The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-09-20
U.S.-TeutOuic " ar News


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 OF
Americas millions of men between the
ages of eighteen and twenty-one and
thirty-twO to forty-five, inclusive, had
been accomplished ON Thursday with
precision. Provost Marshal General
Crowder turned his attention to the
great task of classifying this vast
army.
An American troopship with $500
men on board has been torpedoed. All
hands were saved by destroyers. The
United States navy department an
nounced that the vessel was the White
Star liner Persic of 12,043 tons. The
troop ship was one of large convoy
approaching the English coast and
was about 200 miles out. There was
no sign of panic on board. Many OF
the troops were from Chicago and
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
to persuade them that further resist.
ance is useless. These instructions
were made necessary because some
one in American uniform during Ger
man attack on Fismette ran among the
troops, calling upon them to cease re-
sistance 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 thirty-two to thirty-six
years, inclusive. Questionnaires will go
first to registrants within these speci-
fed age limits and local boards will be
ordered to classify them first in readi.
ness for calls beginning in October.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
has arrived safely in France, the war
department announced. The Secre-
tary's trip, the second he has made to
Europe this year, was made aboard a
transport. The secretary was accom-
panied by John D. Ryan, director of
aeronautics; Maj. Gen. w. G. Gorgas,
surgeon general of the army; Brig.
Gen. Frank Il. Hines, and Lieut.. Col.
George III. Baird, military aid to the
secretary of war.
Under new 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 a week, and only the names of
the dead and missing will be cabled
by General Pershing when the system
| is fully in effect. General Pershing re-
ported 10000 slightly wounded Amer
leans up to August 20.
lean casualties in 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 callins
attention to the fact that the regula
tons prohibit members of the fighting
force to leave their proper position.
even for this purpose.
/ The claim that their gun crew sank
a German submarine of large type AZ
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, ap
proximately 400 miles off France, a:
the result of an attack on a cargo
convoy, says dispatch from London
The crew was saved.
American troops have landed a
Archangel to assist the other allie,
forces there in their campaign for tn
establishment of order in northern
Russia. This announcement was au
thorized by General March, chief o
staff.