The literary digest . 35th Division in theArgonne battle, appeared before the committee, and the Balti-more Evening Sun declares that the General specifically andcategorically disproved the charges. The General admittedthat certain shortages did exist, but were the inevitable resultof battle conditions. There was one instance when about halfa doz(>n shells burst among our own men. but they were fired byFrench guns. He admits that there were times when Germanairplanes did attack our men, but that there was no real short-age of airplanes on our side. Wounded men were given thebest possible ca
The literary digest . 35th Division in theArgonne battle, appeared before the committee, and the Balti-more Evening Sun declares that the General specifically andcategorically disproved the charges. The General admittedthat certain shortages did exist, but were the inevitable resultof battle conditions. There was one instance when about halfa doz(>n shells burst among our own men. but they were fired byFrench guns. He admits that there were times when Germanairplanes did attack our men, but that there was no real short-age of airplanes on our side. Wounded men were given thebest possible care, and under such battle conditions could onI.\-be moved in tlui night. At all stages of the battle th(> di\ isionwas given artillery support, except on one day when conditionsmade it impossible. The whole American Army, said theGeneral, was at the time short of The 35th Divisionhad a very dilfid again; t. CopyriplitoLi hv llie International Film Service. GENERAL TRAUB, Who replies that the Argonne losses were very low, considering the strength of the positions taken. 18 The Literary Digest for March 8, 1919 three of the finest Boche divisions in the entire Hun Army for adistance of twelve and a half kilometers, taking positions thathad baffled the French for four years, and which they had pro-nounced impregnable. Under the circumstances the Generalconsiders the loss of life marvelously low. According to Gen-eral Traub only a few more than 500 men in his division were killedand less than 4,500 wounded. Several newspapers, among them the Albany KnickerbockerPress and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, admit the high casualtyrate, but are inclined to think that this was deliberately riskedin order to shorten the war, and that the sacrifice was, there-fore, not needless. The Albany paper calls attention to a recentstatement by Frederick A. Palmer, formerly ofGeneral Pershings staff,
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