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ziven time anu go no luuun. lt;=■ . , t?step of infantrv advance must first be General Clement today appointed R. K worked out with artillerv and when the Clement. Sunbury an arrav field clerk, plan is arranged it must' he strictly ad- to be attached to division headquarters.hered to. ' **“We realize that it will be difficult to hold our men to this plan. If they a battle going: on their favorite impulse will be to push on as fast as they can and some are bound to do so just as the Canadians did in the earlier, stages.“We will undoubtedly have big losses in this way. but the men who come through our first battles will be w®rthJST Denies Miscalling the Draft Law,nciJS and ab«olute discipline under fire and they will he the steadying influence I xve can distribute through the newer units of our great array as they get their final preparation for trial by fire. ’The British AttitudeThe natural fighting man, it seems, has a natural antipathy to digging in.HIS LOYALTY ID 0. S.Justifying Submarine Warfare or Objecting to Dispatch of TroopsBy As»«e4atd Pret$.WASHr.VGTOK. D. C., Aug 24-has a natural anupamy iw unwin* »«». Colonel Carl Reichmann. whose nomina-Even in these late months of war British tion as bngtdier general has beeri held Tommies would much rather remain up. specifically denied before a Senate •bove ground and stand chances of get- Military Sub-Cbmmittee today that he tmg killed bv shells than to dig deep ever had said the Army Lraft law would dugouts so adored bv the Germans. i be so unpopular as to cause civil war, In planning the battle of Messinee or that German submarine warfare was ndge which was a model of a clean-cut justified under international law or that victory, the British army commander American troops should not be sent td took into account the fighting man’s Francepoint of view and when the advance had Regarding the charge that he had dereached a stage where it gave the British fended German air raids on England, and covered high ground, the fighting men particularly one in which children in a were directed to take a rest while spe- school house were killed. Colonel Reieh-• •cially organized labor battalions were rushed up from the rear to do the necessary- digging and consolidating of new trenches so as to make them thoroughly proof against counter-attack.The result was that the fighting menmann explained that in a discussion of the raids he asked a companion whether English air raids on Zeebrugge, Belgium, were any more justified.The colonel said he believed from both a military and a personal standpointine result was mai tlie U|MUU| xaatu , a military *uu a. I'riauuai were unhampered and unworried by the j troops should be sent to Frances and neeessitv of digging, went forward later * that neither his German parentage norin the dav and took objectives that were the residence oC histwo sisters in Ger-rather hoped for than actually expected. 1 manv would influence his conduct if he These are the tactics the American fight- jhould be placed in charge of soldiers in ing man would like to see. They appeal fighting lines He was as anxious to to him, but just now he is being put help win the war for America, he de-through a pretty stiff course of digging, f clared, as any other American officer.this does not*apply to digging trenches The committee, which is sitting in ex-alone. i ecutive session, expects to call severalHe is being taught how to dig himself t *-itneses named bv Colonel Reichmannin individually while lying flat on the by Senator Foindexter. as well asground in face of enemy, fire, thus getting persons who have written letters to the temporary shelter and ^he protection of committee regarding the case.s sort of grave-like Excavation. It is--——---not so often nowadays, however, that aman has actually to dig himselt in on solid ground, for there is seldom an infantry advance made over anything but ground all pitted and torn with shell craters.Fighting From Shell HolesWEATHER CONDITIONSWASH I NO TON. D- C.. Aug 24-Tbe cyel*n le depression that was orer Lake Superior Thursday niaht bat moycd ilowly northeastward toward Hudson Bay. This depression. _J WHBI rorers an extensire red on to tbs southeast ofFighting from shell holes is »n art in; tq. c«tre. .„d it b., been .tt.ndM br ,„■«-*luv,u* . i mi« rhtn*(1®r»fnrm» *n/! *h«wera in the I^kesneii noies is • —- -- ------- t _ ~. y I ous thunderstorms and showers In the Lake itself and one that Americans must learn region ana the M ddie Atlantic and New Ena , , , . u 4 1W1 l*ud States. AnU-cyclonic condltlona atiltbefore taking their place m me Aiueu ortntinut* OTer the plains state*. The nroionawlline.declarethev perio.i of showers in the Ea*t Gulf State# is at an end and fair weather l\a« prevailed durtna tht last forty 1s unusually low upper Lake reulon. It Is iortbwe6t.... ..Istrlcta will clear •ill be fair with modes fit of the Ml«-New Enatand.shlfttMGerman prisonersiua s«trvould rather fight from shall hole, on ;bn •fift.'SSactive part ot the- iiont than *ruiti i* jor he sMlU)n {,, the upper la regularly organised trench svstem Ihe again ri«ftia in the extreme noilatter aftorTs the artillery too good a. JSSStSTlSF JS^VSl t target, while isolated shell holes are dll- gMte temperature* generally ■ ficuit to deal with. The Germans even s'saippi except in northern coneeal some of their shell holes j Wvv[nds °NortbM Atlantic, frwh south.rb.mnewhZ«r 7nteTuSd Airplane'Is Atlantic! WTS A,, . W, a,-them whenever an Allied airplane is jantfC southwest, becMntne northwest.seen approaching. fnlr weather: East Gulf, gentle wect to north-The passion for digging in la so sthoog west, fair w«s» Golf. m«d»s«t« »outb-with tinTGermans tYat they have been «•« 10 M“th' f,lr wo*.'l,'rknown desperately to claw nolea in the; __.. . «/,th»r p.n.riground with their hands till ths ends of Yesterday’s Local Weather Reportfheir fingers were practically word off i_Fram V S. Weather Bureaa,Thus some wero found dead. Others taJt- g h s ^ ^en prisoners, had to be sent to the hos- j Time. ? % 3 % %pital with nil their finger nails gone.?b Weather.* A. M . 2S.4T 75 90 5.W. § .04 Clt«4y.f P. M . S $7 S# S W. if -00 Clear.IP. M,. 39.70 74 S E R 41 ClmidT.Hlrbest wind 18 miles per hour from the W .^usahlns o hrtur« irter rent . H7
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Aug 25, 1917
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