LIEUT. B. C. MARSH, A.S.C.JAN INCREASE OF FIFTY INTERESTING STORY OF LIEUT- ENANT WITH ARMY SERVICE Is 'As Artillery, Naval and Army vice Corps Officer--Was In Boxer Rebellion In China. In the lines of the Army Service Corps doing duty under Major Ham fiton, A.D., of S. and T., is a typical | soldier of fortune and probably one of the most efficient officers at the camp. Lieut. B. C. Marsh, who has returned from Ottawa for duty here, Is well known through the camp lines and is a man who has seen life | in many countries and has long | worn not only the British but other | uriform. His record as a soldier is ond of the most interesting and probably surpasses that of any other officer at RBarriefleld, including as it does navy, artillery and Army Service Corps qualifications. In April 1893. Lieut. Marsh joined the Indiaman as a midshipman for Brocklebank ev. edition, serving eight . years with . the Royal Navy. tie was a junior _ officer in the British India SM. and oh June 22nd, 1899, was p oted and 'granted a monetary congider- ation for special service in Chindi, Znmese, river. / He was on transport serfice on H. M. Troop Ship Muttra/ between Bombay and South Africa in 1900 and was on duty with Sir Edward {Chickster, R.N., at Capetown. Leav- ing Australia he returned to Bom- bay and then to Taku a China fort, serving under Commander D. C. Mcintyre and also Commanders El- lerton, RIM, M.T.0.. and Com- mander Eustace. He returned to India and after the close of the ex- pedition was sent with Prof. A. Aggassiz, Boston Myseum of Com- parative Zoology, as navigator to Maldive. He was them with the Bokanee Camel Corps in Kirachee, Berbera and resigned to serve with the Chinese Reform party. After the rebellion in China had quieted down, he. settled in British Columbia until 'the present war broke out. He joined the 31st British Columbia Horse and on September 19th, 1914, was trans- ferred to the 1st Brigade under Gen- eral Morrison. After going through the, first battles of the war Lieut. Marsh was gased at the second battle of Ypres and was discharged from hospital on September 7th, 1916. Returning to Canada he was gaz- etted a lieutenant in the Army Ser- vice Corps and is now on duty at Barriefield, He wears a medal for both the South African and Chinese cam- paigns and has now the honor of wearing an 'overseas button of the C.E.F. A splendid impromptu entertain- ment was given in the big tent of the 156th Battalion on Thursday evening. Capt. Hagar, chaplain, pre sided. Sergt. McApline, Mrs. McAp- line, Miss E. Jamieson and Corpl. Boots assisted in the programme, Lieut.-Col. H. R. Wilson, D.A.A., and Q.M.G., was in Ottawa on Fri- day. | Whig Phone BARRIEFIELD CAMP No. Free Bulletin Service at Press Headquarters, Next Y.M.C.A. STRENGTH OF BATTERIES SEND- ING DRAFTS INCREASED | more Men Can Be Carried on Estab- lishment Used Last Year by Bat- teries at the Camp and in the City -- Able to Carry 200 on En- listment. It has been decided to increase the establishment. of all draft-giving batteries in Canada by fifty men (ap-! proximately forty gunners and ten drivers). This order, which was is- sued on Friday, will not have any great effect in Kingston or Barrie- field because of the fact that none of the batteries are up to ordinary strength. The allowance of fifty, however, is to make it possible for a surplus of that number to be car- ried on the establishment and train- ed, ready to be taken overseas as a draft. As far ag is understood here, the order has no effect in any cde as batteries organized here last year were already working on a similar order and carried as extra men on the establishment all the recruits that came along. This was quite right as drafts quickly brought the strength back to normal. The artillery units at the camp were securing more men constantly from Ottawa which seems to be a particularly favorable place for the securing of new men. The 73rd Bat- tery has already been put on its feet by the addition of men recruit- ed by Lieut. O'Leary. In a short time Major E. C. Barrett; brigadier, will likely organize a more active campaign in other districts, and in this case, the new order may prove of some value. PRESENTATION OF COLORS 154th Battalion Willing to Pay Own Fare to Cornwall The presentation of colors to the 154th Battalion will take place on August18th and an effort is being made to have the battalion go