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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

from the British Recruiting Mission to
the "BritislN and Canadian Recruiting
Mission"
Picturesque features of the campaign
were visits to various parts Of the United
States of veterans of various battalions
of Canadian Highlanders, including the
Forty-eighth Highlanders and the Fifth
Black Watch, and they aroused great en-
thusiasm in all the cities and towns WIS.,
tied. For the first time in history armed
British troops paraded through the
streets of cities of the United States
carrying the Stars and Stripes and the
British flag side by side.
Personal letters were written to every
Britisher and Canadian of military age in
the country urging him to volunteer and
do his bit; the British tank Britannia,
the first land battleship ever seen in the
United States, was sent here by the Brit
ish Government and became picturesque
and effective feature of the campaign, and
the mission even produced and made a
great success of war play, "Getting To-
gether," written by Major Beth Ian
Hay), ]. Hartley Manners and Percival
Knight, in which Blanche Bates and Hol-
brook Blinn were co-stars.
The capture of Jerusalem by the
British army under Gen. Allenby
aroused great enthusiasm among English
and Russian Jews in the United States
and the mission started In New York,
Chicago and other cities to recruit them
for service in Palestine in Jewish units.
Hundreds promptly offered their services.
The total number of Jewish soldiers re-
cruited by the mission is about 5000.
On July -, 1918, Negroes who were
British subjects were accepted for the
first time. The first week but three re-
cruits were secured, after which there was
a great rush to the army. In two months
1880 had volunteered and been accepted
and the total number enlisted by the mis-
sion is about 800.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

Brown have pasts Of far sundered aetivi-
ties. Healy is the Beau Brummel of the
outfit, a soldier from his shoes up. He
was with "Bobs' in the Ashantee war Of
the '70s, with Kitchener in the Sudan,
and on this hemisphere be adyentured
with Dynamite Johnnie OBnen.
Brown survived thirteen international
football contests on the Irish team against
England, Scotland and Wales. In Dublin
he was associated with the late Hugh 8.
Hart, an old Sun man. Hart first saw the
worth of Tommy Connect. With Brown
he trained the great crack for his race
against another Sun man, E. c. Carter.
Their four mile match on the Ballsbridge
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

Grounds, Dublin, in 1887 was one of the
greatest ever decided upon the running
path.
Brown had some soldering experiences,
but nothing to compare with the others.
Guard Pete Sarti, from Napoleon's
home island, Corsica, soldiered in France,
as all male Corsicans do. Virtually all
of them speak French. Their women,
save on the northern coast, know Italian
only. New York boosted eight young
Corsieans before the war. All have gone
back to fight for France.
Staten Island has everything but iron
ore to win the war. When it is won
Downey may get back the Meteor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

IN September % the British and Ca
" madam Recruiting Mission will
conclude its work in the United States as
regards the recruiting of men between 81
and 81, and about October II as regards
men between Is and q and those be-
tween 81 and As. As a result of treaty
arrangements by the United States, Great
Britain and Canada, all Britons and Cana
dams who have not volunteered for SER
vice in the British or Canadian armies at
those dates will automatically become sub
ject to the provisions Of the United States
draft. They number about 2S0, 1000.
The mission began its work in the
United States in June, 1917, and has Sc
cured approximately $4,000 recruits up
to date for the British and Canadian
armies; the British army got one-third of
this number and the Canadian army the
rest
A large percentage of the Britishers
and Canadians who volunteered were re-
jected as medically unfit. 1t Is estimated
that fully $4,000 British subjects residing
in the United States have offered their
services since the mission was established.
The first important change made in the
plan of campaign was in the name Of the
mission. Very shortly after it was es-
tabLshed it became evident that the larger
number of recruits offering their services
wanted to join the Canadian army instead
of the British army, being attracted to the
former by the pay Of $40 per day in ad-
dition to a separation allowance Of $25
per month to families Of married men,
while the pay Of the British army was
only Is cents a day with separation al
lowance of 81 to families Of married men.
This fact and the additional fact that the
large majority Of officers and non-com-
missioned officers to man the depots had
to be secured from Canada resulted in
the name of the mission being changed
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
URGENT NEED FOR MAN.PoWER.
General crowder Says Plans are Made
For Registering $4,000, 900.


