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Show liilltSMflM M fiar llllll TOM BOYS IN TRAINING UNIT GO HOKIET ONCE, IS PROMISE Colonel Wright Denies Reports of 111 Treatment and Neglect of Men in His Command at the University. DEMOBILIZATION of the 800 men of the student army training detachment at the University of Utah will bein before 5 o'clock this afternoon, according to Lieutenant C. A. bmmett, com- -manding officer in charge during the illness of Colonel E. S. Wright. If Lieutenant J. H. Griffiths; demobilization officer, who has been at a discharge officers' training school at San Francisco, re-' turns todav. as is expected, the unit will be disbanded, accordinr Ito regular" formal military rules, but in case he does not return, j Lieutenant Emmett will issue a pass allowing the students to return I to their homes until next Monday morning. WELCOME NEWS. Thia will come aa welcome new t many mothers and father of the stata who have been wrought up to a high pitch over the detention of the boy during the epidemic, which has claimed 1 nine vlctima in the unit, and who hava been alarmed lest the boys have been deprived of the proper care. According to lieutenant Kmmett, the demohil xatlon of the hoy a will take at least forty-eight houta. but with the Issuance of th leas formal pas they may, return to their home at once. The ta ia resorted to lrt crises of this kind. Clerks are busy making out discharge paper for the various students stu-dents pending the arrival of Lieutenant (Irlffttha. COLONEL WRIGHT TALKS. I Colonel VI H. Wright, who Is ill with ! pneumonia st the Holy Cross hospital, ! Muled todav that tile loya had had I the best of treatment and had not been t ai biti-irtly hai illM by the military nc , -1 thu-itia and were m-ier tto rttffer-ently rttffer-ently than hoys in any other military i cantonment thiotiKhout the country. The bedding furnished Ihe men more limn lhat furnished ihe regular army and the food has been of the beat, ho declares. The hoye. he say a, have had the beat kind of medical car and the off. errs have been more than solicitous of their welfare. . HAPPY THEN, HE SAYS. Colonel Wright declared that thelaat ' time he aaw Ihe boya waa on Thanks giving morning, Juat before he went to ' the ttospltal. They held appropriate exercises and aang patriotic and other songs with a siontaniety and whole-henrtedness whole-henrtedness that bespoke anything 'but discontent. If any boy has drilled In worn out ah oca, aa has been elated In some of the complaints, it haa been because ha chose, to do so, as all of them were warned not to go out unless properly shod, he asnerts. The uneasiness of parents la Pernor than la natural when an epld of thla sort Is prevalent. Colonel Vwight says, but nevertheless military regulations regula-tions may not be disregarded, even though the war ia practically over. INSPECTOR OUE TODAY, Major Kdward W. Mr-Caekey, district Inspector of the Western department, haa been ordered by the war department depart-ment to come from Han Francisco to Halt Iake to investigate conditions at the students army (raining camp and to place the blame, if there be any, for tho lance number of deaths in the unit. It is exiected that he will arrive tonight or tomorrow. Four new cass were admitted to the hospital at H. Imuala from th unit yesterday. There are 140 patients suffering from the Influenza In the hospitst now. and the total number since the boya Were, recalled to thf camp KovemlKr 1 1 14. |