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Show Bill! Olii IT .BMP IEt Formation Is Beg-Un Thirty-second Infantry Its Nucleus. BLASLAND IN CHAR Major Corbett S. HoffB Is Second in Comity Others Appointed, Special to The Tribune. CAMP KEARNY, CaL, Aug. 3- . ization of a new division has bt'rC with the Thirty-second infantry lars recenUy landed from Schofo' ' racks, Hawaii, as a nucleus, numbered somewhere between ,,' and twenty, and, although it has officially announced, it is repo-'"--the division at this post proba'-x designated as the Seventeenth Temporarily, Lieutenant-Colonpi -D. Biasland, commander of tkV'-: second infantry, has been made1 commander and linr n.. ; man of the Thirty-second is command. Major William C Ry Major H. B. Keene are battalion coders co-ders in the regular army unit. The camp staff up to the precis prec-is larg-ely composed of officers U'f formerly attached to the Fortieth here. . L Major L. W. Redington i3 Parr tant. Major Will Kelly, former!-tahon former!-tahon commander in the loCnh H is assistant adjutant and acting spec tor. Major F. Tinglev, r0 stationed at Camp Lewis, is ca-, termaster. Captain rwin merly in the division personnel oil camp personnel adjutant. Personnel of Staff. Lieutenant-Colonel M. P. Rave merly division sanitary inspector as jor. is now camp sanitary' inspect, jor R. P. Williams, who was division surgeon, is camp surseor tain E. Smith, formerly in coVrr C gompany, 115th field signal ha-has ha-has been appointed camp inielli ficer. Captain R. J. Klock is the can: nance officer. First Lieutenant L. King of the Sixty-second, has r. orders appointing him to act e casual 'officer. Lieutenant Arrv lias been made acting camp gcll geoii, and orders received toijay t Lieutenant Zddel C. Jones fro'ra Fremont to act as camp vete here. A story which demonstrates the itable spirit which seems to pes-of pes-of the Americans in- the thick fi.Erht was told here by Lieutenir.: McCree, who has just returned fro with the American forces to ar. instructor in the infantry school new division being organized. American Spirit Shown. "I was up in front with the 'K. Lieutenant McCree said, "attache: Scottish regiment for training, been there about two weeks whe ceived orders to take a night pa: into no man's land to examine ti; second-line wire, and I don't ing you I was right scared, too. down the traverse and picked up geant and seven men and crawling out over the parapet ar. gling alojig towards the Boehe 1 "We made the first-line wire i trouble and there I left my ser-and ser-and took the sergeant with me : duct the examination of about of second-iine wire, which might : ling W4th Boche bonders for ail ; We went down into the Boche firs: and on up and up over the :c: and, believe me. I was jumpy. ; actly scared, but my nerves r and I was all keyed up. "We finished our inspection ar: ed to squirm our way "back with formation for which we had beer. "All the time we were doing th: was an artillery barrage screan our heads and flares lit the eky s vals. "A small caliber high exp!o?iT makes a pillar of dense Macs when it explodes and Jt hangs in just about the size and height oi "Boche" Is Discovered. "On account of the noise I had; ticed any bursting close to us. but ly I looked up and about 100 yard stood a Boche. Beiieve me. you 013 kinds of tilings at night in no ir.ii when your nerves are jumpy. "I grabbed my sergeant's Sief shook it and whispered to him, 'Ti Boehe." we got out our grenades a: into the ground the best we co: waited. 1 looked again and the: three of the blamed things rLht t-; I had nine men against three of so 1 decided to wait and get them. "Just then one of my men fr; flanking party, a boy of 1? y-T had wriggled out close to me. ro'- within whispering distance and. his mouth close to my ear saii, me, lieutenant, you can't get a like this out of the movies, can yo "The iv wo were facing what wet was some Boche scouts levsir.? blood and this kid had the nerve thinking about thrills and r.-.ov. sure knocked me flat. ; "By this time 1 took another a our Roche and the smoke ha a away and I rearmed my nv.s".f- after the nerve of that kid I could through anything with s t.heie chaps for company." |