Neutrality-suspicious. Marshal Cen
eral CrOwder announced August Is
that plans already have been made for
registering the 100000 additional
men which he estimates will be
brought under the selective service law
when congress enacts the pending bill
extending the age limits to include men
between Is and 45 years. From this
number approximately 100000 quail
fed for full military service are expect
ed to be secured.
So urgent is the need for additional
man-power, General Crowder said, that
the draft machinery is being put into
shape for the great task ahead without
waiting for final action by congress.
Men of the new draft will be needed by
october and in order to get them
registration day will have to be held
not later than September Is, and, If
possible, September Is will be fixed
as the day.
When the 100000 men are enroll
ed, nearly 25,OOO,OOO will have been
registered since the United States en-
tered the war. There were some 10000.
ooO enrolled on the first registration
day, June 5, 1917; another 100000
last June 5, and several hundred thous.
and more are expected to be enrolled
August "a.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
MeADoo BEHIND UTAH PLANT
Recommends Advance Of $4,000, COO
For Steel and Iron Works.

Recommends Advance Of $4,000, COO
For Steel and Iron Works.
Chicago.-Secretary McAdoo of the
treasury department has in hand full
plans for the proposed development Of
iron and steel resources of Utah, and is
ready to put the project sQuarely up
to the war finance board with the rec
ommendation that the board advance
$40 OOO,O 900 for the enterprise, to which
will be added $10,O00OO0 to be ad-
vanced by western capitalists.
The project will also call for the
building Of twenty-mile railroad from
Cedar City into the iron fields. The
United States railroad administration
will be asked to make that extension of
its lines. Erection In Salt Lake Of a
steel plant with 1900 tons capacity is
included IN the gigantic industrial
plan, and there will also be establish
ed a merchant bar mill and by-prod-
ucts plant on the shores Of Utah lake,
IL the war finance corporation ap.
proves the project.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
WILSON CALLS FOR
MAXIMUM EFFORT
oerEeMINEp TO BRING WAR TO
CONCLUSION BY coNCEN'nA-
TloN OF FORCES.
Nearly Two Million Men Must Be sent
"a France in Next Eleven Months
to Carry Out Present Plan OF
War Department.

wosb;npton.-Four million Ameri-
oop soldiers can defeat the German
army in the belief of General March,
chief of staff, and present plans OF the
war department call for more than tnat
number under arms next summer, WIN
some 100000 Of them, or ~ divisiohs'
in France by June 30.
These and other important facts con-
corning the nations effort IN the war
MS given to the senate military commit
fec by General March, Secretary BAKER
and Provost Marshal General Crow
der. were revealed by Chairman Cham-
berlain in presenting to the senate the
administration man-power bill extend
ing the draft ages to include all men
between the ages of Is and 40 years.
President Wilson is determined to
bring the war to a conclusion by con-
centrating all forces on the western
front, including Italy, Secretary Baker
told the committee, and General March
supplemented this by stating that 1t
was the purpose to end the great world
struggle quickly and decisively. For
the nation not to put forth its maxi
mum effort at once, the chief OF stan
declared, would be but playing Ger
many's game.
Thirty.one American divisions, or
approximately 100000 men, now are
in France, with as many more In
camps in this country as reservoir
Secretary Baker said that the accele'
rated program of troop movements
overseas, which has enabled General
Pershing to organize his first field
army of some 1,250,0OO men, will be
continued because Of the generous &C
ton of the British government in sup
plying shipping.
To carry out the present program Of
80 divisions overseas by June 80
nearly 100000 men must be sent t.
France in the next eleven months.
General March told the committee
according to the report to the senate
that he was in favor of young men fol
the army and that the youths Of l,
registered under the new draft Law
would be in France by June 80. He es
timated that some 2,30OOO men quail
fed for full military service would b.
secured from the new registrants, an,
he outlined the calls for the next yea
or more as follows:
August. $4,000; September, 100000
October, $4,000; November, 10000
December, 10000; January, 100000
February 100000, and 100000 MONTH,
thereafter until the end of next year.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
ENGLAND's HEAVY LOSSES.
Lord Northcliffe Reports 100000 Men
Killed During War.

