Washington, June 22 - Sixteen companies of national guard
engineers today were ordered into active service by the war
department. The engineers will be utilized to lay out and prepare
camp sites for the
reception of the national army levies and the national guards to
be called out soon. The company of Iowa engineers was among those
ordered out.
It is expected that in the event the Iowa Engineers are called
into this work that in all probability they will be sent to Des
Moines where the big concentration camp is now being planned.
~source: Iowa City Daily Citizen, Iowa
City, Johnson Co., Iowa, June 22, 1917
~transcribed for Iowa In The Great War by Sharyl Ferrall
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