Show WAR AR LESSONS TO BE APPLIED HERE I Latest Information From the Trenches Will Be Used in Training Draft Army TO FOLLOW CANADIAN SYSTEM New Soldiers In Dominion Are In Instructed In strutted to the Accompaniment of Actual Shell Fire Wont Fire Wont Won't Abandon Abandon Aban Aban- don Springfield Rifles Washington D. D C. C C. Soldiering wm will take on an un aspect entirely new to American military science when trainIng training train train- I ing of the forces to be assembled under under un un- un der the draft bill begins at the 10 16 training cantonments Careful arrangements arrangements arrangements ar ar- made by war department officials provide for the application Imme immediately lately of ot every lesson learned from European battlefields and much of the work to be done will be new even to men recently In army Instruction instruction Instruction tion camps The army war college has prepared prepare new training manuals based on the latest Information from the trenches of ot the fighting fronts gathered from many sources Supplemental regulations regulations regula regula- will cover eo even more detailed Information brought by the British and French officers here as members of the war missions The American training s system stem probably probably ably will follow to some extent that u used ed In Canada where the Instructors have ma made e every effort to reproduce as closely as ns possible conditions atthe atthe at atthe the front Sections of trenches have been built at the Ule Cann Canadian ian camps exactly ex duplicating Important parts of the lines In France held by Cann Canadian lan troops Training In exten extending those works and running saps or erecting entanglements has gone on to the Ule accompaniment ac ac- of actual shell fire so asto as ns asto to har harden en the nerves of the troops aswell aswell as aswell well as ns their muscles Days of Toil Ahead For each element of ot the army there are days das of endless foil toil ahead The signal men men engineers aviators balloon balloon bal bal- l loon on men the men who work the great guns far behind the fighting lines the personnel of the tran transport port trains and ambulance corps every corps every cog In the Intricate machinery of modern war war- warfare war warfare fare must be taught its place and trained to or co-or ordinate co-ordinate to form a great fighting machine Newton D. D Baker secretary of war said that many problems involved in raising organizing and training the new army could not be solved until actual cases were presented He said It now seemed unlikely that the entire or more men who will wilt be liable Hable for duty uty In the selective forces forces' could be enrolled physically examIned examined examined exam exam- ined and otherwise passed upon for exemptions before the process of ot callIng calling call call- Ing to the colors began l Mr r. r Baker Is Inclined to favor the Jury wheel system of choosing the men mento mento mento to be ca called first Wh When n any township township town town- ship Is called upon for Its quota to fill the first Increment the names of all of Its citizens previously registered for military duty would be placed In the jury wheel an and the proper prop prop- er number drawn rawn Examination of that number then would be carried out and ana enough a additional names dra drawn wn to fill up the quota with provision provision provision pro pro- vision made for exemptions Within a month mont after enactment of the bill the secretary expects to set the registration date for the selective forces A proclamation will be issued notifying all men affected to appear at the registration places The election election election elec elec- tion machinery of each community will willbe willbe willbe be used to facilitate e registration and the police poUce forces will be employed to bring In those who fall fail to appear vol vol- 01 Exemption boards will be localized to the greatest possible extent as Mr Baker desires to get the b benefit ne t of neighborhood sentiment and neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood knowledge In carrying out the work The Importance of a man In his civilian occupation Is well known among his Ills neighbors Wont Won't Abandon Springfield Rifle The department Issued Issue a statement to correct the Impression that the army array Springfield rifle Is to be abate aban abandoned for the British Enfield Tentative Tentative Tentative Ten Ten- contracts have bave been let however however how how- ever for enough mo modified Ule Enfiel s to arm the second million men The British type will be he re-chambered re to use American ammunition and with the change they will be more powerful powerful powerful power power- ful guns than those used b by the Brit Brit- ish The department announced also that It had or ordered erea two types of ot heavy field howitzers of foreign design The largest American gun of the kind now In use use Is the Inch G-Inch weapon and both bothof bothof of ot the new guns are of larger size The he number ordered was not disclosed |