The Clio messenger., 1917-09-07
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U.S.-Teutonic War News

U.S.-Teutonic War News
Unlisted men OF the National army,
National Guard and regular army will
be given every opportunity to fit them
selves for commissions, ii was learned
at Washington.
HE possibility that Austria and
peuhaps other allies of Germany may
soon declare war against the United
Stxfes because of the financial aid
gixea 10 Italy is recognized by admin
istF1tion officials at Washington.
Nhat the United States will reject
the peace proposals of Pope Benedict,
beeamye they have failed to take into
consideration the necessity for the
Ovazfhrow OF Germany's autocracy, is
esm11dered certain. simultaneously
wSJA he intimation that the reply to
tls6Dpe will go forward this week, the
sinfe department made public the text
of q cahiegram of greeting sent by the
president to the great council Of the
DueHasn people, now In session In Mos
ceW..
Tie first death of an American
nsyxl flyer In France was announced
st Washington In official dispatches to
the navy department. He was George
Herbert Manley. and was killed In an
ai14ane accident.
Capt Cyrus w. Crooks, master of
the American bark Christiane, which
was sunk by a German submarine Au-
gust near the Azores, says he was
tod by the German commander that
he hated to sink American ships"
A catalogue compiled by the Har-
ward Alumni bulletin at Cambridge,
shows about 5,40O Harvard graduates
and undergraduates engaged In war
wSrk. Nearly every page bears the
asterisk that deSignates death in ac-
tien.
Unpatriotic utterances, especially by
men Of prominence, are more likely to
be due to wrong attitude Of heart
than an error of the mind. according to
an interview with William Jennings
Bryan In Chicago.
BY direction of President Wilson at
Washington practically every married
man upon whom his wife is actually
dependent or who has children will be
exempted from the draft act. Only 8
per cent of the men drawn for the new
National army will be sent to camp on
September 5. instead of 30 per cent,
as previously ordered.
The officers reserve camp at which
are to be trained leaders for the Sec
Ond lot of 100000 trained soldiers of
the National army opened at Fort
Domestic
The police raIded the Hamilton De-
tective agency in New York and ar
rested the head and the two employees
On charges OF holding as prisoners
American sailors in order TO claim $50
reward offered in each case OF de-
sefter delivered to his ship.
Peaceful settlement Of labor dis
yutas involving longshoremen was fore
east at Washington by the appointment
Of board representing the war de-
psrtment. the shipping board, the
LmgshOremen's association and the
pE6ncfpal carriers TO handle all dis |
Dates and appoint local boards in prin- |
e5pd cities.
A contract for 1,074,OOO gas masks !
- equip the army has been awarded |
- Z manufacturing company OF Phila-
A.9s1fzs. The contract calls for an ex-
peadsture OF s1.5O2,0 900. The govern
ssrst will furnish the material.
Ospf. Joseph w. Mates Of Battery |
y second Illinois Field artillery. who /
- Cor the Stars and Stripes In the
Mbmnfm riot. was buried at Chicago
~ fsii military honors.
Herbert G. Hoover, federal food ad.
1Imfstrator. TODD the farmers OF the
mnn1Nn the part they are asked TO play
- heaping the United States and ito
Aoles win the war. He outlined the
axrienltural features OF the admins
traiioR's policy. Hoover made his
dnkement In Chicago. where he spoke
hUene representatives OF 126 farm
1ssunais.
Rsdvates Nelson and James Kelley
e Battery A. Second Missouri field ar
u09y, were killed and four others Sc
nSnae injured when shrapnel shell
euVaoded on the cantonment range at
IaH SiiI, Okla. I
Albert B. Lamb Of st. Louis, vice
proadcnt OF the Navy league, wired