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of
National War Work Council
Y.M.C.A. of the United States
Vol. 1.
SWEEPING PROMOTIONS
IN 28TH DIVISION
One Hundred and Fifty Lieu
tenants and Non-Commis
sioned Officers Given Ad
vancement.
Major General Charles M. Clement,
commander of the 28th division, has
issued a general order, awarding the
following promotions:
To Ee First Lieutenants.
Second Lieuienant William Lawson.
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Stephen J. Ketran,
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Ralph G. Speigle,
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Howard G. Taylor.
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Edward W. Sterling.
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant John H. Litschert,
109th Infanlry.
Second Lieutenant John J. Owens, 109th
Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Sidney A. Davis.
109th infantry.
Second Lieutenant George Borthwick,
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Charles V. Under
wood, 109 ft Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Roy E. Faulkner,
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Maurice J. McGuire,
Vjeutenant Jackson M. WHnter,
109th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Stewart M. Alcxaai
der. 110th Infantry. *R
Second Lieutenant Howard C. Brad
dock, 110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant John W. Day. HOtn
Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Samuel S. Crouse,
110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Alfred G. Braden,
Jr., 110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant William R. Cum
mings, 110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Gilmore L. Hyman,
110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant John W. Rommel,
110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant James R. Rose, 110th
Infantry.
Second Lieutenant William A. Rogers,
110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Joseph S. Ferguson,
110th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Godfrey N. Wilte,
lllih Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Jay IV. Fleming
111th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Yates D. Fetterman,
111 th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Lewis E. Reigner,
II Ith Infantry.
Second Lieutenant William J. Scott,
111th Infantry. JP'
Second Lietuenant William S. Tressler,
111th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Robert S. Cain, 111th
Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Charles H. Skellie.
112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Allen M. Crodell,
112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Harry D. McClus
key, 112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Frederick L. Pond,
112th Infantry'.
Second Lieutenant Frederick O. Blank
enship. 112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant John L. Heilman,
112;h Infantry.
• Second Lieutenant Wallace Wellman,
112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Carl C. Tintsman,
112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Ignatius J. Meenan,
112th Infanlry.
Second Lieutenant William E. Franks,
112th Infantry.
Second Lieutenant James R. Thompson,
112th'Infantry.
Second Lieutenant Ralph D. McLouth,
112th Infanlry.
Sergeant William J. Robinson, 56th In
fantry, Brigade Headquarters.
Second Lieutenant Eugene L. Hart
man, 103rd Engineers.
Second Lieutenant John E. Schlottman.
103rd Engmcers.
Second Lieutenant Robert L. Birtley
103rd Engineers.
Second Lieutenant Edward N. Butler.
103rd Engineers.
Second Lieutenant Edward A. Warner,
Jr., 103rd Engineers. v
Second Lieutenant Robert A. Swaim,
103rd Engineer Train.
Second Lieutenant William A. Kauff
man, 107th Machine Gun Battalion.
Second Lieutenant James M. Snyder,
lOSth Machine Gun Battalion.
Second Lieutenant Peter W. Stauffer
109th Machine Gun Battalion.
Second Lieutenant Daniel B. Strickler.
109th Machine Gun Batatlion.
Second Lieutenant John F. Harvey,
(Contini««a on page two.)
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Edition for CAMP HANCOCK Augusta, Ga.
GERMANS STRONGER
NOW THAN EVER
We Must Prepare Not Only to
Fight, But to Win, Says Sec
retary Baker.
Washington, D. C. —In startlingly frank
fashion Secretary of War Baker’s week
ly summary warns the nation not to min
imize the danger of the newly massed
Teuton hordes on the west front.
Stripped of its verbiage, the statement
amounted to notice that with the added
forces Germany has drawn from the east
front, she constitutes a graver danger
han at any' time in the past two and s
half years.
The Germans ma” even be able to
achieve some ‘’relative advantage”—such
as they did in the past week at Cain
brai—Baker added, through a temporary
predominance of numerical strength.
After reviewing the British retirement
in the Cambria section and paying trib
ute to the American engineers’ valor in
that fight. Baker warned America must
speed up its military efforts, ’’prepare not
only to fight, but to win.” and be en
tirely united.
Aimed at British.
“This German parrying thrust, the most
powerful and successful blow aimed at
the British during the past two and a
half years, coming as it did immediately
after the British victory in the'same area,
serves to emphasize the reviving strength
of the Germans in (he west,”, he con
tinued.
