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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1918.

rUB3 YEARS OF TD-OE WORLD WAIR GREAT BRITADN'S C3REAT SlfiARE

ON

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The following account of Great Britain' participation In the war

k was written ly lxuls Tracy, a

member of the British War Mis-

slon, to enminenioraie the fourth anniversary of our ally's entrance Into the war. Mr. Trncy

la widely known throughout (he United Slates as a novelist, beInj: the author of "The Wlnss of the Morning" and some forty other novels.

By LOUIS TRACY New York, Aug. 3. Tomorrow, Au f nst 4, a stricken world will have en

ilined four years of war and enter on u fifth. How ninny more years will

the human race be called on to suiter this agony? (iod ulone knows. But If It be not Impious for a mortal man to

re Interpret the decrees of the Al

mighty 1 do now most solemnly say

that, although this carnival of woe may be permitted by I'rovhlence to scourge us for months or years yet to

rutiie, It cannot cense till Germany Is

beaten to her knees. And why do 1

tin re In the same breath proclaim that the Issue rests In the hands of the J.ord of Hosts and yet that 1 am con

vinced In my very soul that the only

outcome can be Germany's defeat?

1'hls Is my answer: If I believed otherwise I would cease to be a Christian; If I admitted the possibility of a 1'russlun victory 1 would never again believe Hint He who gave us the Sermon on the Mount died on the Cross Of Calvary for man's Redemption. 1 n'Ould ktiow, perforce, ami go sorrow

ful to my gruvtpwlth the knowledge,

V.mt Might Is more potent than Itlght, that the ethics whtr-h brought France. I'rlf n In. Itnly, America and even poor, ' -iii UtiHsia Into the conflict, the prlnriple which led Belgium to risk and lose all, the sheer sense Of Justice ct'hlch has ranged twenty other nations on our side, were nothing more nor less than foolish, even grotesque blunders. Yet 1 laugh to scorn the notion that I shall ever accept any such theory no, not till Milton's relucarnuted self declares him a disciple of Lucifer, not till Shakespeare rises from his gruve and scoffs at the beautiful Kngland he loved so well, not till Lincoln's Gettysburg speech Is proved a sham and a fraud. Some miracles do happen, but not such miracles as these. 1 have lost everything 1 valued In the world. 1 walk hand lo hand with tribulation, but there Is a great Jy In my heart that comes to my aid even In those dreadful watches of the night when memories of the dend drive almost to frenzy those who loved them and still live, because I know yes, 1 know - that my country Is fighting for the right, and not my own dear land aloue, but her kith and

kin In every clime where the English tongue Is the speech of the people. We have dared all ; we shall gain ail. So If you have read Into this preface the meaning 1 have striven to convey

you will understand that In the re

mainder of this brief essay I shall tell of the glory and the Immensity ov Britain's achievements In this war not to flaunt her deeds In the eyes of the world, but as an earnest of the selfsame sacrifices and Ideals that shall flow from this great nation of the West In an ever-Increasing and Irresistible stream. That Is my purpose, and I want to declare It now. Britain has done much and, though weary and blood-stained, will do more, but the measure of her heroic effort can surely be applied to the determination of the splendid country In which 1 write these lines. Why. to mix with you Americans on the days when the news seems bad, when some disaster at sea or some reverse on land chills the blood and adds a fresh burthen to an overladen heart, Is the best Of all tonics for an Englishman. 1 have gone out to address audiences of an evening when my soul was heavy within me. when each mouthful of

food In a well-appointed club or hotel

had almost choked me by contrast with the privations better men than 1 were enduring with steadfastness. But the first sight of an American au

dience, the first ringing cheers evoked

not by my oratory, but my theme.

brought a hcnltng and a strengthening altogether Divine In Ihoir eflicacy, for

here. Indeed, In the truest sense of the plirnso, the voice of the people became the voice of Ood.

