The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-12-10
leOOOO CASUALTIES
NOT YET REPORTED
,vr HUNDRED DAYS MORE TO
FINISH PRINTING LISTS OF
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
PROTESTS HAVE POURED IN
an The MEMBERS OF CONGRESS


s.,ste Has Begun an Investigation
Into the Whole Affair, and Sum-
monsed High Government Officials
~ Testify-Number Shocks Nation.
VASHINGTON.-For a hundred
HAYS more the newspapers of the land
gril be printing American casualty
SBts.
The peace conference will have
Apded its sessions, most likely; hun
Areds of thousands of soldiers now in
SFprope will have been brought back
home: camps in the United States will
Ahaye been emptied, and the men who
Eere in training will have long since
Been absorbed into private life, but
8he long list of dead and wounded
&nd missing men will go on until the
irt signs Of spring, in early March.
& The growth in casualties has shock
IN the people of the United States.
Dust a little while ago and the folks
back home felt the strain of uncer-
#ainty easing. They believed that the
casualty lists were only a few weeks
&slayed and were told that it would
Rrobably not exceed 100000. Then
Bame the announcement by General
March that the total would be 265,-
#00.
Totals Likely to Be Increased.
4 What is worse, Washington admits
hat the totals are very likely to be
hCreased beyond the present figures.
low much higher they will go no per
T Dn seems to know, but the fact that
I be daily lists at present carry about
3 1000 names and the announcement
3 bat the lists will be published for
days more combine to make a
cOncerting situation.
s. 1t is possible that the losses during
e closing weeks of the fighting on
IL American fronts, particularly in
ee Argonne, were heavier than the
polio had reason to expect. Re-
&med soldiers who arrived at Camp
eade declare that in the engage
&nt at Montfaucon the Seventy
Hth division pennsylvania troops)
IL eleven out of twelve majors.
Il As matter stand right now, the
#tion must prepare itself to hear
"a names of 1904 additional dead;
S,578 additional wounded Gall de-
Sees) 1910 additional missing or
MScners.
A protest has gone up from the
TIERS and mothers and wives of the
dlers. 1t is a protest from the
8mes in cities and villages and
smlands. 1t is a protest against a
fte of affairs apparently inexcus-
e. It is a protest against unrea-
enable delay in announcing casual
Congress Makes a Move.
a The protest has reached congress,
"a there has been started in the
Rnate an investigation of the whole
fuation.
There is not a senator or member
81 the house but has received many
egrams and letters of inquiry.
me Of the communications show
Yep anger, but the most of them are
pIeadings of loved ones for in
fmatlon about the boys on the 9TH
SIDE These letters have aroused
Ehgress, and Senator Hitchcock,
Emocrat and acting chairman of the
nate military affairs committee, de-
ffed tnat no time would be lost in
Il investigation.
mere were millions who rejoiced
he signing of the armistice, be-
use to them it meant that there
uId De no more slain and no more
Gunded and in a few weeks the
8neS OF those who had already paid
IA pnce would be printed. But days
NJ by, and the only news to
the families of the soldiers was
IN the casualty lists would be de-
men came hints from France that
story of the American losses
"a. una be bad reading. Men return
70 this country brought back
Il iIlhgs to the public to get ready
heaVy casualties.
= was no longer a case of follow
81 campaign and awaiting with
au the news of an approaching
ne The engagement was over,
'lcVory was won-but the losses
named in mystery.
Passing the Buck.
'ecretary Baker simply saddled
whole thing on the shoulders of
n era March, and he passed it on
zen Zen. Pershing. Summonsed before
military committee to explain the
II ~ ne SAID he thought most of the
A 5p'orVed names were those of men
I'y wounded and would come by
n uTy the war department had
1slV4ed' information on casual
5sta;Ihered by the Red Cross repre-
FS..Yes with the American troops
td lance was charged before the
E a,y affairs committee by DIR.
' S X; Castle, director of the
r. 0l G bureau of communication.
n LC"sIle asserted the war depart
II i, n1a ordered his Office to deny
I'M of soldiers information
~ adv, s4ldlers unless these relatives
III soid; mad been notified officially of