"We r.iust recognize plainly that the
situation in the eastern theatre has
brought about a very decided change Ir
the strategic possibilities in the military
situation in the west. Germany, by leav
ing only a skeleton division in the Rus
sian area, by concentrating all available
guns, munitions and men in the theatre
of operation in the west, has been able to
mass a relatively greater force than she
has ever been able to t-ionlilze tn France,
in the past.
Success Explained.
“This explains the success which th<
enemy has been able to obtain in driv
ing the British back from Cambrai.
”It would not do for us to minimize
its importance. The enemy realizes that
he finds himself in a singularly fortunate
position and he can be counted upon to
take the utmost advantage of it.”
"For a long- time past he has been
preparing his plans for just such an
eventuality as would arise when Russia
should enter upon negotiations for a sepa
rate peace, which has been a principal
German objective ever since the battle of
Tannenberg. We must expect that he
will put these plans into execution. Thus
he may have at his disposal for a time a
preponderant numerical superior in the
west; he may even be able to achieve
some relative advantages in the field
suv has those recorded during the past
week
Magnitude of Task.
“The magnitude of the task before us
can be more fully realized when measured
by the success which the enemy is still
able to gain.
It means that we must speed up out
military effort. The united nation must
stand squarely behind our soldiers.
"It is not sufficient to prepare to flgnt
e must prepare to win,
/‘Though during the preceding winters
of the war. the belligerents at this ad
vanced season of the year had been con
tent to hold the positions won, waiting
for the most favorable weather of th"
early spring to continue operations, this
year he western front is the scene o’
numerous engagements.”
The prevalence of raids ntong the from
indicated to Baker that the German D
testing out the strength of the uni’s op
posed to him—probably with a view t<
a forceful drive at a weak spot.
“The full energy” of Italian forces will
be required, the statement said, to pre
vent the tins from debauching to the
main Bretna valley and the plains be
-1O’“.
“Our declaration of war 'lyains; Aus
tria now associates us in’ : «’qfAiy with
th P str-ggle going on in Italy,” Bakei
declared.
Spinal Meningitis
Claims Private
The fourth death at Camp Hancock
from natural causes occurred Monday
morning at 6:30 o’clock at the base bos
pital when Private Beniamin B. Lawso*-
of Company F, 111th Infantry, succumbed
to spinal meningitis. Private Lawson’:
home was in Jeffersonville, Pa. He wat
23 ’'ears of age.
The body was removed to R. E. Elliott’:
funeral home.
DECEMBER, 12, 1917
BRITISH CAPTURE
ANCIENT JERUSALEM
After 1,200 Years of Moham
medan Rule, City is in Chris
tian Hands. Exceeds Fall of
Bagdad in Importance.
Jerusalem is in the hands of the
British after having been for virtually
1,200 years in control of Moslems.
The Holy City of the Christian re
ligion capitulated to General Allenby’s
forces, consisting of British, French
and Italian troops, after it had been
entirely' surrounded and with its fall
seemed swept away the dream of the
Germans and the Turks of driving
southward through Palestine, captur
ing the Suez Canal and invading Egypt.
Since the recent taking of the town
of Jaffa, on the. Mediterranean and the
gradual closing in on Jerusalem by the
allied forces the fall of the ancient
city daily had been anticipated. It was
not the lack of strength that prevented
its capture but rather desire of Gen
eral Allenby to carry out his plan of
enveloping the city and forcing its
capitulation as a frontal attack would
have endangered the numerous sacred
places inside the city and its environs.
Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the
exchequer, announced in the house of
commons Monday that Jerusalem, after
being surrounded on all sides; by the
British troops, had surrendered.
The chancellor said British. French
and Mohammedan representatives were
on the way to Jerusalem to safeguard
the holy places.
Exceeds Fall of Bagdad.
In sentimental and romantic aspect
the capture of Jerusalem far exceeds
even the fall of fable crowned Bagdad.
The modern city of Jerusalem contains
about 60,000 inhabitants and is the
home of pestilence, filth and fevers
but in historic interest it na tut ally
surpasses, to the Christian world, all
the places on earth. Since the days
when David wrested it from the hands
of Jebusites to make it the capital of
the Jewish race, Jerusalem has been
the prize and prey of half the races of
the world. It has passed successfully
into the hands of the Assyrians, Baby
lonians. Greek, Romans, Pershins
Arabs. Turks, the motley crowds of the
crusaders, finally to fall before the de
scendants of Richard the Lion Hearted,
who strove in vain for its possession
more than 700 years ago.
