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SOB LOSS SNALLLR !ABLE ERROR RESPONSIBLE FOR MISINFORMATION , 4 CRASH CABLE DISSENT Writer Said *‘000,000” Nof m>0” Tons W’oro Ijost Month to ao4 HirlodiM no of fori lo !h#m in a defined nnrner bt tbe nee of mine*. dobtro?er«. rbaeert. Air plane* and dirigible* 'Tbe aaeault on lb« Oermnn 'Ham and bntldtnft pinna might bn rnrrlod out by both fleeta and nlrrmft The I henry of the Hrltlah hna been that I heir fleet would be victorious If they could keep IS nate. “There are many difficulties Tn the way of an American naval offen sive. the chief of them being the fact that (Air naval warfare la head ed by the British navy, and whatever the United States is doing and does is under tlte'direction of the British navy*” ; One of the highest ranking offi cers of the navy; was recently urged —German Claim Nearly a Million to make public the figures shovying the toll of merchant tonnage destroy ed by German submarines, but ho DRAFT CALLS MEN TO COLORS; DRAWING HELD IN WASHINGTON —American Naval Policy Ls Regu lated by Britain But Of tigers Want More Action. An error In the traiLsmisalon of <1iarles H. (irasty’s cable dispatch to The New York Times, printed in ; Saturday's pa|»er, in which Mr. (irasty called attention to the se riousness of the submarine situa- s lion, made the dis|»atch state the loss of ships by submarine as *'f.04H 1,000 tons a month" instead of *‘<100.000 u»ns a month," as Mr. Grasty wrote it. The error came to light through a private dispatch from Mr. Ora sty to The Times, sent in reply to in quiries based on the startling fig ures received as' coming from him In reply to these inquiries he rabfed answered that it would be highly im- propet* to give out such figures as hft had. This was said to be in line with the British government’s wishes and policy, the admiralty having prevented ,it was asserted, the pub lication of Lloyd’s figures on ship ping losses. American officials generally be lieve the toll taken by the subma rines is 1,000,000 dead weight tons a month. Some think it is not quite that much. The apparent reduction in the amount of tonnage sunk is said to be only apparent, because the Britisli government furnishes only figures .representing the number of British bottohis lost, which is mis leading inasufuch as it creates the impression that a reduction in the number of vessels sunk shows a re duction in the number of vessels ’ The figure* sixteen hundred ftutik shows a reduction also In the NUMBERS ARE RAPIDLY DRAWN TO DECIDE WHAT PRECEDENCE REGISTERED MEN SHALL BE SENT ABROAD TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY tliouiand did not appear In my dls- patch as filed on Wednesday, The passage should read as follows: 'The loss of ships by submarine has lotalad dOu.uoo tons per mouth, or from two to three times the total of •ew roast run loss * | have laetrwrt* t tfce Wesfrra I m«»n to repeat this ■age to yoa as filed ** | fcort|y after re«e.pt of this mes- # rame owe from Ike Vtrstera Ml cable MffPe la l<—doa whore •fiftwal dlspatcu was filed «mr imwatHa eoiimaio at Meal rsvtlaa the paeseg* la qweetbea lo Mach of aomiiahle l«wm amount of tonnage lost. The esti mate of l.iHiu.uoo tons a month rep resents losses of Allied and available neutral shipping from all causes, in cluding wrecks mines, ami subma rines In attempting to appro*imale the Irwe situation as regards shipping, there moat b^ • on side red not only the amount of a* alia hie tonnage lost bet a Ian the amount ol new too wage being bum Tab tat the mace raw- Secretary Raker, in opening the drawing at 9.30, said: “This is an occasion of great dig nity and solemnity. • " “The young men selected today are honored by the privilege of serving their country." The secretary then emphasized the exhaustive plans and efforts of the government to make the drawing ab solutely fair and impartial. . Secretary Baker drew' the firit number; Chamberlain of the Senate militray affairs committee the sec ond; Chairman Dent of the House committee the third; Senator War- rene, ranking Republican member Of the Senate military affairs commit- I tee, the fourth; Representative Kahn, ranking Republican member I House military affairs committed, 1 the fifth; Actlg Chief General Blis*, ' the sixth; Provost Marshal General Crowder the seventh, and Adjutant G*neial McCain the eighth It was a solemn scene. Dignified Congress inemberc — ! only a handful Secretary dT War*! Baker. General Enoch II Crowder. 