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I. : t HAWAIIAN GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST U, 1918.. SEMI-WEEKLY." U THE HAWAIIAN m i, . Mm try RCDOUTX 0.' iUTKCX EDITtt The Week tn'ih'e SHORT, sharp and decisive has been the vic tory won' by the Allies in; Picardy. Started Ttitirvlav it ta irrrWn in magnitude until it Vhas become Utile if anything short of a complete , strike hard, a rout of the foe. GreaWa was Aisne-Mrne sector the'Vkardy , . , .j . .-..', : vj equal nu w ormmuvn . not be forgotten, that ft was the "from Soissons to Rheima that the new battle which is still raging ' in the ascendant along a front of ;', miles. Indications contained in the news up to yester-: ' day aftermxm were that the foe will be forced to retire to a line closely approximating the positions UA Kfnr th- launching .of the "SuDrerne Offen- '. ':..- t - ..l. T liSnV t. . nivc last maun. m. ; ment us completed n ... -h commandcr in new line of defensethey w,n probably occupy the. cnt of rh.min de Damea rider which the Allies held in , ' .wr . . v .. ,. . ,. 'condition as this was unirnaginame. is inis March, but the-gains achieved in all of th earher , ( f dispbycd in ' stages of the German offensive will have been al- jn si,,cria tQ 8ubordinate nationa, twev v..i..v . t 4 r un Monaay-me naming , wt Vesle arid confined mostly to actiofts With the uer- man rearguaM. which j.'Waii ' Covering the further ; retirement of the' main atmy of The Allies advanced but had to ' as Huns, plowihg-.througn verltahle quagmires. There were sign apparent that the battle was ex tending and ft Urhedup at Several points to the north. lies on thvSotnrne front the Germans on Tuesday the,y struck and th.r8. Nervously nd without ap ' parent definite objectil at point after point. Mean- , tim it hn-imf evident thev were lish new lines in the rear. It Was - nun to guess inncia oi m guessing. ' ' Wednesday was devotea Dy .' that w.i preliminary to the concerted onensive 'i that "v as to be launched over a long front. The Amr;-n rrniinl thf VV t other twintS The - un nit ' th-i I .v aiHnrflnri v - ' - the Hntish and, rencn, aacKea. ' then sought to avoid 'disaster In . . . .v.w . reorganize, to regain breath and to strengthen po sitions, Foch struck again, on Thursday and Ger man retirement was started oniy a dayr in advance. Rupprecht's forces were shattered and smashed. Thousands of prisoneM -and much" booty were taken from them, so many prisohersvit Was diffi cult to-dispose of them.- An advance oi six miles along a twenty-eight mile frdnt was achieved with losses so comparatively insignificant as to surprise the Allied commanders. In a sweeping curve from east of Morlincourt to Avre the Allies pushed onward throughout Fri day, Saturday and yesterday morning and by Fri t day night it had become apparent that the Lys salient and Montdidier salient were lost to the enemy and a long retirement was essential. On Saturday Montdidier fell to the French and to the south of that point a pocket was being closed about the foe. Yesterday, at the center of the line the advance proceeded beyond Chaulnes and fur , ther south the French advance had carried to about seven miles east of Montdidier. So rapid was this advance that the Teutons are forced to exert every energy in an effort to halt the advance along the road to Noyon and the road from Noyon to Ham was under the guns of the Allies. Loss of the important center of Noyon and a great re- tirement, probably accompanied with tremendous losses of prisoners as. in killed and wounded seems inevitable, i Most of the artillery of the enemy in this broad sector seems destined to fall into thc ; hands of the allies. Immense as seemed the disaster which met the . Austrian offensive against Italy, it has already 'J: sunk into semi-obscurity before the greater dis asters that have befallen the German arms. The : Austrians were at worst able to fall back upon ' . practically their old positions but the Germans are V driven from a- terrain which it has taken months ' of time, hundreds of thousands of men and billions - of marks of ammunition to secure. It was growing apparent a week ago that the Germans have probably launched their last great offensive. That indication came from the results of the second battle of the Marne, the Allied offen , aive in the Aisne-Marne salient. Those indica tions are now multiplied by the new offensive. Since last March the Germans have lost hun ' dreds of thousands. The French and British also lost heavily but not so enormously, but the Ger :.: mans had no source to draw upon for added man "V power as had the Allies. The hurry up call was aent to the United States and was heeded. The '; American forces have come faster than the Allies dared hope. They have more than made up fur the Allied losses and Germany is correspondingly ' left b liii.d in man power. Tfil War TUESDAY MORNING,; AUQUST is; 191S. the victory in the prmg. ''"" w V Pjowmj, it. win oe an offensive promises Allied offensive until the end of the war. The .ut,ra,CTt. i mn.f tide may shut and mv6.. . . on the wall that complete victory rendered possible with the Allies more than fifty urkn irie retire- -. . - - - tnrwo tn tti. ni i .l t ' ft . i v v.... ' ' " uncnj iu"s the crown prince. fight mud as well trvinp to estao- the turn of the rcci iih; nines tne Allies to worx know how much fine, gentlemanly here. On the shore leave to th' Ancre salient . inhabitants. It i ne .uermans retirement but pated that the i A I.: : 1 f . . OHY'IlldKIHL: rtdllUlS 111 DUl.ll a WWII nuMiu J " ,, . ... , . . nave resunea in authorities, but jL PASSING HOUR The Germans to definitely locate them on the map. Wonder what Napoleon and In Japan eight Thev committed political campaign pending. Those w ho so ing headline in riirht after all winter from the Twenty years hauled down the raising of of the hauling none are more Through a fighting in the GAZETTE ADVERTISER'S SEMI-WEEKLY j (The end of the war may; be stilkfar away but nevc" again, in all probability will the Teutons have a preponderance of men and guns on any front of great extent where they can strike and they did in the offensive launched sway at points DUt it is written German strength is on the down ward as the strength of the Allies grows. On the Italian front there has been some fight ing, mostly engagements of a local nature and in Albania there has been a lull. From Mesopotamia and from Palestine but little has been heard. Developments as to Siberia have come thick and fast. The American commander has been named as have the Japanese commander, his staff and other officials. The most-striking development is the selection of the Japanese commander as cnicf of the expedition. Before the . guch a ... T. ... nf ranap that isnrovinc the most - " t r ' remarkable phase of Americanism to the Allies. It is the American trait, purely American, to sub ordinate everything to the winning of a supreme object and that object today is the making of the world safe for democracy, the crushing of the Hun: w. a. a. ' Jack is a Gentleman O FF the battle field as weU as on it, the Amer ican soldier is making, his'.' (Country proud of him. Ashore as well as at sea fighting the menace of the submarine, the American sailor is making a reputation for courage and manliness. .A letter, recently received by American naval authorities -from a small English city located near a battleship base helps to further jttstify.the pride the, nation feels in its soldiers and sailors. This time the letter refers to he sailpi's only. "You may be interested' says the letter, "to we think of. your men. They are fellows, and always welcome Fourth of July American sailors had visit this city, which has only 4000 mighir perhaps have Seeo-aVrt'dh' visit of such a great number of holi . . '. . . cmqll tmun llrs.t 1 1 1 M.t(.'l..l.l. 4 I 1 consmcraunj .uuuuic iu hk; there was not a single complaint from any quarter, and every citizen of our town was glad they came." W. 8. S. are not staying still long enough the "Clown" prince thinks about his mistakes in these later days. men were caught profiteering suicule. ,1 ossiblv there was no anxiously enquired- last April ami May "When will Foch start his counter offen Me?" now have their answer. "Tuna Packers Hreak Record," is the encourag the I.os Angeles Times. It is all for Hawaii can get its fish next two million cans mentioned. ago today the llawaian flag was and the Stars and Stripes raised During the ceremonies llawaiians wept, not at the new flag hut at the significance down of the old. Today the sons fjf many of these same llawaiians are fighting on lain! ami on sea for the Stars and the Stripes and loyal. singular error press reports of the Aisne - Marne front several days ago told of the participation of American cavalry and mail ad vigcs have just orought the explanation. N'ests of enemy machine gunners were harras itig the Americans and retarding the advance and to meet the condition the American commanding officer brought up a dozen "llivers" each armed with two machine guns. These went right into the thickest of the fray and the combination of machine guns and Ford cars was too much for Fritz. He beat it precipitately. The commander 'dubbed the outfit his "l ord Cavalry" but the word Ford got lost in the news story and the message came through as cavalry. BREVITIES Y. Takiikuwft,' prliilnt "f the T kaknwa Co. and on of tli. prnmincnt JapanMe anerehantf of the ity, is aoon to maka baaiaasa trip to th- Coant. v.. . ; A Japanese tramp atrnmrr, under the. charter of the T, K. K. line, ba brought big consignment of 16,903 bug of Japaa riee and a lino nmount of other Japanese provision fur local consumption. ' Honoluln Neat No. 