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Show creditable showing for their tirst practice prac-tice at pontoon bridge building, i The boats were carried to the bayou yesterday and today on wagons, and at a Signal rowed to what would have been upstream and anchored. The planks and beams were carried out, and within a Short .space of time there was a bridge upon which a whole regiment of troops ought cross for the attack. Kvery organization In the regimen! will be given pontoon training, llrsl on the, quiet waters of the bayou and later on a swiftly moving stream, which will put to a test t heir knowledge of this necessary part of military duties. Tomorrow will be a general holiday at camp, only necessary duties being performed, while the cantonment observes ob-serves Memorial day.. There will be no holiday, however, for the naturalization board, which la preparing alien soldiers for their final citizenship papers, which Will be issued Saturday. Approximately liOO men had gone through the preliminary prelimi-nary examination today and It was expected ex-pected 1200 would be ready to take the oath of allegiance. PONTOONS BUILT JIT CiP LEWIS Bayou of American Lake Is River Rhine for Practice Prac-tice Purposes. CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Wash., May 29. A bayou of American lake in an unfrequented part of the cantonment not far from (Jreene park, today became for the .time being a sector of the river Rhine. Across Uie river were the German Ger-man trenches. t was necessary for an American force to cross the river, and therein lies one of the reasons for the existence of Ihe 316th engineers as a part of the illst division. It was the first experience of the engineers in Ikying Iky-ing a pontoon bridge and, though a battery of-machine guns and a regiment of infantry on the further side would nave seriously interfered had they been opposite, the engineers made a very |