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t --- - a-T' ?? Over the Top/9 by Sergt Guy Empey, the Greatest Book of the War, will be published exclusively in The Herald? beginning in the it?ue of Monday, February 11. Order your paper today. I ERALD WAl SAVINGS STAMPS ?de.dir- ?MWN ?* -*lae Uade Stu? ttwa. Bay ?em today NO. ?4124. WEATHER-LIGHT RAIN. WASjHD?GTON. D. C, SATURDAY, FjEBRUARY 9, 1918. ONE CENT &."??%.? Tare Osa.?. U. S. SHIPPING BOARD FACES NEW SHAKE-UP Amazing Revelations of Lax Methods Bring Announce ment from Hurley. ? new reorganization of the Si-iipping Board ts on th? way. Chairman Hurley, so informed the Senate Commerce Committee, at a secret session late yesterday. It has, he said, the approval of the President. Declining to make public details. Chairman Hurley said the principal innovation would be bringing new ?nhlpbuildintr experts into the or ganiza ? ion He left the committee to hurry to an appointment, he said, with the, men whom he has asked to help him. Planning Details. Announcements of names and plans are to come today. Hurley saw the ?'resident Tues day night of this week, following the Cabinet meeting, and laid his plan before th?? Executive. Its gen eral outline having been approved, he worked out details, and laid the whole proposition before the Senate .'ommittee yesterday. No legisla tion or Congressional action is necessary. It is understood that half a dozen "zones'* will be created, with the leading builders of the various dis i rifts having large powers of super vision. Districts probably will be: New England. Central Atlantic States. Great ?Lakes, Gulf States, and the Pacific Coast. A separate control may be provided for the extensive wooden shipyards of the North Pacific Coast region. Hurley caught the committee com pletely by surprise. All day long they had probed into the Hog Is land contracts, exposing half a dozen new leakages of money, and developing that only Ave of the fifty ways there are even approach in? a condition where ships can be built on them. At the Bristol, Pa., yard. It was testified, none of the ships can be launched because they draw twenty feet of water, and there is but twelve feat depth in the Delaware Rivar. Dredging operation? nr? under way. t'umirinder Paul L. Reed, a navy officer assigned aa government super iiiten'Uni of the works, was another witness. He declared he had instructions not t?- interfere with the contracting com auq- cftener than necessary. H? said iM-t one contract which the company uroposed to him had been rejected. H? admitted'that the government had accepted th* company's estimate? of n_MMM without preparing one of its own. Inspection or piling and other ? inter ia Is. he testified, was left "Main ly" to the contractor's employes. Asked the theory of what Senator Harding called this "remarkable ar rangement. " he said the government had believed it could -:et best results by giving wide au thon* y to private concern?, and holding inen, to respon sibility. X? Fixed Reap-aasibllItT. lie admitted that no responsibility had been fixed, however, which would prevent the government from vast money losses. His estimate was that the yard would be completed for W2, ?-.-O.U09. as against half that originally estimated. Senator Vardaman?"The govern ment paid all bills and there was no attempt at economy." ? Reed?"It is true that economy was always a secondary consideration." Nelson?"You tied up thousands of ears of freight; you employed hun dreds of men you couldn't use. Now, whv?"? Reed?"We-" Nelson?"I didn't ask about 'we.* What did you do to stop it?" Keed did not answer. Hire?! y.\rrjbeydj. Senator Fletcher?When did too many men begin to be hired? Reed?At once. They hired all who came. They ordered material far in ailvance. I didn't feel in a position to stop them. The government wished to leave the Job to them. Vnrdaman? Many were absolutely untrained? Reed?Yes, but much work was common labor. He said a macadam road had to be hulit to the island, the rough piles of dumped gravel graded, and plank roadways laid. To Senator Johnson's insistent queries as to what Interests the American International Company bought the land from, he could give no answer. The government, he said, is paying 6 per cent rent annually oa its ?.7'J*>.000 valuation. ?Senator Vardaman asked If Its whole value did not depend on a gov ernment shipyard being located there. Reed answered Delaware River prop erty was increasing tn value. Due to a policy of starting fifty shipways all at once, he said, the whole plant wa? thrown into confu sion. He admitted there are today only flve of the fifty ways even near tng completion. He said there were twelve on which nothing had been done, and the Shipping Board had or dered work on them stopped. "Can you tell if material waa largely bought from firms which have interlocking directorates with the contracting company?" "Bids were always asked.