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The New York herald., 1921-10-19
WAR FORCES SPANISH ISSUE.
Treasury Notes OF 100,0OO,OO0 Pc
aetas to Pay Morocco Bills.

MADRID, Oct. 1S.-The Minister or
Finance announces that he will issue
from November until the end OF No
vember an unlimited amount OF s per
cent. Treasury obligations, to run three
months.
The Treasury has overdrawn its ec-
count by 1o0.00o,0o0 pesetas from the
Bank OF Spain in connection with ex-
pendltures for Morocco. The Minister
does not desire to abuse the credit OF the
Bank OF Spain and therefore appeals to
the Spanish people for financial support,
thus making unnecessary further is
sue Of paper money.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
Every Trpsstor SkO-,i5 Hsvs
THE INVEST OR'S
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ls-usd Assashly

2Tz Psse Eocklet lsrutd NenthIy
5000 hsd and lo~ records and statistical
drscrirti9a Of 400 corporations, important
facts. earnings, dividends, etc. NiN be
furnished ,stEE i, aaY investment house
10 investors on request IN We will iuu.ish
names Of e,isale hDuses who vii supply
rREE monthly copies C2 fo- yoc latest
issa- <iil be ryn, direct hy FINANCIAL
PRESS, rutllrhers, iis Bfosd ST., n. Y.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
$4,000 TONS RAILS FOR c. P. R,
order to AlHoma steel Company
Makes $4,000 Total I'm Year.

An order for $4,000 tons OF steel rails
has been placed by the Canadian Pacific
Railway with the Algoma Steel Com
pany for shipment in the next three
months. This brings UP to $4,000 tons
the total OF rails ordered by the Cana
dian Pacific Railway within the last
twelve months.
Tho Canadian Government IS nego-
tiatlng for considerable tonnage OF rails
for the Canadian Northern, the Inter-
colonial and other Government CON
trollcd roads.
steel rails are ceiling I'm Canada at
s53 gross ton. (. O. b. mill, or price
considered equivalent 70 the American
price OF s47 ton plus the import tax.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
MEXICAN FUEL OIL
ASSURED BY DOHENY
Conferences Of American and
British Petroleum Men
Reached Results.

Encouragement as to the real fuel oil
situation was given yesterday by L. l..
Doheny, president of the Mexican Petro-
iaum Company and the Pan-American
Petroleum and Transport Corporation
in relating facts concerning the recent
conferences Of American Oil men and
representatives Of British oil and ship
ping interests
Our British associates, Lord Pirrie,
Lord Inverforth, Sir James Currie and
Doheny said. came to New York from
England for the purpose OF arranging
with the American group. who Jointly
own with them the stock OF the British
Mexican Petroleum Company, Ltd. for
a supply OF fuel oil for next year. cs
well as TO adjust contracts for this year.
which adjustments were made necessary
by the reduced price Of oil, OF ship char
ters and Of quantity sales.
Encouragement Is given by the con-
tract for the conversion for use of fuel
OF other transatlantic steamships and
ones under construction.
THE British Mexican Petroleum COM
pany, Of which the Pan American Pc
troleum and Transport Company owns
one-half. has made . contract. tenta-
lively, with the Huasteca Petroleum
Company, with which the Pan American
Company is associated, for a supply Of
fuel oil for 1922 sufficient. we believe.
to meet the requirements Of the steam
ships above referred to. The terms have
been established, but the actual prices
are not fixed IN figures. although pro-
vided for by the terms OF the agree
inent.
Roth tho British and American groups
feel confident OF the continuance of a
regular supply OF fuel oil from the Mexi-
can wells OF the Mexican Petroleum
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
PROPOSALS.


