Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-12
AND IS MEN
SLAIN; CASUALTY LIST
HEAVIEST RECORDED
War Department Gives Out
Names of Dead Omitting
Home Addresses of Men and
Next of Kin

WASHINGTON. March S-A second
casualty list without next of kin or
addresses issued late today by the war
department contained the names Of
Captain Harry c. McHenry and Is men
Killed in action and Of First Lieutenant
Frank J. Montgomery killed in an air
plane accident
Sixteen dead and forty wounded in &C
ton on the French 'front.' were report
ed by General Pershing. There was
nothing to show whether all had been
killed or wounded in one action or not
Ii was the largest single American cas-
uaIty announcement since Pershing's
forces arrived in France.
The list also showed that Second
Lieutenant Alex William Terrell had
been severely wounded in action and
that First Lieutenant Arthur Ward had
died from paralysis.
There also were given the names of
twenty privates severely wounded IN
action, Is slightly wounded and two
wounded in action" with four who had
died of diseases. At the war department
il was said that the two reported as
wounded in action probably should
have been included among the slightly
wounded.
The first of the expuTgated casualty
lists was ISSUED by the war department
today 1t shows First Lieutenant Louis
J. Jordan killed in action and First
Lieutenant John H. Greene slightly
wounded.
The names of thirty-six privates are
on the list, but according to the new
custom without home addresses or next
kin II shows two killed in action;
eight died of disease; five severely
wounded; nineteen wounued slightly. and
two killed in accident one Of them an
airplane casualty.
Complete Casualty List
The following casualties are reported
by the commanding general of the Amer
lean expeditionary forces:
Killed in Action-CaptaIn Harry c.
McHenry, Corporal Dean Parish, Ser.
geant Walter j. Porsch, Private Albert
L. Hoscher, Sergeant James w. Wed
ding. Privates Edward Nash. Glen E.
Peterson. Clifford j. Worden. Corporal
Donald H. McRae. Privates Byron Van
Raden, Isaac Davis, Guy o. Worley,
Sergeant Alva f. Eaton, Privates John
r. Ellis. Russell L. Selix. Elmer James
AIcDonOugh.
Died alrplane accident. First Lieuten-
ant Frank q. Montgomery.
Died paralysis. First Lieutenant
George Adelbert Ward.
Died pneumonia, ,Privates William
Fiyall and Dock Maxwell.
Died uraemia, Private Joseph H.
Trembley.
Died ulcer of stomach, Sergeant Sam.
ueI Torrance.
Severely wounded
Wounded severely. Second Lieutenant
Alex -. Terrell, Private Mofford G..
Breeze, Corporal Marvin Dunn, Corporal
4 riC Il
Deitz, Private First Glass Raymond l..
CIoson. Private First Glass Dam p.
Bracelin. Fred A. Heintz, Privates Mer-
ril B. Morrison, Robert L. Clausen, Ira
J Rogers, William T. Smith, Ray 9.
Walden, Arthur VI. Shores, Jerry Shultz,
John Vomacka, Emil F. Kraft, Louis
Holmes, Lawrence wenell, Joseph Gle
chowski. Fred :. Becker, wounded Sc
vereIy; Burton NJ. Baker, Ernest J. Roo
ney, Leo j. Miller, Clarence V. Daw-
son, Sergeant Pearl Edwards, Private
James r. Albert, Glenn H. Cray, Albin
Dernek. Archie r. Kindig, Charles W.
Mclaughlin, Cook Charles Danielson,
Priyates Walter G. Smith, Otto H. Swan
lund, Kenmore Thorsen. Private First
Class Harvey A. McPeak. Privates John
A. ,BedHer. John McGuirl. slightly
wounded.
Wounded insaction, Sergeant Raymond
Quinlan, Private Nicholas McGaughten.
A resolution requesting the war de-
partment to advise the senate of rea-
sons for orders against publication of
addresses and relatives of men in Cen
eraI Pershing's casualty lists, was in
troduced late today by Senator New, OF
Indiana, Republican.
Unmoved by the refusal of the com
mittee on public information TO print
casualty lists stripped of everything but
bare names, the war department an
nounced this afternoon it would here
after handle publication itself. The
lists. as asked by General Pershing, viii
b epublished, barren of detail, by the
adjutant generals office.
The war departments order deleting
the next of kin. addresses and dates
from the list was officially explained
today as having resulted from repre-
sensations of the French government to
General Pershing that the. casualties
as published in this country made ac-
cessible to the enemy valuable informa-
ton.
General Pershing's View
In explaining the reasons for the or
der. Major General PeytOn Z. March.
acting chief of staff. made public u
paraphrase of the cablegram received
from General Pershing recommending
the change.
General Pershing said the French
government had called attention to the
unquestioned valuable information
which the Germans could obtain from
statements giving the exact number OF
casualties resulting after raid and
from official statistics in the form of
casualty lists which gave the precise
effects of a gas attack. He recommend
ed that the system be changed so as
to omit everything which might be
of value to the enemy.
1t could not be learned whether Gen.
eral Pershing specifically designated
the features to be deleted, or left this
TO the decision of the department, nor
was there any explanation of a state
ment in an Associated Press dispatch
today from American headquarters that
the rule prohibiting the discussing Of
casualties among the American forces
was temporary" Whether this refer
red to a prohibition imposed by Gen.
eral Pershing on correspondents in
France or to the departments new or
der was not made clear.
General March explained that the
French government has never issued a
casualty list Of any kind since the be-