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Show CAMP LEWIS TROOPS LEI illffi Intensive Training of 361st Infantry Regiment Is Inaugurated. CAMP LEWIS, Taeoma, Wash.. June 10. Beginning their first movement under un-der the intensive training program inaugurated inau-gurated today for the Njnety-first division, divis-ion, the :Jtilst infantry recjment left camp this afternoon for somewhere on the military mili-tary reservation, where they will undertake under-take a three days' field maneuver. The in far i try men were accompanied by their waon trains and a!l the equipment necessary had it been an actual engagement engage-ment with the enemy instead f problems in modern warfare to be worked out without with-out casualties. A milii-ary problem by moonlight ami other problems tomorrow ami tomorrow night will give to the men a taste of living and working on the field under war conditions. Fourteen Sioux Indians from South Dakota Da-kota today were d:sa ppointed in their hopes of being exempted from military service and going back to their wives and families on the farm. The men da imed exemption on the grounds of dependency and secondly tha t they are not U. S. citizens. They were overruled in, both instances. These men were all living on government, govern-ment, land allotments of varying s'ze and in virtually every case their ineume from the. lands and secondly as soldiers, would give their families more than ?"i0 a month and they admitted this was sufficient to care for them. Because the men had forsaken the t rib:-il customs of the red man for the civilization of the white man, it was ruled they had become American citizens. They had ' been married since passage of the draft law. About fifty men a day are being received re-ceived into the national army as replacement replace-ment troops, taking the place of men discharged because of physical disability or exemption. The average is higher than during the spring months when there were fewer rejections among the draft men. A promotion of importance was announced an-nounced at division headquarters this morning in the advancement to "major of Captain Maurice D. Weity, aide to Major General H. A. Greene as well as acting chief of administration and co-ordination of the general staff. Major Welly received his appointment to West Point from Pennsylvania in 1906 and graduated in 1910. With General Greene he came to Camp Lewis in August, 1917. |