The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 01, 1918, Page 3, Image 3
DUTIES OF MILITARY POLICE.
They Are Of Use In Both Peace
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'Persons have grown somewhat!
familiar with the duties of the M. P. j
at camp. They know something of |
the importance and the unpleasant-1
ness of his talk. j
They have seen his work and learn- j
ed something of what it means to the I
efficiency of an army. The officers!
of a company are responsible for the I
soldierly bearing of the men while on ;
duty. While off duty, however, it is
up to the M. P's.
x The civilian population often tans j
to realize its debt to this branch of j
the service. The soldiers themselves, i
* particularly the new ones, at times j
regard it as an organization the pur-1
pose of which is to take the joy out of
life.
Working always in close co-operation
with the civil authorities, it is
the M. P's. duty to protect the soldier
against himself and the community
against those few who would
forget that they are soldiers.
So much for his duties at home. At
the front his duties are multiplied by
as much as those of his other comrades
in arms.
Speaking of this, the Christian
Science Monitor, of London, has the
following to say:
"You picture him as a sort of
glorified university proctor, wearing
: a red-lettered blue band round his
sleeve, and parading the streets in
search of officers who wear purple
socks, or have their pockets unbuttoned,
writes 'Buzzer' on the subject
' of the A. P. M. But the A. P. M ?
assistant provost marshal, to give
him his full designation?is a very
much more heavily burdened individual
when you meet him at the
front. It is true he is still responsible,
among many other things, for
the seemly behavior of the troops,
but his duties as a censor' of manners,
morals and etiquette occupy a
far smaller fraction of hifc time.
Ac nf th? military nolice of
his division he unites the functions of
military governor, commissioner of
police, prison governor, detective and
traffic superintendent. ' It is laid
down in the book that:
" 'The duties of the M. P. (military
police), under the orders of the A. M.
^_P., are to see that the - usual police
regulations of the forces are observed
and they are responsible for arranging
the arrest of persons found without
passes within the lines of plundering,
marauding, making unlawful
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requisitions or committing offenses of
any kind. '
" 'They also assist in collecting
stragglers and conducting them to the
nearest units, and in guarding against
spies, etc.'
"Mark that 'etc.' The word comprises
a multitude of unforeseen and
unforeseenable problems which confront
the officer who administers that
anomalous district. 'The Back-of-the
Front.' His powers extend over a foreign
region peopled for the most part
by noted military tribes. - He has
dealings with the natives of the country
as well as with his own countrymen
in khaki. It follows that he
must be a man of commanding personality
and infinite tact. He is the
'strong, silent man' of fiction in real
life. He carries with him a certain
air of aloofness; he feels himself a
man apart from his fellows. For it is
his lot to consort with brother officers
when he might at any time be
called upon to report for some trifling
offense against military discipline. He
is a man it is as well to keep on the
right side of.
"The ideal A. P. M., has the gift of
unobstructive ubiquity. A certain government
official, attached to G. H. Q.,
once met an A. P. M. at lunch. 'It's
a strange thing,' he remarked, 'that
though I have been here three weeks
I have never once been stopped by
your police.' 'No',' replied the A. P.
M. quietly. 'They reported you two
minutes after your arrival, we telephoned
G. H. and found , out all
about you and they received instructions
accordingly.'
"It is a field of operations like the
Balkans that the quality of the A. P.
M. is - most severely*" tested. In a
friendly country he knows how he
stands in regard to the native, in an
enemy country his position is equally
clear, but in a treacherous country,
which is a mixture of both, his legal
status is very delicate and his difficulties
immeasurable.
"On the Macedonian front in former
days some of the natives were
pro-Entente, some were pro-Bulgar,
some were anti-Venizelist and some
were merely brigands. It was the A.
P. M. who had to distinguish friend
from spy, to nose out intrigue and
treachery, and to unearth secret
stores which were being hoarded for
the purpose of smuggling into the
enemy ^pes. It /heeded the wisdom
of a Sov mon, the subtlety of a Ulys:
ses, and the personality of a Napoleon
to carry out the duties of an
A. P. M. with justice and efficiency.
The genius who held that position
in the Struma district in those days
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NEW TRIAL FOR SIMS CASE.
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j Verdict in Favor of the Defendant
Set Aside.
! York, S. C., July 25.?A verdict
| for the defense, returned by the jury
j in the case of Mary Sims against
| York county, for damages in the sum
! of $2,000 for the lynching of her
I husband, was set aside by the pre|
siding judge and a new trial granted
! on the ground that the verdict was
I contrary to the weight of the testi
mony. Sims, who was a negro preacher,
was alleged to have been lynched
on August 23, 1917. Three white
men and two negroes were tried,
charged with the murder of Sims,
but were acquitted.
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So Sudden.
"Miss Birdie, do you know that
you have robbed me of my peace of
mind?that on your account I cannot
sleep?" said young Spooner to Miss
| McGinnis, Spooner being a lodger
|with the McGinnis family.