** "They selected the?firms?** '"W? made suggestions. We could and did." " Who made original estimates oi coat?'* The shipbuilding company?" ? ?*? (???*????? Eatlmates. "The government mede none it ?e|f, separately?*' "No.'' "L?t me have >ou repeat that. The government, called on to pay all bilia, mad? no estimates of its "Ce? you name one instance whe*? ?riginat estimate? were appioximated . fe final coins*?' <Xilsri*UJ> KM FACiJC TWO. Is? Hun Battery Blown Up by U. S. Artillery Fire; Raid Repulsed With Ihr? Astri,?? Army la Fraa???, Feb. ?t.?Otar "heavlea" thl? at?rala? blew a? a ?.?erma? hattery. ? heavy explaaian waa ?blrrvnl behlad lb? tar?;'? raaa.aflas;., aad th? Uermaa bat tery wa? *?t afire, ?aa af aar ?tarli, e,Idrati?- ?avias; laadrd la a atanitlon? dama. Mommi?, arlar ta thla aar bar rase follrd ?a attempted raid of tme ?trenf e?ea?y *aat*-a*s. whirl* were aaabl?? ta atrvaaea through harasalns marhlae fas. anto m.llr rlflr. ?ad s"??*?* *re. Th? ('?rmaa? attempted te ???tr?fe- our treaches aaa ?were aa.ttered by ef/eetlve raaatrr battery ?rtrk. the Aaserlcaaa Jolalas la breabla?; aa the eaemy Ere. Oar patrol? have dlaplayed la rrra.rd activity wlthla the laat twelve haar?. The earnty pa trai artltlty. sa |he ?ther aaad. la dlmlal.htas. EIGHT STATES IN SOUTH FREE OFCOALBAN Garfield Order Modification Indicates Monday Will Be Last Fuelless Holiday. Indication that at-at Monday will be the last fuelless holiday wa? given yesterday by Fuel AiJminlstrator Gar field. when he received the coal savins* regulation as affecting eight southern Stjtes. In a serie? of conferences a co operative program affecting transpor tation of f-iel, food and shipbuilding material was di?cuseed by Director McAdoo, Food Administrator Hoover, Dr. Garfield and Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping Board. With thi? program a? a basis and report? from all part? of the coun try showing improved weather con dition?, the official? charged with handling of war necessities were hope fa*? at ?peedy relief. Tr?a?part I.lar. Gala. Director McAdoo announced that ilu transportatfon system? were aperat. ing under better schedule than . time since the cold weather 1 .1. He issued an order giving pr? Ter ence to box cara for movement of (Tain and grain products In the West. "Every effort should be made by farmers, grain dealers .'nd others to facilitate the accumulation, prompt loading and shipment of all kinds of grains." the Instructions read. In partially lifting the fuel ban In the East. Dr. Garfield notified the ad ministrators in the states east of Mis sissippi and Minnesota that necessary fuel may be furnished on Mondays tn heat and light loft? and workshop? occupied by members of the Interna tional Ladles* Garment Workers' Union. ' The states Tfr the South which are I removed from the Monday closing list ? are North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina. Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Report? from New England ?tates reettived by the fuel administrator in dicated that shipment? of coal were going through rapidly and at the same time the material required at the gov II ernment shipyards I? being delivered in larger quantities. The Middle West also reported the : opening of many transportation lines I which were blocked by storms. 40 HELD PRISONERS ON SUSPECTED LINER Secret Service Agents Making Rigid Probe of Alleged Hun- Plot. An Atlantic Port. Feb. 8.?Forty per son? were detained by the Federal au j thorities on board of the Nieuw Am j ?terdam. Holland-American liner, and ; the vessel 1? ?till in?*"?T8,rge of the navy j officials, and marines are walking the , deck? with drawn bayonets tonight. j The forty prisoners?as they may ? now be termed?are detained on board until the Secret Service men. detec tives, special agents of the Treasury ; Department and the Department of Justice are able to decide their cases. ' There sre thirty-three men and seven < women held. The fate of the great liner itself is not yet decided, it was stated tonight by members of the Federal investigat t ins; committee. The vessel will prob ' ?bly be turned back to the Holland 1 American Line, but thla i? not even 1 certain. I Chemiet? from the Department of 1 Agriculture are analyzing all aus picious articles that might possibly ? contain germs rumored to be aboard the ship as a part of the German plot to destroy the wheat crop in thi? coun try. CHARGES MADE POLITICS BACK OF WAR PROBE Senate Debate Develops Wann Exchange Over Baker Quizzing. Administration Democrats charg ed yesterday on the Senate floor that