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The typhoid prophylactic to be used is manufactured exclusively at the Army Medical School, Washington, D. C., and detailed directions for its use are given in circulars from the Surgeon General's Office.

Records will be kept at the hospital of all officers, soldiers, and civilians in the military service who receive the antityphoid prophylactic, giving the dates of immunization.

[2240717, A. G. O.]

II__Upon request by officers detailed as inspector-instructors of the Organized Militia, the nearest post ordnance officer will issue on memorandum receipt the following ordnance supplies:

1 automatic pistol, caliber .45, model of 1911.

2 extra magazines.

100 pistol ball cartridges, caliber .45, model of 1911. 1 pistol holster.

1 pistol belt, model of 1912.

1 dispatch case.

[2244523, A. G. O.]

III.Paragraph 11, General Orders, No. 11, War Department, 1913, is amended to read as follows:

11. When a soldier is furloughed to the Army Reserve his accounts shall be closed and he shall be paid in full to the date such furlough becomes effective. Soldiers furloughed after three or four years shall, in addition, receive transportation in kind and subsistence, as provided for by the Army appropriation act approved August 24, 1912, in the case of discharged soldiers.

[2227309, A. G. O.]

IV. Paragraphs 8 and 9, General Orders, No. 57, War Department, 1914, relating to the issue of fuel at military posts, are amended so as to provide that in determining the amount of fuel to be issued in any case, the actual average monthly temperature will be used instead of the temperatures tabulated on pages 7, 8, and 9 of that order.

[2164376 D-A. G. O.]

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

H. L. SCOTT,

Brigadier General, Chief of Staff.

OFFICIAL:

H. P. McCAIN,

The Adjutant General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 5.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, January 27, 1915. By direction of the President, Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, United States Army, is assigned to the command of the Southern Department, to take effect February 15, 1915. Maj. Gen. Funston will proceed at the proper time to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and assume command of that department. The travel directed is necessary in the military service.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
No. 6.

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, February 3, 1915.

I..The following instructions, governing the training of Engineer troops and supplementing those relative to the training of the Mobile Army, contained in General Orders, No. 17, War Department, 1913, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned:

1. The object of these instructions is to insure thoroughness and uniformity in the training of engineer organizations, and the provision in each organization of a suitable number of enlisted men qualified for special kinds of work. 2. The training of Engineer troops includes eneral service training and engineer training, and will be carried on daily except on Sundays, holidays, and those days on which prevented by ceremonies or other duty prescribed by post, department, or higher authority; but, as far as practicable, training shall have precedence over ceremonies and ordinary routine work of posts and garrisons.

3. General service training. This will consist of instruction in the care of arms, accouterments, and equipment; athletics, bayonet combat, first aid and personal hygiene, guard duty, tent pitching; instruction of selected men in visual signaling, driving, packing, saddlery, and the care of animals; instruction of mounted men in equitation and the training of horses; range practice and preliminary instruction therefor; exercises in leaving the post fully equipped for field service; practice marches, the service of security and information, camping, individual cooking, combat exercises, night operations, ceremonies, and tactical drills. Tactical drills for foot troops will consist of those exercises prescribed for equivalent units of Infantry, and for mounted troops of those for equivalent units of Cavalry, omitting such of the latter that, by reason of differences in individual equipment, are not applicable to mounted Engineer troops. When facilities therefor are available, thorough instruction will be given in swimming, and each enlisted man required to attain proficiency therein.

4. Engineer training. This comprises general and special engineer training.

General engineer training will consist of individual and collective instruction in the use of cordage and of lumbering and excavating tools, in rowing, ponton bridge work;

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the construction of improvised bridges and bridging expedients, piers, wharves, and landings; the construction and repair of roads, and the handling of heavy weights, the construction of field fortifications, to include revetments, loopholes, head and overhead cover, bombproofs, alarms, flares, observing stations, obstacles; the laying out of field and siege works; construction of siege materials; sapping and mining, and the distribution of intrenching tools and materials.

Special engineer training consists of the individual instruction of selected men in demolitions, reconnoisance, surveying, drafting, photography and map reproduction, including lithography; carpentry, blacksmithing, masonry, and pipe-fitting, and the care and operation of power machinery and equipment, including portable searchlights.

Enlisted men will be required to attain proficiency in the course of general engineer training before being given special training, and particular attention will be given to insuring the proficiency of each enlisted man in rowing and in the use of cordage and the simple lumbering and excavating tools.

General engineer training will be progressive and will follow, in general, the methods and examples given in the Ponton Manual, the Engineer Field Manual, and other approved manuals of instruction and reference.

When ponton equipage and draft animals are available, each Engineer company will, at least once during the annual course of training, be assigned to ponton work exclusively for such a period as may be necessary for proper training in the care and handling of the equipage in the field.

Instruction in demolitions will consist of practical work in the use of the demolition equipment, the handling of explosives, computation of charges, and the arrangement of fuses and firing apparatus; exercises in demolition work, including the destruction of obstacles, and in the construction and charging of mines, fougasses, etc. After sufficient experience has been had with the prescribed explosive, instruction will be extended to the use of well-known commercial high explosives.

Instruction in reconnoissance will consist of topographical sketching, to include the use of the sketching board, compass and notebook, and accessory instruments, in road sketching,

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