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The disadvantage will be that the drawing wilL require ten hours to complete." The stage setting for the great lottery has jiot been changed. It will take place in the public hearing room of the Senate office building. The invited guests who will sit with Secretary BaWo^iJ th e war depart ment and watch flfb proceedings will i»e members of the Senate and House military committees. The only other persons present, according to plans, will be a limited number of new spaper cot respond dents, photographers to take both still and moving pictures of the his toric event and the officials of Gen Crowder’s office wUo will conduct the drawing In the drawing Itself there will be nine actors Tbe principals wll be a blindfolded man who constant ly stirs the Id.^ga black capsules It the great glass howl in which they have tMrwa placed, a not h* folded ms a who draw* me ra| from the howl, owe at a time, and two annopnceca «*oe standing at swell *4de of the bowl and to whom ‘the rsp*ute* will be bswdod In lUfU aa they are drawn The annwwncwrs will bewak the canuwtuo ns they eerwtee tbogg* ea - -rue* toe »»OV Sttp w f|«opet WO t» a nwtobee «ill be •« • wiped and < stt line u«mfcef |w tntue loUg ji—k■ TV- U fffk-n W he• bed tO sU blind .. * , |ing SpSoie* * ** i • * * * f •• ■fl V that If the !.••• grwup were ftem drawn in the ItttM mttsry. all tbe men bearing aerial nambers in tbe kbb would have been railed for uly first and In the order in which (heir serial number* nine not In the big draw mi Ka« h exemption - district Is com posed of several election districts hlch were the registration precincts in the first revolution of the drift machinery. The rugistration cards wer»* turned over *to the exemption "hoards with Instructions to shuffle them before placing on each its hp rial number. In some districts, how ever. instead of the individual cards, it was packs of cards, each repre senting a complete registration pre cinct that were, shuffled. The first pack was opened then and the serial number one placed on tbe first card. Serial numbers were placed in rota tion until the pack was exhausted then continued with the next pack picked up. Supposing that a pack contained a thousand cards and was numbered from 1 to 1,0♦)0. Then if the 1.000 group happened to be the first drawm in the little lottery every registered man in this specimen registration district must have been called for service before his neighbor * Just across the street but in an adjoining precinct were summoned The drawing was fixed at 10,r»u0 numbers because an exemption dis trict in l^ansing. Mich., has 10,263 registered men. That is the largest district on record Seven state* have failed thus far to report their maxi mum district*, however, and Id.fiOO name* will be drawn to take care of tbe improbable (»n*s!bt!!ty that a larger UUtrlH will abow up Inter Tbe change In plan throw* an enormou* burden of work on Gen Crowder** office which bad to be completed la owe room a arore of | r|erk* pound* <1 away with number marhiWw* tbroagb tbe n i * ‘ making up tbe b.ktNI additional kev number* werewaary la AWotber foow» • • men. girl* and boy* MW lad ever bowl* of black nap**I** rwOiaa up the wwmfc*»*wd *llpe aa tbe* wA i • etvwd AWd •llpptwa them MM* t <rem*ewltAg geljliwe ««r«*eiwg frwm • »^b I be • • >li be 0**ew bp «*♦ • AMNMNm nb * Alab**** fir*t itatr am Ibe t**fl "tWe »**-■* *«**■#-• • (*«*•«* « emftknm dNMrbrf aa »wmAaMNMMl d t rwametwad* TWw Ml tbe drawing tk* wwanbeeo fvwdw 4 kfd tw Ia.Abw, tUeVpapie fWW k* a**ewg* •qu^d emfkPW ty ow lb* aa k kakwana ka •«■**• eewed v*v oaana pawawwa %*%n**na bee a* tWNsew** * ee«*b*«* abwee a * 11 | AiWmww* * wiy ^ I bew*b t agwmma 6 w* * Twmaaaaaw I Cl## e %» U-BOATS IMPROVE " w ■ — ALLIED TASK INCREASED BY FOUR NEW DEVICES HELP SOBS TO ESCAPE Anti-Submarine Campaign Hna Fail ed to Keep Race With (ierman In ventions an<k Tasks of Guarding v Shi|vi Become Harder—Pmmpa Hold CTAft Motionless. Four important improvements are known to have been adopted by Ger man submarines since April 1, but the progress made by this country and its allies in perfecting devices for the destruction of U-boats is de clared to have been almost negligible in that time. The four known de velopments since April 1* are. 1. Four small pumps, regulated by electrical devices, enable the subma rine to remain motionless under the water. Formerly the submarine was obliged to come to the surface, like a whale; It planed up. assumed a level position on the surface, and to submerge It planed down for the dive, tbe operation requiring two and one- half minutes. It was obliged, also, to continue In motion always, unless anrborsed to tbe bottom, being In this reaped Ilk# aa airplane, which baa to keep going or fall to the earth. 