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AMERICANS GIVE UP LIVES
ON EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELDS
Of 40,000 Americans Who Enlisted in Armies of Allies, a
Goodiy Number Have Been Killed in
Action,
VALOROUS -DEEDS ARE SUGGESTED BY MANY NAMES
From the International
OF TITK 40,000 Americans (a rough
tstlinate) fighting in the armies
of the Kntente Allies, several
thousand have been killed or wounded.
Stories of their deeds of bravery s.nd
their gallant ends trickle over to tho
I'riited States from-time to time, Iwiti
the vast majority of their exploits vill
go unsung. "The total of Ameri-an
Volunteers participating in the graat
war wilU never be accurately known
Many thousands would also be
fish ting for Germany and her al'ies,
undoubtedly . if the British blocka.le
- d!il not prevent them from reach;- g
the front. A Yale undergraduate. Karl
I..OW ellyn, who happened to be in Ger
many when the conflict began, aceorr.
pniiied a German regiment into Bel
gium without having ' any offici.il
recognition and was wounded on one
of the early battlefields, near Ypn.s.
Then there was First Lieutenant
Heinrich von Heinrichshofen. of St.
l.ouis. killed while fighting for Ger
many May 13, 1915. He was in the
in:urnnce business in Missouri. Dur
ing the. Spanish-American war he
joined the volunteer army and rse
'to the rank of captain.
Most of the American soldiers ti'e
in 1 lie Canadian corps. In fact, it is
raid In some quarters that a major
ity of men In the first Canadian con
tingent to enter the fighting wc.-s
from the United states. They died
by the score when the Germans us-d
gas for the first time in the o
called second battle of Ypres.
Americans are prominent in the
celebrated French Foreign Legion,
and many have died in the engage
ments of th hard-hitting organ iz-i-tlon.
Almost every week news comes of
the death "on the field of honor" of
an Ajtnerican. For one whose name
gets in the newspapers probably a
cor or two die without recognition
of this kind.
One of the latest to fall was H. H
Deighton Simpson, son of Henry "W.
Simpson, of New York, who had been
flyin for the last two years In Eng
land and France as a British aviator
He did not die tin. one of the many
air battles . he engaged In. howevet.
but came through them unscathed to
meet his end In a flying accident in
England.
Simpson had been a schoolboy in
Eton and he fought in the flying
corps with many of his old school
mates.
The American contingent in the
Foreign Legion suffered exceptionally
heavy losses in the Champagne hat-
tie at the beginning of October. 1915
Lieutenant Sweeney, who had seen
service at West Point; Frederick Cap
deville, who already had been wounded
in engagements; Edmund C. C. Gen-t,
of New York, a great-grandson of le
Witt Clinton; Paul Pavelka, of Madi
son, Conn.; Elov Nelson, of Milwau
kee: Robert Soubraln, of New York
David King, of Providence, and Frank
. Musgrave, of New Orleans, fell in this
awful Champagne attack.
In this same battle Dr. David
Wheeler, a Boston surgeon, came to
-' an end truly heroic. He quit the
i comparatively safe ranks of the am
bulance corps and was wounded near
the first line.
Suffering intense pain, the surgeon
crept along the battlefield, refusing
to give up, that he might minister to
the needs of the -men in the trenches
groaning from their injuries.
How many he temporarily put out
. of agony nobody will ever know, but
his hypodermic and his supply of mor
phine were used on all the fallen rol
. dlers he could find in a five-mils
crawl. Then he was picked up and
carried to the rear, exhausted anJ
unable to aid further.
While talking to the captain of hs
company, a German bullet killed the
- captain and wounded Dr. Wheeler a
second time. But even after that ha
attended several wounded jnen.
Kitten Rockwell, of Atlanta. Ga ,
came to a spectacular end in an air
-: battle on the Alsace front.
... He. rose alone In an armored A(r.
plane nd attacked a German ma
cniae. He emptied the magazine o
- his rapid flrer at hla adversary, but
ALLIES' CAUSE
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while turning to encircle his foe the
German nhot him In the head.