'C order of Owls will hold regular aeasion this even ing at half-past aevea o'clock in Phoe nix hall. A special united holiness meeting will be held by Colonel B. Dubbin at the 8aWation Army Hall, Fort and Beretania Htreets, tonight at eight o'clock. Doctor John Wartman will speak at the Salvation Army ncrt Hun day, celebrating the Incoming of Dry Hawaii. It is expected at the territorial land office that the Waiakea' plantation on Hawaii will aign an agreement soon to continue the cultivation of nhout 20(10 acres of augar eane land on which the lease has expired. This I the land which it is hoped by the atminixtration to get homestead by the (nut of next year. 4 A consignment of 123 inses of gin and whiskey, recently shipped here from Han Francisco, has been ordered re turned to the Coast. Fearing that they might get into trouble with the fed eral anthorities after August -0, seven Chinese who had ordered tlie boor.e de cided that the proposition rs not a safe one to handle and cHncciiei their order after agreeing with tlie Mhii Fran cisco liquor firm that Hie Honolulu consignees would pay the return freight. t.H- II Casualties As Reported Since Landing of Expeditionary Force Exceed Twenty Thousand WASHINGTON, August 12 (Asso ciated Press) Casualties ns yesterday reported by the war department and the headquarters of the Marine Corps numbered 433, divided .'MS unity nud ninety Marine Corps. By eliigsiflra tiona the casualtios were us follows: Army Killed in action, 154; died of wounds, sixteen : died of other rouses, four; wounded, 143; missing three. Atari ne Corps Wounded, eighty scv en; missing, three. The war department summary issued yesterday showed the total of army casualties, so far as , reported, since American expeditionary soldiers landed in France to be 17269, divided as foilawa: Killed in action, deluding 291 lost at aea, B56 iedk of .wounds, 1104: dead of disease, 1534: dead of accidents and other causes (Hill; wound ed in action, 8919 ; missing in action, including prisoners, 1425. Marine Corns headuunrters ' sum mary of casualties reported to dnte gave a total of z7&", divuleii ns roi lows: Deaths, 8X1; wounded, lH2(i; in bands of enemy, fifty seven; miss ing, seventy six. Total casualties in the two brnnches 20,019. W. I. s. OLD POISON RING IS GIVEN TO RED CROSS DENVER, Colorado, July .-i0- (Akho riated Press) - In the innnv pii reH of jewelry donated liv rcid'iitN of Den ver to the Ked Cross none perhaps Iiuh a more varied and Minister Instnrv than that a Itohemian puison nn di nated bv E. Ztiltn. The small l 1 I I, and nia iiiifuet ured more than two hundred ji'iirs nn, lit said, has been worn ly M-ernl it i n eeflses. at least twi'-e with i'iital cfTeet for their enemies. Tin 1miI of tin ring turns upon a 'inv hinge, the pres sure of a hidden spring op. 'rung a sinnll poison chamber. l'lie rini; is valued at 1IH)0. GATHER NUT SHELLS LONDON, July 20 (Associated I'rcsa) A systematic collection throughout the country of all hard nut shells and fruit stones urgently required for war purposes, is being conducted by the government. English householders, hotel prporietors, super intendents of institutions and others were asked recently by the National Salvage Council to savo all the fruit stones and hard nut shells availublc DETACHMENT OF FRENCH GOES TO VLADIVOSTOK TOKIO August 11 (Hpecial to a Japanese source) A detachment of the French army fiOO strong, which is to reinforce already landed French soldiers at Vladivostok passed through Shanghai a few days ago. on its way to Vladivo stok. The soldiers ate a portion of the French garrisons in I udu China, the French possession in Asia. OUTPUT OF RESTRICTIONS REMOVED WASHINGTON, August 11- (Offi cial) The food administration has re movnd restrictions ou consumption of beef in those public, eating places thut have been limited to one incut meal daily. It has also released housewives from their voluntary pledges owing to the big supply of beef