Well, the record has many Items. Let us begin with the worst, the Ir

remediable, the tax levied ly death. If Is a sad showing. The British casualties In olllcers and men are us follows : August, 1014, to the end of

rro,ooo

In the year l'.UO 050,000 In the year l!H7 800,000

In six months of the present

year (estimated) 500,000

12,500.000

Of these nt least one-fifth must be

counted iiiniing the dead. So halt a million gul hi nt men of the British Umpire are lying In their graves all over

the world or bidden forever In the

terrible and mysterious depths of the

sen, while more than another half mil

lion are so maimed and broken that they can never again be counted as useful citizens of a world wherein a man must work If he would eat and

therefore live. New York and many

other great cities In the United States

love a procession, and it Is a startling fact to note that If the dead and wholly war-shattered youth of the British

Kmplre could march down Fifth ave

nue in platoons of twenty men In a rank the pallid host could not pass

from Central Park to Washington square In ten long summer days. America Is proud, and very properly proud, of i tie great army she has poured Into France. It Is a million, In round numbers, a million of first rate fighting men carried in British ships with absolute safety across perilous seas. But Britain has already lost a million In dead and grievously wounded, while two and a half millions have been smitten by the pestilence called Germany. 1 have not exaggerated

keep on killing them till they cease to plague mankind. I have no concern for Germans. You Americans have a frontier proverb, "A good Injun is a dead Injun !" Until Germany casts out the devil of Kalserlsin and goes back a hundred years to the race which produced some decent and useful members of the hody corporate 1 shall believe most tlrmly that the best German is a dead German. What does grieve me most profoundly Is the knowledge that Britain and every

flesh and bone of our bone. They are at once our tribute and our Inspiration. We who gave this holocaust must be worthy of It. We who are left must be more resolute, more knightly, more grandly indifferent to loss or suffering, than those who ha ve gone. How can it be otherwise? The cross they bore, the sacrifice they made. Is all the lighter for us because of their example. The blood of the martyrs Is the seed of the Church of Christ? The blood of our dead is the seed of a race

GREAT BRITAIN'S LEADERS

J3SA7TY fpfy u-r V jil V ' ' " ; v1 hXg I

these figures. They are official. We know some of the details with a mournful exactitude. During one

month In France In 1017 we bad 27,000 men killed. In the first twelve months of the war we had 6,(500 'officers and

10,000 men killed. During the month

of April of this year as the result of the great battles which began on March 21, UHS, we had over 10,000 casualties among officers alone. Of course we have killed and woundeil many Germans. But crhat does that mutter? What does it matter how many of the brutes are killed? It Is our duty, a duty put on us by the laws we live under, obey and swear by to

BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

word 1 have written would be stultified If you did not realize that 1 am proud of my own folk has lost the flower of her manhood, Just as you, my honored friends In America, will lose a stock hard to replace If the million "of your magnificent youth In France and the oilier millions you will put In the field until there ure enough dead Germans are fated to show a casualty list comparable with that of Britain. But do not misunderstand me. My faith in the destiny of our joint races is supreme. Are not our nead the best warranty of the past and the brightest hope of the future? They are our very own, flesh of our

which shall transcend In power and greatness the wildest dream ever dreamed by enthusiastic Pan-German. It must be so. It is a deduction based on the soundest theory of life, the very essence of all that science has taught us either of men or of the lower animals. But I cannot blind my eyes to the Immediate gaps tn our ranks. Our universities are empty. Oxford and Cambridge gave eight thousand of tnelr undergraduates to the army in the first year of the war, and. be It remembered, no matter what view may be bebl as to the value of a university education, these young men were the future rulers of the British Empire