With his ma.hine he dropped like
a stone. Whether the bullet or i-is
fall killed him was Impossible to de
termine. Four months before he had been
wounded in the face, but recovered
and returned to the front immeJi
ately, where he was credited wi'h
having brought down four German
warplanes.
Last October Jack Moyet of Mobile,
the youngest man in the foreign leg
ion, brought to Paris the news of the
death in a hosoital of Frank Cla;r,
a Columbus (Ohio) man and George
Deloeuche of New York. They died
from wounds received July 4 last
when the . legion stormed Belloy en
Santerre.
Clair had seen flighting in Mexl
China and other lands. Deipeuche
was a son of the chef in the Hotel
Lorraine, in New York. He came to
France and Joined the legion ir Au
gust, 1914, passing the first winter of
the war with the Second Foreign regl-
ment in the trenches nwir Craonnc.
He was decorated with the war cross concerning your son. I do it with
for capturing single-handed five Ge.-- deep emotion. Pie-re fell courageous
mans in the Campagne battle, which ly by my side. It happened on S.?p-
cosi me icgion so aeany.
Deaths at CWenchy.
The engagement at Glvcnchv oni
June 1915, also resulted in the
deaths of . several American legion-
naires. These were Russell Kelly of
New York, Herman E. Hall of Chi-1
cago, John Earle Weeks and Henry
Farnsworth, both of Boston. 1
Weeks was 26 years old and had I
written five volumes of short stories 1
and several plays. He went to Paris
five years" ago to study at the Beaux
Arts. He was a member of the D. K.
E. fraternity at the Massachusetts In-
Stitute of Technology.
He enlisted at the outbreak of the
war and spent the first winter in the
trenches. He was chosen bomb-
thrower for his quad and was men-
tloned in dispatches for bravery.
Farnsworth slipped away to Eu-
rope Just after the war started with-
out his relatives' knowledge. He was
sent to the hospital on several occa-
sions, but always returned to the front
with great eagerness.
Kelly, son of a New York lawvev I
had distinguished himself in many feU also. A ball had passed through
flgnts and written home long, breezy his temple"
accounts of his experiences. He wa m
at first reported captuied by the Ger- . T? mmm.
mans and his family bad a , Ion Austin C. Kyle, a Brooklyn boy. bet
dreary seven months of uncertainty tr knwn here as "Daredevil Jack'
before they learned the sad truth con- Autlnt title he won by taking dar
cerning him. roles In the films before he be-
William Lawrence Breexe, son-!n- soldier of fortune, died on Z'o-
law of Hamilton Fish and formerly vember 10 in the great attle of the
secretary to American Ambassador Somme.
Page in Iondon. became a natural- Tn first American volunteer wear
laed Britsh citizen after the war ,n the uniform of France to fall in
started and was killed by an explo- bHle was Fred Stone or New Yoric
sion whjj.e testing a new grenade ap- He died from a shell wound received
paratus he had invented. He was a while operating a machine gun for
lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, battalion C, of the Second regiment
Sergeant G. J. Prtce. star athlete of the Foreign Legion, in January of
of Brown university and former New
York newspaperman, died when a
shrapnel shell burst in the dugout
where he was sleeping.
He need not have been in the dug-
out. He had been relieved the dav
before for a tout of rest miles be-
hind the first line trenches. But a
fellow sergeant who ras to take his
place complained of illness, and in-
stantly Price vounteered to take his
plaf.- , , , ... ,
fnulkly "ked tne modern
When he first Jotned the forces he
was offered a commission but he re-
fused, saying he preferred to learn
soldiering before becoming a lealer
and that he would rather win his
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soon have a commission.
ery Ket End. Bravely.
Alfred Lucien Pierre Fery would
have been graduated at Columbia col-
lege. New York, had he not left, at
-I the close of the academic year lat
fj summer,' gone to the -f ront after a
snort. course in a drench military aoa-
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demy, and been killed in the French
ranks. A letter from the trench mate
of the young man, writtten to Fery's
mother, has been received by Dean
Frederick P. Kecnel of the college.