Republican? weak trying to distort the war probe so that Sec retary of War Baker might be used as a campaign issue. Senator Thomas of Colorado aaid: "I hope the Inquiry Is not degen erating Into what seems to be a gradually growing sentiment?that It 1? petty cross-examination of a public official." He read from a newspaper article headed, "Baker Campaign Ieaue for Republicans," and purporting to be an interview with a Republican na tional committeemen. Senator Borah of Idaho denied In behalf of Republicans that the War Department would be made an Is sue. A stormy tilt ensued between Senator Lewi? of Illinois and Sen ator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate Military Affaira Committee. ( hataherlala Explain?. "Why wasn't the 'Becretary called flrat In the Inquiry?" demanded Sen ator Lewis of Senator Thomas who le a member of the Military Committee. "Why If the Investigation waa to obtain information, were witnesses first called who made him the subject of attack, and he was later brought In aa if he were a defendant answering an Indictment?" "May I answer that?" said Senator Chamberlain, rising to his feet "Well, let me say," declared Senator Cham berlain. "It was at the Secretary'? own request he was not first called. He preferred that the men under him should testify aa experts first. And we suited hi? convenience." "If the chairman" ?aid Senator Lewis, "say? he know? that from any conversation he had with the 8ecre tary, It would cloee the question with me. But It the ?Senator tells it be cause he bear?! it from others, he de durne lt." J Aaewers Lewie. "I don't state thing? on the hear say of others." Chamberlain said very loudly and distinctly. "I state things a? facts. I will say to the Senator from Illinois, the committee acted as It felt It had a right to act. And I will say to the Senator, it Intends to proceed aloni?- that line." This colloquy was precipitated when Senator Thomas read the newspaper article. He said he con sidered it "human nature'' that par tisan advantage would be taken quickly by one side or another. Sen ator Pindexter, of Washington, asked: "Why make a political Issue of It? Does the Senator Imply that the question ot efficiency In con ducting the war should not be pre sented to the tribunal of public opinion? Have not the American people a right to render their ver dict in an election?" "If? perfectly proper," said Mr. Thomas. "I mention politics only because I am afraid we are going beyond the point in investigations. Themas Retorts. "Well possibly that's true," said Senator Chamberlain. "But it was en Mr.'Baker's own initiative that he came agaiq. If ha 1? being persecuted it Is at his own re quest." "I never said that," snapped Sen ator Thomas. "I did not ?ay you did." "But I do say there seems to be a sentiment to that effect in differ ent parts of the country." "That's not my information,' came back Senator Chamberlain. "Tou admit the investigation has done good?" "It certainly has." "You do not disapprove of the examination?-" "I do not." "Then do you think when a ma jority of the committee decides on an investigation, 'it should halt In Its duty because the result creates an Issue for one or the other party?" "Well." said Senator Thomas, "after a man has been examined and cross-examined and examined again, there Is some justification for the outside view that this is not designed to accomplish any good purpose." Forty-five Indicted at L W. W. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 8.?The Fed eral grand Jury today returned in dictments against forty-five person? charged with conspiring with "Big Bill" Haywood, ?secretary of the I. W. W., to prevent the execution of the laws of the United States and hin dering the prosecution of tbe war with Germany. .?? Empey's "Over the Top1 Begins in The Herald Monday ON MONDAY. FEBRCART 11, The Herald will berin the pub lication of Sergt. Guy Empey'? "Over the Top." R will b? con tinued from day to day until concluded. Thi? ia tb? most remark able ?tory of the world war. Guy Empey, a New Jer?ey boy. went to England, joined the King's army, and fought in Flanders for twenty-two months. His experience? have thrilled the world. The Herald will publish this serial exclusively in Washington, having paid a large sum for the privilege. Newsdealers will be wise who order additional copie? of Mon day'? issu?