It prime ministers, Its secretaries ot state, its Judges, Its governors of faroff lands. Its parliamentarians, lawyers, professors, scientists. Its undoubted leaders In every branch of human thought and endeavor. That Is part of the price asked of us for Cuooslcg to support Itlght as against Might, and It Is a heavy Impost In Itself. Again, we have lost nearly every oilicer and man of that small but superbly efficient army which we threw Into France early In August, 11)14. It has been estimated that Britain has fought on seventeen fronts during the past four years. One can readily enumerate most of them, for her troops have been to the fore In Belgium, France, Italy. Serbia, Greece, Russia. Palestine, Mesopotamia, China and North. East and West Africa, to name only the main theaters of the war. She and her Colonies have raised "..KMMKIO soldiers, and of this total England's (not Great Britain's) proportion Is CO per cent. In this regard I must remove a misapprehension, or. to be candid, nail down a Hun lie, which has found credence In some quarters. I shall not labor the pointIt should suffice If J state with absolute authority that one man in every seven and a half of the population of England Is In the army. The same ratio holds good of Scotland. Wales has contributed one man in every ton and a fifth, Ireland one man in every twenty-six and a third and the oversens dominions one man In evey fifteen. Those are the cold, hard facts as to man power In the army, while the following table tells Its own story and refutes another Hun lie: Relative proportions of men In British forces and of casualties suffered by each part of British empire, exclusive of Injiia, Africa, etc., to November, 1U17: Per Cent Per Cent of Armed of CasuForces. allies. England and Wales 70 7(5 Scotland S 30 Ireland 6 Doinlnlonsand Colonies JG 8 1 do not apologize for reverting to the casualty list It Is essential that these statistics should be made known. It Is difficult In n short article to convey any fair picture of Britain's work In other fields. In heavy guns alone she manufactured during the third year of the war twenty-seven times as ninny as In the first year and two hundred and twenty times as much ammunition. The expenditure of riHe ammunition per week Is now sixty-five times greater than the averuge weekly expenditure during the first ten months of the war. The output of machine guns has Increased thirty-nine times. Two thousand miles of railway track, one thousand locomotives and many tens of thousands of wagons have been shipped abroad. The Min

istry of Munitions handles r0,000,009 articles per week and sends abroad C0.000 consignments per week. In addition to over ninety national arsenals. Great B.itain has now 5.040 government controlled factories, oil working day and night on munitions and supplies. Women do 60 to 70 per cent, of all the machine-work on shells, fuses and trench warfare supplies and hare contributed 1.430 trained mechanics to the Royal Flying Corps. In one way or another about 5.000.000 British women ure working for their country In her need, many of whom never worked in their lives before. Turning to the fleet, what shall I say. what can I say that will be at all adequate to the theme, of the work: done by the British Navy? It would lie almost ludicrous In a review of Britain's share in the war to dismiss in a sentence the absolutely vital part borne by the fleet did I not feel assured that every intelligent man and woman In the United States knows as well as If not better than I that the civilized world owes Its existence today to the unparalleled services rendered by the Navy. And, alas, how can I deal with the aid given to the motherland by Canadli. Australia, India and South Af

rica? The requisite tribute were It to be rendered, adequately would need a vol time. No review of our four years' fight can omit a brief reference to that Illomened word Kultur. According to the Hun. the whole quarrel hinges on the refusal of the democracies of the world to accept Kultur. Very welU What Is Kultur? I have here a table of the worst forms of crime committed In Germany and England during the

ten years 1897-11)07: Germany. Murder "0 Incest '"3 Rapes Unnatural Crimes. 841 Malicious and Felonious Woundlug 172.153 Malicious damage to property .... 25,759 Arson OB)

England. 97 58 218 21)0

1,202

3TS 27S

Total ..... 2W.GC7 2.557 People of America, you fathers and mothers wives, sisters and sweethearts of the men' you have sent to France, I ask you to study that table. Kultur should be known by Its results, and if benighted England can show such a case against enlightened Germany Is It not worth four years, or, II need be. forty years of war to keep your country and ours clear of the virus of Kultur? The answer Is being given today wherever the Hun standi! up against our soldiers. It is being dinned Into his ears by high explosives and driven Into his carcass by ktfn bayonets. When he heeds we will quit; and not until hu does heed on Lj knees.

