PRINCETON CAMP RECOGNIZED

After a final consultation with Governor Edge, who is just back from Washington, President Hibben of Princeton announced the plans for the New Jersey State military camp, which is to be established in Princeton this summer. Principal interest centres in the fact that the War Department has decided to recognize the camp as furnishing valuable preliminary training for the series of Government training camps to be opened later, as well as for those subject to draft, and, that a regular army officer, retired, will be detailed as camp commandant.

The camp will open on Monday, June 25, and at the end of the eight following weeks it is expected that the men will have become proficient in maneuvers, practical warfare, topography, signalling with the semaphore, shooting on the long distance rifle range, bayonet exercise and simulated combat, physical exercises and the theory of sanitation. Several Canadian officers, invalided home from the front, have been assigned by the Canadian general staff to help in the instruction at the camp. Among them is Lieutenant Brown of the 13th Canadian Infantry, who has been in charge of the practical trench instruction given during the spring in connection with the work of the Princeton intensive unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

It is expected that the last week of camp will be devoted to a hike to Seagirt, where the State will permit the use of its rifle range for final target practice.