It reads as follows:
"The sergeant-major requests me
to reDlv to vonr lr n f innnii-v
tember 26. In a fench taken the oav
before from the enemy.
"I -occupied, with my section, a
branch of the trench, part of which
w etiH in the hands of the enerry.
The order was given to take the en-
"re irencn Dy a mass attack wttn
nana grenades.
There was a desperate fight After
short time reinrorcementa became
necessary, as one section was not suf-
ent ror the task. Th section
commanded by Fery was called upon.
In order to reach us it was necessary
to pass through an unprotected slop
The ensign CFery) approached it with
part of his men. The fight still raged
fiercely. Still more men were needed.
Fery went back to get the remainder
of his troops. By the time he came
forward again daylight was approach-
ing, which made the crossing of the
open area dangerous as the enemy
could easily detect them,
"The ensign came out of the trench,
The man in front of him fell, but
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115. He was formerly secretary of
the United State Consulate af Buenos
Aires.
Four Americans in graves marked
"Died for France" lie in the Htti.
cemetery near the Bois Sabot where
they fell In September of 1915. Their
name are Henry Farnsworth Henry
Walker of New Orleans and Frank
Surrey and Sergeant E. Duval of New
York.
Normal Price, sergeant major of
the Franco-American aviation corps.
ennfs Sowd " BMm boy
falnted while fly ln( t tt fvtotton
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hVtUtUt MH wauurJi
the time fo? n army flter? iiCn
Spartanburg. S. C. who was with the
Roy Field rtlUry. was killed in
actlon of geptemb,. 27,i 1915. The
young man was wounded in the early
stages of the war, but recovered and
returned uain to th hattin.ti 1 1.
I was a. on of Judt nmm w xiohoi.
I of Spartanburg.
I Julian A. Latbrop, a Harvard under-
graduate, was killed last April.
Key to the
BRITISH soldiers starting to dig trench in preparation of expected
battle in the Balkan region are shown above at the left. These
trenches are temporary ones for the use of small field pieces.
The English troops shown above at the right have just captured
this house, beside which the enemy has left a pile of bombs in their
flight. The English Tommy is handling orte very lightly.
Along the whole of their front, the Italians are exercising a steady
pressure. Their array is now magnificently equipped, and the men are
filled with enthusiasm. The photograph below at the left shows an
Austrian dummy gun rigged up to deceive Italian air scouts.
Below at the right is seen Prince Alexander of Serbia on a visit to
a hospital camp conducted by women.
SUFFRAGE FOR DEAD WITH
PROXIES OF FRENCH WOMEN
But if Heroic French Slain Should Be Represented, Why
Not the Living Heroines of the War.
By Anna Howard Shaw.
HDrry President for Life of National American Woman Soffragt Asaoclailon
Copyright. 19 IT, by Anna Howard Shaw
SUFFRAGE for the dead by giving
the vote to the nearest female rela
tive, as proposed by Maurice
Barres, a member of the Academy and
famous in French letters, is so novel
that It almost refutes the statement
that there is nothing new under the
sun.
Coming at this time, it will undoubt
edly carry much weight; especially as
it appeals to sentiment at the moment
when grief and bereavement are apt
to blind the mind to common sense and
justice
Many expedients have been suggested
whereby the intelligence, ability and
patriotism of women might be utilised
by governments which continue to
ignore the fundamental principles of
Justice In its application to women as
human beings, possessed of hopes, am
bitions, aspirations and all the sen
slbilltes of human beings who think
and suffer and serve, as do men. un
der all the various trials and calam
ities of life.