I), S. CASUALTIES FOR LAST WEEK TOTAL 15,196 Total Number Deaths Reported 6,154 Wounded Number 8,264. WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. Army and marine corps casualties reported from overseas during the week ending Sunday Increased 1.430, compared with 1,050 the week before. Total casualties reported are 15,196, Including Sunday's army list of 283 the largest number yet reported in a single day, and the marine corps list of two. While as yet no figures on casualties in the great allied offensive In which American troop3 are playing so conspicuous a rart have been received, the increase in the daily army lists undoubtedly is due in part to this fighting. The increase for the week was 1,384. The marine corps list increased only 46 for the seven days. In the 15,196 casualties, total deaths, Including 291 men lost at sea, men killed in action, died of wounds, disease, accidents and other causes, number 6,154 army men, 5,410; marines, 736. Wounded Number 8.264. The wounded aggregate 8,264 army men, 7,044; marines. 1,220. The missing, Including prisoners, total 788 army men, 710; marines, 78. Of the week's increase, deaths from all causes totaled 651 as compared with 393 the week before; the wounded numbering 732 compared with 591 the previous week, and the missing and prisoners totaled 47, compared with CO the week before. The summary of army casualties reported follows:

Killed In action (including 291 at pea), 2,373. Died of wounds. 907. Died of disease, 1,514. Died of accident and other causes, 616. Wounded In action, 7,044. Missing in action (Including prisoners) 710. Total, 13,164. The marine corps casualty eumary shows: Deaths, 734; wounded. 1,220; in the hands of enemy, 5; missing, 73. Total, 2.032. The marine cohps sumary Includes the deaths of 28 officers, the wounding of 31 others and one missing.

The Other Side of Farm Life

To the Editor of the Palladium: An article in the local newspaper a few days ago stated how the moving picture would be used to show farm life and Induce the people living in the city to go back to the farm. Now, almost every kind of profiteering has been Investigated. But the man who buys a run down farm cheap, and sells it again for a big profit , goes his way unmolested. If he doesn't sell the farm, he rents it. He has the rent so high, its impossible to make it. He will not rent it on the share as he knows the ground will not produce a crop equal to the cash rent he asks for it. Would not six per cent interest be enough on this Investment? The renter makes an Investment of $1500 on a small place, ie only has it for one year. What does he make in his investment? What does he have left after paying owner more rent than ground is worth? If a man owns a business and bis home in the city should he have the right to hold a farm, keep the price so high, that the farmer, who's only business is farming can't make a living. The city man has no use for this place only as an investment. Last

spring in the city vacant lots were seized for gardening purposes, the owner would not take a reasonable price for them. These farms would also lay idle if the renter refused to pay the high rent asked. The city man has his living in town and would not need the ground. There are men in the city who own big farms, they run their farms in a business way. They pay their help decent wages and see to it they make a living. The high wages paid the laborer in the city, are causing the farmer to leave the country. A man making fair wages In the city and has his own garden, has a much better chance than the

makes man makes an investment in a home, when his days work is done he has the evening to spend as he pleases. The farmer, his wife and family have to work to make an income equal to this one mans work in the city. The farmer never gets through it from "sun-up to sun-down." The farmer prefers farm life, but when there's not even a living it it. And he has to give up all he makes so the owner gets enormous profit, he will have to do next best thing. When these conditions are remedied, we will not need the picture shows to make farm life alluring. FARMER.

WITH THOSE IN ARMY AND NAVY

This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear dally In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed.

DRAFTEE FAILS TO APPEAR.

Harry Grimes, colored, failed to appear at the court bouse Sunday for rntralnment. He was to go to Camp Dodge. His last address was Dayton. Jf he does not appear In 4S hours he will be classed as a deserter and reported to the Adjutant General of the state.

Business Implies doing things, not people.

PLAN ADDITIONAL GAMP FACILITIES

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. August 5. Additional facilities for training camps, one for the new field artillery training centers at West Point, Ky., and a tent addition at Camp Upton, Long Island, have been established by the war department, according to an announcement today. The West Point camp will include a 500 bed hospital and a 500 horse veterinary hospital. Work on the Kentucky camp has just been started by the construction division of the army. The estimated cost is upward of $3,000,000. The temporary tent camp on Long Island will accommodate 15,000 men. Emerson field, a new air service flying field at Jackson, S. C., was opened on August 12. It is named in honor of Lieut. Emerson, who was the first field artillery officer killed while serving with an aero squadron at the front. ,

neth, who is now located at Castelnan, which is obout 18 miles from Bordeaux, in southern France. Toler is in the medical section of the field artillery and has been in France for several weeks. He spent Fourth of July in this little French town. He said the Americans had great difficulty at first trying to make the French understand their language, and their greatest trouble was in making the waiters at restaurants understand what they wanted to eat. His trip across was uneventful and was greatly enjoyed by all the soldiers on board.