TERRIBLE DISASTER
IN HALIFAX, N, $.
Munitions Ship Collides and
Explodes, Rendering 25,000
People Homeless.
With an awful concussion, the mu
nitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in Hali
fax harbor last Thursday, due to col
lision with the steamship loma, and up to
this'writing, the known dead are 1,280 of
whom 946 have been identified. More
than 6,000 were wounded by the'falling
buildings and crashing glass and 25,000
have been rendered homeless. Nearly
2,000 people have been unaccounted for.
It was the worst catastrophe in the his
tory of the Dominion of Canada and to
add to the misery, a terrific blizzard set
in the following day and has been raging
ever since, stalling relief trains and mak
ing conditions almost unbearable.
Soldiers, sailors and police are patroling
the streets and large forces of men are
searching among the ruins. The man
power of the city has been so depleted
that an appeal had to be made for as
sistance in digging graves for the vic
tims. The disaster was due to a inisun
ierstanding of signals and is
zed as "the most fearful which has be
fallen any city in the world.
New York City and Boston rushed re
lief trains to Halifax as soon as news of
he disaster was received. On board the
vessel which exploded were 3,000 tony of
I’. N. T., one of the most powerful ex
plosives in the world and the damage
vhich resulted from the awful force of
-lie detonation beggars description.
ARMY NEWS
FOR ARMY MEN
ANO
THEIR HOME FOLKS
DIVISION OF CAVALRY
WILL REORGANIZED
Will Have 11/000 Men. First
Since Days of Civil War.
Forming at El Paso.
A. Washington dispatch says that a
division of regular cavalry is being form
ed at El Paso—the first since the days
of the Civil war. 'rhe division will be
organized under the old army plan with
about 11,000 men.
The project is in preparation for
eventualities abroad and has no signifi
cance, so far as the Mexican border pa
trol is concerned. It is part of the reg
ular plan of the department, for the
tactical organization of the expanded
regular army.
There is no present intention of em
ploying mounted troops with General
Pershing’s forces, although the general
officer is reported to have recommended
the creation of from three to five cav
alry division. Employment by General
Byng, leader of the recent great British
surprise attack, of mounted troops, points
the way to the conclusion that it may
be advisable later, when the transporta
tion situation is easier, .to send over cav
alry in such numbers as the American
staff may think wise.
It was emphasized that formation -of
the cavalry division at El Paso reflected
no uneasiness as to the border situation.
Winter, has required the withdrawal of
the mounted troops from tlie northern
expansion camps.
CITY TROOP ~
REMAINS INTACT
The First Troop, Philadelphia Citv
Cavalry, now assigned- to Company F,
One Hundred and Third Engineers, on the
authority of the War Department, has
been ordered transferred to teh One Hun
dred and Mortar Battery.
The order will restore the historic or
ganisation Intact. The announcement was
received with great delight by the mem
bers of the unit.
The work of transferring the equipment
of the unit over to the artillery reserva
tion, where it will be located, being now
attached to the Fifty-third Artillery Brig
ade, under the command of Brigadier
General William G. Price, will occur this
week. It was exactly one week ago that
the troop moved from the reservation of
the headquarters troop to the engineer
regiment area.
SINGERS,
ATTENTION!
Bassos to right of them,
Tenors to left of them,
Baritones in front of them.,
Volleyed and thundered.
With apologies to Tennyson for the
above, we wish to ask all singers at
Camp Hancock to meet for a big song
fest on Sunday afternoon at 2:15, in
what was known as the Red Triangle
tent on the postoffice road, near the
Engineers.
Professor Tebbs, chorus director for
Camp Hancock, has conceived the idea
of having a big community sing for
the next two Sundays and would like
to meet all the singers for the express
purpose of learning some Christmas
carols, to be sung at the Christmas
tree celebration.
The big tent will hold about 1,200
and it is expected that every inch of
space will be filled. Come early if you
want a seat. The sing-song will not
last more than- one hour, as Professor
Tebbs must be in Augusta to lead the
singing at the Grand theater commu
nity singing. Tell the singers about it.
WOMENOT PEN NSYLVA NIAI
The woman’s committee of the Au
gusta Council of National Defense will
give a reception to the women of Penn
sylvania on Thursday afternoon at 4
o’clock in St. John’s Methodist Epis
copal church, and all women from the
Keystone State are urged to be pres
ent.
SPAR ETH EH O LL Y!
The soldiers at Camp Hancock are
asked to spare the holly growing in
and near the camp. The women of
Augusta make this appeal.
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