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LIEUT. BOOTH HOLDS AUDIENCE
BY HARROWING NARRATIVE.
People Have Done Much Already But
Pleads With Them to Buy Thrift
Stamps and Certificates.
Graphically describing his two
years and eleven months in the
world' war from the time of his
leaving with the first Canadian contingent,
where he was a commissioned
officer with the Canadian Field Artillery.
and dwelling for the most
part on the barbarous treatment of
the Boche toward their prisoners and
even the inhumane treatment to their
own soldiers, Lieut C. B. Booth proved
an interesting talker and per
sonage at me ivioajesKa meant? recently,
says the Augusta Chronicle.
The Canadian officer, who twice
was gassed by the Germans and is
in this country on leave of absence
with the hope of recuperating, elicited
applause when he told his auditors
that his mother was a Southerner,
coming from Virginia, and that
there is a strong relation for him
existing with the Southern people.
When the war was declared August
4, 1914, Canada did not havej
to send many troops to assist the;
mother country, Great Britain, but it J
arnt riifinnssed in Darliament and a!
division of 22,000 men was decided |
, upon, the speaker jocularly remarkin?
that they believed at that time
that one division would be sufficient
to quell the Kun.
, Enlisted for Service.
Lieut. Booth had been a reserve
officer in Canada, but on the decision
to send troops to France he immediately
enlisted in the Canadian
-Field Artillery. After eight weeks
of training near Quebec, the division
was transported to England,
where they remained in training until
February 15, when they were
sent to France. Loaded into box
cars, 40 men or eight horses to the
car, and sometimes horses and men
in the same car, the division was
started to the firing line, a distance
of 100 miles. Each man was rationed
with two hard tack biscuit and a
can of corned beef, "bully beef."
This ration was believed sufficient for
the journey at the time, but the
railroads were so congested with the
. transfer of supplies and troops that
one would have thought the men in
hard straits.
"We would, indeed, have boen in
a hard way hhd not the English and
American Red Cross come to our
reseue. At every stop we made we
found hot coffee and cake awaiting
us, and the same order of things pre
vails today in this country, the American
Red Cross working indefatigablv
for the men's comfort," he
* , said.
The contingent was detrained 12
miles from the firing line. The order
of warfare was new to the Canadians
who had devoted the greater
part of their time to open warfare.
In order to get acquainted
with the afiopted style, platoons were
taken daily from each battery of the
Canadian artillery and sent with the
older fighting battalions to the front
line. Officers a-s well as men were
included in the detail until the en
t ' 1
tire envision naa oeen uuuei me.
* The position given the Canadians
was impossible for an engagement
and was near" that place where the
American artillery was first assigned.
In three weeks the total of
Canadian casualties was but 15 and
tall men of the maple leaf thought
that they were having an easy time
of it.
Under Fire First Time.
Soon afterwards the Canadians
were ordered to Ypres. It was here
that Lieut. Booth experienced his
first gas attack and believes that it
was one of the first attacks of this
nature made by the enemy. He and
a cousin, commanding officer of the
unu, were 111 au uusenauuu yvoi1
tion. Adjoining them were Algerian
|. troops. Looking over the observation
parapet, they saw a heavy,
greenish cloud that looked as if it
might be a fog. The Algerians had
begun to get restless, many of them
falling to the ground and acting
strangely. The cousin of the speaker
walked into the embankment and
died, gassed, in agony, seven minutes
later.
Chlorine gas was used at that
time. It is greenish in color and
five times heavier than air and is
used only with favorable winds.
Later Lieut. Booth, in walking up a
slight embankment, got a few stray
whifs of the poison and was carried
feet first to the hospital. With nothing
to combat the gas, 11,000, or
k half of the Canadian troops were
3 that day numbered among the casv
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BEAT HUNS IN 30 TO 00 DAYS.
British Airplane Maker Tells of Super
Air Dreadnaught.
New York, June 29.?The claim
that Handley Page, the British airplane
constructor, could turn out 10,000
"super-aerial dreadnaughts" in
the United States by April 1, 1919,
was made in a formal statement tonight
by W. H. Workman, special representative
in this country of Handley
Page, Ltd.
These planes, Mr. Workman declared,
could be landed in France under
their own power with enough bombs
and aviators to defeat "the Germans
within thirty to sixty days, if we
start now." After announcing that
he had acquainted the War Department
and aircraft board with this ,
proposition, Mr. Workman said he
believed that none of the 10,000 airplanes
would be lost in transatlatic
flights, and with a British and an
American aviator he would be willing
to make the first flight, proceeding
from Newfoundland to France via the
Azores and Portugal.