In introducing his "new idea," M.-
Barres says. "Let me explain its Justice
and the true reason for its worthiness
in being incorporated into the laws of
France." . '
From the standpoint of the Republi
can ideal there is neither Justice, rea
son nor worthiness in the proposition,
in the face of the conditions which
prevail In France, and in all the other
nations engaged in this holocaust of
destruction, in which all are sufferers
alike, and In which women, more than
men, have learned the horrors of war
in a most unthinkable and utterly un
speakable degree; so unutterable that
the ominous silence of the press Is
more potent than words in regard to
the character and conditions of their
sufferings, from which death Is bailed
as a merciful deliverer.
i la the presence of the utter failure
of governments uair the guidance of
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men alone to protect or defend women,
we are told by this French writer that
his "new idea is not a plea for or
entering wedge toward general suf
frage for women." For this considera
tion of justice, he adds. "The time is
not yet ripe in the broad sense In
France."
In consideration of all that the
women of France have endured, of the
burdens, they are carrying, the labor
necessary to the conduct of the war.
which must be performed if the war is
to be continued and the men In the
field are to be provided with the equip-
ment necessary to save either their
country or its people from destruction.
and. in addition, the increasing bur
dens women will be called upon to car
ry, when women must take up the
tools of peace laid down by men who
will never use them again, how can M.
Barres, or any other thinking man,
with a drop of 'human blood in his
veins or a spark of Justice In his soul,
declare that the time is not ripe for
France to be Just to her women? Es
pecially as M. Barres declares, "These
women of France are as brave and de
voted te sacrifice In their several ways
as their brave and devoted and sacri
ficed dead." Yet bo can utterly forget
the women, their service and their
sacrifice, their tight to recognition and
reward, and thinks of them only as
"sacred proxies," through whom the
dead may be honored.
This naive manner of forgetf ulness,
of utterly Ignoring the human In
women, save as media through which
men may be honored, is pitifully ab
surd. Still it ia the natural result of
the manner in which the world has
considered women and their service for
humanity from the beginning of time,
an attitude which ought to be greatly
modified, when the impotency and
utter InablKy of men to cope with
government and preserve the civilixa-
O N S
tion which men and women together
have bullded through the centuries be
gins to drawn upon their minds.
The desire to reward the dead, to
think of them as still alive and par
ticipating In the affairs of their coun
try is doubtless commendable, but if
to accomplish this it is necessary to
continue a cruel Injustice to the liv
ing, who have alike suffered, and who
In addition have the misfortune to live
and continue to endure then the sen
timent is quixotic and neither Just nor
reasonable.
If M. Barres thinks the dead should
still be represented in the government,
why not reward all women for their
services with the ballot, and then add
to those nearest in kin to the dead an
extra ballot, by which the dead may
be represented?
The women of France are indebted to
M. Barres. for. In making his demand
that women be granted the vote at all.
he has removed the old objection tbat
women are not competent to govern.
Admit women to the ballot box. either
to represent themselves or others, and
you have granted the whole case as to
their intelligence and character and
patriotism as citlxens. But In cramp
ing their energies and tbelr political
outlook and grasp, by the memory of
the opinions and views of the dead
husband or son upon the problems of
the past. Is to block all progressive
legislation, dwarf all Initiative and
prevent the introduction Into govern'
ment of such Ideals as would make
the present unhappy conditions impos
sible in the future.
Are the men of France, or of say
other nation, so sure that the past
methods of government are the most
desirable: that if women vote, influ
enced by the memories of the paat
only, the nations will ever rise from
the dead aahea of their denotation to
hope and courage and life again? No,
the votes of both men and women In
France, and in the remaking of the
whole world, will have to be guided
by different ideals of Justice toward
their own people, different therlea of
the mission of government and differ
ent views of the rights of other nations
from those which have plunged us Into
our present abyss of despair.
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLO
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks
call it. "Hamburger Brust Thee."-at
any pharmacy. Take a tables poonful
of the tea,, put a cup of boiling water
upon It, pour through a sieve and
drink a teacup full at any tints, it '
the most effective way to break a cold
and cure grip, as it opens the pole.
rclieviag congest loa. Also loosens the
bowels, tnns breaking a cola st once.
It Is Inexpensive and entirely vege
table, mereiore nanniesa.