HUDSON a. MANHATTAN RAILROAD co.
REQUEST FOR BIDS FOR FURNISHING
ELECTRICAL SuB-STATION MACHINERY.
Bids are requested for the design. con-
struction. delivery and complete installation
OF one % railroad sub-station rotary con-
verter, rated capacity 1000 X. W.. complete
with transformers, control and regulating
apparatus, s,a al to be erseted on foundations rs
sub-station located In It's power house In Jer-
sey City, New Jersey. all in accordance with
No as RsSS'i0nS iooc OF proposed contract Serial
BY the terms OF the proposed contract the
machinery and equipment supplied must bo
and in parallel with the existing rotary con-
verters nov in operation IN the sub-stations
OF the Undersigned, and win consist OF =
verter $50 volts, d. O.. two wire CONF
mutlng pole. phase. 25 cycle, A. c. self
starting, complete with field rheostat:--
Three go Converter transformers, 1000
X. V. A., single phase. indoor air blast,
20 cycles for connection TO 1000 volts,
high tension. and with low voltage tabs,
suitable for rotary -
Ono ID Converter switching equipment
for controlling above converter. consist
Ing Of high tension circuit breaker and
interlocking equipment; Low tension start
Ing and running panel and d. G. rotary
panel complete
apparatus. including cable, but not duct,
masonry foundations. installation OF con-
nections win start al high tension leads and
end With connection 10 d. @. bus bars.
Work is TO be commenced promptly upon
the execution OF the contract, and all ma
chinery and equipment completely installed
in accordance with the contract and In
working order within eight months frorn
date OF execution OF the contract.
Bids must be submitted not later than noon
the fourth day of November. 1921. and
will be received Mt or before the time above
specified by IT. W. webber, Purchasing
Agent, Hudson g. Manhattan Railroad Com
pany. at his office IN Room 33., 80 Church
Street, New York City. and will be opened
by II. W. Webbsr az his office above dcslg-
mated. Immediately after noon of said day.
Each bid shall be addressed to H. w.
Weber. Purchasing Agent. as above set
forth. and shall be enclosed With accompany
Ing papers IN a plain envelope. securely
Of the bidder or ~ amount OF the bid and
shall be marked ''Dd under proposed con-
tract No. 1000"
Each bid shall state the name and address
Of the bidder and. if the bidder be a cor
poraton, the names and addresses OF the
thereof and Of the purchasing selling
officer agent in that transaction. and.
II the bidder II n firm. partnership or asso-
citation, the bid shall give the names and
addresses OF each member thereof. and Ct
the manager. purchasing or selling officer
or agent IN that transaction.
Form Of proposal. form ct contract nrd
specifications are available for examination
al the office above designated. and copies
thereof may be obtained. free OF charge.
from II. w. webber. Purchasing Agent.
IIudson a Manhattan Railroad Company,
Room 355. so Church street. New YORK City.
Tho right 10 reserved TO rejec; any and
HUDSON & MANHATTAN RAILROAD
COMPANY,
30 Church street, New York City.
October Is. 1921.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
BUTTERwORTH.JUDSON PLANS.
Committee OF Stockholders to Ham
die Heorga anization.

A committee OF preferred and COM
mon stockholders OF the Butterworth-
Judson Corporation has been appointed
TO carry out the terms of the reorganiza-
tion plan adopted in August and a large
amount Of both classes of stock has al
ready been deposited. On the plan be-
coming operative depositors Of common
stock will receive the right TO purchase
series u bonds at 1855 2-3 for each
share OF stock deposited and then will
receive new common stock, share for
share. Creditors holding more than
four-ffths OF the claims against the
company have assented 10 fhe plan.
Chellis A. Austin, william a. Bradford
and Thomas l. Chadbourne mako Up
the committee.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
U. S. CONTRACTS IN ARGENTINA.
Anne ericans Beat Germa ms on @13,.
100000 Railroad Orders.

