From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 23, 1915:

• “The reality of the great war that is raging in a half dozen fronts in Europe came home to Prof. and Mrs. E. Haworth of Lawrence yesterday when they received a letter bringing the intelligence that their son Paul had been wounded in an unnamed fight at an unnamed place on the Gallipole at the Dardanelles defenses. Paul Haworth was wounded in the arm and at the time he wrote was in a hospital at Cairo, Egypt. There was nothing in the letter received yesterday to indicate just when or how the wound was received. Apparently a former letter had carried those details, but it has not yet reached the young man’s parents. From the tone of his letter it appears that his wound is not dangerous, though it may be slow to heal. That Haworth is still alive may be considered a rather remarkable thing in view of the casualties that have been suffered by his command, of which he tells in detail. The letter, dated at Cairo, August 25, follows: ‘I am getting on all right. My wrist was X-rayed and the bullet found in the center of the radius bone. The doctor says he will let the wound heal before taking out the bullet because wounds are so slow to heal here. The bullet is 3-8 inch in diameter and the bone is not large so a 3-8 inch hole clear through leaves very little bone left…. I do not know just how long it will be till I am all right, but I will let it heal before I join the battalion unless they should be called back from the peninsula before then and put on sentry duty in Alexandria – that is, what is left of them. Only about 108 out of nearly 1,000 poor fellows; but they died game…. Out of our platoon (about fifty) I am sure all are dead or wounded except two I do not know about…. Just think, of our platoon that landed the first day, 96 or 98 or maybe 100 per cent have been hit in less than three and a half months. And most of them got hit during the first two weeks. Yet papers say Turks can not fight…. An officer told me that the fifth brigade tried to make a new landing and was entirely annihilated. Of course, even officers sometimes say things that are not right and I hope he was mistaken. God knows we have lost enough.'”
• “That the wild stunts of the auto polo driver can be duplicated by a less reckless motorist without dangerous results was proved yesterday evening about 5 o’clock when the car owned by Prof. F. H. Hodder, head of the department of American history at the University, plunged over the embankment on the west side of Indiana street in the 1100 block without overturning or injuring any of the three occupants. The Hodder car was going north on Indiana down the hill when, in passing another car, the driver lost control and the machine shot over the embankment which is about twenty feet high. Spectators say that the escape of the three occupants, Prof. Hodder, his wife and their daughter Marjorie, who is a student in the University, was miraculous. The auto went straight down the bank and skidded, turning halfway around at the bottom. Spectators say that it was not injured in any way and Prof. Hodder drove on across the vacant lot and on to Mississippi street and home…. The accident was seen by the crowds watching football practice on Hamilton field, and there was some surprise when the big car was seen to drive off unconcernedly across the vacant lots a minute after its plunge.”
• “Chancellor Strong indicated his desire to keep in touch with the sentiment among students and faculty on all subjects affecting the University when he sent out a statement yesterday to let everyone know that he would be accessible in his office to anyone who wished to talk to him. The conferences are to be on any subject on which the visitor wishes to express an opinion or gain information.”