London.-Lord NOrthcliffe on frida!
entertained at luncheon number oi
Canadian, Australian and American"
editors and q number Of statesh'e"
and prominent citizens of the domi"
Ions.
Lord Northcliffe criticised the Sc
crecy Of the British censorship, b! re',
son of which, he said, the wor'n i"u
ncver realized the magnitude OF "rea.
Britain's silent efforts. The best proc,
Of what has been done, he said, eX's'eu
in the casualty lists, which the censV,
did not permit to become known !"
the people of Great Britain or he'
allies, but were known by the "e'
mans, to a man. ,.,.a
1--WE have had 100000 meI. N'l'e'
during the war;" Lord Northcii'e STU,
"I4ast year our total casualties "e's
more than 100000. These figures are "
sufficient answer to the German p'op"
ganda stories that England was re"u'
fight to the last Frenchman' ''"" :"
American or man from the domih'o"''
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
CHAOS IN MOSCOW
/. UNVEILED BY POOLE
FRENCH AND BRITISH CITIZENS
HELD As HOSTAGES BY The
1OlSHEVlk LEADERS.
American Representative Turns Affairs
Of Consulate Over to Swedish
Consul and Demands Safe Con-
duct from the Country.

Washington.-Official dispatches re-
ceived Wednesday from American
Consul General Poole, in Moscow,
lifted the curtain for a moment and re-
vealed an amazing train Of events In
that city.
Consul General Poole, after witness
ing the violation of the French and
British consulates and the arrests of
the consuls general and their stats,
destroyed his code books and papers
and turned the affairs Of the American
consulate over to the Swedish consul,
at the same time demanding safe con-
duct from the country for himself and
his associates.
French and British citizens have
been arrested and the Bolsheviki have
announced they would hold them as
hostages because Of the, attack on the
soviet government by British and
French troops at Archangel.
Members of the French and British
military missions stationed in Moscow
were refused permission to leave the
country in spite Of previous promise
of safe conduct.
1t Is possible that since the sending
of Consul General Poole's kilograms
which began on July % and continued
until August 6, the situation may lave
changed, because it is reported thai
I4enine and Trotzky, the Bolshevil
leaders, have fed and the soviet gov
eminent in Moscow may have beer
OverthrOwn.
Should the situation be unchanged
the American consul generals actor
in turning his office over to Swedel
will not affect the status Of other Am
erican cOnsuls In Russia, as they hav'
been working with the local govern
ments throughout Russia where pro
ally feeling is strong.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
AMERICAN FORCES
LAND IN SIBERIA
MARKS BEGINNING OF OPERA,
TloNe IN RUesiA IN oPpOsi-
TON TO eoLeHEvlkt.
with Allied Troops Rapidly Moving
South from, ArchangeI, the czeehe-
eIovaks Have Taken New Heart
In Fight for Freedom.

Washington.-The landing Of Ameri-
can troops at vladivostok, announced
Thursday by Secretary Baker, marks
the actual beginning of operations
from the Siberian coast to the relief Of
the Czecho- Slovaks. British and
French contingents have been at Vlad-
ivostok for several days and there il
reason to believe that the Japanese
have also landed.
The march Of events In Russia from
news received Thursday seems to be
rapidly assuming the proportion Of q
route Of the Bolsheviki and Of nature
to bring dismay to Germany.
With allied troops rapidly moving
south from Archangel, forces Of Brit.
ish, French, Japanese and American
troops at vladivostok and operating to
the westward, and a British force al
Baku, the Czecho- Slovaks have taken
new heart In their heroic fight against
the Germans and Austrians.
Latest dispatches recorded the ad
vance Of the allied troops from Arch
angel to Pabereshakaia, 100 miles
south, on the road to Vologda. The
Bolsheviki are retreating and were re-
ported committing every known atroc
ity upon the civilian population, which
openly has esp0used the cause Of the
allies.
The BOlsheviki throughout Russia
are reported not only fleeing the ad
vancing allies. but the newly aroused
Russians. who have learned that thu
allies are not beaten on the western
front, as the Germans and Bolshevik
have been persistently preaching, are
the great mass Of the people. the mer
organizing. Az the real news reaches
are reported taking up the arms thai
they carried home with them wheI
they were disbanded after the debacl.
Of Brest-Litocsk.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
GROWING TIRED OF WAR.