*, for a reader startlag the Empey story, "Over the Top," will want every line that follows. Prospective readers are urged to place their orders with new?? ?Sealers today or tomorrow. ON TO FRANCE!" BERLIN ENVOYS RENEW PARLEY WITH RUSSIANS! Annexationists Demands' Abandoned by Teutons at Brest-Litovsk. Amsterdam, Feb. S.?Annexatibnlst | ?word rattling has been abandoned by j the central powers at Brest-Lltovsk. , Suave, almost sweet, speeches, aimmg , at persuasion have taken the place of Gen. von Hoffman's flst-banging threats How the Russian? are acting as the result of the backdown Is not clear from today's dispatches, though their trend indicates the Bolsheviki atti tude has become firmer aa the Teuton attitude ha? weakened. Peace parleys have been resumed, and at last accounts no break seemed Imminent. ? Barely recovered from the Internal crises, chiefly due to the annexatlon ist demands, the central powers can not now afford to court new trouble at Brest. There Is no doubt in the minds of well-Informed observers here that the German government would like noth ing better than a complete break with the Bolsheviki. To both Teutonic governments the recent strike?, with their demands for non-annexationlst peace, have been handwriting on the wall and they must continue to negotiate. All the time the Bolsheviki sol dier?' hold on Russia is being strengthened. Today news came from Petrograd that the social rev olutionaries, their erstwhile bitter est antagonists, have realised there is no chance to break the L?nine rule and consequently have decided to get as much of a share In it as they can. Victor Tchernolf, whom the short-lived constituent assem bly elected chairman over the Bol sheviki delegate. Is one of the so cial revolutionaries who have ac cepted a seat In a new all-Russian soviet of 300 members, under Bol shevist sponsorship. Znamia Trade, of Petrograd, flat ly states today the Germans would ?ot dare to break off now, adding: "We must continue our policy of deepening the German revolution." There was a report from Moscow, by way of Berlin, that Gen. Brue iloff, who launched the last great drive against the Germana under csardom, haa been arrested In the ancient capital. Civil warfare in Finland contin ue? unabated. Deny Von Kuehhnann WQ1 Wed Rich Woman Amsterdam, Feb. 8.?The engage ment of Dr. von Kuehlmann, the Ger man secretary of foreign affairs, to Frau von FriedlanderTuld Is denied in a telegram sent to German papers by the semi-official Wolff Bureau of Berlin. The betrothal of Dr. von Kuehl mann and Fran von Friedlanderfuld. who is said to be one of tbe rlcheat women in Germany, was reported In an Arasterdar? dispatck received In laondoa Febr??^ Polygamy Encouraged, Though Unofficially By German Government Polygamy ! Officially, tlie Kaiser dares not approve if. But unofficially, the German government encourages it, writes Victor Morgan. Morgan is editor of the Cleveland Press. He was sent to Europe by The Washington Herald and other American journals to find out just WHAT IS GOING ONT IN GERMANY TODAY. His articles are appearing exclusively in Washington in The Herald. This is his tenth: BY VICTOR MORGAN. F.ditor ef the Cleveland l'ita?. Impresta?; Birth Rate. One thing the Kaiser dares not do ?he dares not officially approve the introduction of polygamy into the empire. For some time the semi-official newspapers of Germany carried on a discreet propaganda, iloubtle?? at the behest of the authorities, to test the temper of the people on the sub ject. No progress could be made. So officially the government con ?leinne polygamy; unofficially it en courage? it. A? a result, free love colonies have sprung up in many parts of Ger many. The Berliner Tageblatt, pre sumable the mouthpiece of the Kai ser, recently commented on this fact. The tone of the comment was by no means condemnatory. "All these organizations." says the Tageblatt, "desire to Improve the German birth rate." While the exact number of the Ger man killed Is not available. l.?OO.ODO would be a conservative estimate. Most of the killed were young men. the father? of the future. Th? Kaiser ha? always had an af fection for number fn population. Early marriages have been encour aged: race suicide -condcmn??d. Ille gitimacy In Germany has always been treated with greater liberality than In any other country save Rus sia. Nanahers That count. It Was numbers that counted? men for the armies of the future? and the Kaiser wa? on the side of those measure? that made for in crease. Tbe German Society for the Re generation of the Race is the name of the leading organization which believes that only plural wives can overcome the vast disparslty be tween the number of men and the number of women In the empire after the war. There are other or ganisations of like character, known aa the Ariana Society, the Eden Colonies and the New Order. Tbe various societies advocating the practice ot polygamy advance so much of scientific cant in their reasons for existence that It Is easy to trace in them the hand of the university savant?, in peace time the peta of the Kaiser. No man la to have more wives than he can support. The rights.of the wives shall be equal. Every marriage la for a lifetime. And so on. Child Health Declines. There is another group, led by Prof. Thiele, medical director of the schools at Chemnltx, which believes it 1? Important that more should be don? lor me living loaay an?i i?'