Word: governors
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PRINCETON, N. J., June 11, 1917.--The New Jersey Summer Military Camp will open here June 25 to August 18 under the auspices of President Hibben of Princeton University and Governor Edge of New Jersey. It is announced by the university that the War Department will detail a regular army officer as commandant. The camp is designed to give practical intensive training in preparation for entrance into military work for the Government, either in one of the officers' training camps or for service under the draft...
...subscription of $100,000 to the Liberty Loan from Yale University was announced by President Hadley at a mass meeting held at New Haven to open the campaign there. Professor William Howard Taft presided, and speeches were delivered by President Hadley, William P. Gould Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and Secretary Wilson of the present Cabinet. The speakers did not devote all their time to explaining the nature of the loan and its terms, but laid emphasis on the patriotic spirit which must be displayed...
...Governor of the Commonwealth, officers of the Army and Navy, National Guard and Reserve Officers when in uniform, and foreign officers, will be accorded the same honors and courtesies...
...Board of Overseers of the University, accompanied by Lord Cunliffe, the governor of the Bank of England, and one of the members of the English mission to this country, inspected the R. O. T. C. on Soldiers Field yesterday and complimented the Corps highly on its appearance and general bearing. The close order drills of the last two weeks have brought the first two battalions to a high point of efficiency in this department, and their work in parade is excellent. Having acquired this proficiency, these companies will devote the greater part of their time from now on to open...
...Turkish soldiers. Many escaped and the Turks on finding it somewhat difficult to persuade those friends with whom they had taken refuge to give them up to be shot as deserters, a general massacre was ordered. The "Butcher Regiment," made up of former criminals, was ordered by the governor-general to begin the slaughter of the innocent Armenian women and children. The Armenians were murdered by the thousand, 55,000 were killed in one day. The rivers were blocked by the bodies and were turned from their regular courses...