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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
GUARD EXPECTS EARLY ACTION
War Department orders Indicate v. S.
Troops Are Needed in Trenches.

Camp Macarthur, Waco, Tex.-From
the Office of Secretary of War Newton
ID. Baker comes word that American
forces now in France and those TO go
overseas early may get into action
. soon after their arrival.
Buried in the middle of a memor-
andum on machine gun training, the
information bears out the statement
of MajorGeneral James Parker, made
last week that the Yankees were
needed lover there" at once.
1T is most important that the regi-
mental machine gun companies should
be trained first and then the brigade
companies" says the memorandum.
The division sent early to France
may be required soon after arrival to
take over a portion of the line. 1t i;
essential, therefore, that the regi-
mental and brigade companies should
be capable of taking over the machine
gun defenses OF the sectors concerned
If time does not permit before leaving
this country, the training of the divl-
sional battalions will have to be car.
ried out in France"
So far as is known here, this is the
first official statement that the Ameri.
cans would not be put through an in.
tensive training schedule in France
before going into actual combat.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
All Male Inhabitants Shot.

"a shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. At five o'clock we
were ordered by the officer in COM
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny, because
the population was foolishly attempt
ing TO stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke into
the houses, and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed ny the
French artillery and our own were set
on fire by us. so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. 1t is a ter
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are herded
together and driven into France"
(From the diary of Private Fischer,
Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
Behaved Like Vandals."

august Il. In the afternoon I had
look at the little chateau belonging
TO one of the kings secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first. and then they had turned
their attention 10 the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over the place
They had even made fruitless efforts
TO smash the safe open. Everything
was topsy-turvy-mag furni.
ture, silk, and even china. That's what
happens when the men are allowed TO
requlsition for themselves. l am sure
they must have taken away heap of
useless stuff simply for the pleasure of
looting."
August 9th crossed frontier. Inhab-
itants on border very good to us and
give us many things. There is no diff
ference noticeable.
August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-
nal and Dinant, village of Disonge).
At IL o'clock the order comes to ad-
vance after the artillery has thorough
up prepared the ground ahead. The
IlOuteTS anu luluully ItSinchI 10
were marching in front of us. Near
a small village the latter were fired on
by the inhabitants. About go inhab-
itants were shot and the village was
burnt-artillery is continuously shoot
ing-the village lies in large ravine.
Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon,
the crossing of the Mas begins near
Dlnant All villages, chateaux,
and houses are burnt down during this
night. 1t was beautiful sight to see
the fires all round us in the distance.
August 24.-In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead" From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth company, Eleventh lager bat
talon, Marburg.)
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
II AMERICANS DIE AT CAMBRIA
U. S. Engineers Caught In GERMANY
Advance Reported Missing.

Nashingtno. - Seventeen of the
American engineers who dropped their
shovels TO pitch into the fighting
when they were caught by the German
advance in front of Cambria were re.
ported Sunday as missing in action"
The toll Of these Americans whose
bravery, promptness and fine spirit
won a commendatory letter from Gen.
eral Haig to General Pershing, was
annunceod by the war department.
Nearly all of them are from Now
York City or nearby territory. None
is from Michigan.
Reports at the time told how, when
the German counter attack surged for
ward and caught them between the
lines, they dropped into shell holes
abandoned railroads they were build.
ing and, running close up behind the
British lines, waited for the thin Brit
ish line to surge forward again.
II was known then that there had
been some casualties, but Sundays an
nouncement is the first official con-
frmation OF the fact.
Reported as missing. the men may
have been taken prisoners by the Ger
mans. 1t is feared, however, that few
escaped death in the shelltorn, bullet
swept wastes of No Mans Land, If
they were unable to reioin their COM
rades in the first rush.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
ALLIED COUNCIL
TO DIRECT NAVIES
OPERATIONS AGAINST GERMANY
TO BE CONTROLLED BY
SINGLE BOARD.
BENS0NAND sIMsREPRESENTU.S.
New Arrangement Will Enable Allies
to Conduct War with Greatest
Possible Efficiency.

