New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1919, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN " MININGTS MORE DEADLY THAN WAR S0 Declares Head of Scottish Union at Inquiry 29 Press.)—Mining is John London. April (Correspondence of The more deadly than war, Associated | Y | | declared Robertson at the government’s inquiry nto the coal industry of ¢ chairma Wor langer n the min- ain. Robertson is Scottish Union of Mint ) e extent of the to the | is not realized even ing d he said. ‘“There are 1.000.000 persons employed in and about British coal mines. In the ten | vears from 1907 to 1916 there was a | otal of 12,400 men killed, or an aver age each year of 1,240. In the p 20 years the yearly average of ac t about 160,000, or a total of | The miner is always s always in the | mine stricts i- about on active 8 -enches.” v It was stated that in one min district there were 2,768 persons livin more than five in a single room: more than six to a room; 510 more | than seven to a room, and 190 more | than eight to a room “Think he conditions these | single rooms!” the witness continued. “Pit clothes drying in front of the fire n the same room where the sleep: sickness, accouchement. can the children have au ¢ the wor her The min come home from | and it has all got to be done | again. Do we wonder that the | heart?” | Balfour, an industr senting the gov said to the wiiness “If the conditions a must be rightec ive of the coal miners said he | agreed that something must | done. i Asked by Mr. alfour vhat buted cost Jivin = in . as vou sav. and a repre- | an- | of hink prices are too “because natu hands of individu: worker gets a very. “Are not prices 100 hig four asked, ‘oW to the r ¢ production? ‘No,” the witness replied. worker, in my opinion, does too much. | No one can a ise the worker of un derworking. The failure is in the dis- | bution of production, and not in | production itself. We have solved the | question of production. What we have to solve the question of distribu-' tion. high,” g SAYS Y. M. C. A. IS DOING GOOD W()RK‘; Worker Who Has Been on Russiau | Front Praises This Organi- zation, Heald who is in charge | Omsk. Siberi of Davenport, Towa, western distri Men’s Ch iberia has returned t to the battle front the Y. AL C. vossible to of the soldiers. iries are working, ghting line. They are of Pennsylvan who and C. W. Riley, recently from Northwestern uni- icago. who has a club car north on the line. Mr. Riley ght the first Y. M. C. A. supply | train out of Vladivostok. Twenty-five American are Now ser in the we: zane and hav A general supply department is now heing orzanized for the local purchas of butter, cheese and general dairy products for which Siberia is famous. but which the soldiers have difficulty in obtaining. of the t of the Ameri- | an stian fon work Ymsk after a v reports that evervthing rdships American sccre reports, at the H. L. Tinkha Ufa Young associs in aing ng CAN'T GET MEN. 1.500,000 ever Ma woM “nglish S Women Will atistics Show. London, May 2.—There are one and alf who million women in this country, will never have the chance of | — is a statement by Miss | editor of National there: was a surpl of 1,337,000 marriageable women over | marriageable men, and since then! rem there have been the war casualties of | obta 1918 Miss will women, wh will prevent f he getting married Norah March, Health. In 191 chic wh w | ing ner that emigration of these surplus > economic independence omen from marrying ake of a home. ¥ men and women in this age modern advancement,” Miss March, “are getting different views from those held in the past, and re- gard women's right to motherhood as | upreme individual S ng such a wide choic uestion remains as whether | the mén will choose the hest and strongest women, as upon the women | will depend largely the future human | race; since the best of manhood has | been cut off. The choice really rests | with the woman, for With her is the | vight of refusing an offer of riage.” March says cial re few B due fact to mar- | CLEARING SEAS OF MINES. | London, April 18.—The seas are be. | ng cleared of mines at the rate £ according Admiralty. of to the Operations ars | t 100 a day, British srounds and carly group in that cit DAILY HERALD. Lost Battalion Story Told By “Y” Man Who Was First Civilian To Aid Survivors ZIEUT-COL. "W, > V%IITTL'E!EY i by the o spariy HARRY W BLAIR. S. B. Burrows, of New York, Says ‘“WE’RE Americans —We Can’t Surrender”’ Was Real Reply of Lieut- Col. Whittlesey To German Demand To Quit One of the most prized tradi- tions of the war has been shattered —the famous “Go to hell” of Lieut. 