Asserting that he considers* this
route the best, he explained that a
7,000-foot volcano in the Azores
would serve as one guide and suggested
that "at least ten destroyers
in a state of obsolesence could be
stretched out to act as lightship" so
that "pilots of the airplanes would
never be out of sight of a destroyer,
together with their compasses and
wireless."
"Once this is started, said Mr.
Workman, "there will be a continuous
chain of airplanes connecting the
United States with the continent of
Europe."
Mr. Workman said in three days
these planes could be flown from the
Middle West to France, saving many
tons of shipping.
These 10,000 airplanes, he declared,
could drop 38,000 tons of explosives
on and behind the German
lines each night.
ualties, despite the fact that there
were existing treaties that no poison
or poisonous gases were to be used.
Many died rushing back to the dressing
station after inhaling the fumes,
w-hen they should have laid on the
ground.
Atrocities of the Germans.
Following his recuperation fromgas,
Lieut. Booth was assigned to the
claims department in London. It
was in this capacity that he was
brought intimately in touch with the
atrocities of the Germans to the peopl
of Belgium. One claim investigated
by him took him to a Belgian
home at meal time. A mother and
two children, boys aged 9 and 11
years, were seated at the table. The
mother was feeding the two youngstpr?
whioh armisArt th? ourinsitv of
the officer. Later he learned that
the right arm of one of the boys had
been severed and dipped into hot
pitch and had not then healed; both
arms of the older boy had been cut
off and the stumps dipped into hot
pitch. This was explained, the Germans
knowing there was to be conscription
and knew that by carrying
out this dastardly deed that the boys '
would never be enabled to fight.
The speaker related that the Germans
shelled the churches only on
Sunday mornings between-the hours
of 11 and 12 o'clock when they knew
the Belgians to be attending mass,
the destruction of the fruit trees by
cutting the bark a foot from the
ground, the wells poisoned or filled
with filth, or infernal machines being
placed in homes and explosives
secreted under the floors, even to
poisoning the oats in the stable that
the stock would die, as but a few of
the perpetrations of the Germans
in Belgium.
The First Tank.
The fright caused by the appearance
of the first tank was told by
Lieutenant Booth. It was while the
English were at the Somme front
and the French at Verdun. Lieutenant
Rnnth was a^ain in an observa
tion -position and his attention was
attracted to the rear by a thunderous
rumble. Seventy or* eighty feet
away, he said, he saw his first tank
creeping slowly towards the enemies' <
lines. His servant or batman threw
up both hands in horror and.said that
the Germans were coming from the
front and the rear.
The tank until this time was new
to the game of war and only Field
Marshal Haig and a few intimates
knew of its existence. The slow,
ponderous, death-dealing machine
kept webbing its way to the very
lip of the German trench, where it
stalled. A constant stream of machine
gun fire was turned on the
trench, either direction, of the Germans.
There were some of the
enemy so close to the tank that they
Much Food Confiscated.
Washington, June 28.?A full ton
of granulated sugar will be offered
for sale here in the next day or two
at public auction, together with other
foodstuffs, today seized by the District
supreme court at the home of
Medical Director and Mrs. Francis S.
Nash, U. S. N. The seizure is based
on a libel filed by United States Attorney
Laskey under the food conservation
act.
Dr. Nash recently paid a fine of
$1,000 for hoarding these foodstuffs,
following a plea of nolo contendre to
an indictment returned against him
by the grand jury.
Under the law after the costs of
the sale and legal proceedings are
deducted the net returns are to be
nairi nvpr to Dr. Nash. Besides the
large amount of sugar, other foodstuffs
in large quantity taken by the
marshal include 122 pounds of ham,
185 pounds of strip bacon, 387 tins
of sliced bacon, 67 tins of roast beef,
56 tins of corned beef, 50 tins of
dried beef, 15 tins of ox tongue, 442
pounds of lard, 552 cans of soup,
596 pounds "of brown sugar, 637
pounds of domino sugar, 933 pounds
of rice, 150 pounds of loose salt and
975 pounds of flour.
Mrs. Nash was Miss Caroline Ryan,
of Charleston.
could not be reached, but the? were
quickly routed by the infantry. An
attack was made by the Germans
with picks and shovels on the side
of the iron monster inflicting no damage.
When the Germans are taken prisoners
they are put into cages to
De taken oack to internment camp.
Lieut. Booth told of an f incident
where a German officer was captured
and refused to enter the cage with
his own men, also taken prisoners,
declaring that he would not be near
those swine. Lieut. Booth at this
juncture told of the equality between
officers and men in Canada and this
country. Where the German officers
follow the men with drawn pistols
into the fighting ready to shoot down
the first man who turns his head, the
Canadian and American enlisted
men are led by their officers. The
German is oppressed to that extent
that the speaker told of having seen
some German artillerymen chained
to their field pieces.
