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Show I MESSAGE ENDS BUTTLE lOTllfJIflG Retenre Officers Express Keen Appreciation of Results Accomplished in Two Weeks at. Douglas j By JOHN U KINO "Finis la guerre, Javes un grand soil1 - (Tn war la ended. I ; have a great thirst), was the mes- sage dropped from Lieutenant George's airplane thia morning at I 10:30- by Observer Captain J. E I Nelson. On th veraeof the pa- wiitten was the sentence; ''Infantry ''Infan-try attack successful; I am returning return-ing to division headquarters. and this marked the close of th great battle that had been fought at Kort Douglas this morning ln ehlcn every branch uf the service v. as brought into action. It also marked the elos of sctual training In the reserve officers' training camp t1 at has been In sear. on at Fort Dsuglaa for the past two weeka It remains now only for in student offi.rs to get clearances for th government govern-ment property chargeable to them, receive their pay and return M their homee. The Telegram's special corra-apondtnt corra-apondtnt on thu field of conflict waa somewhat coufuaed as to just who won thia battle, having Involved In-volved himself wlih Major Gurney'a ambulance at a critical period ir. the fighting, but he waa assured afterward by Major Gu stave Gon-aer. Gon-aer. executive officer of the Thirtv-; Thirtv-; eighth Infantry, that "we won and ; the enemy ha sued for peace." MUCH POWDER USED. The fighting Involved the discharge dis-charge of one hundred shells from the French .7 millimeter guna; flv thousand rounds of rifle ammunition ammuni-tion ; fifteen thousand round from the machine guna; fifty trench mortar mor-tar aheMe; bombs frera me airships, hand grenades, and death-dealing gases. Two plsnes wer used, on by Lieutenant H. H. George, with Captain J. K. Nelson as observer, being the contact plane, and the other, driven by Sergeant Temple-ton, Temple-ton, acted aa guard for the first machine. A great many civilian speatatnra watched the progress of th battle, as did also the entire garrlaon at Fort Douglas that was not Involved In th actual warfare. war-fare. Three reserv officer, who bav been attending th training camp, -were aaked at random as to their respective Impreaalona of the camp and Its work and her are th an-swers: an-swers: Major B. W. Black, medical corps, director of the Halt Lake office of the Veterans' bureau: "I would not bav missed It for a great deal. It has been a wonderful experience for me. This camp was what is known as a camp of general training and this enabled the students to acquaint ac-quaint themaelves with th working of anhy corps and departments other thsn their own. For example. It enabled myaelf, belonging to the medical corps, to f ami Hap s myself my-self with Infantry, artillery, cavalry and th other branches of the serv-Ice serv-Ice and with their tpid opera tlon a Th Inatmctors have ben sealous, conscientious and for scaring and I have heard nothing but prate for th camp and Its ofl Rials from any I source." j WYOMING MAN PLEASED. - j Captain C. H. Helmerth,- Casper, i Wyoming: "Ifs been great. The officers bav hit the bail every ; minut of th time and we have been built up mentally and phyal- cally. Th food has been plentiful1 and good and our accommodations have been mora than w could ask.1 Th officer of th On Hundred Fourth Reserve division who hav worked so hard to make thia school ft success, deserve every praise, Second Lieutenant Herbert Wild, man. Know Hon, Montana; "1 very nearly did not come and It would hav been aa Irreparable loaa to me phyalcally, mentally and 1 think morally. If 1 had not attended thia camp. We were able to not th changes that hav taken plao In military practises sine th cloa of th war and thus keep ourselv up to date. lieutenant Barrel I, our mess officer, certainly spread himself him-self in feeding us. I am sorry th .training period 1 ovr." A meeting of th r erv officer offi-cer wa held last evening and adopted resolutions submitted to them by a committee previously appointed, ap-pointed, constating of Lieutenant Colonel fftephen Tlge. Major Frank C. Bird and Flrat Lieutenant A. E. Later. Tho reeolutlons declare that the student officers believe that they can bo of greater servtca to the country by reason of having attended at-tended the camp; express deep sp-preclation sp-preclation for the Instruction given and courtesies extended by the officers of-ficers of tho post, tho camp and the headquarters of tho One Hundred Hun-dred Fourth division, and especially name as worthy ef thanks. Colonel K. 1 Knudson. chief or staff, and Lieutenant Colonel Copley Enoa, executive 'officer of the One Hundred Hun-dred Fourth division, for their efforts ef-forts Hi building up the division from nothing to Us present state of efficiency; urge all reserve corps officer to attend next year's .camp and urge upon their respective repreeentatlve rep-reeentatlve In congre to support tha full program contemplated by th cxlatlng national defense act. In order that the country may be adequately prepared for aa emergency. emer-gency. . |