CAPT. BOWEN TO SPEAK ON MILITARY SITUATION

In order that all misunderstandings in regard to enrolments in the Federal camps may be cleaned up, Captain W. S. Bowen, assistant commandant of the R. O. T. C., will speak at a mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The regular 7.30 lecture in Military Science and Tactics 1 has been cancelled so that all members of the R. O. T. C. may attend tonight's meeting. Captain Bowen will outline the plans of the government in reference to the officers' training camps and it is probable that he may be able to announce the definite decision of the War Department in regard to the future of the R. O. T. C. in the University.

Captain Cordier, who is now in Washington on business connected with the R. O. T. C. Unit at the University, has sent the following message to the men in the unit.

In order that men in the R. O. T. C. who are over 20 years and nine months of age and are therefore eligible to attend the Federal Training Camps, may be certain of a chance to get into one of the first camps, such men are advised to go to 42 Water street, Boston, and enroll.

All other members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. Unit are strongly advised to stay in the unit. An effort is being made by Captain Cordier to have the Harvard Unit put on the same basis as the Federal Training Camps--that is, so that members of this unit of the prescribed age can be commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps at the end of three months' intensive training on exactly the same footing as men who go to the Plattsburg and other Federal Training Camps.

Captain Cordier believes that the Harvard Unit will be placed on that footing by the War Department and expects a definite reply today.

The advice to enroll at 42 Water street, Boston, is given before definite information is secured about the Harvard Unit in order that men who are eligible may be certain of getting to a training camp, as the enrolment for those camps is proceeding rapidly and there are a large number of applicants.

In any case, Captain Cordier states, the unit will be maintained for men who are under the prescribed age limit of 20 years and nine months.

Captain Cordier now expects to return from Washington on Friday, in order to be present that afternoon at the arrival of the five French officers.