to Cornwall to receive the colors which have been secured through the efforts of the young ladies of 8t. Lawrence Chapter 1.O.D.E. It i: understood that the soldiers them- selves would prefer to have the cere- mony there, and it is said that the men would be willing to have the expense of the railway trip deducted from their pay. If this is the case. it should be an easy matter to ar- range for the presentation of colors in Cornwall, the county town of the district the battalion represents. Capt. R. R. MacGregor, AM.C., has concluded the examination of 600 men of the 155th Battalion. Owing to the fact that a great many of the men of the 154th Battalion are on farm furlough only 700 of this battalion could receive the final medical examination. Lieut. Bissel, 156th Battalion, was in Brockville on Friday, Lieut. Bracken in Seeley"s Bay, and Lieut. Mackey in Montreal. Lieut.-Col. R. J. Gardiner, A.D.M. S., Is in Ottawa. SOME OTTAWA GLIMPSES Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. Camp Borden a Costly Mistake i Ottawa, Aug. 5.--As time goes by the protest against Camp Borden increases. Camp Borden is an area of twenty thousand acres, what is technically known as "pine barrens." It was cut out some sixty ; RRO, and the bush the contractor | to] clear was second growth stuff. When the cost of the buildings, sewerage, water tanks, railways, and electric light lines is ad up, the @ money squandered. Most of the farmers up there couldn't raise much on that sand except murmurs, but that crop was plentiful enough. They were glad enough to let go when somebody offered to buy them out. One thing Camp Borden excells in, is dust, dust aggravated by the ashes of burnt stumps, in gome places two feet deep. Of course bill will amount well up into the man is dust and to dust returns, but millions, which is just that much'he doesn't like Tw the blamed stuf to 1909 Few recruiting teams have to curing men than the above gun team | Ottawa young men for one week, in the inter-| ests of the 73rd Battery. They | were successful in bringing to Kings- | ton 27 young men. | A BIG ATHLETIC MEETING ARTILLERY UNITS STIRRING UP INTEREST IN SPORT which recently canvassed Lieut. Williams, Central Y. M. C. A., Tprouto, Champion is Secretary And Official List is Strong One-- Interesting Events Held This Week, / The artillery units at Bagrriefield Camp are certainly going in strong for athletics of all kinds. A meet- ing held this week showed that the boys were anxiously waiting Yor de- velopments that would enable them to try out their talent. A meeting was held and lowing officers were elected: Major E. C. Barrett, chairman; Lieuts. Miller and Bird and Semgt.-Major Ross, clerks of the course; Lieut. the fol- rise up and choke him before, his time comes. Camp Borden has its dust storms as Sahara has its sand storms, and you can believe me that when it comes to sirocco, simooms and things like that, Sahara has no- thing on Camp Borden Add to dust and sand and ashes a tempera- ture of ninety-six in the shade and you get a fair idea of Camp Borden in the dog days. Add to that again, thick khaki shirts and trousers, close-wound puttees: and heavy shoes, and vou get a fair idea of how the soldier is equipped to stand up to it. Add to that ceremonial parades in the noon-day sun for the visiting War Lord and you cease to wonder. at the complaints. Shave it and groom it as they will, Camp Borden is still a desert of the first magnitude. The opinion grows even among his friends that Camp Borden is Sam's mistake, a costly mistake' at that, and what's more, his second mistake of the same character-- Valcartier Camp being his first--and the best one of the two. Brigadier General Logie complains that he has been sitting on a velcano ever since he went there. No doubt he feels GEN.T.D.R.HEMMING RECRUITING TEAM OF ALL THE DAILY BY OUR ALL THE NEWS CAMP SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE THAT GETS RESULTS. Altogether they talked over tne their credit a better record for se- | question of enlisting with 183 others, | work of a large proportion of whom enlist and who promised to come later on. When the results of the canvass are given in full it is expect- ed by Lieut. Emmett O'Leary, who Cummings and Lieut. Garrett, judg- | es; Lieut, Williams, judge of walk- ing races; Lieuts. Thompson and McLean and QM. S. Keefer finish ing judges: Lieut. Smclair and Q.M.S. Taylor, starters; Lieut. John son, Skey, Quain and McPherson, timers; Lieuts. Taylor, Wickett and Elmer, equipment committee and Lieut. Williams, secretary, The entries for each battery are to be handed to the following: 72nd Battery, Bdr. Fleming; 73rd Bat- tery, Sergt. Taber; 74th Battery, Sergt. O'Connor; 75th Battery, Gun- ner Wilkinsom-and Ammunition Col- umn, Sergt. Waldon. At the meeting held on Thursday night the greatest enthusiasm pre- vailed and it is likely that others will be carried out weekly. The re. sults of the various events were as follows: Shot-put-- Kennedy, 72nd; Dench. 