Sergeant Frank A. Williams, who is stationed at St. Louis, Mo., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Williams, of North Sixth street.

Mrs. Louise Bucher, 1133 Ridge Street, has received word from her son, Private Clyde Bucher, stating that he has arrived safely overseas. He enlisted in the aviation corps last December.

First Lieut. W. L. I.Iisener, who 13!

serving with the American Medical corps in France, writes the following description of the work in which he has been engaged near Paris: "Am at work in a 2,000 bed hospital, only temporarily. It seems good to get back among my pets again after two months. About all the men have left here and I will get my permanent assignment soon. We have general work to do, of course there is more surgery than anything else. Have had no mall from home, as yet, but when I am permanently located I will get it all at once. I am in charge of one ward in this hospital, which has forty patients in it. Every other day I exchange with a New York doctor as officer of the day in Annex No. 1 and

r3. There I receive the patients and direct them to their proper classes to te distributed to the 'several wards.

The M. D.'s working here are the finest fellows in the world. We can hardly hold the boys from the front in the hospital long enough for them to get well. They are anxious to give old Fritz the fight of their lives. We have an abundance of supplies and there are American soldiers everywhere. When they are commanded to take a certain trench, they generally take the third. I have seen most every kind of injury and heard most every kind of tale and most of them are true. The weather here is about like our Septembers, cool nights and hot through the day. Would be glad to hear from friends at home any time. First Lieut. Walter L .Misener,

American Expeditionary Forces, M. R. C. France, via N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Toler have received a letter from their son, Ken-

The following men were sent to Indianapolis Monday morning for final examination as apprentice seamen: Harold M. Long, 412 West Main street; Ivan Kennedy, 430 Southwest Seventh street, and Harvey Westley, 71 State street. Clarence H. Engelbert, who is serving in the front lines with Ambulance Co., No. 12, of the American forces, writes the following description of his experiences at the front: I have- been up to the trenches twice. I was relieved the first time

after eight days and the second time after thirteen days. All the work is done under artillery fire. The dugout I was in was hit by a shell of large caliber and we had to run through a barrage and gas to safety. None of our bunch wash urt in any way. In one gas attack I was In, I kept the mask on for three hours and twenty minutes. It is no picnic up there, but my experience was worth more than a million dollars. I have been up at the front lines many times and peeped over to the German trenches which are very close, about one hundred yards, I would say. The and very determined. One corporal and a sergeant have forty-seven Germans to their credit, killing them with hand grenades and liquid fire. Peoule used to say in the states that the Americans were so boastful, but their boasting has become absolute fact, proven by their deeds over here. We have almost a million soldiers over here now and when the time comes it will be surprising that the American soldiers themselves will cause the downfall of the central powers.

Mrs. Garnet Ringley has received a card announcing the safe arrival of her brother, Vernon Dobbs, overseas.

corps with Dr. W. L. Misener of this city, but has been transferred several times since landing.

The following men have passed the examination at the local army recruiting office: John E. Fuller, 444 Randolph Street, Grafferd B. Boyd, New Paris, Ohio. Harry Suiters, formerly a resident of Richmond, enlisted at Dayton, O., last Monday in the army as a mechanic. He left today for Fort Thomas, where he will be in quarantine two weeks before being sent to Fort Wood, New York for training.

Mr. and Mrs. William Piehe, of N. I street have reeeived word from their son. Sergeant Harley C. Piehe, statin gthat he has arrived safely overseas. Piehe is in Company I, 49 In-

Howard Troxel returned from Pur

due, where he Is in training, to spend the week-end with his mother, Mrs. Ella Troxel. of Ft. Wayne Ave. He was accompanied by Private Gibbs.' Troxel and Gibbs are both in the signal corps.

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Paul Price received a letter Monday from his brother Rudolph, who is in France. He is doing ambulance work near the firing line and writes enthusiastically about his work. Price said the trip over seas was made in seven days on a large British steamer, one of the fastest on the ocean. He wa3 sent over In the same ambulance

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