Observation-Disclosures OF an Allied
naval council OF all nations at War
with the Central powers was au-
nounced last Friday in a cablegram TO
the navy department from Admiral
William S. Benson in Paris.
Members of the council, established
in accordance with plans OF the inter.
allied conference, will report to their
respective governments with reconl-
mendations for action.
The council will be composed of the
minister of marine and chic. of naval
staff of each country. In the case Of
the United States this means Secre-
tary Daniels and Admiral Benson.
As the meetings must be held in
Europe, flag officers designated by
their governments will represent the
members from the United States and
Japan. Vice Admiral Sims, command
ing the American naval forces III
European waters, will represent Secre-
tary Daniels.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
WITH THE B0YSAT CAMP CUSTER

Photographers, professional or anna
teur, caught taking pictures of wooden
guns or other makeshift equipment
being used by the soldiers in Camp
Custer until their actual equipment ar.
rives have been ordered placed under
immediate arrest.
Regimental officers estimate that
only about so per cent OF efficiency is
obtained in the cold weather but de-
clare this is better than no outdoor
wor kat all. 1t is against the policy Of
the division to allow men to remain
IN barracks IL avoidable.
Twenty-eight civilians and eight sol
diers, postal employees in private life,
now make up the staff OF the Camp
Custer postoffice.
A board of three men has been ap-
pointed in each regiment to pass on
the fitness OF soldiers who are recon-
mended for the officers training
school.
Foreign officers attached to the s5th
division decided to open their own
mes. The visiting officers miss their
home dishes and have obtained per-
mission to buy their own food aud
have It cooked in their own way.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
Too Many Servants in Britain.

Duncan Miller asked the minister of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called TO the number of advertisements
for servants in households of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num-
Der of indoor servants employed In
each household. The minister of ma
tional service replied that he had al
ready pointed out how essential IL Is,
In the national interest, that no per-
son should employ more servants than
are absolutely necessary. The min
lister trusts that the. awakened con-
sciences of those who have in this
respect failed to appreciate their duty
will provide an immediate and sufn-
cient remedy. IL not, he will tell his
plan in the general statement on man
power.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
need OF SOLDIERS
SPEEDS TRAINING
CUSTER OFFICERS RUSH WORK
TO GET MEN READY FOR
EARLY DUTY ABROAD.
THOUSANDS ARE SENT SOUTH
over Two Thousand Sent Last Week
TO other Camps-Three Thousand
More Slated to Go.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-In-
Inspired by appeals from abroad for
American troops and urged by the
cold facts laid before them by war de-
partment officials, unit commanders of
the Eighty-fifth division are losing no
available drill time despite the inclem-
ent weather and drains on their mum.
erical strength.
Every effort is being made to get
the men in shape for movement
abroad. Most of the troops are being
sent to the rife ranges regularly, in
spite of the inclement weather.
While commanders realize that tie
cold weather will naturally keep the
men from showing maximum eff
cheney, they deem it necessary to give
them as much target practice as pos.
sible, so the amateurs will become IA
miliar with the mechanism OF their
rifles.
During the past week the population
OF the camp was reduced by over 1000
men. this number having been sent to
various other training camps.
Another 5000 are probably already
IN the way to southern camps. An
nouncement will not be made until the
movement has been completed.
In the near future, other special
units, such as ambulance companies
and ammunition trains, and candidates
for aviation branches, will filter to diff
ferent sections Of the country.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
Munitions Being Sent BY Auto.