1. Charles W, Whittlesey, of the ‘Lost Battalion” in reply to the German demand for surrender. The message which thrilled the world when the story of the “Lost Battalion” was told was never sent, according to Stephen B. Burrows, of New York, .a Y.M.C.A. man, re- cently returned from France, who with Harry W. Blair, of Carthage, Mio., another “Y” man, was the first civilian to give aid to the American heroes when they were rescued in the depths of the Argonne Forest last October. Burrows asserts that no reply whatever was made to the boche call to the Americans to quit. During the six days and nights in which the battalion, cut off from all help, was enduring wounds, thirst, hunger and consiant attacks by the Germans, Burrows and Blair were within 1,000 yards of the be- leaguered troops, helping to care tor the wounded and giving out supplies. In support of his state- ment that no reply was made to the Germans, Burrows points out that there were no means at hand for sending an answer unless that an- swer was an agreement to surren- der. Followed Boys Over Top Burrows and Blair were at- tached to the 308th Infantry and followed the boys over the top when the 77th Division began its great drive on the Argonne For- est last September. During the first five days’ fight, in which the doughboys hacked their way to the middie of the fourteen-mile wedge of woods, Burrows was at work giving out supplies and car- ing for wounded, and he was in the front lines when, on October 2, the order came to Col. Whit- tlesey to advance his men 1,000 yards. The' junglelike density of the forest, the Y.M.C.A. man relates, was larguly responsible for the suc- cess of the German coup which nearly cost the lives of Whittlesey and 600 men. As soon as Whittle- sey advanced, the enemy filtered by both his flanks and within a few hours, by means of hidden machine guns and squads of snipers and grenade throwers, had cut off the battalion entirely from the 77th’s lines. For two days. Burrows says, tue fate of the battalion was not known. Then some pigeons arrived giving some details of the disaster and describing the battalion’s pos- ition in the forest. Meanwhile ev- ary effort was being made to cut a way through to the relief of the boys. So strong was the concentra- tion of machine guns. that daylight fighting was little better than sui- fly confined to great minefie the war and w will De a hace to navigation until they are oved. If a sufficient force can be Aincd 0 carry on the work, fishing trade routes, it is offi- 1y expected, will be cleared by the | autumn. North Sea. re laid dur- the s W I IN HA! April 2 Bremen the BOLSHEVISTS, —An inquiry con- has revealed the Spartacus-Bolshevik | numbered between | erne, ted at that withous wore the T. My Do, ot inhablitant Photo Copyright, International Fiim Service 15 tenoe of 40usly aprreoiated by the men Wae given in s fine a;d 1iberal it oy Mgcestion of rotnburament. . U, O, only organization 30." 7 houie Iike co add thas. tt Bes fficers szd 8. B. Burrows. Esq., 811 Beverly Road, Brooklyn, N. ¥. My dear Myr. Burrows: You have called my attention to the fact that the statemsnt has Yeen made that, on the relicf of the “Lost Battalion,” charged by the Y.M.C.A. | late and cocoa supplied to the men. 0f course you and I know that this is not e fact. and I take great pleasurc in stating that on that occasion the first hot food which the men receivéd was the eocoa supplied by the Y.M.C.4 The assistance of the Y.M.C.A. at that time was tremendously appre- ciated by the meém and by the of- ficers, and was given in a finc and liberal spirit without any sugges- tion. of reimbursement. Further- more, the Y.M.C.A. was the only or- panization present at that time. 1 should like to add that the work of the Y.M. in our regiment was of the very greatest help, and was thoroughly and gratcfully ap- preciated. ) Sincerely, Charles W. Whittlesey. cide. All the attempts had to be made at night. Would Not Sigral Airman How little intention Whittlesey and his men had of surrendering is indicated, Burrows points out, by their sacrifice of food and ammu- nition which they could have had by attracting the