Of the many men invalided back
to Canada there are many in a sanitarium
near Montreal, who are incurably
ill with consumption. Taken
prisoner by the Germans they were
inoculated with tuberculosis germs,
worked until they were ready to fall
exhausted and then taken to Switzerland
where they were exchanged for
prisoners of the Allies. '."Is it any
wonaer tnat uanaaa nas uu iemulation
for taking prisoners?" he significantly
asked. The German prisoners
in England are treated as honored
guests he said.
The perfidious practice of the Germans
during their aerial raids over
London was told. From the giant
Zeppelins thousands of package^ of
sugar-coated candy and chocolates
are dropped. The children picking
up the packages, eat the contents
and die shortly afterwards of cholera,
each piece of candy having cholera
germs or containing cyanide of
potassium.
During his visit to the United
States, Lieut. Booth says that he has
repeatedly heard criticisms of President
Wilson, the question being asked
why more American air planes,
more munitions, more soldiers are
not sent from here, the whole fault
with the president according to the
talker. "I feel like knocking a man
over the head when he openly criticizes
the actions of President Wil
son," he said.
Our Troops in London.
Lieut. Booth told of the reception
of the American troops swinging
along the Strand in London, blase
London that is used to every sight
and undemonstrative to nolle, looked
with but mild curiosity on the pass-i
age of the Canadian and Australian'
troops, but when the first contingent]
of American soldiers invaded the
Strand the enthusiasm of the people
knew no bounds, even the famous
Cold Stream Guards, but memories
of the early days of the war, turning
out and standing at the position of :
attention until the American troops!:
had passed. 11
In closing he urged the people to :
buy more thrift stamps and war savings
certificates. Lieut. Booth told 1
his auditors what their help at this::
time meant. He commended the peo-'<
pie for the hearty money and moral t
response they already had made, but ]
pleaded that they make some fur-j'
ther sacrifices and subscribe to these j
funds. 1
Federal Income Tax Data.
Washington. June 2S.?Income tax
returns to the federal government for
the calendar year 1916 have just been
published in statistical form by Daniel
C. Roper, of South Carolina, commissioner
of internal revenue for the
Treasury Department.
As compared with 1915, the number
of persons returning incomes under
the federal law showed increases
in every classification over the figures
for 1914 and 1915, though the figures
for 1915 were less than those for
1914 on incomes bslow $15,000 a
year.
For example, the number of persons
in the United States returning
incomes from S3.000 to $4,000 was
85,122 in 1916; 69,045 in 1915; 82,754
in 1914. The number returning
from $5,000 to $10,000 was 155,553
in 1916; 120,402 in 1915 and 127,448
in 1914. The number returning
from $15,000 to $20,000 was 22,618
in 1916; 16,475 in 1915 and 15,790
in 1914. From $50,000 to $100,000
annual incomes was reported by 10,452
persons in 1916; 6,847 in 1915
and 5,161 in 1914. Incomes of 1,000.000
per annum cr more were admitted
by 206 individuals in 1916;
120 in 1915 and 60 in 1914.
In 1916 corporations numbering
341,253 reported total incomes of $8,765,900,000.
In 1915 corporations
numbering 356,443 reported but their
total income was given as much less
?that is, $5,310,009,000. In 1914
corporations numbering 299,445 reported
incomes aggregating $3,940,000,000.
Corporation incomes were
first reported for taxation by the fed
ex<ii guveixiiiieiii 111 iui wiiicu
year the corporations reporting were
262,490 in number, with aggregate
income of $3,590,000,000.
South ' Carolinians reporting income
to the federal government for
1916 1,204 altogether. Of these 249
were in the class having incomes
from. $3,000 to-$4,000 a year. The
others reporting are classified as follows:
$4,000-$5,000, 246; $5,000$6,000,
157; $6,000-$7,000, 128; $7,000-$8,000,
60; $8,000-$9,000, 60;
$9,000-$10,000, 41; $10,000-$15,000,
126; $15,000-$20,000, 66; $20,000-$25,000,
19; $25,000-$30,000,
11; $30,000-$40,000, 9; $40,000-$50,000,
9; $50,000-$60,000, 6; $100,000-$150,000,
2; $150,000-$200,000,
1.
Corporations to the number of 2,390
in South Carolina reported net
incomes aggregating $23,512,000 for
1916. No net income was reported
by 1,525 other South Carolina Corporations.
The deficit suffered by
these reduced the total net corporation
income in the State for the year
to a little more than $17,000,000.