Detroit-Detroit's auto truck train,
loaded with munitions, started from
Detroit last week on its way to an
Atlantic port. There were 80 trucks,
with rs men and two officers. There
we're two tank trucks, loaded with oil
and gasoline, and a kitchen truck, for
the men will have most of their meals
prepared by their own cooks. The men
are from Camp Sherman, Chillicothe,
Ohio, in charge az Capt. Bennett Ben
son and Lieut.. c. A. Riley. Other
trains will probably follow.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
NO PEACE TALK At
ALLY CONFERENCE
COLONEL HOUSE, ON RETURN
FROM EUROPE, SAYS WAe
ONLY WAS DISCUSSED.
SAYS TEAM WORK IS ASSURED
Meeting Got Together Principally
on Economic Situation, Food,
Embargo and Finance.

New York.-Peace was never men.
toned at the allied conference in Pa
ris, or at the supreme war council
which met recently at Versailles. Col
onel Z. M. House, head Of the Amer
lean mission which recently visited
England and France, said Saturday
on his arrival from Europe.
Mr.. House said that the allied con.
ference brought things to a focus"
The allied naval conference, forma-
ton of which has just been announced
in Washington, is the first result OF
the meetings of American delegates
and representatives OF the other allies
Mr.. House said.
Before the conference" Mr. House
asserted, Coordination was not going
on we'll.
But we are working now well to-
gether. We got together principally
on the economic situation, embargo
food and finance ] regard the trip a.
complete success"
Mr.. House said that the governments
must ratify all action taken. He said
an announcement or he work accom-.
plished by the American mission Nigh:
be expected from Washington soon.
The supreme war council, he said.
is a permanent body and the United
States has permanent place in 1t.
il 1t so desires. The matter OF Mr.
House making another trip to Europe
soon is entirely at the disposition OF
President Wilson.
THE morale among the people In
both Great Britain and France -
splendid" Mr.. House said. Even
French pacfists admit that the morale
was never better.
American interests in Europe are
almost paramount"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
CLUBS BEING FORMED AT CAMP
Custer Soldiers Learn to Do Their
Own Entertaining.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-Despite
the many downtown activities ar
ranged for entertaining the Camp Gus
ter soldiers, there is growing ten
dency among the boys to provide for
their own entertainment and as the
winter approaches Battle Creek is dis.
covering a decrease of khaki visitors,
even on the Wednesday, Saturday and
Sunday holidays.
All through the camp the soldiers
are establishing their own club rooms.
usually consisting of section of the
company squad room. Here they in
stall their piano, rented; their Vic.
trola, donated by the home folks and
kept supplied with records from the
same source; boxing gloves, medicine
balls, and such other things as help
make life the merrier.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
ITALIAN LINE STILL INTACT
Holds in Spite Of Heavy Blows BY
Teuton Invaders.

London-The Italian line. although
almost ceaselessly assailed in the
mountain regions, is still intact and
holding we'll except for a small recess
sion here and there forced at the cost
of extremely heavy casualties on the
part of the Austro-German invaders.
The Franco-Belgian front is inactive
except for local fighting, mostly due
to German thrusts here and there de-
livered with the seeming intention of
keeping the AngloFrench command
guessing as to the enemy Intentions.
In Palestine, the British have scored
a further advance northeast of Jeru-
salem.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
TWO AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS SUNK
Italian Destroyers Enter Harbor at
Trieste to Strike Blow.

Washington.-Two of Austria's bat
tleships have fallen victim to the most
daring naval raid Of the war-the
forcing of the harbor of Trieste by
two intrepid Italian torpedo boat de-
stroyers. A dispatch received at the
Italian embassy thus recounts the eT-
plot:
I'm the night OF December 910.
Italian torpedo boat destroyers en.
tered Trieste harbor, passing the
enemy Notifications and fired FIVE
torpedoes at two Austrian battleships.
one of them being the Monarde. All
five torpedoes exploded. One battle
ship foundered The Italian destroy
ers were attacked by guns and torpe-
does, but despite this they returned iii
safety"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
COAL RELIEF PROVES MYTH
Promised Fuel Fails to Arrive
Famine Is National.