BUENos AIRES. Oct. 1s.-Representa-
tives Of the Baldwin Locomotive Works
and the Middlotown Car Company, a
subsidiary of the Standard Steel Car
Company. signed yesterday a joint con-
tract with Argentine State Railways Cor
e.ghty-fvc locomotives and 1000 freight
cars and spare parts. to cost s13. 600, 900.
The contract is subject to the approval
Of President Yrigoyen. Payment will DO
In Argentine per cent. treasury notes.
maturing IN five years.
The Americans outbid two German
corporations.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
BILL IN PERU FOR U. s. LOAN.
S50,OOO.OoO WouId he Secured by
Custom Receipts.
Trustee
By The Assocint,d prre,

~ VIC <fSoVcIt<EbU FTCtSs
LIMA, Peru. Oct 1s.-Minister Of tn,
treasury Rodriguez Dulanto to-day in.
;roduced in Congress a bin that would
authorize the Peruvian Government to
negotiate a loan In tho United States
OF s5o.ooo.0oo, to be secured by custom
receipts and to bear interest at 8 per
cent. a bill, now pending in the House.
authorizing the appointment OF foreign
experts TO reorganizc and Administer
the Peruvian Custom House passed the
Senate to-day.
Both measures are said to be the
result of negotiations carried on recently
In New York between Fernando Fuchs
former Minister of the Treasury. and
the Guaranty Trust Company.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
LEGAL NOTICES.
so. 1901.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE or coMpTRoLLER OF THD
80. lanai

CURRENCY.
Washington, y. c., September "a. 1921.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence pro.
eenied TO the undersigned. II has bsen made
:" '.TfRiE Ris iMET1'RoPoLrTAN NATIONAL BANK
OF TIE CITY or NEW YORK. IN the
CITY OF NEW YORK In the County ot
NEW YORK and state OF NEW YORK has
complied with all the provisions OF ths
statrtes OF the United States. required %
be complied with before an association shall,
be nuthorlzed 20 commence the business OK
EoW THEREFORE, I. u. r. CRISsrNGER.
C'ornptroller OF the Currency, do hereby
certifv that TIVE METROpOLfTAN MA
rfoNAI, BANK OF THE CITY or NEW
YoRR'' "a the CRY Of NEW YORK in trs
County OF NEW YORK and State OF NEW
YORK is authorised 90 commence the Dust
ress of Ranking az provided In section fsfty
rr., huudred aud uix.y nine of tne Revised
r-fht,tes Of the United states
CoNvERgION Of metropolitan Enni'
,s'th o branches IN the Borough OF Man
haitian, County and state % New YORK,
ara / hrarcr IN the Borough oi Broctlyn,
County of Kings and state of New York.
f% TicgTTMONY WHEREOF wltress my
hand and scni of office shie TWENTY.
i,OTRvH dag os SEPT ENDElt toet.
d ". CRfSSTNGER
Comptroller of the Currency.
fC.,rrencv Bureau. Seal of the Comp
tro,isr o, the Currency. Treasury
Der-rtfnent)
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
New SUSSEX County. Del, Issue.

p. J. Van Ingen G Co. are Offering
s230.000 OF Az per ccnt highway i'm
prove.nert bonds Of Sussex county. Del
aware. at priccs TO yield 5.25 per cent.
They are due serlally and mature in
1943 to 1860, inclusive.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19

Exempt Federa nconeTa Taxes
100000
State of Idaho
$50 Highway Bonds
Dated January ! 1891 opdea, January l. 1881 Due January ~"
Bonsl odsnomna
the State Treasurer Boise Idaho or I" The Equitable
New
Legal 10, Sinss and7
and other Eastern States
Eligible o osecure Pos Deposits
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Estimated Actual Of T.x.beP Property rr
Assessed so6602,702
Bonded Debt (iniudins this hsue) ssssooo
Sinking Fund s7o"olo 10000
Net Bonded Debt Sz5S3S0
Population Ccnsus .~43l,see
Mel 10 of Assessed Valuation
authorized Legislature and approved by
nuniri ad tax taxable
Price 975s and Interest Yield about 5.20%o
Leeu oanou Thomson ,NcyY
William r. Compton Co. Kisse, Kinnicutt & Co.
Eldredge Company Remick, Hodges & Co.
The Equitable Trust Company
of New York
mfomato and sato aaued but hz beer
hrmso ldh believe be ocarae
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
wants Loan to Buy Coal Cars.