German Press Takes Alarm at Re-
verses Suffered BY Huns.
Amsterdam. - The whole German
press Is sending up an urgent prayer
to the government that 1t should
abandon its policy Of silence regarding
war aims and undertake arranging
Observation-Disclosures peace often
Isive-throughout the country SO the
German people may know definitely
what they are fighting for.
The Hamburger Nachrichten even
pleads for an announcement of q
change in war aims.
"The two reverses which German
arms have suffered" 1t says, shave
produced deep emotion in the Ger
man people. There is no use denying
that, nor ought 1t to be denied"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
GERMANYS LOSSES
PLACED At $4,000
FEARFUL SLAUGHTER OF HUNS
IN RECENT BATTLES ON THE
WESTERN FRONT.
Seventy thousand PrIscners and Sew.
enteen Hundred Guns Taken by the
Allies Since July 18.-Germans
Using Boys to Fill Gaps.

Paris.-The Huns are not only bein.
driven back, but are losing heavily in
men and munitions, Our booty in pris-
oners and guns, which now is official.
" reported at 10000 men and 100 can.
non since July Is, is recognized as the
biggest haul the allies have made since
the war began, and there is every rea.
son to suppose that the tale of cap
lures is by no means ended. The Ger
man losses since Foch launched his
blow on July Is are estimated at 3GO,-
900 men killed, wounded and prisoners.
The belief is growing that the Ger
mans are much nearer the end OF their
tether than the rest of the world has
been allowed to guess. 1t is known
that to make up for the awful waslage
in the Aisne-Marne salient and on the
SOmme the Germans have had prac-
tically to empty their depOts in the in
terror, and that many thousands of
youths belonging to the class of 1920
which still are only in the training
stage, have already been drafted into
garrison work.
Using Up Man Power.
There is now little doubt that the
Germans have thrown in every avail
,ble reserve division on the Somme,
hoping to avoid thereby general re-
:reat along an extensive section of
heir line.
| So far as can be seen at present.
| heir resistance on the Somme cannot
possibly continue much longer, in
which case their retreat, when it
comes, will prove all the more costly
from its delay and all the more dis
lstrous, because they will be still less
m Il position to stand the still heavier
osses it will involve.
The key to the situation, according
% opinion here, lies very probably in
Russia. In his Unsuitable greed fos ex-
3ansion ut other peoples expense the
German has, in vulgar but expressive
phrase, bitten off more than he can
swallow, and his boosted "conquests'
n Russia are bidding fair to prove his
:uin on the western front.
Russ Situation a Mystery.
The entire Russian situation how
ever, is for the moment admittedly
mystery. Many people here incline to
he view that the Germans, in view of
heir critical shortage of man-power,
ire deliberately seeking breach with
he Maximalists in order to have pre-
text for Selling PetrOgrad, which
would give them an excuse to with
Draw their troops from the interior OF
Russia and take up a shorter line
pearer home. On the other hand there
$ great probability that the Germans.
in the face of the opening of the allied
campaign in Siberia on the White sea-
,re preparing to accept the inevlfapie
md fall back, because they are unable
through sheer lack of men, to under
lake a fresh Russian campaign WIN
any chance Of success.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
new ALLIED DRIVE
| on P|CAROY FRONT
loENkRAL FocH EXPECTED TO
KEEP THE GERMANS ON THE
hun IN THE FUTURE.
Million and Z Quarter Americana In
General psrshino's First Army, Al
Eager 70 Take Their Part In
Dlp Drive for Berlin.

Washington. new drive against
the German positions either in Elan
ders or between the Disc and scissors
IL expected by many army officers here
~ 4 result Of the slowing up Of the
advance in the Picardy theater.
Outlining the situation at his mid
week conference Wednesday. General
March, chief OF stan, confined his
statements to pointing out that the
Germans have now been forced back
until they are mot within 80 miles Of
Paris at any point.
The head Of the army has previously
laid stress on the fact, however, that
the greatest advantage won by Mar
shall Foch in q military way Is In hav-
Ing wrested the initiative from the
enemy.
The opinion prevailed among other
officers that the present struggle
around Roye and Lassigny would soon
terminate In the capture Of those
points. to be followed by the taking Of
Noyon.
Psrshlne.s Army 70 Take Part.
In the course Of his discussion, Cen
eral Marsh said that General PERISH
Ing now has 1850, 900 American troops
organized into the first army corps. Pre-
sumably the Americans on the British
left flank In Picardy, identified by the
chief Of stan as the 1S1st infantry Of
the Thirty-third illinois national
guard division, are among those still
brigaded for training.
II appeared possible to some officers
that the organization Of the first Am
crican army might be followed by an
all-American attack at some point on
the line which 1t holds beyond verdun,
where there has been no recent night
Ing.
The primary purpose of the two
blows Marshal Foch has struck has
been realized. Both in the Aisne-
Marne battle and again in Picardy the
attacks were defensive measures to
free Paris from the menace Of the two
wedges the enemy haA driven In that
direction. The value Of the drives In
this respect was pointed out by Gen
eral March.
Ofncers here, therefore, anticipate a
complete change in the character Of
the lighting in the next phase Of the
battle, with FOch's armies assuming
the offensive In the fullest sense of the
word and striking to force the enemy
back In such manner that he can not
avail himself Of his old Hindenburg
line defenses.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
LEVINE AND TRoTzkY RUN.

