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Show HP OBSERVES IETW0M First Celebration of Kinc Is Feature of Trainingf Quarters. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, "Wash., Aug. 24. Young westerners, soldiers in the making, showed battle-scarred veterans of many wars and many campaigns hero today, in the first annual celebration of Veterans' day, the most up-to-date methods meth-ods of military training In maneuvers they staged for the benefit of the veterans. vet-erans. Nine hundred Canadian veterans of the present war, all invalided home from overseas because of wounds or sickness, and headed by Major General Kdward Leckie and his staff, were among the visitors. The Canadians were cheered many times as they passed about camp. Place of honor in the celebration was given to the aged veterans of the Civil war. Several hundred of them journeyed jour-neyed from Portland, where the annual encampment of the G. A. R. had just been . concluded. America's wars also were represented by men who served in the Indian campaigns, the Spanish -American war and the recent trouble on the Mexican border. Besides the veterans, several thousand civilians from cities near by visited the camp. Veterans' day, it is hoped by the veterans vet-erans who planned and staged it here, will become a national holiday, that the people on one day each year may pay tribute to the living soldier, as done on Memorial day for the dead. For the first time since July 19. five weeks, the weekly health report of Camp Lewis, issued today by Major I. L. Mc-Giasson, Mc-Giasson, camp sanitary inspector, shows a death from disease. The death was , caused by broncho-pneumonia, following j sero-t'ibrinous pleurisy. There were fifty-two cases of communicable com-municable diseases listed in the report. Influenza led the list, with thirty cases among the 29,117 men in camp. The health report also showed fewer men stationed here than last week. This was due to transfer of many men to other training camps and organizations. 'Two cases of malaria were reported. Measles showed a decrease, four cases b-ing reported against ten last week. There were eight of mumps, four of pneumonia, and two of scarlet fever. |