wAsHiNGTor, OCT. ts.--rhs Kansas.
Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company
applied .o-day 10 the interstate COM
mercs Commission for a loan OF $500, C,ocO
for buying new coal cars.
The New York herald., 1921-10-19
THE DAYTON UNION RAILWAY COMPANY

IlncinnaLl, ollo. Octooer y 4e-l.
BOND PROPOSAL.
Proposals Will be received Until November
18th, 1921. for the purchase OF $4,000 90
par salue OF bonds OF The Dayton Union
halfway Company for the Sinking Fund IN
accordance with the terms OF tho mortgage
dated July J. 1889. Interest on those bends
10 cease December ist. 1921
r. ~. HARRY. Treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

low, doing honor to his Fatherland, in
the strictest sense Of the word.
He has been charged against his will,
believing that he IS doing wrong to his
country, TO carry forward this present
letter to the officer IN charge of the bat
talon Of the 77th Division, with the
purpose to recommend this ctmmanGcr
to surrender with his forces, as it would
be quite useless to resist any more, in
view Of present conditions.
''The suffering of your wounded men
can be heard over here in the German
lines, and we are appealing to your hu-
name sentiments to stop. A white flag
shown by one of your men will tell US
that you agree with these conditions.
Please treat Private -- as an hun-
1rable man. He is quite a soldier. We
envy you. {Signed) The German Com
manding Officer"
Major Whittlesey read this note and
passed it to Captain McMurtrey. He
handed it to Captain Holderman.
Major Whittlesey did not say GO to
hell!' as was reported There was no
body to say it to. He simply smiled and
stuck the note in his pocket.
Can you imagine yourself having to
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

the division was ordered to proceed
without regard to losses. The forest
had to be taken, and the 77th had to
take it.
| will try to avoid map references,
but, to the left of the line two rayines
came together. forming a nasty swampy
place, known as ''the pocket" In front
of this was sheer cliff, just like the one
leading from the upper lake in Central
Park to McGown's Pass-that high
place up on the rocks where there is a
historic stone and you can stand and
look over the surrounding country.
Whittleseys battalion, made up of
companies from the 3O8th and 3O7th In
fantries and part of the 306th Machine
Gun Battalion, had the Job of taking up
a position in that pocket and holding it.
In moving forward Whittlesey found
an unprotected place in the ravine and
filed his men through it. They crawled
and scrambled through matted under
growth and vines, but finally got to-
gether and re-established their line,
nearly half a mile wide as it faced.
They had crossed an abandoned
trench or ditch that had grown up in
wild tangle, the Germans thinking it un-
necessary to man this year or so be-
fore. But, mind you, the battalion had
not taken this without some fighting.
Whittlesey's outfit had lost ninety men
from f1anl1ing machine-gun fire and
had taken two German officers and
twenty-eight privates prisoners.
This would have been a masterful
coup but for the fact that the French on
one flank and the 307 Infantry on the
other had been held up so that they
could not link their lines with Whittle-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

