The Tomahawk., 1917-08-23
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
U.S,-Teut011ic War News

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U.S.-Teut011ic War News
President and Mrs. Wilson went to
Fort Myer with most of Washington
officialdom to see 1900 successful cam
didates for officerships at the Fort
Myer cantonment get their commits
siOns.
Five American passengers were lost
when the British steamer City Of
Athens struck mine and went down
near Cape Town, South Africa, on Au-
gust 10, according to dispatches to
Washington. Ten other passengers
and four of the crew also were lost.
The new national army will be
moved into cantonment camps begin
ming September 5, Provost General
Crowder announced at Washington.
The first increment Of 80 per cent will
ADe moved September 5. The second OF
80 per cent September Is, and the
third September 80. The remaining
10 per cent will be moved to camps
as soon thereafter as possible.
Andrew Manner, alien German iron
worker, who is said to have cursed
President Wilson and to have declared
he hoped all soldiers fighting against
Germany would be killed, was arrested
at Muncie, Ind, by federal authorities
on complaint Of fellow workmen.
Washington officials say that the Ma
t1onal Guard regiments will begin their
exodus from northern states to south
ern training camps during the coming
week.
Sinking of the Americon steamer
Campania, Standard Oil tanker, with
the probable capture of her captain
and four members of the naval guard
by the attacking German submarine,
was announced by the navy depart
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: The first reserve officers training
camp at Fort Sheridan is history. The
army instructors have done their work.
The students have done theirs. Com
missions have been awarded and the
men, no longer training camp students,
but officers in the United States re-
serve army, are ready to take up their
work.
Denouncing some senators, con-
gressmen and newspaper editors as
"standing where the copperheads
stood in the Civil war;" Colonel Roose-
5sTelt demanded in an address at New
York suppression of the German Ian
guage press, deportation of 5000 Am
orleans" and called upon every man,
woman and child in the country to ex-
ert every ounce of energy to win the
war.
More than $500 training camp stu
dents at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, were made
commissioned officers in the new Amer
lean national army.
4 The regular army is at full strength.
When recruiting began Thursday only
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the total in this branch 1893, the au-
thorized strength. Since April 1 over
$4,000 men have enlisted, says a dis
patch from Washington.
DR.. Fritz Bergmeier, president of the
st. Paul Volks Zeitung, was arrested
by order of President Wilson under the
proclamation Of April 6. The general
policy of the Volhs Zeitung has been
to "cast dispersion by innuendo" on
American war measures, it is charged.
Revised regulations to govern ply
steal examination Of men registered
under the selective draft were issued at
Washington by Surgeon General Cor
gas of the army and communicated to
the governors of the states for infor-
nation of local boards. The changes
deal for the most part with questions
of proportionate weight and height, but
NAV result in the recall of some men
rejected heretofore on physical
rounds.