?s lor uiost yet unborn. Famine-drop?y, hunger-typhoid, tu berculosis?all due to lack of proper food?have ?eixed upon thousands of children in Germany and threaten to wreck their health permanently if more is not done for their relief. With true German thoroughness. Dr. Thiele has reduced the situa tion to figures. Health recortaa for 000 children have been kept through out the period of the war. Almost without? exception the children have lost weight, or have failed to make the gains that should accompany in creases in years. \ Maay Below Normal. "This loss of weight." said Dr. Thiele in a medical report, supposed to circulate among doctors only, "Is due, of course, to the fact that foods to which the children have been ac customed have disappeared from their meals." Fifty-six per cent of the children were below normal, judged by the ?ONTINCED OX PAGE TWO. GERMANS INCREASE BIG GUN ACTIVITY Allies Look for SpTihg Drive on the Western Front. Iaondon, Feb. 8.?Almost daily th. fire of the big German gun? on the West front is growins; in intensity. The increase in violence i? very gradual, but nevertheless noticeable enough for the allie? to speculate whether it means the tuning up by degrees for the big drive all Ger many ha? been heralding for weeks. The earliest date that drive could be launched with any promise is the end of thi? month, military ob servers agree. It was in the last daya of February two years ago that the crown prince opened his Verdun offensive. Significant in this connection ia the fact that today'? official German war bulletin made special mention of the sustained Germany artillery activity. Infantry fighting was again con fine?] to ralda during the last twenty-four hours. Bad weather ia hampering operations on the Italian front, but the Italian artillery play ed havoc with the Teuton line? be tween the Brenta and Ptav? rrvers. A ton of explosives waa hurled by an Italian airship upon sfotta DI Livens?. _ NAMES OF U. S. SOLDIERS LOST ON LINER TUSCANIA ARE NOT YET AVAILABLE Relatives of Men Who Sailed on Transport Sunk by U-Boat Beg for News. OFHCIAL SLOWNESS CRmCISED 2.134 of Tuscania'? 2,418 Saved. Here are the latest figures which the War and Navy depart ments have as to the number on board the Tuscania and known survivors: Total on board. 2,418, including 117 American officers and 2,060 enlisted men; 239 crew (British), and 2 ?civilian passengers. Total reported saved, 2,134, including American officer* and soldiers, passengers and crew. Total unaccounted for, 284, including Americans and Brrttstt crew. The State Department has received no additional figures since Thursday night, when the total number of Americans unaccounted for was placed at 261. The War and Navy departments' latest figures a? to ?o*r vivors, received yesterday morning, did not, in ail cases, separate the Americans from members of tbe British crew. They stated that survivors had been reported as follow?: Landed at Buncranna, Ireland, 76 officers and 1,274 American enlisted men. Landed at Lame, Ireland. 16 officers and seamen of the crew. Landed at I slay, ?Scotland, "approximatel-r" 570 American of ficers and enlisted men. Keported in addition in hospitals, "approximately*' 99 soldiers and members of tbe crew. In military hospital at Loadonderry, 6 members of crew and 72 soldiers. In Loughfoyle Hospival, Londonderry, 10 soldiers. County Infirmary, Londonderry, 9 soldiers aad 2 members of tlie crew. With the death roll of tbe transport Tuscania still a matter of un certainty, the War Department late last night was still unable to give the names of the American soldiers missing and unaccounted for. In the meanl-iine, parents and relatives of men belonging to fh? military units that sailed on the ill-fated vessel are beseeching tbe eminent for definite information. TaRa'SCONDITION1 SHOWS GREAT IMPROVEMENT Wife Remains Near Bedside. Many Inquire About Dis tinguished Patient. New Tork. Feb. 8.?Col. Roosevelt'? condition showed marked Improve ment tonight. At I o'clock it was an nounced at the Roosevelt Hospitsl no further conference of his physicians would be held until tomorrow morn ing. At that hour Mrs. Nicholas Lonsworth. the Colonel'? daughter, left the hospital for the night. Roosevelt? illness, which has necessitate?! two operations and seriously endangered hia life, permitted him to rest tonight. Dr. Walton Martin, the former Presi dent's physician, reported early in the evening that his temperature