RAILWAY ENGINEERS' CAMP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2169, 6 June 1914, Page 6

RAILWAY ENGINEERS' CAMP

INSPECTED BY GENERAL GQDKEt. ■yesterday., General @oeflcy, tweaftw paiiiecl by LicnteiaiM, ' Rktotond A.8.C., Colonel Jo-hnson, Kreetor oi Ordnance CBloiiel Silcy, Dinsetor of Hallway Transport, .and |/ietttenaut-(M-wiol SJiVjlly, Assjslant'Diraotdf of ItaiJsvay iVaiispaft, pairi a visit of iljspecfion to H» camp of the railway engineers at SLthanga Bay, Tlid General inspected Jho trenches, wite entanglements, bridge, sheer-legs, derricks, elc, constructed b,y fch© oJßccib and »kmwttissionoi eftefSj a*cl eohgrftitfttatod thAm on tlifl ftairk d'oßo, Ho al-SO marked o» the .great progress that Imtl Ireeti mn4b b.v tbo corps sin*& its fcpeptioii, and the important lyorik they wej® doing, anfl on tho tofmrtant t>Wt thoj tteuld play in tW event of hostilities. C?6iiofal Gadfoy iiiforteeci the 'oifßcers and Sf.C.O.'s that tile railway battalta of erißifteere had hse& speciejly reniark' od mi Ijv ocH6ffit Sir laii Hamilton, who consideretl ft oncpf the finest and mtsgi 'cflioieat organisations of its Irilw! lie had eeeiii nnd said that lie vag fliakkig .it {■ho matter of special taentioß in his report to the War Office ou lils retufii Home, fhe officers .and K;D.O,'s will attend a smoke concert in town, tonight, and ieaftp Wi3} bo brofeu on stan<Jay.