that is now on band. w. s. s. Supplied by All Chemists Physicians prescribe Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy because it relieves cramps in the stomach and intestinal pains quicker than any prep aration they can compound. It can be bought from any chemist. A bottle will keep for years, and no home is HONOR USTS OF AMERICANS GROW .PERSONALS Harry Oeaaner of Waliuku, Man), is registered at the Yoahg Hotel, v W, H. Rice was arrival the Kinau Hnnday from Llhu and la 'a guest at the Young HoteL ' J. XT. Spalding, plantation man "fror1 Kealia, Kauai, waa an arrival oa the Kinau from the Oarden Island. "William MeQuald, director af tha Kona Development Co. is ia Hono lulu on businese trip la eoanectlon with the plantation ha represents. . t. ..'v-.1'' i SHOWS EFFIGlEtlCY Time Formerly Lost " ta Now Saved and All Vessels Render , Increased Services ' - WASHINGTON; August ll-2(Ase-riated Press) Fifty percent Increase in tha efficiency of American shipments in American bottoma has resulted from direct routing, 'unification) f eargo, loading to capacity and -time spent in port, it la announced by the shipping board which gives detailed reports of the results. - Transportation t record w hich mark' the first efforts ia Aaaer ican shipping for centralisation ar contrasted in the performance or vari ous ships with a view-to speeding -aU of them ap to staadardA These trasts showed that tw.I'aln I oast vessels are now doing wark which bt tore the .war required taree. On the rnrifle Coast the average turn arounds for ships in tba coast wise trade are rapidly approaching the rocords or ante-bellum days. ,'iaert were awifter bottoma then . bat-1 the vessels allotted to tha trade; with the Orient and Australia hav saved time bv callins- at fewer ttorta and bt load ing and unloading mora quickly than in the past. Beently the Ventura made Honoluln, Pydney, Pago Pago and hack to Honolulu and theneo to . the Paeifie Coast in siitr two days. The Honoma has duolieated that feat. The average round ' trrp - from caa Francises, or Seattle with' Chiaa. ln- luding day a in port, has been eat to eitrhtv one davs and new vessels to he put into that trade soon, re ex perted to make time over this. Onlv sixtv-eicht daya are now' auired to make the round trip to Japan esc ports. ' The round trip from Ban Francisco with the Philippines, inelud ine atoi at Manilla, Cavtte, Hangxoag Hhanirhai. Kobe. Yokohama and Hono lulu range between eighty-four and 103 days, while between New York and Manilla the ' round trip time ia now only 105 days. A ne-.r routod trip has recently been established for British India trade be tweon New York and Calcutta which will average 207 daya. In the Atlantis trade simitar eoadl tipps prevail. The former two" trips' month average between Norfolk! Balti more and Boston has been tneressed to four trips. Hhlps formerly asads four trips n year between New York 'and Chilean ports for nitrate.' Beeently the Comolore Rollins made this turn around in forty daya. Other records are a turnaround ia eiglitv-five dnvs to Rio de Janiero and seventy four days for the round trip from Norfolk to Para. The average turnaround in the Mexl can oil trade has been reduced to eleven days and some tankers are making it in a wecK. w. a. a. f PORTO RpELS Crop a Little Short and Profits Not Up To Expectations; Somewhat Discouraging KAN JUAN, Porto Bioo, July I With the grinding season ended de tailed and reliable figures are still un available as to the total sugar produc tion for 1 1)1. J. Ruiz Soler, secretary of the Sugar Producers Association without complete reports from many centrals, estimates that the crop will not exceed 450,000 tons of sugar, ap proximately ten percent less than last year. The three largest centrals show combined production slightly in excess of the last crop, owing to the increased output of the f ajardo Sugar Company Fajanlo this year had an output of 35,000 tons, as compared with a little more than 29,000 tons last year, and was one of the very few centrals in the island to show an increase over the year previous. Central Agulrfs ended the season with a little more than 47,01X1 tons of sugar made, or 1,700 tons less than last rear's output, while Guanica, inrluding Central Fortune made approximately 90,000 tons of sugar, or just a little less than last year. Final revised figures from these three centrals are not yet available here, but anv revsions will not mate riallv change the figures here given. The Guanica output, it ia reported, was kept up to approximately the ree oni or isms by an