart for France, but those just received re-ceived from the western department are not at all encouraging in this respect. However, they are still hoping that something some-thing will turn up so the regiment wiil be able to tross the water in the near future. Tl'.e first detachment of the Twentieth to go out on special guard duty left yesterday yes-terday morning for Grace, Idaho, to relieve re-lieve a detachment of the Sixty-third infantry, in-fantry, which has been on special duty at this place. The detachment leaving Fort Douglas consisted of twenty-five men under Lieutenant YV C. Page. Another detachment of the Twentieth wiil leave today for Garfield, in Utah, to relieve troops of tho Sixty-third on duty there. This detachment will consist of fifty men and will be under command of Lieutenants E. M. S. Steward and E. L. Neal. Testerday a class of twenty non-commissioned officers of the Twentieth infantry in-fantry began instruction at the University Univer-sity of Utah in joining and framing. The men will be given a special course in the particular carpenter work which is necessary neces-sary in the construction of shelters and dugouts on the battle front. A class of twenty-eight selected men of the regiment has just completed a course of instruction in carpentry at the university. |