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Show RELIEF DETAIL IS OBDfflEDJH DUTY: Men From Fort Douglas to Do Guard Work at Garfield Gar-field and Grace. Orders were received at Fort Douglas yesterday from headquarters of the western west-ern department to detail seventy-five men from the Twentieth infantry to relieve men of the Sixty-third Infantry who are on special duty at Garfield, Utah, and Grace, Idaho. Fifty men of the Twentieth will be sent to Garfield Friday to relieve the Sixty-third men who are on duty at that place and twenty-five more will so on the same day to Grace, Idaho, to relieve that number of men who have been on dutv there for some time past. The troops will be used for special iruard dutv, a military guard having been maintained at both these places since the entrance of the United States into the world war. Captain A. B. Conrad, medical corps, U. S. A., arrived at Fort Douglas yester-dav yester-dav and will commence the work of instructing in-structing the soldiers at the post in the use- of gas masks to ward off attacks of deadly gas. For purposes of the training, a room in the post hospital will be fitted up and tho poisonous gases will be manufactured manufac-tured there. The soldiers will then be given instructions as to how to adjust their masks and go into the' room of gas without beinir affected by the poison. Dr. Conrad conies to Fort Douglas from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he has been under soecia training in gas work, and he will be on duty with the Twentieth for some time to come, it is stated. Gas training is one of the most important im-portant courses that the soldiers have to take and It is, at the same time, the most dangerous. |