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Canadian officers have been secured to take charge of practical instruction in trench warfare. The total cost of the camp will be $100 for each man in attendance, but a number of scholarships are available for some men who are unable to pay their expenses. Details in regard to the camp, and application blanks for admittance may be obtained from the Adjutant of the Princeton Summer Camp, Princeton...
...program of the camp will, according to the present arrangements, consist of drill, study talks, actual practice as non-commissioned officers, bayonet, and setting-up exercises, individual instruction in the details of rifle shooting and the use of semaphore codes, topography, marches, trench warfare, lectures, and black board talks on the theory of military tactics...
...second and third battalions are continuing their work in and around Cambridge, half of the time of each company being devoted to military topography and field work in trench construction under the French officers. Bayonet fencing, gallery practice in preparation for the range work, and close and extended order drills consume the balance of the time. The second set of student officers appointed in these battalions last Monday have made rapid strides, and are now for the most part able to fill their positions creditably...
...camp will, according to the present arrangements, consist of drill, study talks, actual practice as non-commissioned officers, at least one hour each day of physical work, bayonet and setting-up exercises, individual instruction in the details of rifle shooting and the use of semaphore codes, topography, marches, trench warfare, lecture and black-board talks on the theory of military tactics...
...Merriman, delivered the regular lecture to the Corps last night on the subject of the conduct of reliefs, a subject of much more importance and of greater difficulty than may be generally supposed. A badly conducted relief will endanger the lives not only of the men taking over the trench, but also of those leaving its this would, moreover, happen at a calamitous time. The method of the advance of the relief party to the 'trenches to be relieved, the necessary inter-communication between the new and old occupants of the position, and the principles of the retirement were...