By far the greatest portion of this
income came from manufacturing
ana mecnanicai industries, wmcn
totaled nearly $14,000,000 net. Public
utilities in South Carolina in
1916 had an aggregate net income of
only about $675,000. Banks had
over $2,500,000. Merchandising
companies, including amusement enterprises
and hotels, had a total net
income of $1,170,000.
Glad to Hear It.
The stranger was ushered into the
the society palmist's presence. "Ah!
you wish my aid?" said the great
seer.
"Well, madam," said the.visitor,
"in a way I do. You see, I've just
called."
"Certainly, I know all about it.
Just sit here and show me your palm.
Ah! I see you have met with various
disappointments lately."
"Quite true," interrupted the caller.
"Hush! Let me go on. Something
which you have written for and
striven hard to get has eluded you
time and again."
"Right you are," murmured the
victim. v
"But patience. Your end will be
attained in the near future. Success
is yours."
"I'm sure I'm very glad to hear it,
madam," said the subject as he flourished
a blue paper. "I've called five
times for a gas bill. "It's a good
thing I'm to get it at last!"?Boston
Transcript.
Providential Facilities.
A farmer in a small way walked
into the offices of one of the great fire i
insurance companies and intimated J
that he wished to insure his barn and j
a rrmnlp nf havstaoks
"What facilities have you for extinguishing
a fire in your village?"
inquired the superintendent of the j
office.
The man scratched his head and
pondered over the matter for a little
while. Eventually he answered:
"Well, it sometimes rains."?Country
Gentleman.
DEFEATS DRAFT EXTENSION.
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Fall Amendment to Change Age Lini- j
its Lost. 23 for; 49 Against.
Washington, June 28.?Immediate
extension of the present army draft
age limits was overwhelmingly defeated
today in the senate. The
amendment proposed by Senator Fall,
of New Mexico, to the $12,000,000,000
army appropriation bill, to make
the limits 20 and 40 years and all
compromises suggested for definite
minimums and maximums were voted
down.
For the amendment?Democrats:
Johnson, South Dakota, and Williams,
2.
Republicans: Brandegee, Calder,
Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham,
Fall, France, Frelinghusen, Gallinger,
Hale, Kenyon, Lenroot, Lodge,
McCumber, Nelson, New, Norris,
Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot, Sterling
and Wadsworth?23.
Total for, 25.
Against the amendment: Demo.crats?Ashh.urst,
Bankhead, Beckham,
Chamberlain, Fletcher, Gerry,
Gore, Guion, Hardwick, Henderson,
Hitchcock, Hollis, Kendrick, Killing,
Kirby, Lewis, McKellar, Martin, Myers,
Nugent, Overman, Phelan, Pittmann,
Pomerene, Ransdell, Robinson,
Shafroth, Sheppard, Shields, Simmons,
Smith, of Arizona; Smith, of
Maryland; Smith, of South Carolina;
Thomas, Thompson, Trammell, Underwood,
Vardaman and Wifley?39.
Republicans: Borah, Fernald,
Gronna, Johnson, of California; Knox,
McNary, Penrose, Smith, of Michigan,
Sutherland and Warren?10.
Vote against, 49.
Urges Army of 5,000,000.
In the final effort of those advocating
immediate legislation, Senator
McCumber advocated immediate organization
of an army of five million
men, which Chairman Chamberlain,
of the military" committee, declared
was impossible.
Senator Warren declared Congress
was handling the draft question with
"kid gloves and not bare-handed" and
that 18 to 45 age limits are necessary.
Among minor amendments written
into the bill by the senate was a provision
that a lack of college education
shall not deprive men of positions in
the aviation service. An amendment
would require factory owners to
whom enlisted men are assigned in
making war materials to pay them
regular wage rates, with their army
pay suspended.
U. S. Casualties To Date 10,383.
Washington/ June 30.?Casualties
in the American expeditionary forces
thus far reported total 10,383, summaries
issued today by the war department
and marine corps show. Of
this number 9,131 were in the army
and 1,252 in the marine corps.
Army casualties, including those
reported today, were summarized as
follows:
Killed in action (including 291 lost
at sea), 1,491.
Died of wounds. 479.
Died of disease, 1.2S7.
Died of accident and other causes,
465.
Wounded in action, 5,024.
Missing in action (including prisoners),
385.
The summary of casualties among
the marines, also included in today's
list, follows:
Deaths, 407; wounded, S42: in
hands of the enemy, 1; missing, 2.
Four hundred and ninety-seven
casualties in the army were reported
during the week, including 179 killed
in action, 47 died of wounds. 19 died
of disease, 19 died of accidents and
other causes, 213 wounded in action
and 20 missing in action, including
prisoners. The week before 549 casualties
were reported.