"This is so sudden; however, you
ihad better speak to my mother, Mr.
I Spooner/' replied the yound lady,
| simpering.
j "Speak to your mother! I thought
lit was you who banged that piano in
j the parlor until 12 o'clock every
I night."?Boston Herald.
| There is not a spoonful of sugar
! to be wasted if the supply in sight
is to last for the next six months.
marvelously combined all those qualities
and was a rattling good fellow
! into the bargain.
I or^nniic nf thp A P. M. du
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i ties is the regulation of traffic, even
| in quiet times the traffic problem is a
j 'poser.' One road must be reserved
j for in-going, another for out-going
| traffic?one road is fit for heavy guns,
i another impracticable for anything
but infantry; another leads no
where; another has been suddenly
! made impassable by a stray shell. The
, conditions are variable enough when
'all is quiet on the front.' In an atj
tack or a retreat only a marvel of
j cool-headed organization can prevent
I chaos. The A. P. M. must spend
long days ^nd endless nights in the
saddle under fire, supervising his
traffic controllers and improvising
new regulations to meet conditions
that alter every hour. .
"Next time you read of a successful
advance or a successful retirement,
think of the part played in it
. by the officer with the dark blue
; band on his sleeve."
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j SKETCH CF GREAT GENERAL. |
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j Sidelights on Pershing's Character
Revealed By Men With Him.
j
i El Paso, Texas.?Americans who
| accompanied General Pershing to
Mexico in the various civilian capacities
never tire of talking of the
little sidelights on the character of
the general commanding the Ameri!
can forces in Fiance, as shown to
: them while he was in the desert of
Western Chihuahua.
j "I saw a better character sketch I
! of General Pershing than any of the
! writers can picture," said one cattle- ;
| man here. "He squatted in front of j
j a camp fire at Sa n Geronimo, frying
! his hard tack in the bacon grease of i
| his mess pan, with the wind blowing
I sand into his face and food and the^j
general grinning good naturedly all
! the time as one of our cowpuncher i
j scouts spun a yarn about "a buffalo'
i hunt he was on in the Little CanaI
dian up in the Panhandle."
These men tell many incidents of
General Pershing's stay on the border
and in Mexico as illustrations of
his regard for his men and for the
service.
On an inspection trip from Mamiquipa
to Colonia. Dublan he saw a
mule driver beating his team because
they would not pull an overloaded
wagon out of a rut. Jumping from
his automobile, General Pershing
lectured the mule driver, forced him
to lighten the load, deftly swung the j
team around and drove the wagon j
onto the high road.
Again lie reprimanded a coionej
who forced his men to march all day
with a 60 pound field pack when
empty motor trucks were passing %all
i day en route to the same destination.
| "An American soldier will fight
! harder, live on less food and accept
more hardships than any other soldier
in the world," .General Per-1
shing said, in commenting upon the
j incident. "But he can see no reason
i why his pack should not be hauled in
empty trucks if trucks are passing.
Neither do I."
A camp sutler at Colonia Dublan
smuggled' in an automobile load of
bad whiskey. After disposing of his
j stock, the man appeared at General
; Pershing's headquarters to ask foi
a pass back to the border. He got the
pass as a free ride as a prisoner and
was forced to dig latrines and repair
roads en route.
The announcement that General
Pershing had adopted two French
orphans recalled a flood of tender
memories to friends of General Per I
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TO ENLARGE CAMP JACKSON.
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Will Be Doubled in Size, Says Governor
Manning.
Columbia, July 26.?Governor
Richard I. Manning said tonight that
he has authentic advices from authoritative
sources that Camp Jackson
will be practically doubled under
plans for enlargement of the cantonment
which is now the home of a
big field artillery replacement depot.
It is understood that a tract of land
of not less than 12,500 acres has b >en
secured for an artillery range and
many new buildings will be begun:
shortly. This, it is said, will be one
of the largest artillery ranges in the
United States. Construction work
has been going on within the present
confines of the camp for several
months.
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shing on the border, for it was while
he was in command here that his
wife and two children were burned
to death at the Presidio in San Francisco.
General Pershing's hair, a
chesnut brown, slowly turned to gray
after his loss and he could be seen
frequently riding on the mesa beyond
Fort Bliss alone with his great grief.
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French Army Still Powerful.
In view of the vague guesses which
f have been made from time to time
I regarding the size of the French
| army, says the New York Medical
Journal, it is interesting to have an
authoritative statement from an offi'
cial representative of the French
| medical department, Col. Charles U".
j Dercle, who is liason officer in the
office of the surgeon general of the
i United States army, that about 1,000,000
of the French army have
; been permanently disabled and a little
more than 1,000,000 killed in
i battle.
j On January 1, 1917, there were,
| not including natives of the French
colonies ana worKmen m war iactories,
4,725,000 men and officers in the
French army, of whom 3,000,000
are at the front.
The western front measures 755
kilometres in length; of this the Belgians
hold twenty-five kilometres,
the English 165, and the French 565, /
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