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Show W ff ENTERS PERSHING'S ARMY Men Who Have Wandered Ail Over the Earth With Expedition in Mexico. By EDMOND BEKE-. By International News Service. GENERAL PERSHING S HEADQUARTERS HEAD-QUARTERS IX THE IT ELD, Mexico, July 11, .by motor truck to Columbus, July 13. Meii who have wandered over all the earth are uoder General Pershing's Per-shing's command down here in Mexico. Among the 14,000 cavalrymen, scouts, "dough boys,'' truck drivers, quartermaster quarter-master and signal corps men, who compose com-pose this column, are many who have been around the world several times and have sought adventure in remote sections of the lobe. Nowhere on the I western hemisphere, in all probability, , could a more cosmopolitan group of men ! be found. I A common type is the "old sojer, " I who has seen service in Cuba, the Phil- ippines, Honolulu, Panama, Alaska and I tne China stations. Then there is the former member of the marine corps who has been stationed at some time or other in Hayti, Nicaragua, Porto Rico or some other miniature Latin-American republic. The other day two civilians employed in the quartermaster's office were talking. talk-ing. Said one: "Gee, this job isn't half as interesting interest-ing as the last one I had." ""What were you doing? " ' ' I was purser 's clerk on board an English transport carrying men and munitions mu-nitions to the Dardanelles." Truck drivers, recently back from piloting French and English machines behind the allies ' Hue in northern France, are to be found. Boers who fought under Botha and Viljoen in the Transvaal are now serving in Uncle Sam's signal corps in Mexico. Newspapermen News-papermen who have wandered over Bue-sia Bue-sia and through Turkey since the war began are waiting here for aomething to ' 1 break." Ex-sailors, who made the trip around the world when Roosevelt was president, are in the ranks. Chauffeurs who have roamed up and down South America in search of fortune and excitement are here. Men who have worked on the "gold coast" of Africa are now wearing wear-ing the khaki. Others are here who have traveled through Morocco, Tripoli and Algiers. There are a dozen "dough boys" who have served in the English army in India. Among the officers are many world travelers. Numbers of them have visited vis-ited in Japan and China; others have traveled through Manchuria and Korea, inspecting the battlegrounds of the R-us-so-Japanese war. Then there are still others who have I served as attaches at the American embassies em-bassies in Berlin, Vienna, Potrograd and other European capitals, not to mention those who have represented America at the Olympic games in Greece and Sweden. It's a safe bet that no out of the way corner of the world could be mentioned men-tioned in a group of men of this command com-mand without someone saying. ' ' Oh, ves, I remember. Went through there in 1900 on my way to Afghanistan," or some other such far-away place. |