was again normal. The bulletin? that were Issued at the hospital from 3 o'clock this afternoon until 9 o'clock tonight reported the Colonel improving with each hour. Mrs. Roosevelt, who spent last night in the room next to her husband, re tired at an early hour tonight. There was an endless stream of call ers at the Roosevelt Hospital all day. Although no one except the former President's immediate family was ad mitted, all were assured that the pa tient'? condition showed progress Cables from Europe poured in today In large humbera. All were answered immediately u,?in receipt, but the name? of the *?eii<ier? of the trant>atlantic message? were not revealed. It is presumed that many of them were from officer? in the American army in France, many of whom ?re intimate friends of the Colonel. The telephone ??t-ltchhoard at Ux hospital also did tt? nart In setting at ease the fear? of the anxious friends and admirers of the Colonel. 'About 8:30 thl? evening a. boy called j the hospital and after a wordy battle ; with the operator succeeded in geum? the clerk on the wire. "How is my old friend the Colonel," j demanded the boyish votos. ; "Who wants to know*?" retorted the clerk. "Well, its only a newsboy; but 1 like the Colonel " The boy learned that his "old friend" was resting well. << Watch on the Rhine" Will Be Gummed Up Pawtucket, R. I., Feb. S.?As a measure of retaliation and rebuke for the ?Inking of the Tuscania. the Cen tral Falls achool coramltt?? haa voted unanimously to past? together the pages of tbe school song book? con tamini- the German national air. "The Wstch on the Rhine." be glue pots sre being hsuled out for th? big past tag bas that will tak? (Uc. at ones. Early Haa? Km ri y morning hop?? te oflieial <*?* cime that th? number of ?dette weeM no below 100 -Swindled ?oroewhat *??t inc the dmy with tb? receipt et am officimi mdvicem from lx>ndoa. tedtcaS tng that the lou of Ufe wouM proe ?bly be greatly in ?sceas mt that fig ure. There is a diepoaritwe ia quarters to And fmult with the ness with which the Americas con suls mnd mrmy representative? at vari ous points where survivors hav? baett landed ?re sending tn their report* To make possible more expedi tious Identifications ia future trag edies of the kind. Secretary of War Baker directed changes in the ?jr? tem of identification tac?, which al? soldiers are required to wear about their necks. Key number? a? well as nini?.?? and thumbprinta are to be employed. IM.k f?r Karl? Haa. Every officer and enlisted man on board the Tuscania was supposed to have a metal disk bearing hie nan.? ?ecured to a cloth-covered wire around his neck. Where the men had I been assigned to designated unit? th? I number of the unit wa? also on the 1 tail, it was stated. Identification will be comparatively easy, however, even if tags were not on the bodies when recovered. Finger prints of all enlisted men are taken at recruiting; stations. It was said further that officers recently have had their finger prlnta taken. Com parison of finger print? ar? conclusive in the event of bodies beine disin terred for that purpose. The linger print system w?? adopted to avoid confusion in cas?*? where more thmn one man bear? the emme nmtne. To make the plma perfect, prints of the entire hand are recorded. The Tuscania victim? will he ac corded full military honors. Im pressive funeral services will be held and representative? of U>? Entente nations are expected 10 particip?t? in the c?r?monie?. War Department official?? indicated. XaBafcer 1mr K.aefc ?.?Mlfr In order to insui-e prompter identi fication henceforth of all American soldiers killed in action or who ma ? lose their live? in future transport sinking?. Secretary of War Baker yes terday issued the following order, which has been approved by General Pershlng: "In order to Insure prompt and ac curate Identification, the department has adopted a system of numbering enlisted men of the army only, which system provide? for but one ?ertas.of numbers, without alphabetical prefix, for all enlisted men in or who mar enter the army, regardless of organi sation, arm. corps or department. Numbering begin?? with one and -con tinues consecutively without limn Kar ( arrapi Reparta. "Consecutive number? will ?not ba given men of ?ame surname. "The number assigned a ?oMtar ?IM become a part ef hi? official de-stgn-. tion, will never be changed and WIN never be assigned to snother solder It- will be entered on ideatine 1 tag? and WtU be entered plain h <>u all individuai record? of soldiers 1 d wie be used ?a connection with oldter'e name in rait?, reports and -turne m which his nasa? appear? "As some time will el? -*?* hafor? record? of soldier? a*? 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