increase '01 case grown on the Romana estate in Santo Domingo and brought to Porto Rteo for grinding. There was a falling off in the sugar made from raae locally grown. He. a use of shortages io production and (he many different difficulties with which the sugar men have bad to contend throughout the year, they are not particularly Cheerful over the sea son's results nor are they optimistic about the next crop. With the transportation and ware housing question constantly before them, with increased coats and threat ened decreased production from case diseases in addition to other causes, sugar men have had to reduce consid erably the estimates of profits which they had expected to make this year, CARGO CARRY G NONE TOO SANGUINE while they say the outlook for next , vear is less hopeful. w. a. a. run niiun in Trencbes (Joe To Be v'VV-.' ' xperlence Is Epoch Marking and Eten.lt Nothing Happens Leaves Youth Older For Re-1 sponslbdity He Has Felt: LONDON, July 29 (Associated Press)-,What will tha first night in tha trenches be, ia a Question that thousands of American soldiers- hava fated perhaps with soma misgivings, eattainly with lively antteipatloa. The erperienea ef many of them mast be like that of a British plough boy soldier described by Lard Dunaany. Captain of tha InnlsUlling Fusiliers. man ' flrsr flight in the front Kne la aa epoch makirur errinen." ha wrltea. "It ia like a man 'a first vote, or . his twenty-flrst birthday It il a milestone in. bis life, marking the change from the mimie warfare behind the lines to tie grim realities of actual eonflfet.-:"' ., Perhaos I ean beat exnlsln how this xoerience affects a soldier by telllnii you the story of recruit's first night a the uenehea. . Dick - Chooser, one Of my men, was a ploughboy just past eigeteen wnen ke enlisted, and not yet nineteen wbea be went on his first sentry "go" in the front lie. Takes Sentry Poet . It was a' quiet night,, and dawn was only, an boar or' so distant when Cheese ook his post' .The Corporal iota aim waere to stana, warned him to keep a good lookout, and left him. "There waa Dick Cheeser, alone in the dark, with an army in front of him, eighty yards away, a resourceful, erafty and desperate enemy. The still aess of the night only added to Chee- serV feeling of responsibility. The stillness 'awed him. There had not been a ahell all night He put his head over the parapet gingerly and watted! Nobody fired at him. Ho felt aomehow that the night was wait ing for him. that something uncanny and unexpected would happen soon. He V. 1 I , ' . , . I neara voices in a communication irencn somewhere behind' him there were a lew sentences of gruff, unintelligible. conversation! the'. voices died away. There was a long silence. : Cheeser fell to wondering whether the' night wss black) or grey; he stared hard at the Bight to Study ita exact color; the night (tared back at him, and seemed to be threatening N him; it was gray, gray and artful, like a cat or a fox. Qolet Oppresses It was uncanny, thought Cheest tf shells would come, or Germans, or anything at all,' you would know how to take it; bat this deathly quiet, like a mist over huge valleys! Anything might happen. Cheeser waited and felt ..that they were watching each other, the night' and he, both crouch ing, both ready to spring. . 'His aiind grew eo active that bis head ' throbbed; with tfte physical - ex ertion! of thinking. .. He was wstching With eyea end ears and imagination, hoping to anticipate by a second or two the dread Something that he felt Wss .sure to happen soon in the omi nous mist of No-Man's Land. He thought of throwing a stone out into the blackness, just to see what would happen. Then he began to wish for his boyhood 's slingshot, so that he. could catapult a nice round stone right across the blackness into the Oerman tine. A little wind blew in the night, too cold for the timo of year. It made for a moment a lane in the mist over No-Man 'a Land. Cheeser peered into it, but the mist closed round again. 