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...Pursuant to the recommendation of its Commander, all cadet appointments in the 1st battalion of the Regiment except Captains, sergeant-major, 1st sergeants and supply sergeants are revoked and the following appointments announced in their places, effective on November 12, 1917, for the period of two weeks...
...satisfied with flunking all men who believed a muster and a parade to be synonymous, the military caste decided to allow no such ignorant individuals to hold any position of authority. The former captains and top-sergeants will now condole with each other as they stand at attention in the rear rank. To have blown first sergeant's call once to often or to have put an extra mule in the field kitchen,--such mistakes brand a man as being unworthy of command...
...have spent two and even three summers under military discipline; many who have only been in last summer's corps could easily command a company. The belief that there are only twelve men in college fit to command a large unit or to act as supply and top sergeants is unsound and untenable. The men now training here should be given every possible opportunity to exercise leadership. If some are fit for captaincies and the rank of the higher sergeant positions, there is no valid reason for preventing them...
...Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey of the British Army, author of the famous war book "Over the Top," will speak at Symphony Hall, Boston, tonight at 8.15. He will describe his experiences in french warfare, including bomb-throwing and machine gun and bayonet fighting...
...Sergeant Empey was in the National Guard and Regular Army of the United States for thirteen years, until he joined the British Army in France in 1915. He served at the Front in a machine gun detachment and as a bomb-thrower until he was wounded last February...