The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1918 Page: 6 of 8
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Page 6
THE RECONNAISSANCE
Saturday, May 4, 1918.
PANTHER DIVISION WHIPPED
INTO SHAPE, ETC.
(Continued from Page 1.)
tails have not been announced, how-
ever, but it can be seen from the bare
fact that the school is to be estab-
lished that practice at the rifle range
has brought the infantrymen to such
proficiency in the use of rifles that
they now are to be taught the finer
points in their part of the war game.
In the artillery regiments wig-wag
and semaphore is being pursued very
rigidly. Very little foot drill occupies a
period of the day’s curriculum. With
the absence of sufficient ordnance
equipment to make training on the
guns possible, the 133d regiment is
sticking to the study of Howitzers
from books. To relieve the monotony,
foot drills and calisthenics intervene ^
during the day. The use of rifles,
however ,is the most important part
of this regiment’s training.
In the 131st and 132d' equitation and
the use of 3-inch guns is being studi-
ously pursued. Both regiments are
now working on the finer points of
artillerying. All that is needed now,
perhaps, to put the men in full readi-
ness for oversea training is more
practice at the range. The fact that
Camp Bowie has no range for the
artillery has worked a handicap on
all artillery regiments to a certain
extent.
The ammunition and supply trains
are devoting most of their time to a
study of the use of motor trucks. All
men in these organizations are effi-
cient in the detail work designated to
their units.
Athletic programs are being out-
lined by each regiment in the camp.
Baseball now occupies the center of
the stage. Many former professional
baseball players are holding positions
on the several teams that have been
organized. The camp looks forward'
to a successful baseball season and
many games will be played at Panther
park during the absence of the Fort
Worth Texas League aggregation this
A HAT SUGGESTION.
In accordance with the desire of
Brigadier General Blakely that the
soldiers of Camp Bowie eliminate the
peak at the top of their hats, Me-
chanic Charles P. Whitty, battery D,
133d field artillery, contributes the
following suggestion to The Recon-
naissance:
“To improve the appearance of the
army hat, try pasting a two-inch
square piece of card-board in the top
of the crown inside. This will stiffen
the flat surface and do away with the
unsightly peak.”
WIT AND HUMOR.
Mean Trick.
Cornelius Vanderbilt told a camou-
flage story at the Newport Casino.
“At the Grand Central Station,” he
said, “one young man was seeing an-
other off, when three very pretty girls
got 'in the Pullman.
“The departing young man was
smitten by the three girls’ charms,
and so he muttered to his friend:
“ ‘Look here, to oblige me, you
know, won’t you put your head in at
the door just as the train pulls out,
and shout in a loud voice, ‘Then I’ll
close the Fifth avenue house, sir, and
store the silver on the yacht?’
“The other chap agreed to do this,
and the one smitten with the girls sat
and waited for the thing to come to
pass, his eyes fixed on their pretty
faces.
“Finally the whistle blew- The
obliging chap outside hopped up on
the back platform, stuck his head in
at the door, and yelled:
“ ‘Hey, you tell your boss if that
suit of mine ain’t home Saturday
night I won’t have it at all!”’
Seldom Seen.
Sobyeski Kournos, the Polish pian-
ist, narrated at a dinner in Denver
Poland’s unhappy story.
“In this new Austro-German wran-
gle about the partition of Poland,”
said a mine owner, “which side, pro-
fessor, will Poland take?”
Professor Kournos laughed bitterly.
“Did you ever see two dogs fight-
ing over a bone?” he asked.
“Yes,” said the mine owner.
“Well,” said Professor Kournos,
“did you ever see the bone do any
fighting.”—Dallas News.
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EXAMPLES OF GERMAN KULTUR
Here are some more reports of tes-
timony from the Bryce report of the
atrocities committed by the Germans
in Belgium. The numbers and letters
refer to files in the British Home of-
fice, where the names and addresses
of the witnesses are on file. These
names can not be given out now, be-
cause to do so would very probably
mean the death of those testifying in
case they were ever in the grasp of
the Germans again:
Belgian soldier (D-36), Holfstade:
"d was in the fight at Malines, and
after we had driven the Germans out
of Hofstade on August 25 I went with
an artilleryman of our army, whose
name I did not know, to find his par-,
ents, who lived in Hofstade. All the
houses were burning except the one
in which this man’s parents lived.
The door of the house was locked, and
he tried to open it, but could not, and
he forced it. There would be quite
fifty of us who were standing round,
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because we were surprised that the
house should not have been burned
down like the rest. On forcing the
door we saw lying on the floor of the
room into which it opened the dead
bodies of a man and woman, a boy
and girl, whom the artilleryman told
us were his father and mother and
brother and sister. Each of them
had both feet cut off just above the
ankle, and both hands just above the
wrist. The poor boy appeared to be
driven mad by the sight, because he
rushed straight off, took one of the
horses from his gun, and rode in the
direction of the German lines. None
of us ever saw him again.”
Sergeant-Major in Belgian army
(D-42), Hofstade: “About August
25, during the battle of Hofstade, I
saw a boy of about 7 nailed against
a door with a German bayonet
through the chest. All my company
saw this. At the same time in the
burning houses we found people burn-
ing. I can not say if they were kill-
ed before burning. They were dead
when we arrived. About September
10 I was doing patrol duty in the vil-
lage of Wespelaer. We were four
together. We entered a house in the
street in order to fire on some Ger-
mans in a house on the' other side of
the street about 100 yards off. One
of them thrust a child of about 10
months, naked, stuck on the point of
his bayonet, through the window of
the first story.”
Belgian soldier (D-47), Hofstade:
“Between the 20th and 25th of Au-
gust I saw in a house at Hofstade
three children with their hands cut
off. (This was about 7 o’clock in the
morning.) In the same house I saw a
woman and a man, whom I supposed
to be the parents of the children,
hanging upon a beam in the old house
in which they lived. At the time I
was with the1 soldiers of the Third
regiment. The German soldiers had
arrived in the village between 5 and
5:30 in the morning and were driven
out about 7 a. m.”
Belgian soldier (D-49), Hofstade:
“I was at Hofstade on August 25. Af-
ter the Germans had retreated I and
my companions were ordered to
search the houses for Germans. In
one house I went into I heard cries
coming from an outhouse (cabinet).
I went to see what it was. I found
a woman of about 30 and two children
who were down the cabinet. The
children were in the woman’s arms;
one was dead, apparently asphyxi-
ated. Boards had been laid over the
hole and bricks placed on the top—a
large number of stones and bricks.
She could not have got out because
of the weight on the top. She was
buried nearly up to her shoulders.
She said the Germans had put her
there. The woman’s husband was a
soldier; she and the children were
alone in the house.”
IBS HH IBS
SIMPLE.
“What makes you so late, John?’
queried his wife.
“Well, the truth is,” explained hei
husband, “that the streets are mos1
awfully slippery. Every yard I gain
ed I slipped and skidded back two.”
“Then how did you get home a1
all?”
“Why, that was simple. I came
home in reverse.”
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1918, newspaper, May 4, 1918; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846971/m1/6/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.