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There has b?en systematic concealment of ton- naee losses. The policy of concealment adopt ed by the British government with respect to the aggregate tonnage loss caused by submarines has also been ♦ followed in Washington. If there is any official who is keeping a close and accurate check on submarine losses in a careful and scientific way, and aggregating their tonnage in uniform terms, that official is very far under cover. None of the departments in contact with facilities for obtaining this information has admitted that it keeps such a check. In fa<t, they profess not to have ac curate data. The statement was made by a per- sn in a position to know that all the younger’ officers of the navy and most of the older officers believe _ that there should he adopted a naval policy directed toward carrying out an offensive "plan on more intensive lines. It was hinted that the pres ent policy of the Entente regarding the submarine was to protect mer chant ships after tiiey had reached the Atlantic and rover as large an area as possible with their patrol boats, notwithstanding the fact that the area covered la and must remain an Infinitely small oercentage of jibe total Atlantic sep Area la other murnt It was declared, tbe Allied and Apneriraa aavtaa have aa their oh Mi tbe protect loo at mer chant vmaeU including, of oil aitpotof for kitted If a 04 M A surprUiag reveiatioo i* tha. the praeeore and eflft lent work of tbe American destroyer torree had not only greatly inspirited the Brit ish forces fighting the submarine* hut had actually Imrenaed British naval nctivHle* ahd daring The British now feel it I* said, that they are under observation, and to main tain their tradition* and not be “out- clone by the American sea fighter*, had accepted greater risks.’ One of the controlling principles in the British, navy has been to save its ships. The Americans have not been guided by any such principle, but rather by the spirit of the famous dictum. “Damn the torpedoes.” and the surprising thing, from the Brit ish viewpoint, is that they have not lost any ships. I ntil there are new devices, how ever, it is not expected that the ratio of elimination of submarines, will be greatly increased. It was declared to be a mathematical fact, however, that the amount of destruction al- ready inflicted by the submarines has lessened tbe number of their targets, and as the sinking of mer chant, ships continues there will be even fewer targets unless manv new ships are completed. While the fresh and enthusiastic efforts of the American naval forces give promise ot a larger degree of success in fighting the submarines, the improvement possible under the present system was admittedly in adequate, as initiative is limited, and tJlM* hunting down" of the enemy craft therefore Is almost .non-exist ent In the present methods It Is hardly probable. In the opln- Ion of some expert*, that the ram t*aiin against submarine* vtU resntf usni a changs la mad# In the meth ods of fighting them m deetnvlig na many swbmannew pay m*ntb aa tarn# am daring lbs name . sa that tbs net vwsnM M tbs i • sw*r bn a ta mm lbs W* <. . G mmmmmm ai ttoa a •swi ai** 1 ** as* * Bast ewempimto sans he ftam kaepe #md in stbsse* ksm sabnit bad lbs towel kwwrto* MM be kastewsd- ed in sassy tmaa as tmNMbne •nihmn Me mew watt! Ibe d*st»t 6 seew# to filled §^*<* * Met# neeeenee to asm egtoetMMI M bb* toksftvkese ibeds ee •pewtiee pwetiamt M Ibe *c*te * nwe*e Finn* Me ibe drafting wbarb wiM ftt ibe Jktoss at mHNwry MbMMtf Me newel? |# ee# ess vwgMftered mew thrwwabsnt tbs tweaifi w»ee msie*»- ally 'hewged and Ms Mtetofs ewrlb sd wf dssMs draw lag sashed ewt by offVtal* tu leeeew tbe pbyslral task • a* al % • .