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Show IL BIERS IB QUALIFY II TARGET PRACTICE Last Week of 42nd and 43rd Regiments to Be Spent on Range. SOON TO BREAK CAMP j Intensive Training in All Maneuvers Will Be Maintained Main-tained Until Entrainment. Preliminary range firing and target practice will feature the last week of the Forty-third regiment at Fort Douglas. Beginning today the first battalion will take up practice on the main range south of the. permanent barracks. This le to be .'-ford shooting affair and all the of-sfccers of-sfccers of the several companies of the regiment are vitally interested in having their particular commands make a gopd showing. From the results of the preliminary pre-liminary shoot men who qualify will be picked to train for marksmen, sharp shooters and expert riflemen. The Forty-third regiment, now that the final order has come to proceed to Camp Pike, Little flock. Ark., is ready at a moment's notice to entrain. The date of departure, November 3, is not any too soon for this aggressive aggregation of fighters. All the preliminary work of packing has been finished in anticipation of just such an order to get quick action for a sudden move to another training camp. Intensive Training. Like the Forty-third, the Forty-second regiment is to keep up intensive training until the actual hour to entrain for Camp Lodge, Des Moines, Iowa, November la, arrives. This week the regiment will carry out, on a scale never attempted before be-fore at the fort, extensive trench and field maneuvers. ' Three lines of enemy trenches are to be constructed south of the reservation, near the old camp site of the 145th field artillery (First i'tah) and the "dough boj-s" are to etorm them in whirlwind fashion with bayonets, hand grenades and ail the other paraphernalia of modern warfare used by infantry men. Major Mullay of the Forty-second, assisted as-sisted by Captain Henri Bloch, French instructor, in-structor, will direct the field maneuvers. A chaplain, has finally been appointed by the war department to serve with the Forty-third. The Rev. John O. Lindquist has been assigned and is expected to ar- rive from the east within the next few days. To Stage Field Meet. Under the supervision of a commissioned officer from each of the three regiments at the fort, assisted by Physical Director Kay Frey of the Y. M. C. A., a big track and field meet is to be staged at the reservation on Wednesday of this week. All manner of athletic sports are scheduled sched-uled and a football game between elevens Jfom Llie ranks of the Forty-second and t-'orty- third regiments will compete on the grid at the university grounds. A spir- WteU contest is anticipated as the rivalry Pong the two military teams Is said to ue .ery keen. The interarmy championship champion-ship is wound up in the result of this contest. The feeling of rivalry extends. to The enlisted men of each regiment iri'u 1 , larce measure and each eleven will have a battalion of rooters on the field next Wednesday. The main show field day will be staged on the parade grounds just west of the cantonments now occupied by the Forty-third Forty-third regiment. This is a spacious field and here all the exciting games, physical contests and races are to be held. This event is being held on orders of President Wilson and is designed not at ono as a measure of recreation for soldiers and civilians, but as a boost for Liberty loan day. Make Big: Preparations. With no orders to get ready to hike to ome southern or eastern baliwick. i he Twentieth regiment is making grand preparations to carry out intensive training train-ing in all the various military maneuvers and formations. An interesting feature of next week's work will Iw night attacks on fortified position?. The first six companies are scheduled to take up v.. .5 night practice beginning today. A monster supply of improved hand srenades has lately reached the post and they are to be used for the first time in the night attacks. This spectacular bit of training is to continue con-tinue until all the companies of the regiment regi-ment have become proficient. The Twentieth will lose two rommis-Eioned rommis-Eioned officers early in the week. Captain James M. Moon has been ordered to Fort S'lll, Okie., to take up a course in musketry mus-ketry and Lieutenant Carl Engelridger ha? heen detailed to trie same post to undergo training in the automatic gun school. During the evening the Rev. Chester Snyder delivered a patriotic address to the soldiers at the T. M. C. A. building. A special musical programme was rendered. ren-dered. The usual band concert was given iu the morning at the post parade grounds Wv the band of the Twentieth. |