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Show 4 SEE TREKCH ATTACK Third Battalion of Forty-" Forty-" third Infantry Leads in ;? ' Assault Maneuvers. I BIG PARADE FOLLOWS g - Captain Bloch, Trench In-structor, In-structor, Gives Valuable Aid to Soldiers. ' ' vv Colonel E.iooard VT. Young, commanding com-manding the Utah field artillery; Lieu- tenant Colonel Vf. C. Webb and other staff officers of the artillery reginacut, Trere interested observers yesterday morning at the third trench attack t ymaneurer of tho Forty-third infantry. Yesterday's attack "was led by the V t battalion of the regiment and jkFuQ observing officers complimented Colonel William I?. Dashtell, command- iDg the regiment, upon tho good work , of the soldiers. ,V) The tactical problems worked out .by ; the regiment yesterday was similar in nature to tho.se that had been worked I. out by the regiment on the two pre- vious davs, when the attacks were led . by the first and second battalions re-; re-; spectively. Jn the attack yesterday the third ar" "hattalioii was in advance line position J and made the asanlt upon the trenches of the enemy. The second battalion (r' acted as support for the third and the first battalion was held as reserve forces to follow up the gains made by the attacking battalion. Parade Is HtId. ' After the trench attack there was the :". regular regimental parade at 10:30. ; which was observed by Colonel Dashiell and Captain Henri Bloch, French army officer, who is special instructor i.n , trench warfare at the post. Major L. B. Simonds was in command of the t regiment during the parade. t The battalion paraae6, which are be-.i be-.i lng held regularly, are proving valuable agencies for Uie yeoeral improvement r of regimental work. The men are be-coming be-coming more familiar with the evolu-k evolu-k tions incident to regimental parade and each regimental turnout shows marked "r improvement in marching and the de-tails de-tails of formation and evolution. Yesterday afternoon Captain Bloch km gave another interesting and instmc- tive lecture to the officers of the Forty-third on methods of trench war-fare' war-fare' as employed in the French and English trencnes in Europe. Having hi- ppent two years in the trenches along trie Cheman ties Dames, the Somme and thcHelgian fronts, he haa an intimate Anowlerlge of the technical de-nnils de-nnils of trench life and fighting that ' J? improving of greatest value as instructive instruc-tive preparation for the American soldiers- -who expect to take up life in the trenches before long. ' Advantage to Officers, I - The captain explains in raiuute de-tail de-tail the methods of handling men in " the trenches, how they live, sleep, work, ,,-.-eat and fight. - With maps and pictures of a confidential nature the captain is able to give the officers a clear in-u in-u sipht into matters tha.t it would require ; -.long time to learn if they had to into the trenches without previous 1 "instruction from those who have actu-ally actu-ally been thro-igh the experiences and . ' "! learned conditions as they are. Monday the Forty-third soldiers will commence their preliminary target in- struction on the xield gallery ranges m preparation for going upon the target range for preliminary and record firing fir-ing about the loth of next month. |