The marine corps summary did not
show how many of the deaths reported
were in action, from disease,
accidents and other causes. It did
divide the officers and men, showing
that 14 officers have died, 29 have
been wounded and one is missing.
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A Heaven-Sent Ailment.
"Who-all sick up to yo' house, ZVTiz
Smif?" asked George Washington
Jones. "It's mah brudder 'Lige,"
replied Mrs. Smith.
"What's he done got de mattah
wif him?"
"Dey cain't tell. He eats an' he
sleeps al] right, an' he stays out in
de veranda in de sun all dav. hut he
can't do no wuhk at all."
"He cain't wuhk?"
"Not a bit."
Mr. Jones raised his eyes to heaven.
"Law, Miz Smif. dat ain't no disease
what yo' brudder's got. Dot air am
a gift."?Ladies' Home Journal.
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TRANSATLANTIC AIR BOUTE
MAJOR GEX. BRANCKER IN WASHINGTON
TO FLY PROGRAMME, a
Airmen to Bomb All of Germany.
Big Machines Able to Carry Tons
of Bombs Will Cross Atlantic.
Washington, June 21.?Establishment
of an air route to Europe from
the United States in order to bring
the full force of American effort in
the air to bear against Germany has
been decided upon as a definite project
by the British air council.
This was disclosed today by Major
Gen. William Brancker, controller of
equipment of the council, who is in
WT ooln'n (rtAr? io A icon oc hio
?? uouiu^ iuu \j uiomoo tiiio auu utuci
projects relating to air warfare.
Plans for an initial flight across
the Atlantic in August, September or
October of this year already are well
advanced. American cooperation is
sought and Gen. Brancker hopes the
first machines to make the crossing
will carry both British and American
pilots. At least three British pilots
regarded as qualified for the trip are
now here and several types of machines
produced in England have ample
fuel capacity for the forty hour'
' of flying it is estimated the trip would
take.
To Blaze Trail.
The attitude of the American Government
toward the project has not
been disclosed, although Gen. Brancker
laid stress on the fact that the
sole purpose of the trip was to blaze
a new trail to Europe over which
American aircraft can be delivered
next year without taxing shipping.
Presumably it arises from the fixed
purpose of the British air ministry
to carry the bombing warfare into
Germany on a steddily increasing
' ?scale
until not a vital spot in the
German Empire is safe from Allied
raiders. . -7
After Gen. Brancker had made public
his plans Secretary Baker said no
J. ? 1 J . u...
army aviauun uuiceis nau yet ueeu
assigned to work in conjunction with
the British on the subject. ^
Laid Before Officials. A
There is little doubt, however, that 1
the strong advocacy of the air road \
to the front plan brought by Gen.
Brancker already has had considerable
effect. The general laid it before
officers of the army general staff
today as an achievement that could
be realized in the immediate future.
Many officers believe it would be
wise to inject an element of friendly
rivalry into the effort to be the first
to make the flight. They argue, since
the real value of the plan depends
upon the ability of American-built
night bombers and American pilots to
cross the ocean, the initial effort;
should be partially, at least, an American
enterprise.
Reliable Engines.
The point made by Gen. Brancker
favoring the employment of British
equipment for the venture is that the
new Rolla-Royce 375 horsepower engines
have proved valuable enough
practically to insure no difficulty from
this source. The American Liberty .
motors, he said, are admittedly better
in performance than this Rolls-Royce,
Deing or iigmer weigiu aim givmg
greater power, but they have not yet
reached the status of reliability of
the Rolls-Royce.
Under any consideration, a seaplane
carrying at least 750 horsepower
will be the first craft to attempt
the flight. *
Route Proposed.
As now projected, the trip would
start from New Foundland, touch at
the Azores and in Portugal and conclude
in Ireland, probably to be resumed
after overhaul, to France.
The governing factors of the flight
were given by the British officer as
engine reliability, navigation and
weather forecasts. The probable loss
of machines en route is minimized,
he believed, when the weather forecast
had been fully worked out and
flights started only when it was established
that good weather would
prevail.
Weight-Cany ing.
The use of weight carrying ma
chins such as night bombers is essential
as the carrying capacity later to
be devoted to hauling high explosives
to German centers* selected for destruction
would go into extra fuel
during the trip. The twin Liberty
type of American seaplane, built on
British designs, in production here,
meets these requirements.
Gen. Brancker discussed frankly
many other aspects of the air service
that experience has taught Great Britain.
For that reason he warned his
hearers to disregard talk of maintain(Continued
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