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Show List Includes One Captain, Cap-tain, a Lieutenant and 18 Privates; Officer .and Cadet Are Killed in Airplane Accident; 13 Die From Diseases. 60 WOUNDED ON AMERICAN FRONT New War Department Order Gives Only the Names of Casualties; Regulation Put Into Effect at Request of French Government. WASHINGTON, March 9. The war department today issued the first of its expurgated casualty lists, contain- ."ing the Dames of one captain, one lieutenant lieu-tenant and eighteen men killed in ae- tio'n, a lieutenant and a "cadet killed in airplane accidents, one lieu- tenant and twelve men dead of diseases, dis-eases, a lieutenant and twenty-three men severely wouuded in action and j thirty-six men slightly wounded. Killed in Action. Captain Harry C. McHenry, Corporal Dean Paris, First Lieutenant Louis J. Jordan, Sergeant Walter J. Porsch, Albert Al-bert E. lloschler, Sergeant Alva P. Eaton, John E. Ellis, Russell L. Felix, Elmer James McDonough, William Stover, Tony Wroblewsky. Other Deaths.' First Lieutenant Frank G. Montgomery, Montgom-ery, aero accident. John B. Ernest, gas; John M. Young, gas; Corporal H. C. Wise, accident; Cadet L. Ludwig, aero accident. Deaths From Disease. William Fiyal, First Lieutenant George A. Ward, Sergeant James W. Wedding, Edward "Tash, Clifford J. Worden, Corporal Donald H. MacRae, Isaac David, Byron Arau Raden, Guy 0. Worley, Dock Maxwell, Joseph H. Trembley, Sergeant Samuel Coran, James E. Doincette, John E. Freeman, George B. Collins, Jones E. Fowler, cook; David J. Pugh, Alexander Mc-Alister, Mc-Alister, Nicholas Daicy, Aleck Berry. Severely Wounded. F. A. Coyle, Cyril H. Johns, Second Lieutenant' Alex W. .Terrell, Morford G. Brese, Corporal Martin Dunn, Corporal Cor-poral La simmons, Corporal L. E. Deitz, X Ravmond L. Classend, Dan P. Brace- lin," Fred A. Fintz, Merrill B. Morrison, Robert L. Clausen, Ira J. Rogers, William Wil-liam T. Smith, Ray C. Walden, Arthur M. Shores, Jerry Schultz, John Vo-macka, Vo-macka, Emil F. Kraft, Louis Holmes, Lawrence Wenell, Joe Ciechowski, Fred S. Becker. Sightly Wounded. . Burton M. Baker, Arernon J. Rooney, Leo. J. Miller, Clarence W. Dawson, Sergeant Pearl Edwards, James P. Albert. Al-bert. Kenmore Thompson, Harvey A. McPeak, John A. Vedner, John.Me-Guirl, John.Me-Guirl, Raymond Quinlan, N. McGagh-ren, McGagh-ren, Corporal J. J. Rohde, Barney E. Togue, Paul Skeropolis. Corporal F. Kiviatkow, Corporal R. Nassett, Glenn H. Cray, Alvin Deruek, 'Archie R. King, Charles W. McLaughlin, Charles Danielson, Walter G. Smith, Otto M. Swanlund, E. J. Farrell, Albert J. Oar-ron, Oar-ron, Hugh W. Mellon, Ray Moore, Corporal Cor-poral B. ,T. Rise. Herman II. Stevens, Sergeant P. S. Lipsett. John Hurrell, Corporal M. Jasnow, First Lieutenant J. M. Green. Addresses Deleted. The war department's order deleting the next of kin, addresses and dates from the lists, was officially explained today as having resulted from representations repre-sentations of tho French government to General Pershing that the casualties as published in this country made accessible ac-cessible to the enemy valuable information. infor-mation. At the same time the order of the department was brought up in the senate Senator New of Indiana., introduced in-troduced a resolution requesting tho department de-partment to inform the senate why the order had beon issued, if such information infor-mation would not be "inconsistent with tho interests of the service." . Senator New asked immediate adoption adop-tion of the resolution, but Senator Wil-.liams Wil-.liams of Mississippi, Democrat, ob-( ob-( .jected and the matter went over until Monday without debate. In explaining the reasons for the order, or-der, Major-Gen oral Peyton C. March, ';. (Continued ou Page Five.) PB6MHG REPORTS 20 DEAD II ACTION (Continued from Page One.) acting chief of staff, made public a paraphrase of the cablegram received from General Pershing recommending the change. General Pershing said the French government had called attention to the unquestioned valuable information which the. Germans could obtain from statements giving the exact number of casualties resulting after a raid and from official statistics in the form of casualty casu-alty lists, which gave the precise effects ef-fects of a gas attack. He recommended that the system be changed so as to omit everything which might be of value to the enemy. Explanation Lacking. It could not be learned whether General Gen-eral Pershing specifically designated the features to be deleted, or left this to be decided by the department. Nor was there any explanation of . a statement state-ment in an Associated Press dispatch today from American headquarters that the rule prohibiting the discussing of casualties among the American forces was "temporary." Whether this referred to a prohibition imposed by General Pershing on correspondents in France, or to the department's new order, was not made clear. General March explained that the French government has never issued a casualty list of any kind since the be- ginning of the war. Instead, the war oltice in Paris, as soon as a name is received, notifies the mayor of the town from which tho soldier came and the mayor, personally, notifies the soldier'H family or next of kin. The British government, according to the chief of staff, issues weekly lists which contain only the information now given out in Washington, while tho German government, long ago discontinued discon-tinued the practice of posting in towns the names of the killed or wounded from those towns. Expect Adherence. It is the intention of tho department to give out the lists as soon as they are received from abroad, it was explained. ex-plained. Until further notice one list will be published by the adjutant general's gen-eral's offico, mimiographed copies being be-ing provided for newspaper correspondents. correspon-dents. After explaining the department's depart-ment's action, General March today expressed ex-pressed the opinion that " the patriotic press," would sustain the ruling. Adjutant-General McCain tonight reiterated re-iterated that there is no cause for anxiety among the relatives of soldiers in France and that all relatives of men killed, wounded or dying from any cause will be notified immediately. |