# la*te*d a peur m requiring sol more than aa boor and involving one set of numbers from 1 to l.euu. and another from * lo is. It will be ae<eaaarv to draw one at a time at lea«t |o.26l number*, I’robably to make certain that every registrant In the largest d!*trl€*t I* placed. 10,!i<Hi drawings will he made It will re quire at leaMt ten and a half hours and official* In rharge believe it will , take 12. The proce** began at ft.30 I a. m. The number* will be publicly an nounced for telegraphing to the newspaper* over the country as fast I as they are drawn. Gen. (’rowder at first considered a plan under which they would have been held in confidence for publication every where Saturday morning, but that suggestion was abandoned. Following is Provost Marshal Gen eral (’royvder’s -explanation of the sudden abandonment of the double drawing plan which it had taken weeks to work out in detail and which was, made public only a few hours before it was discarded: “Advices received by long distance telephone this afternoon indicate that in certain* areas the boards, in numbering registration cards, havq kept the cards segregated by r elec tion districts and that serial num bers have been assigned to the whole group for a board while the carls w’ere thus segregated. If the draw ing is conducted as originally plan ned, iu groups of 1,000, the result will be that considerable proportion* of certain election districts will be brought up for examination to- ^ gether' “This will result la drafting per- * son* from one locality within the jurisdiction of a board before any j person la drawn from another local- ! Ity within tbe sama jwrudb't.oa For Utto ramarnm M baa bO#a fthaadoa tha 4r*•lag by | and m draw ip ipp aamhnra. mhts# f *b*wao m tha hiphwwi aamksw Are a# he #»♦•>*—a* I odiweotol pewwewft ed I I heW tha* edklee# I i poMmaiMa #d khw I 1 ♦•••'** <»»4 | t he «*w •mam*###** I mswafttow oowki he I i kswmtosn off «ftm was I toe e> kmaeto* hwd •* *«W I e* to the sands MMMI i* • j # *- * * • k*«*ov «dftooe p#«a*p*tf I paPraSod hfts dmewewrv to the <*d i t«e pm*was mwrwtoai a*w A ** ♦*• p * owMrwmre ai edtm tato aMod koh«wd to* hod toooda and a awkrh asafvh made M the Mara! Imko ' t »*-r***<4* mi am# 9 W % >« % he** ko*a rase<«ed A • »» *f tit astfeoa w** fo % *4 u t xim - * m**y j te»** at ft** eenn’fp *a *ome IM*| negro nnd white ceg let rants had heew r la**4 fled la sepacale greaps and the eertnl namher* ran accord intlv la other* alleaa were aepa rated aad given their owa groap of aerial number* It wa* a hopeless tangle. If the double drawing system were carried out one election district In any ox* Tmpttoa division might be swept clean of all Its young men to fill tha quota, while the other election dla- trios in the same exemption area furnished no men whatever. In oth er cases It might he necessary to pass upon and exempt a thousand aliens before a single American was (ailed to service. In others a thousand negroes might be taken for examination before a white man was called! or vice versa. . There was only one way out, and the war department promptly an nounced that tbe whole intricate method of drawing devised fo save time and labor would be abandoned in favor of the simple, direct plan of drawing sufficient numbers to fix the place of the last man in the largest exemption district. That was tbe original plan, and it was intend ed for w’eeks to draw in that way, but the enormous amount of labor and the time Involved prompted the effort to devise a short cut that would be fair to all. Officers of Gen. Crowder’s office congratulated themselves that tbe difficulty in the way of the double drawing was found rather than after the drawing. It was certain to hawe bettft discovered immediately after ward and then it would Have been necessary to declare Its results can ceftti and draw again. -The difficulty that fofred aban i donment of tbe more elaborate meth od grew out of the detAlla of the plan ft was proposed to list All refftstrAPts In each diet rid by tbowe- tad* or fraHlope of t bow so ad* as# a . a boor serial warn her* were Ml tbe I throe ibooeaad* wowfcd have boro pwi M p gvwwp thane with of Man i how a tboweood ap **oto§* nhaMMaMaa* # #toww* > l * tonMWMPwp a.