Chance for Commission in Medical

Corps

An examination for candidates for commission in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army will be held during the week commencing Monday, July 28th. The Surgeon General of the Army asks that all means for disseminating this information and obtaining candidates be used, and that the assistance of P. M. S. & T. instructors and medical officers on duty with National Guard, Organized Reserves, and all other recognized activities be enlisted.

In case that candidates will be unable to take the regular scheduled July examination, the Surgeon General will arrange for special examination at any time by boards now in existence.

To be eligible to take the examination, the applicant must be a male citizen of the United States, a graduate of an acceptable medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine, must have had at least one year's hospital training subsequent to the completion of a four-year course of instruction in such medical school, or, in lieu thereof, have served one year as a medical officer of the Army between April 6, 1917, and July 1, 1919, and must be between the ages of 22 years and 6 months and 31 years and 6 months at the time of examination. Former officers of the Medical Department, Regular Army, honorably separated from the service and within age limits and otherwise eligible, will be permitted to compete in the examination.

Blank forms for making application to take the examination may be obtained at any military station or from the Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D. C. Approved applicants will be informed as to the exact place and hour of the examination in ample time.

Big Army Sales Scheduled The War Department has ordered the sale at public auction of the Morgan General Ordnance Depot, South Amboy, New Jersey, on April 29; of Camp Knox, Kentucky, on May 6; and the Amatol Ordnance Reserve Depot, Hammonton, New Jersey, on May 12. Only the plants and improvements at these places will be sold, the War Department retaining the land. Wartime costs of the buildings on the grounds were $2,000,000 for the Morgan Depot, $2,250,000 for Camp Knox, and more than $6,350,000 for the Amatol plant, which includes an entire village of dwellings and apartment houses.

Don't Let Reserve Commissions

Lapse

Approximately 35,000 Reserve commissions are due to expire in 1924, according to a letter recently issued by General Delafield, and only about 50 per cent of those that have expired have been renewed.

The process of renewing an expiring commission is not involved or difficult. It is necessary merely to subscribe to the oath of office, which will be sent to the officer by the War Department about two months before date of the expiration of his commission, and to return the completed form to the headquarters of origin without delay.

Army Base at Auction

On April 28 the Port Newark Terminal, at Newark, New Jersey, built at a cost of $11,000,000, will be offered for sale by public auction. The offer of $3,250,000, the largest made at a previous offer for sale under sealed bids, was rejected as unsatisfactory.

This Army base, which contains 136 acres, includes barracks and quarters, wharves and docks, warehouses and dock sheds, hospital, garage, heating plant, fire station, pumping plant, miscellaneous sheds, electric system, water and sewer system, railroad trackage, roads, walks and fencing. Equipment included comprises considerable machinery, hand trucks and trailers. The entire improvement will be sold as a unit, 10 per cent of final bid to be paid at time of sale, an additional 10 per cent within 30 days, and the remaining 80 per cent within five years.

5th C. A. Puts Out Excellent C. M. T. C. Booklet While the 5th Corps Area delayed starting its C. M. T. C. recruiting campaign until April 1, it has put out a line of publicity which should help, together with the excellent reports of the 1923 Camp at Camp Knox, to fill up the quota in a short time. Major John S. Sullivan, Infantry, D. O. L., C. M. T. C. Officer of the 5th Corps Area, has put out the most attractive information booklet seen so far this year. It is cramful of information and includes in its eight pages and cover a number of good cuts and readable features. The simple menu, the description of optional excursion trips to the Mammoth Cave, etc, all add a most human touch to the booklet.

The story "Air Service Balloon and Airship School" on pages 4 and 5 of the Recruiting News of April 15 erroneously states "the base pay of a Flying Cadet is $75 per month, with $37.50 extra while on flying status." A Flying Cadet, however, does not get extra compensation for flying hazard, so does not receive the 50 per cent extra pay for flying risk as authorized for officers and other enlisted men. The $75 per month includes all pay while the cadet is on a flying status.

1st Division Addresses Wanted Pvt. Dan Edwards, the only American in the World War who won both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross, and who lost his right arm and the use of his left leg while serving with the 1st Division, has been selected to unveil the Divisional memorial at Washington on October 4.

All officers and men who served with the 1st Division overseas are urged to send their present addresses to the Secretary of the 1st Division Reunion Committee, Army Building, 39 Whitehall St., New York City.

Oldest West Pointer Dies Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, retired, the oldest graduate of West Point and the last surviving officer of the War with Mexico in 1847-48, died on April 17 in Washington in his 97th year.

General Gibson entered West Point in 1843, just as U. S. Grant was being graduated. He was a striking figure during all of his military service, and won distinction in the Mexican War, various Indian wars, and the Civil War, in the latter of which he was made Brigadier General of Volunteers.