attention of the aviators who flew over every day trying to locate the battalion so as to drop supplies. The besieged bat- tallon was provided with squares of red and white oilcloth ' which, gpread on the ground, coulid be seen by the airmen, but the men refused to use them for fear that the Ger- mans would miistake the white of these cloths for a sign of surrender. One package of ammunition and food landed near the battalion, Bur- rows says. When several dough- boys crept down from the hillside into which they had dug them- selves and tried to get this package, the German snipers and machine gunners wiped out the little group. Col. Whittlesey ordered that no more attempts be made to get this food. These airmen won the admira- tion of the entire division by their daring attempts to help the trapped men. Burrows says that the aviators, in their ef- forts to ses the men, would come down almost to the tops of the trees, flying through a hail of bul- lets from the German rifles. Two of these aviators were shot down, and the wings of every machine that went over were riddled, vet the fliers returned every day and resumed their search. Surrender Demand Arrives 1t was on the fourth day that the surrender demand arrived. Toward late afternoon the men on the left of the battalion heard a hail from the woods and a German, in Eng- lish, shouted that he had a pris- oner with a note for the battalion commander. This prisoner was a doughboy who had been one of a party of ten that had tried to get back for help. Six were killed and the other four captured after they 700 und 500 men, writes a Berlin co respondent. This comparatively i significant number of armed despe adoes were able to dictate their to a population of several thousand and to maintain a reign terror for several weeks before t troops s from their tyranny. LEGS STIFF? JOINTS STEEN 5. BURRIWSS. Two Y. M. C. A. Men Were Within 1,000 Yards of Be- sieged Doughboys During Week of Peril, and Were First Civilians to A'id Them When Rescued had been knockeq out with gren- ades and wounded by machine gun bullets. This survivor, blindfolded and with the German note in his hand, was led to a point near the left flank of the battallon. One of ‘Whittlesey’s men crawled through the underbrush, found the prisoner and guided him back to his com- rades. The note was taken to Col. ‘Whittlesey. In effect, it is said that the battalion, which had been without food for four days, was en- tirely surrounded and could not hope to escape; and urged that, in mercy to the wounded and to those still living, further resistance should be abandoned. According to members of tho battalion whom Burrows talked with immediately after their rescue, Col. “Whittlesey remarked, after carefully reading the note: “We're Americans—we can’t sur- render.” Could Not Send Reply In order to make any reply, the “Y” man explains, either a dough- boy would have to carry it, becom- ing a prisoner, or it would have to be shouted, a dangerous proceeding because it would help indicate the position of the battalion. So the Dboys simply dug themselves in and hung on. In two days, more than 1,000 cas- ualties resulted from the attempts to rescue the battalion, Burrows says. The troops had to make all their dashes by night, and the only route by which they could approach the advance position was up a winding ravine in which the Ger- mans had built a narrow guage track. The euemy kepi this ravin: under constant fire, and the casual- ties among the relief squads were heavy. ‘When the battalion finally was rescued, Burrows and Blair, who had moved up their supplies, had hot drinks and cigarettes for the 400 survivors as they were brought back into the lines and helped give first aid to the wounded and get them back to the dressing station Burrows is loud in praise of the late Maj. James A. Roosevelt and his men of the supply company since without their help it would have been impossible to get Y. M C. A. supplies up to the boys in th- front lines. As it was, Burrows and Blair were always able to give fair- 1y prompt service. After the first of October they gave away more than 28,000 franes of supplies to the doughboys of their division, mak- ing no attempt to sell anything. Burrows and Blair were with the 77th Division during the Argonne fight and remained with it until the armistice was signed. 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