Show TROOPS DEFEAT ENEMY FORCE Field Artillery Receives War Training in Sham Battle Special to The CAMP W. W G. G WILLIA WILLIAMS IS June 9 9 Provo and the fruitful Utah valley were saved from the peril of or being laid waste by an invading army Thursday A force of all arms including in eluding artillery artiller and air forces prepared pre pared to lay a R poison polson fog in the peaceful peace ful farming communities had penetrated penetrated penetrated pene pene- from the Pacific coast as far faras faras faras as Tooele where its headquarters was set up From Tooele advance ce detachments had been pushed around the and over the Bingham hills Patrols had penetrated to the vicinity of ot Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan Narrows and reports were received received re re- re that stronger forces were close behind to take up strategic positions to cover the influx of ot the entire Invading invading in In- army into the open country around Lehi Arrived there the enemy enemy ene ene- my artillery artiller would command the highways and railroads and be able to prevent reinforcements reaching the theater of or operations from Fort Douglas or eastern points It was at this critical hour that Colonel Hamilton Gardner commanding command command- ing ine the field artillery of the Utah national guard received orders t to proceed to the vicinity of Lehi and check the invasion I HOWITZERS LEAVE Messengers scurried through the camp of the regiment and soon activity activity ity was everywhere to be seen Artillerymen Artillerymen Artillerymen Ar Ar- were hastened from their battery streets to the park and the three battalions of howitzers were soon in march Lieutenant Colonel A. A E E. E Wilfong at their head Difficult the task and with no time to be lost the men of the nevertheless were ready to do dp or die Meanwhile Colonel Gardner and his headquarters personnel were already already already al al- al- al ready pressing toward No Mans Man's Land Landon on reconnaissance As reports came in of the locations of the enem enemy areas to be covered with shellfire were quickly qui determined upon and the plan of action developed The first battalion bat bat- tallon was chosen to take under fire ire one of the routes being followed by bythe bythe bythe the oncoming enemy horde the see sec second ond and battalion for another sector and the third to the advancing attackers coming from another direction As Colonel Wilfong led lcd the men and the guns into the artillery area they were met with orders The battalion battalion bat bat- commanders at once set to work york to reconnoiter their own positions positions positions select the locations for their guns routes for approach and put their outfits into action Telephone lines radio stations flash lamp posts and flag signalers were quickly installed A network of communications systems soon connected connected connected con con- regimental headquarters with all the battalions and the battalion headquarters were connected with their commanders Staff officers and technicians of the headquarters batteries batteries bat bat- teries scurried about on their diverse duties and soon all was ready to give the fue enemy a spirited reception It was only this timely action by Colonel Gardners Gardner's regiment that saved the fair lands of Utah county and the industrious population from the invader When fire ire was opened the air became became be be- came alive with screaming projectiles that found their targets in the ranks of the enemy His entry into the valley was checked The big guns of the Utah artillerymen commanded every approach and the alien horde was forced to withdraw Reinforcements Reinforcements Reinforcements Reinforce Reinforce- ments are on their way and the battle plan calls for driving them westward out onto the Great American desert where they will find it difficult to subsist subsist subsist sub sub- on the country At the thc moment th though gh the fortunes of war arc are prone to 0 shift it appears that the home boys have the aliens from the west on the run Of course all this impending disaster ter was a mere figment of the imagination imagination nation of the re regular ular army instructors on duty with the field artillery encamped here for summer training WORK INTERESTING All Colonel Gardners Gardner's officers and men however admitted that their imagination was lively enough to have given them more interesting work Thursday than heretofore they had enjoyed at Camp Williams It was wasa a busy day and the performance of the batteries elicited much favorable comment from the regular army men dirting directing it The whole regiment was in tears Wednesday afternoon not afternoon not make be lieve tears either cither They were real wet tears and they lasted just about the whole afternoon They were tears with which no sadness was mixed though they came as a surprise surprise sur sur- prise to the artillerymen First Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant G G. D. D Etts Thirty-eighth Thirty United Unit cd ed States infantry was responsible for the lachrymose exhibition tion He Hc spent the day instructing the organs organization ration in chemical warfare While Whit the men were wearing gas masks h he marched them into a concentration of tear gas and directed that they remove remove re move their masks When they did so the they broke out crying and kept it up for tor the best part of the da day dad B By Bythe Bythe the time evening mess rolled around however their weeping had ceased and the regiment nt was as cheerful as ever Mayor Neil Dalley of Spanish Fork home of ot C battery and Mayor W W. L. L Warner of Rich Richfield home station o oE of E battery were camp visitors Wednesday Friday has been set for final contests contests con con- tests in boxing wrestling and baseball baseball base base- ball as well as the final shoot with service pistols |