Deishsvlk Premier and His Chief
Assistant Seek Refuge with Huns.
London.-Premier Lenine and his
chief assistant, Leon Trotxky, have
fied to Kronstadt, the naval base near
Petrograd, according to q dispatch
sent out by the semi0fficial Violin bur-
eau Of Berlin and printed In Zurich
newspapers. says Havas report from
Paris
The B0lshevik government will
shortly leave Moscow for KrQnstadt.
the Berlin L0kal Anxeiger states.
Premier Lenine and War Minister
Trotxky have already reached there.
the newspaper adds.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
Food Prices Advance.

washington. - Food price figures
made public August Is by the bureau
OF labor statistics show further in.
creases IN June, the greatest advance
being ~ per cent for potatoes. An
average increase of per cent in food
prices is shown for the year ended
June Is.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
berlin Fears Russlan crlsis.

The Hague.-In spite Of their effort
to underestimate the Importance Of the
entente undertaking on the Thurman
coast Of Siberia, the Berlin papers are
unanimous Is pointing ont that Helf-
ferich's sudden return to Berlin Is due
TO the seriousness OF developments in
Russia.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
Anna Held 10 Dead.

New York.--Anna Held, the noted
actress, died August II in her apart
ments at the Hotel Savoy. The popu-
lar little French actress had made a
gallant fight against death for nearly
six months. She suffered from rare
bone disease. but finally succumbed to
pneumonia.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
POISONED GAS USED
IN U-B0AT ATTACK
HUNS INACCURATE INGENIOUS
FORM OF FRlGHTFULNEsS OFF
MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST.
Six Men In Coast Guard Station and
Lighthouse Overcome BY Gas Dis
charged on Water BY German
Submarine.

Washington. - Gas from oil dis
charged on the water by the German
submarine operating off the Middle
Atlantic coast overcame six men in
the coast guard station and lighthouse
on Smiths Island, N. c., the navy de-
partment was advised Monday by the
cOmmandant Of the sixth naval dis
trict.
II the gas attack were deliberate, as
most officials believed, it constitutes
a new and ingenious form of fright
fulness," and so far as has been re-
ported, was the first direct effort of
the German raiders to harm persons
or property on American shores.
The gas was said by the command
ant of the coastguard station to have
much the same effect as the mustard
gas used by the Germans on the west
ern front. The men were laid out for
more than half an hour, but appar-
emily suffered no serious after effects.
The dispatch relating the gas at
tack was one OF series concerning
German submarine warfare Off the At
lantic coast received during the day
by the navy department. One told OF
an attack on a submarine 100 miles
east of the Virginia coast by an Amer
lean destroyer, which discharged sew
enteen depth charges where the raid.
er was seen to submerge. The result
of the attack was not determined, but
after oil had appeared on the surface
Of the water, two bombs were dropped
on the spot and the submarine was not
seen again.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
Reeor.!der skeffinoton ca'e'

LOntlon.-The authorities III =.
have recOnsitered the case 81 ,o,,,
Sheehy Skeftington and have ri,h
mentled that the home "i"'' ,cr.
which the decision rests. 'SS" :, nd
nit TO enable her to return IL
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
Murder Mystery In ohio.

Wooster, OhiO.-James r. "'" lam.
caretaker Of the Point Breeze "''r ',.re.
qua grounds ut Smithville, mean ',,os
found the lower half OF "'"nos
body In weighted sack in ""''
neaI the grounds.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-10-09
Health Board Puts Ban on Kissing.

New York.-PersOns who WAN ,o
avoid the Spanish Influenza OF no
common garden variety OF the wars
disease, were warned by the Ne" 'O uot
City department of health FRIDAY ,,'or.
to kiss except through i'''n'AN
chief"