The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-09-20
U.S.-TeutOnic WarNesvs


Friday, the 18th, was the fifty-eighth
birthday OF General Pershing, now
leading the great American drive In
France.
With assurances from every section
of the country that the registration Oh
Americas millions of men between the
ages of eighteen and twenty-one ana
thirty-two To forty-6ve, inclusive, hau
been accomplished on Thursday win
precision. Provost Marshal General
Crowder turned his attention TO the
great task of classifying this vast
army.
An American troopship with 2,Soo
men on board has been torpedoed. All
hands We're saved by destroyers. Inc
United States navy department an
nounced that the vessel was the White
Star liner Persic of 1908 tons. The
troop ship was one of large convoy
approaching the English coast ana
was about 200 miles out. There was
no sign of panic on board. Many OF
the troops were from Chicago ana
Cleveland. None was injured.
American troops of all units have
been instructed by General Pershing
to kill on the spot any one who In time
of battle urges surrender or attempts
"A. 81 In I'm
ance is useless. These instructions
were made necessary because some
one i'm American uniform during Ger
man attack on Fismette ran among the
troops, calling upon them 10 cease re-
sstance and declaring that the officers
advised surrender.
Provost Marshal General CrOwder
announced that the first call TO the
colors Of men who registered Thursday
will include men in the nineteen and
twenty-year-old classes, and in the
classes from thrty-twO to thirty-Six
years, inclusive. QuestiOnnaires will 90
first TO registrants within these speci-
fed age Units and local boards will he
ordered to classify them first in readl-
ness for calls beginning in October.
Secretary of War Newton ID. Baker
has arrived safely in France. the war
department announced. The score
tary's trip. the second he has made TO
Europe this year. was made aboard a
transport. The secretary was accom-
panied by John ID. Ryan, director Of
aerOnautics; Maj. Gen. w. C. GOrgas,
surgeon general of the army: Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, and Lieut.. Col.
George III. Baird. military aid to the
secretary of war.
Under q as~: policy of reporting cas-
ualties in the American expeditionary
forces adopted by the war department,
the names of the men wounded will be
sent to the United States by courier
twice week, and only the names OF
the dead and missing will be cabled
by General Pershing when the system
is fully I'm effect. General Pershing re-
ported 10000 slightly wounded Amer
leans up to August 20.
Such large proportion of the Amer
lean casualties i'm recent actions has
been due to gallant attempts to rescue
wounded men by unwOunded comrades
that General Pershing has been COM
PEELED to issue a general order calling
attention to the fact that the regula-
tons prohibit members Of the fighting
force to leave their proper positions
even for this purpose.
The claim that their gun crew sank
n German submarine Of large type 40
miles off Sandy Hook was made by
the captain and crew of an American
oil tank ship which arrived at an At
lantic port.
The American steamship Dora, for
merly under the Austrian flag, was tor
pedoed and sunk on September 4, APP
prOximately 400 miles off France, as
the result of an attack on cargo
convoy. says a dispatch from London.
The crew was saved.
American troops have landed at
Archangel TO assist the other allied
forces there in their campaign for the
establishment of order In northern
Russia. This announcement was au-
thorized by General March, chief Of
staff.