Lansing.-Relief from the coal
shortage, which last week seemed "a.
sured, has proven myth and Michi-
gan now is both desperate and desti-
tute.
This condition, however, prevails.
practically throughout the nation AMI
National Fuel Administrator Garfield
has redoubled efforts to release sup
plies held on tracks by car congcs-
ton.
The state administrators Office here
Is flooded with kilograms from all
parts of the state telling of immediate
need for coal Hundreds of towns are
practically without fuel but condi.
tions are such that slight hope of re-
lief can be held out to them.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20

In the night the inhabitants
Of Llege became mutinous. Forty per-
sons were shot and 10 houses demol-
ished, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry.
"On the 23rd Of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re-
turning to Liege.
August "a. At noon with SO men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A I, no post
allocated to me. Our occupation, apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking.
We live like God in Belgium" (From
the diary Of job. van der School, re-
servist of the Tenth company. Thirty
ninth reserve infantry regiment, Sew
enth reserve army CORPSE
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
"LIGHTLESS NIGHTS" ORDERED
Cities to Dim white Ways" Thurs
days and Sundays.

Washington.-Two 'lightless nights
a week have now been ordered by the
fuel administration.
Sunday and Thursday of every week
are to see the city white ways and
advertising signs darkened, only nee
essary street lights used and only
such lights as the law requires in Of
fees and stores not open for bust
ness.
The new order replaces one which
became effective November for the
dimming of electric displays, which
the administration says has been a
failure
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
GREATER FOOD SAVING URGED
New Regulations Recommend Cutting
Sugar Consumption in Half.

Washington.-A sugar ration of
three pounds for each person a month,
a porkless day and one wheatless and
meatless meal day will be recon-
mended to householders in a new
kitchen card soon to be put out by
the food administration. Observance
of wheatless and meatless meals are
asked in addition to the present
wheatless and meatless days.
Normal consumption OF sugar in the
United States has been more than
seven pounds month for each per
son. If the new directions are fol
lowed universally, it will cut its use
TO below half.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
BIG SHELL PLANT FOR DETROIT
New Company, With Initial Order for
sso,ooo,ooo Organized.

Detroit.-Detroit capitalists, princi-
pally automobile manufacturers, last
Friday organized the Detroit Shell
company, capitalized at 100000, and
possessing an initial order for $780,
100000 worth Of munitions.
The amount of future orders will
be governed only by the length of the
war
Two large plants now vacant are
under consideration, but II satisfac.
tory arrangements cannot be made,
new buildings will be erected.
Between 5000 and $4,000 men will
be employed.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
SNOW STORM AIDS ROBBERS
Two Daylight HoIdups Net Bandits
over $4,000.

Chicago Working in a binding
snowstorm that enabled them 10 es-
cape without leaving a trace behind.
bank bandits staged two daring rob-
berries shortly before noon here last
Thursday.
Four men in an automobile held up
the LAGRANGE State bank, locked tue
cashier in a vault and escaped with
$4,000.
A lone robber, armed with a rife
on which was a Mako silencer.
locked the manager and clerk of the
Bruno Pinkert private bank in
Cicero "a suburb, in vault and es
capped with 5000.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
Boy Burglar ParoIed, Must Pay Debt

Hastings.-Judge Smith in circui.
court sentenced Arvene Wood, a
youthful burglar, to imprisonment for
six months to Is years. He then sus-
pended sentence on him for two years.
Wood broke into the Hastings Manu-
featuring company's plant where he
stole stamps and blank checks which
he so crudely forged in Grand Rapids
that officers arrested him, obtained a
confession and turned him over TO
Hastings officers. Wood was ordered
to reimburse the company
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
Families Freeze; steal Coal; Freed,

