Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-10

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IS where they will get their training.
While the department refuses to give
out details, it was learned that by far
the largest number of arrests have
been made in Washington, Oregon,
Arizona, Montana, Minnesota, Colo
RADIO, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The men arrested have received sem
fences ranging from one day to n
year in Jail. AS rapidly as possible the
department is registering all those on
victed and has assigned to them the
serial numbers vacated by those COM
ing first on the list who have been re-
jected or have secured exemptions from
their local boards. This will insure the
prisoners being put into the army pro-
yided they are found fit for military
service. If found fit they will be taken
out of Jail, but if rejected they will
have to serve their sentences.
Letters pouring into the department
of justice from every section of the
country at the rate of 100 to 200 a day
are reporting men who failed to regis
ter for the draft.
Thus far it has been found that the
information in a large percentage of
the letters has been correct, and as a
result of such voluntary aid to the gov
eminent hundreds of slackers have
been placed on the registration rolls. A
large number of the letters come from
women.
Facts About U Boat Attack.
A long official report from Rear Ad-
miral Albert Gleayes describing in de-
tail the incidents involving encounters
of American troop ships and their con-
voying war vessels with German U
boats in June fails to Deal out in full
the account of these incidents con-
tanned in a statement furnished to the
press as a Fourth of July message by
the committee on public information.
The Fourth of July statement was
prepared personally by George Creel,
chairman of the committee, in the pres
ence of Secretary Daniels and Admiral
Benson, chief of naval operations, and
has been much criticised in the senate
and the press on the ground that it
exaggerated what occurred.
Mr.. Creel has been criticised particu-
larly for the use of the expression a
attack in force in describing one of
the encounters between the American
rines. In the official report of Admiral
Gleaves nothing is said to show that
any attack in force was experienced by
the American vessels. The report
shows that there were two encounters
with submarines and possibly a third
incident of the sort, although there is
doubt that U boats were actually en-
gagged in hostile operations in this third
instance. In the first encounter a sub
marine is believed to have crossed the
bow of Admiral Gleaves' flagship and
two torpedoes passed close to one of
the American vessels. Another torpedo
was apparently seen, but the report of
Admiral GleaYeS is not clear on that
point. One officer described as "Col.
A." gave the opinion that streaks In the
water were the wakes of two subma-
rines.
The second encounter, that of June
%, was with two submarines sighted
about two hours apart. There does not
appear to be any doubt that these sub
marines were seen.
"A depth charge" was fired at one of
the U boats, and several pieces of
lumber, quantities of oil, bubbles and
debris came to the surface" On the
third occasion it was believed that a
submarine was sunk, but the doubt has
not been cleared.
BeefIess Days on Tuesdays.
Resolutions to make every Tuesday a
beefess day and to inaugurate system
attic measures to curtail consumption
of wheat bread, butter, sugar and
young animal meat have been adopted
by the food administrations hotel and
restaurant committee.
The steps decided on include use of
at least 10 per cent of some other kind
of flour besides wheat for bread and
rolls, substitution of fish, fowls, vege-
tables and fruits for heavy meats and
elimination Of icing OF cakes and cube
sugar.