Cleveland Unit in Church Services At the close of the Good Friday services in Grace Church, Cleveland, Ohio, two buglers of the Service Company, 145th Infantry, O. N. G., in uniform, sounded taps in commemoration of the end of the three hours' agony on Calvary. The congregation, to whom this military homage was new, greatly appreciated the courtesy. The mournful penetrating military strains sounded throughout the busiest part of the downtown of Cleveland, with the result that many passersby paused to uncover and to reflect for a few moments.

Outward Bound

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veille this morning and reported late for breakfast-and I didn't get any. That's no joke 500 miles at sea. The sergeant told me if I did it again I'd be peeling potatoes and onions till we get to Panama. We followed the coast line and could see land most all day.

About opposite Santa Barbara we passed quite close to several islands which appeared to be uninhabited. The waters were a most beautiful dark blue here and glistened in the sun something pretty. We Isaw lots of black ducks flying parallel to the ship. Some of them are "robber ducks"—that is, they wait until a sea gull gets a good fish or other morsel and then dash up and take it away from him. But the sea gull generally gets his gang after the duck and they make it hot for him.

Today at inspection the captain asked the sergeant to recommend somebody with a good education to be librarian for the trip up in the officers' cabin. The sergeant asked me if I'd like the job and I said sure. It looked like a chance to read some good books to me. All I have to do is to issue and take in the books every day from 10 to 12. Why the sergeant picked me out of the bunch I don't know, except that I've been asking him questions about everything since the trip started. Maybe he thought it would be a good way to be rid of me. Anyway I'm sitting on top of the world now with a good book every day.

About noon we passed Catalina Island, which is famous for its city of Avalon, to which excursions run every day from Los Angeles. People go out in glass bottom boats and see the fishes playing around in the magnificent submarine gardens on the bottom of the sea. William Wrigley -the champion gum chewer-owns the Island. It is also the training camp of the Chicago White Sox. We docked at San Pedro about three but the sergeant was right-none of us crossed the gang

plank. The captain went ashore, sized up the airplanes we were to take on as cargo, and ordered our fuel oil. Pretty soon a little oil tank ship named "Pico" came alongside and pumped about 60,000 barrels of oil into our ship. Some oil, that! Can you figure out how many years they'd supply our lamps out on the ranch?

All afternoon three or four of us played rummy and wished we could go ashore so we could run up to Los Angeles. It's about 40 miles from here. One of our bunch-Ted Hooper-is from there and he says it's a great town with everybody there in the real estate business-trying to sell lots. Ted says that one day he was walking along Pershing Square when one of these high-pressure salesmen came up to him and asked if he'd be interested in buying a lot. "Say, brother," said Ted, "I ain't a tourist-I live here."

Ted says that all the best looking movie queens in the country live in Los Angeles-within a block or two of him-and he sees 'em every day.

Well, we'll have to take his word for it 'cause we can't go ashore. We're 8 days from Panama-our next stop-so my next letter will be from there. I'll tell you all about our trip at sea. My best love to you and Dad. Your loving son,

RICHARD.

P. S. I'm sending this by a 2nd lieutenant who said he'd mail it in L. A. Hope you get it.

The China Regiment

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It was not at all a comfortable war to fight, either. The Boxers were antiforeign with a religious slant to their fanaticism which meant death to all outsiders who fell into their hands. They were backed by the Chinese Government at the time the Dowager Empress was on the throne-and a doughty old lady she was-and with few exceptions the more prominent mandarins of the coun

try encouraged their efforts to rid China of the hated foreigners. Troops which only fourteen years later were destined to meet each other in the greatest war of history fought side by side, and before the end American, British, French, Austrian, Russian, Japanese and others were all serving under a German commander. There was friction, of course, but not enough of it to prevent the successful issue of the Allies' campaign. The hog-like tactics of the Russians after the Rebellion, in seizing everything in sight, led to the Russian-Japanese War of 1903.

Other consequences were even more important the definite opening-up of China to Western civilization, and the ultimate revolutionizing of that country's form of government, which even yet is not completely stabilized, all were results of the influx of foreigners after the Boxer uprising had been put down and the place made safe for Occidental commerce. China is rapidly becoming imbued with the Western spirit. Its younger generations know nothing of the "pig-tail" and pay scant attention to the rock-ribbed traditions of their elders. They want Western learning, Western commerce and Western amusements. They are a likeable people, too, honest, faithful and loyal to their friends.

And so it is that the Fifteenth, knowing the advantages Fate and the Government have given it, is regarded as a tiptop outfit sitting on top of the world. It is one of the few outfits in the Army with a waiting list.

The regiment maintains its own newspaper, the weekly Sentinel, a testimonial to and an indication of the high morale of the outfit.

So ideal, indeed, are conditions in the "China Regiment" that it has been accorded a wonderful privilege, one that makes service therein a reward of merit

only previous service men with "Excellent" characters on their discharges may be enlisted for the regiment.