FRENCH SUFFRAGE PLAN OPPOSED
ALLIES NEW AIRPLANE FORMIDABLE
ALLIES' NEW AIRPLANE CAN "
MAKE 138 MILES AN HOUR
Flight Lieutenant Faulkner of British Army Tells of New
Machine That Is Formidable Foe to the
Zeppelin.
from th International Xewa Rrr1e.
THE swift German Foklier, less than
a yar ago king of the air on the
This is the news brought to this
country by Flight Lieutenant Lloyd
Faulkner, of the British army, recently
injured in an airplane when shot
down near Ypres.
In the desperate competition to
build the most efficient hawk of the
air, the Germans themselves have un
doubtedly improved over the Fokkar
type, Jut a new allied airplane has
Just arrived on the front which ex
ceeds by far anything the world has
ever seen, according to the lieuten
ant's story.
The new machine, the name of
which nay not be mentioned, makes
1SS miles an hour," he said. "It Is a
great surprise and Is only arriving; on
the front now.
The most wonderful feature is Its
ability to climb. It can ascena
straight up. without banning, and nas
reached 15,000 feet in seven and a
half minutes.
This makes it the ideal machine
for Zeppelin work, an it can get
height quickly enough to catch the
dirigible.
"Oar new machine Is tne greatest
fighting1 machine in the world and
will guarantee that we maintain the
supremacy in the air."
Lieutenant Faulkner received n.s
preliminary training as an aviator in
the Wright school at uayton. onto.
He said the machines used in the
United States were way behind those
possessed by the belligerent nations.
"Oar battleplanes weigh two ana
a half tons." he said, "and are driven
by two Roll Is Royce motors of 2SO
horsepower each. They have twin
propellers, and can make more than
100 miles sn hour. Other big planes
hare 800-horsepower motors driving
one propeller.
Tj smaller machines, which carry
only a pilot, are much faster. The
Sop with "pup" makes 1SS miles an
hour; the Nieuport "bullet" las miles;
the Spat JU miles, bat all these are
surpassed by tbs new wonder.
"At the front our work is divided
into four classes. The first Is the
reconnoissanee, during which we
sometimes fly from 109 to 110 ml Us
back of the German trenches. This
work Is done by regularly organized
squadrons, in which the moat impor
tant machine is the one carrying; the
camera, , The reconnolssaacs unit is
composed of five hattleDlanM and 1C
or li Nieuport scouts or Hop with
'pups,' little faat machines.' carrying '
only one pilot and machine gun.
These little machines are the de.
stroyers or guards, for the big battle- ,
planes. The "big machines each carry '
at least two men and two guns.
"When in flying and working forma
tion, the reconnolssanca squadron is
arranred In tttfa wavr Th rm
battleplane flies at about 1500 feet,
with a fighting battleplane on either .
side, flying at about (000. To the rear,
directly behind each of the fighting -battleplanes,
are two more battle
planes, flying at 7000 feet. These fiv
machines fly 100 to 110 miles aa hour. :
The little destroyers with their faster
speed fly all about them, always '
ready to attack an enemy squadron.
"If the little fellows happen te be -off
on a bit of their own anJ the
battleplane squadron sees enemy ma-
chines the pilots firs their alarm pis
tola and call the destroyers, who ,
drive off the enemy, unless he Is In
much superior force, and then there
is a fight."
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Pain Right Out
Don't suffer! Relief comes
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What's rheumatism? Pain only I
Stop drugging! Not one case la fifty :
requires Internal treatment. Rub the
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upon the "tender spot" god relief
comes Instantly. "St. Jacobs OU Is a
harmless rheumatism and sciatica re-
Jief. which never disappoints, and can
not burn or discolor the skin.
Limber up! Get a small trial bottle
from your druggist, and In just a mo
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swelling. Don't surfer! "St. Jatfbs
Oil" has relieved millions of rbeuTas
tism sufferers in the last half csntury,
snd is just ss good for sciatica. Bfu
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swellings. . (AdTj
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