**P wodwe aaaoato e •oeesogl®* 1 • «#oaaoepg atop* e» atmmm | ** e**o» aod ko ksewl stokbrPaP* I •eo •# *a<*r*to *bo «wtoto» aa i -t ■ * ‘eo***a pbgkhML a m—aa *aaAMeoae poor No I "d ogpl •Mwi ‘Po* t*. swe* toto* j" ■4 io %ow |oe*o* To* o eo * owftee 9 n^er#p fM op iims gMHooe ka Mo none PsSMh ^am P loNMbd ei *t m owwoonow ft* I ka stontoMto tw oMf Pi too I«••OMoMeotorr kwtopoe cawao 9 to. * •ee* oowe pMtoHl tma "$ otoMaOe opi Mo §aat •* > ( «•«■#*"# *H> < «ewfo |o Iba e 0*0*00 o o*o*o* t* a*am o • ye*** ■#■ »*o* OOOee ftswoowo • too of T^db#g r «yo lv wit eo IPto • I etoo aeo aootooto (j woo eegoe ee oaoosaaoahsw f wo o • ee Samrnmm ww % ip* wto •mm e # SMri oe swnoad iobo eooew 9*mo*V' *eo - a mmm toot wo aeo woo soiM 1 ' torageoae Mo aeo ooAssiaag Ms PMto> *•##* ooeopso •kosaa whono *Potf oo# * aa * am hoos ko spweod I*b* wwaotkaw ka Mai obo stooM [ fksoi (Ml oho oboii to* fhrwl ewMwto »# Mr owwanwwihM # Aad wbpi wo I (Mn too ka ko mwbo p mm MoortPb the oetooe of ooaaa loot tow towo mw owe kwoo* Mww aswwy oo «w vvokd fa* • fero. ww ww# raw awy Jwei hww axwwy now it ka wham* totwly worooowry lo pal ww tbM I let \ Hom^at • refle*now oii| prove that the wholo 1 P.PPP.PWP no*4 ho dor of oaawilwwtloo given their placoo ow the Hot of or- **ICvory registered maa la la a Mato of aarertataty Ho dooo not know when he will be called. He hesitate* to plant a crop for fear he will not reap It. Employers hesi tate to engage his services, fewrlng they will he but temporary. This condition ought to be cured for the repose of the public mind. It can be cured to Koine extent by putting every man on the list. “For this reason, the whole 10.- 000.000 names are to be given places on the list of order of examination. “Tbe segregation into groups: “Obviously no single agency could examine 10,000,000,. Therefore tbe 10,000,000 are segregated into groups of suitable size for conveni ent examination. There are 4,557 of these groups. For each group a board has ‘been appointed to exam ine for selection by far the greater number of these groups consist of approximately’ 3.000 men. “Since this is so, our problem is not to put tbe whole 10,000,000 names in one list, arranged rn the order of examination. It is to de termine the order of examination in each group. » “The neresjtfty for drawing: “Since all registered men stand in an equality of right and duty, the question of priority can only be de termined by lot or drtwing. It would be possible to have 4,557 sep arate drawings—one" for each group but slhce methods will vary and since supervision and absolute in- suranew against tbe rbsrg# of frau dulent manipulation could wot be bad la tbat way. every cowaldwrm* Doe of eipwdtwwry and-Met Me urge* we drawing la Waertrv4V>% 4 hewtoww «# be e weevwi • * is ke aw aw ■ M tW e« w »i ** I V * *4 * » I •* c . m k# i flMI MwwWhg to* eW «* WMs t ■■P • 4 ■ • • .ta **mtor*» aw tb* CW totoeiiw# Wtol *m wa wwwa> bwe* aw #** » i* *| tto» » MtotoM SW Ww * w «**w*tof dMww egg wwwMi dbaw Mwwe gaiMwg itos itodke* •d tw*»l«ev m* mm m»m •* am % a* mm 4 imiwAiM ee IN > n tUrnm W **<*< «• Ms* am* G£I»AN LfSSES >• »i yesktom tw wad •Mbli siwc>e* wbbrb bate keen publlebwd al- tog tag tbe dtecwvery wf effective watt- sebmsrtae device* H was awerted by aa awtbortty tbat aw rwwl progrese hwd been made, wwd tbat tbw Mary Department haa. qultw ow tbw con trary, settled on a definite policy for righting tbe submarine#, comprising two features which have been known for months, but which it was popu larly supposed were being augmented and elaborated by new devices. The policy was said to be the em ployment of. first, the naval type of vessels, and. aeeond, the 110-foot submarine chasers. A related part of the policy was said to be the con struction of every merchant ship pos sible to offset*the expected destruc tion of bottoms by German subma rines. Some naval critics asesrted that the true solution lies in protection of merchant craft, rather than the construction of new bottoms, holding that the building of fighting ships Is more essential than immediate con struction of other vessels, as the necessity is to bend every energy to ward the destruction of submarines. Tbe criticism was based on the dictum that it is easier to preserve existing tonnage than to construct new, and a further advantage was said to be that the country, at the end of a given period, woui^l have not only the tonnage destroyed, but also that which is new, Jn addition to the newly built fighting craft toitb which to protect all of It. 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