'No', Night seemed to say, You can t guess my secret . Ann tne awesome hush intensified. what arc they up to nowt thought the sentry. What are those crafty enemies plan ning in all those miles of silence f "Even the very lights were, rew ami far between. When one went up, far hills and shadowus seemed to sit and brood over the valley; black shapes grew up and vanished in the shadow. The rocket faded and the hills went back into mystery again, and Cheeser atill peered level over the ominous val ley. Weird Experience "All the dangers and sinister shapes and evil destinies that the sentry faced that sight eaunot bo pictured or described in more words. It was only two hours that he stood there, and not a shell fell in all that time, not a German stirred. "It is a weird and awful experi ence, that first night in tho trenchos. The uext time it is an easy matter." w. a. a. BEET CROP OUTLOOK IS FULL OF ENCOURAGEMENT Beports from various aections of the country are hopeful as to the beet out look. California bad rather a dry sea son io spring. In the mountain Htates aad Washington low temperatures have prevailed while in Colorado a dry spell baa been somewhat, overcome. In the Miaaissippi Valley there have been heavy rains that swamed the fields. Labor conditions are not good. The outlook is unfavorable as labor has be come very independent in the past few years and the malady affects the men who, work about beet sugar factories ahd ' the fields. It is believed thit 700,000 tons of sugar will be produced if not T50.000 tons. output'of iron WASHINGTON. ' August 11 'Ofti ialV-In the aeven months which end ed July 31 the nation's output of iron was 21,423,060. it1sunpatriotic To eat Hsmburgh steak. To eat Vienna rolls. To eat Westphalia ham. To eat FTankfort sausages. To smoke Turkish cigarettes. To use Dresden china. To have German measles. To take a Turkish bath. To live a Bohemian life. Cartoons Magazine. Remembered FIRST FIELD ARMY FIB; PERSHITIG IS licoifiD Creation It First Step toward Coordination '' of AH , United States Forces) Corps Com manders Named In Despatches SAMMIES CONTINUE IN FIGHTING ON VESLE Hold Advantage . But .Every Inch of Ground Is Contested By TeutoAs Who Appear To Be Planning To Dig In WASHINGTON, August 12 (Associated Press) Organization of the first Ameri can field army waa yesterday re ported from American Headquar ters in France. General Pershing is in direct command and Gene rals Liggett, Bullard, Bundy, Reed and Wright are the corps commanders so far as has ..been announced. The creation of this first field army is one of the most import ant announcements that has come from the American expedition in France since the arrival of the first expeditionary troops. It is the first step toward the coor dination of all of th American forces in France, marks clearly the recent splendid growth t of Pershing's forces and clearly es tablishes it as a most important factor in the future conduct of the war. SEE HARD FIGHTING American troops, brigaded, with the British continue to render im porting eerytces. JheHies' in. the -ruw offensive while on the Vesle the forces which participat ed in the Aisne-Marne offensive arc holding the ground taken from the enemy, repulsing count ers and have scored some ad vances. To thc north of Soissons, on thc right of this front the Americans are fighting with su perb courage against a desperate enemy which contests bitterly every inch of ground which the Americans gain. HUNS DIGGING IN Air observers yesterday report ed that the enemy appears deter mined to make a stand to the north of the Vesle and before crossing the Aisne. There were indications of this at several points where the Germans appear to be digging in opposite the American and thc French forces, to the northwest of Fismes they were observed to be placing barbed wire entanglements along the hills. AMERICAN ADVANTAGE Across the Vesle from Fismes the struggle for possession of Fismesette liewecn the Americans and the Ger mans has developed a new fiereeneas and has become proctically continuous. .Here I lie Americans bold the advna lajin. i Two artillery attacks at different points along the Vesle front were at tempted by the enemy yesterday but strong allied counters, . opportunately launched, prevented the development pf any euumy infantry attacks. , W. B. . .' ' ( ' NEWLY LAUNCHED STEAMER FOUNDERS! DEFECTIVE TOKIO, August 11 (Social to a Japanese source) Steamer Mida Maru, only recently launched at the Osaka Shipyard, has foundered off Oshiuia and seventeen of her trew are reported ns uiissiug. Deficient construction in some parts of the steamer 'a hull is be lieved to ho responsible for the disas trous sinking of the new steamer. She was of "000 tons displacement. W. B. s. COMMERCIAL CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Associat cd l'ress)--The I'nited States has been asked to participate in a Commercial Congress in Montevideo, 1'ruguay, from December I" to 24 of this year. The object of the congress is to promote ami expand trade and commerce on this hemisphere, particularly among the I. at in American countries. -.--,'V.v5ritf