The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-08
CURIOUS FACTS
ABOUT THE WAR
ARE BROUGHT OUT

Curious facts are revealed in the
wound and death statistics of the
A. E. F. The much vaunted air
plane bomb wounded hut 141 sol
diers, of whom SO died; this despite
the tons of bombs dropped. Twelve
men were wounded with sabres-
presumably in encounters with Ger
man officers; three of those died.
Shrapnel wounded twice as many as
shell-32, ,753, against 16,740, but
about 1000 subsequently died in each
case. Shell, however, killed great
many more in action. Liquid fire, an
other "frightful' weapon, proved its
limited use and effect, causing only
21 casualties and no deaths. Small
totals of 10 knife and II club wounds
indicates the Germans disliked raid
ing, for these are raiding weapons,
as is-usually-th pistol, which
wounded but 24O. Only 181 men
were wounded with the bayonet. Fif-
teen men had. shotgun wounds and
two subsequently died, Tut presum-
discharge of American trench shot.
guns In general, Individual weap-
ons caused but negligible damage,
shell, shrapnel, gas and machine guns
causing the bulk of the casualties.
That Germany should have sought
a decisive naval battle at the begin.
ming of the war is the opinion of
Ludendorff. Won Tirpitz was of the
same mind, but did not sufficiently
insist upon it, Great Britain, Luden-
dorff believes, preserved her fleet
for political reasons. She realized
that a battle with the German fleet
might cost her not only her place in
the world, but also her prestige
among her allies, and even at
home 1t is not to the credit of
England's proud navy, he says, that
she refrained from giving battle In
their fear of submarine warfare Ger
many's' enemies did not hesitate to
call the U-boat a weapon, the use of
which was contrary to international
law. New weapons of war create
new international precedents. Ger
many found the right solution and
no criticism can make any difference
as the future will prove.
Financial situation in China, says
special New York Times Peking dis
patch, is increasingly acute. Govern
ment's inability to pay troops occa-
sions fear of general mutinies. Pro-
Japanese officials are endeavoring TO
negotiate loan unofficially fromlN5a
pan, ostensibly to preserve peace, but
really to retain their posts.
Government employees have not
been paid since April The president
himself has received no salary and
has had to borrow $1,000,000 to en
able him to meet official eXpendi'
lures. House of representatives has
= voted to reduce military expenditures
20 per cent. A movement is under
way for abolishing autonomy of outer
Mongolia on condition that China un-
dertake responsibility of foreign
loans which have been contracted.
Gas was probably the most ef'
fcctive German weapon and seems
ideal as such, aside from its inhu
manity. 1t caused 33.5 per cent of
all American hospital cases, with
74,523 cases, or more than twice as
many as any other single cause,
shrapnel being next with but 32,753
hospital cases out of a total of 222,
252 hospital battle casualties. It
killed only 1894 men of the above
cases, thereby following the theory
of modern war, which aims to wound
rather than kill, as the care Of the
casualty then becomes an additional
burden to the enemy.
Motion picture films taken from
archives of Grand Admiral Won Tir-
pitz have been brought to New York
by J.. H. Mackzum, Knights of
Columbus secretary. The films, de-
signed for exhibition by Germany on
the day of it's triumph, were made
by cameramen on submarine COM
missioned to cruise about the Irish
sea and photograph merchant YES
sells after they had been attacked
by undersea craft. This boat used
more than 10000 feet of film. Pic
lures depict Uboats shelling four
British vessels while those on ships
were swimming for lifeboats and
RATS. A torpedo leaving the tube of
a submarine and speeding toward it's
victim is also shown.