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Show IiIe mm ' niliEFIK Officers Will Observe Barrage Bar-rage Shots by Means of Airplanes. FEW TO COME HOME Christmas Leave Time Is So Short Men Must Stay in Camp. By STAFF CORRESPONDENT. CAMP Kl-JARN'V. Oil.. Dec Ifi.-Tomorrow will mark the opening of the final brigade range tiring for the Utah artillerymen. artil-lerymen. Saturday saw the closing of tho lirst v half of the Intensive firing programme, f which reflected much credit upon the of- bVj ftcors and men. who, during this period, fired their lirst artillery shots. Lieutenant Colonel William C. Webb, brigade instructor for the artillery school of tire, is much pleased with the results gained so far and will now plunge into the most difficult of artillevv tiring problems, prob-lems, which will round out the Instruction of the Utah men. so that they may become be-come proficient in the must intricate and modern artillery work. During the coming week the well-known well-known barrage fires used by the British, forces in their infantry advances will play a large part. on the proRrnmme. Targets have been arranged on the hills to represent repre-sent American troops, and the firing officers of-ficers must direct their curtain of fire between these and the enemy trenches which have been placed higher In the hills. Targets to represent infantry 'detachments, 'de-tachments, machine-gun shelters and heavy gun emplacements have been installed in-stalled in the enemy territory and i.liR gunner will be called upon to wipe these out In order thnt the American troops may advance. To Observe in Air. During the barrage fire work Utah observation ob-servation officers will be sent aloft in airplanes and will report by wireless the result of the fire. Seven lieutenants have been selected as observers and will soon be assigned to the headquarters company entirely for this purpose. Later they will be called upon to undergo special courses In airplane air-plane and balloon observation at the North Island aviation schooL Tho observers ob-servers are Lieutenant Guy H. Ilolmee, Lieutenant Prank C. Bird, lieutenant Owen Sherwood, Lieutenant Roscoe Glas-mann. Glas-mann. Lieutenant M. L. Young, Lieutenant Lieuten-ant George II. Paine and Lieutenant Ray J. Cunningham. With the completion of next week's firing, the regiments of the brigade will hold individual firing practice. At tills time the artillery officers who have fired the guns lie fore the present encampment encamp-ment and who were not given an oppor-, oppor-, tunlty during the period will also br given their problems to fire. This work will mark the completion of the intensive training period. No announcement has been made as yet as to the work then (T to be taken up. Christmas Mail Swells. During the past few days the malls haie begun to swell wilh the vanguard of the Christinas letters and v'kages. Beginning tomorrow the roatoffieo department de-partment will be greatly enlarged and scores of new clerks will be assigned for postal work under Postmaster Hansen. Eighteen huge stacks of mail now arrive daily and this number la expected to be increased to forty as the holidays draw near. But few of the artillerymen will ma.ke. hollOay tripp. according to the present indications. in-dications. The short holiday leave time makes it impossible for the men to make, the trip to Utah. Due to this, many Ptah people are expected to visit the camp during dur-ing the leave days. Hundreds of the men are expected to inako the trip to Los Angeles An-geles on Christmas day to witness the football game between the Utah team and a squad which has not yet been decided upon. The Christmas game between Utah and the Marine Island marines" team, which was scheduled to decide the western championship, has been postponed until after New Year's, duo to the fact that a contract calling for a game between the marines and Camp Lewis team contains a clause that no games shall be scheduled sched-uled before the New Tear's play. VA ah hopes to meet the marines for the championship cham-pionship following the Camp Lewis-Marine game. |