sey's. In other words, Whittlesey's out
fit was the only one to fight it's way
through and take the objective as or
dered.
The battalion settled down in it's place
after dark, the men finding it very diff
cult to dig funkholes for themselves in
the rocky ground at the foot of the high
slope that they now faced.
The outfit had but one days rations
in addition to the one days emergency
Gron rations, they are called) carried
on their backs. Early next morning a
detail was sent back for rations. 1t
never returned.
At daybreak Company E under Lieu
tenant Wilhelm was sent back to attack
from the left (west) of the ravine so as
to assist other companies in moving for
ward.
A few hours later Lieutenant Lenke,
who had gone with Wilhelm, returned
with eighteen men, saying that the COM
pany had been surrounded. He had
been ordered to get his platoon out any
way he could. Wilhelm subsequently
worked his way through with the few
men that remained
Trench mortars suddenly opened up
on the little command from 600 yards
to it's left and rear. Scouts came in re-
porting that their post runner system
had been broken up by the Germans.
But they captured prisoner. He re-
ported that his company of seventy men
had been ordered to trickle down the
old trench during the night and take up
a position in the rear of the Americans.
They had also restrung wire through
the underbrush.
Whittlesey knew that he was cut off.
BY the use of carrier pigeons he dis
patched this information to regimental
headquarters. After that it was impos
slble to re-establish communication.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
Drawing BY c. B. FALLS

1t was during the next morning, while
General Alexander was making super
human efforts to get supplies and rein
torcements to Whittlesey, that corre-
spondents in telling of the lone, single
handed fight of the battalion coined the
term Lost Battalion" Had they said
'Bele2guered Battalion it is possible
that the cruel misconception would have
been avoided
When | called at General Alexander's
headquarters that day he was in high
state of nervous anxiety It was inn
perative for the stabilizing of the whole
division front that Whittlesey hold his
position. The General had ordered
Whittlesey to hold it and he felt reason
ably sure of his man If it was human
possibility he expressed confidence that
Whittlesey would not weaken, but he
feared that the whole command would
be wiped out before reinforcements
could fight their way to it's side.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

Whittlesey's men were without food
and their ammunition was getting
scarce. He had no idea how long he
would have to stay there and fight, so
he carefully nursed the ammunition.
The men had found good spring of
drinking water, but no trip was made
to it without some one being killed.
Despite this danger patrols would vol
unteer to go for water. The Germans
also located this spring and covered it
with machine gun fire. They even laid
(fixed aim their guns on it and kept up
an intermittent fire to rake the spring
and it's approaches during the night.
Despite their hunger and thirst the
men showed no disposition to give up.
Time and again some English speaking
German would yell over the cliff, "Why
don't you surrender?" Then they would
shout commands to their own forces In
German, such as Bring up ten machine
guns on the left" to intimidate the
Americans, many of whom they knew
spoke German.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

Whittlesey and his men knew of this
thinly concealed gossip and it hurt to
the quick. Of course, if he really had
led his outfit into trap, as the unthink-
ing ones intimated, he could never have
got the Congressional medal of honor.
But they never considered that.
To this day that picturesque express
sion, Lost Battalion carries the
poison of misunderstanding. Only a
week ago the managing editor of a New
York newspaper asked me:
''Tell me, how did Whittlesey come to
get lost with that battalion?"
If | can make clear what really hap
pened in simple, non-military terms, |
will feel that have done a service to a
man we loved and who is gone, and to
his soldiers who are living.
The 77th Division had been ordered
to advance through the forest, it's front
being about four miles wide. This ad-
vance began on September 26 On Octo-
ber the whole line was held up by con-
centrated machine-gun fire.
That you may visualize this advanc-
ing line, imagine soldiers strung out
from 59th Street and Central Park to
the Polo Grounds, moving toward the
East River. Don't try to imagine the
ground as it appears ON map. The
whole country for miles looked very
much like that section of Central Park
around McGown's Pass, with some of
the Palisades thrown in. All was COW
cred with dense woods and thickets. So
thick were these woods that it was i'm
possible to see man more than sixty
yards away. There were many hills as
high as the approach IN the Palisades,
and they happened eve-7 half mile or
SO. At the foot of these sharp hills were
deep ravines of small, swanpy streams,
all snarled up in a tangle of vines and
rank undergrowth 1t was Herculean
task to walk through that, let alone fight
through it. And it lasted for nearly
nineteen miles, straight ahead!
You can well understand why the Ger
mans held this for four years.
But, despite the hold up on October 2,
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11
BY BOZEMAN BULGER