74th; Mellquham, 72nd. AAA tt ri like it in more ways than ohe. haps the,nfost fervid thing about Camp Borden is the language of the soldigrs. The riots are over but desertions are still of daily occur ence. The camp officers e unable to do anything in the face of this militant opinion. and such deserters as come back necessarily meet with no punishment save a dockage of pay during their absence. Thus Sir Sam's vain glory in hurrying thirty thousand soldiers into a half finish- ed camp has the net result of subvert- ing discipline all round. Concessions are made in the way of week-end leaves, rest days, tent floors and so on, which must weaken the author- ity of the camp commandant. "These are some of the measures taken to cover up Sam's mistake, The Government is not ag keen on the soldier vote as it once was, and with good reason. Word comes from the fipnt that Sir Sam is no hero there/and public opinion fairly sur- ges from Camp Borden that he is a gone goose there. The opinion of the rank and file at Camp Borden even the devil may care prose of Sir Sam. The soldiers made no bones by letting him know what Per were | borne much fruit. | civil service employees who practical- | | 1y all agreed that it was their duty to | in| that the, will have has charge of recruiting, this gun team It is only three weeks since active: recruiting for the 73rd was com. menaced in Ottawa, and only 30 more men are needed to bring it up to strength. The following .is the personnel ot! the gun team, reading rrom right to | left: Top row--F. J. Little, J. | V. Radbourne, W. J. Sanders, D. Bat- terton, L. Harding. Second frow--D. Gray, Major Ross, Lieut, R. E. Sergt. C. K. Carpenter. Front row--Bomb. W. E. Chapman. H. Elliott, O'Leary, A. Miles, W. 100 yards' dash---- (five heats with a final) Bates, 72nd; Morris, 73rd and Davies, 73rd Standing broad jump 72nd, eight feet, nine inches; O'Con nor, 74th, eight feet eight and a half inches; Morris, 73rd, eight feet eight inches. The officers' relay rece created a great amount of amusement and in- terest. The 73rd team led until the last lap when Lieut. Charles John- son, 74th, made a remarkable sprint and beat out Willianis, 73rd, who finished just ahead of Lieut. Quain of the 76th and A. C. team The half-mile walk was entered by fifteen competitors. Gunner Mor rison, 73rd, led out with a fast pace but on the second lap Tpr. Mortimer, 73rd, Fleming, 72nd, and Turgeon, Ar C., passed him, and finally Flem- ing reached the tape a shade in front of Mortimer The quarter-mile run was closely Fleming, thought Some of the things they think are not fit to print, others take forms in a very ugly word which has fo do with his choice of queasy friends like ColonellJdhn Wesl Allison Sir Sam is said to ing United States military camps incog., just now. but if he really wants to see himself as others see him, let him disguise himself and circulate among the lines at Camp Borden. He won't find them alluding to him there as a hero, a knight, or a Major-General. Yes, Camp Borden is a sad mistake for Sir Sam---it puts the finishing touch on his downfall. It explodes his prospective value as a khaki voté-getter at the next gen- eral election, and enableg, his col- leagues to edge him out. ' Moreover, Camp Borden is a great mistake as a concentration camp. because it noes not effect the pur- pose for which it was intended. The theory was that it took the soldiers away from big city distractions, her- mitized him and made him get down to real soldiéring. The fact is, that the worst of the big city distractions follow the camp, that the strange ov oman prowls on.the outskirts, and that the bootlegger finds edsy acess contested. Gr. Grey, 73rd, set the pace at first, but was overtaken by Corpl. Clarke, 73rd, and Boyce, 