Detroit-Because their wives and
children had suffered from cold at
their homes, the cases against Ivan
Thompson and Leo Heike, charged
with stealing coal from local railroad
yards, were dismissed by Justice Hes
ton in police court. Both testified that
they had been unable to obeain fuel
and had been forced to pick coal In the
railroad yards. Several others who
took coal from railroad yards although
they had tons of fuel in their bins
were fined.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
BEAKES SEATED IN CONGRESS
Contested Election Decided In Favor
Of Ann Arbor Man.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Samuel
w. Beakes, OF Ann Arbor, assumed his
seat in the house on December IA. as
representative OF the Second Michigan
district.
AS a result OF contest beginning
after the election in November, 1916,
congress voted to unseat Mark p.
Bacon, of Wyandotte, and to seat Mr..
Beakes.
Mr. Beakes was Immediately sworn
in as a member of congress and re.
ceived congratulations from fellow
members without regard to party.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20
SERVICE FLAG HAS 1880 STARS
U. S. steel Corporation Boasts Record
for Enlistments.

New York.-A service flag with
stars representing 11,490 employees
who have enlisted or are otherwise err.
gagged in the nations war prepare.
tions has been unfurled in front OF
the offices of the United States Stee,
corporation in Lower Broadway.
The flag measures "a by 81 feet
and represents the largest number OF
men engaged in war service Of any OF
the companies displaying service flags
here and is said to establish ma
tional record.
The Bell Telephone company flag
here displays $685. stars.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20

wide areas Of Belgium nbd France In
which not a penny's worth OF wapion
destruction had been permitted 10 &C.
cur, In which the ripe pears hung IN
touched upon the garden walls; ana
saw other wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left to stand upon
another: where the fields were raw
aged; where the male villagers lad
been shot in squads; where the miscr-
able survivors had been left to den In
holes. like wild beasts"
Even Soldiers Horrifed.
Some German soldiers, we are siad
to see, showed their horror ut the JoUi
deeds committed in Belgium.
'The inhabitants have fled in the viii
lage. 1t was horrible. There was Got
ted blood on all the boards, and what
faces one saw, terrible to behold 'rhe
dead, 60 i'm all, were at once bWied.
Among them were many old women,
some old men, and half-deliN@red
woman, awful to see; three chill fren
had clasped each other, and died mus.
The altar and the vaults of the oh .lrch
are shattered. They had telep lOne
there TO communicate with the eE envy.
This morning, September .. all the sur
viv0rs were expelled. and / saw four
little boys carrying n cradle, with a
baby five or six months old in 1t, on
two sticks. All this was terrible TO
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt! Everything is given
over to pillage: fowls and the rest all
killed. ] saw mother, too, with her
two children; one had a great wound
on the head and had lost an eye"
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Spielman of the Ersatz, first bril-
gade OF Infantry OF the Guard.)
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-12-20

Writing from Belgium in 1915 Irwin
:. Cobb said:
Briefly what I saw was this: I saw
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-19

Jack Miller has eliminated himself as
possible manager OF the Cardinals by en-
listing in the United States marine corps
Franklin r. Hefelhnger. %. Of St.
Paul. MINI, has been chosen manager OF
the Yale football eleven for next year.
II is now rumorcd that Larry Laioie.
one of the greatest baseball players IN
the history OF the game, viii wear d
Chicago Cub uniform next year
Lew Tender the southpaw boxer from
Philadelphia. gave Young Russo OF New
Orleans such a whaling in Boston last
night that the bout was stopped in the
fifth round and Tender declared the win.
uer
Charles Weeghman, president of the
Chicago National league club, has an
nounced his intention to give two more
baseball surprises which will be on a pal
with his recent purchase Of AleXandei
and kiIlier from Philadelphia
Frank Noran,. Pittobmg heavyweight
puglist. ha, teIc@aphed jess Wilar,
accepting his challenge to fight an,
bpavyweight for the benefit 81 the Rec
tros~. Moran says he Is ready to NEE
Inc present champion over any distane,
and at any place Harry Greh of Pitts
burg a middleweight boxer, expresses hi
willingness to meet Willard for any mum
/ Der OF rounds up to p and donate tn
/ receipts to the Red Cross. Sam Lang
4 ford OF Boston and Bill Brennan OF Ncg
. York are anxious to face Willard on hi
own terms and give the entire receipts I
the Red Gross.