tried to drop it the harder it stuck, and
grew. Coupled, as it was, with the un-
paralleled stand of the beleaguered little
force of Americans under Whittlesey
and McMurtrey, the expression went
around the world-became a classic. It
was cruel.
In so going around the words created
a gross mlsconception of what Whittle-
sey and his battalion really did. ''Lost
Battalion carried a meaning that was
never intended.
speak of this rather Familiarity be-
cause, at the time, | had been trans
ferred from the 77th Division to the
General Staff and was in charge of the
bureau through which the correspond
ents were enabled to be on that part of
the front.
The catch line aroused in other divi-
sions tendency toward thoughtless
criticism, even raillery. Though unit
against outsiders soldiers are hard on
each other. For instance:
A few days after the armistice we at
tended Y. M. c. A. show got up by the
enlisted men in one of the rest areas of
another division.
Say" said one soldier comedian to
another on the stage, 1--WE lost my wrist
watch (This was comic jab at Off
GERS, because few privates owned wrist
watches.)
That's nothing,'' replied the other,
there's major over in the 77th who
lost battalion"
In lesser degree this idea took root
in the United States.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

The exchanging epithets would have
burnt the. ears of Puritan.
A favorite epithet used by the Ameri-
cans to taunt the Boches, which always
worked, was "Wint Betebren.' This is
very opprobrious term in the German
army, though it doesn't sound so bad in
English. 1t means literally S'Wind-bag
gang"
In response to the surrender sugges-
ton the Americans would yell in plain
English-too plain for this newspaper
Come on and get US, you Dutch
S. -s."
The scene I am describing here was
described to me by officers and men, one
of whom wrote the official report of it
for the War Department and for the
division history.
On Sunday, October 6-they had been
there four days-the cries of the
wounded had become piteous and the
hunger was almost unbearable. There
seemed nothing before the command
but death, but they had been told to
take that position end hold it. Hold it
they did.
At 4 o'clock that afternoon a private
who had been captured by the Germans
was blindfolded and sent back into the
lines. He was given note to deliver to
Major Whittlesey. 1t read:
"Sir-The bearer of this present, Pri-
vate ---, has been taken prisoner
by us. He refused to give the German
intelligence officer any answer to his
; questions, and is quite an honorable fel-
New-York tribune., 1921-12-11

him to his tragic end, his leap in the
night from vessel at sea.
1t is unlikely that speakers who in
troduced and lauded Whittlesey and his
Lost Battalion ever suspected that
they were adding fresh stings to hurt
he suffered from the moment he landed
in America, hero. They thought, per-
haps, that the silent, priestly looking
man beside them felt a glow in their
eloquent praise He was too kind a soul
to give possible offense by protest or
correction.
But it hurt! Only his army associates,
soldiers, knew how it hurt.
The men of the 308th and 3O7th In
fantry and their superiors in command
often f1ared in open resentment. But
never could they make the public under
stand.
After the impressive memorial serv-
ices last week, I met one of Whittle-
sey's men, a private, on upper Broad
way.
Yes, he's gone," he said, brokenly.
And even when he died." he suddenly
nsred up, "the newspapers and public
speakers had to hang that Lost Bat
talion' on him
No, Whittlesev's battalion was not
lost. On the contrary, it punctured the
herman line while other units were be-
ing held up.
carrying out difficult and specific
assignment Whittlesey's command at
famed its objective. Under orders to
aoid it he held it.
II was an advance anchor which held
% tnat the rest of the division could
pun up. That is what made his sangui-
aafV stand against odds such a heroic
deed.
Inc commanding general knew exact
y "nere the battalion was. He spent
I'VE leverish days trying to reach it
WIN support.
" was during those five days that war
s0lfespondents, seeking picturesque
sA'sn line and with the best intentions
= 'he world, coined the phrase Lost
s'<iion. 1t stuck. The harder they