72nd. Clarke won out, with Boyce second and Sergt. Caney, A. C., third. FRPP RIR RP bbb bb Nib bbdd bpd * + PRESENTATION TO 156TH. . % *> + + It has been definitely decided # # that the presentation of colors + %.tp the 156th Battalion will be % %-dt Brockville and the date will + % likely be August 16th. + Ld > PPEEPPEPRPPPed dob bbb dd Shbd E. R. Wilson, 'of the Y. leaves today for Couchiching if the summer school. The band of the 156th Battalion is on leave, but is expected to return Saturday. when a twenty-four mile circumfer- ence has to be guarded. As a means of keeping the soldiers unspotted from the world, Camp Borden is a fajlhure. What purpose will it serve after the war is another question. Cana- da has no intention of maintaining the militia on a war footing. The army will soon slip back to peace figures, fifty or sixty thousand for ten summer days, and trouble to get them at that. 'What becomes of Camp Dorden then? This huge war plant will lie idle. It will not be the policy of. either political party to breed a strutting military spirit which. shoves civilians off the side- walks. We will all get back to our knitting as quickly as may be and camps like Borden and Valcartier will be given over to thistles and wild mustard. Their object will be better and more economically served by rifle ranges in convenient neigh- borhood to the various battalion centres, Meanwhile, Bam's mistake must be covered up. And how are they going to do it? - By sending Camp Borden kickers overseas, ten units 8t a time, half trained or not. To staff, |. + TROUBLES 7IN", RECRUITING | PRESENT SYSTEM NOT WORKING OUT SATISFACTORILY | | | | Either Conscription Or Eflorts By | Officers of units Going Overseas | Should Solicit Recruits -- Opinion Of Officers of Battalions, : The recruiting problem is getting | stronger every day until it f§ rea- lized by those in authority that un- less some radical change takeq place | there will be few more men coming in to don the King's uniform. So far the plan has been to have | meetings held at various centres and | appoint recruiting officers to iver | addresses, this work being followed {up by committees in various parts of | the country. The opinion now being | expressed is that officers of overseas | units be given the opportunity and | support to recruit men for their own | units. -Then they could say. "Come i boys, follow me," rather than the present call of "Go while | remain to send others.". The former is much more effective and where it is prac | tised better resylts are being se- cured. The general scheme is wrong in | the opinion of officers who are very much interested, and while the powers that be are warding off all talk of conscription there remains |only one other solution. | When units are now authorized | the work of training the men should | be given second place and an enlarg | ed staff should go after recruits. In |this way there is a greater pos- [sibility for attracting men to the | service. | -- CLOSE OF SCHOOL | The Signalling School Closed Course | On Friday The School of Signalling closed its 'course on Friday with cheers for Col. T. D. R. Hemming, Camp Com- mandant; Major D. E. Mundell, Commandant of the School, and Lieut. J. C. K. Munsie, adjutant of the School. At noon the class was drawn up in front of the school and a picture was taken. Following this Lieut. Adams, 207th Battalion, pre- sented Sergts. Instructors Reid and Redding with valuable travelling bags as tokens of esteem and ap- preciation of their work, ,by the class. The three other officers of the schdol were: Lieut. V. Lanos, King- ston; Lieut. Hanning, Oakville, and Lieut. Smith, Vancouver. Lieut.-Col. 8. A. Thompson, Gen- eral Staff Officer, will deliver lec- tures on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings of next week to all regimental officers in the large tent of the 154th Battalion. Lieuts. BE. M. Sutcliffe and W. E. Stewart, have reported to Major J. Hamilton for duty with the Army Service Corps. Miss Day and Miss Irwin, the lat- ter a sister of Capt. Irwin, 154th Battalion, are visitthg here from Cornwall. Lieut. Russel A. Williams, 73rd Battery, leaves on Saturday for Picton onJrecruiting duty, TTT A eA mn min Ann put it plainly, what the Gevernment says to the soldiers is "If you can't live at Camp Borden, you can g0 over and die in Flanders." --H. F, GADSBY. CAMP NOTICE ! = TO THE «----