The directive follows deadly clashes between the two sides since March 25 at various training and cantonment centers in Juba, Upper Nile State and Western Equatoria State.

指示发布前，自 3 月 25 日以，在朱巴、上尼罗州和西赤道州的多个训练和营地中心发生了致命冲突。

In mid-July came rumors, and then orders, that concerned a change of camp. The brigade was to move to an empty cantonment, a hundred miles farther south, there to be expanded into a division.

7 月中旬传出谣言，后是有关阵营改变的命令。该旅将转移到南边一百英里处的一个空营地，在那里扩编为一个师。

Although the army did not have enough men to spare for a division, Wilson decided to send Pershing ahead with his staff and officers while the men were trained in cantonments stateside before being shipped out to France.

尽管军有足够的人员组建一个师，威尔逊还是决定先派珀辛和他的参谋及军官们前往法国， 而士兵们则在美国的兵营中接受训练后再被送往法国。