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indoors. The stateroom officers -- numbering 400 -- dine in two sittings in the saloon. These latter have comfortable quarters and an admirable table. They are mostly regular army officers, two Congressmen, and a number of first and second lieutenants in charge of certain artillery detachments under the artillery colonel commanding troops on board.

American Army Officers indeed. When you see a figure appear out of the hold clad in overalls or makeshift jumpers you would never guess it to be an American officer. You'll see him stand in line for his morning wash; his morning meal, the canteen line; then