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7 mjmmmmmmmmmmmmtmm FINAL EDITION WHWIIU.il - .....JJ.l. Wm Today Bend for the Guillotine. Read About Napoleon. The Aaerican Soldier. Tkkkkg Wits Wars. WEATHER: Fair tealakt. Bandar (air and mratr. Tea Brratarr at 8 a. as- W dr. K-rrc. Xormal tenpera lore an Jalr SO far Ike Ul thirty years, 77 de grrea. NUMBER 10,594. Published ery evening (ineludlss 8asAjL7 EaUrvd aa eeond-elaVM Butter at t peat offle at WuhlTtjrton. D. G. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 20. 1918. fOosn WalSfreet Prices., ' PRICE TWO CENTS. Ik watatflfon . By ABTHUB BR1SBA7TE. i Tha Cunarder Carpathia Is sank, Ul the San Diego, an American axillary cruiser. U destroyed probably by a Geraan mine or other device. In these last-hour killings there Is aa little comfort for Prussia as there was for that murderer on his way to the guillotine who killed the kindly priest with a heavy brass, crucifix that the priest had given him. A few extra murders do not change the fact that Prussian auto cracy IS on its way to the guillo tine. The knife will fall soon. The good news from Europe is due largely to the fighting quality of the young American soldier, and his fighting is based on his THINKING. The American boy. as an indi vidual, fights as did the great Napoleon using armies for bis tools. Napoleon, like the young men from all over this country fighting in the woods and shell holes and along the river banks of France, acted upon the moment's' quick thought. This made It hard for an enemy with plenty of discipline, but little thought. Napoleon crossed the Alps with aa army in winter. "Dont 'praise me," said he, j "winter is the best time, there are no snow slides. I deserve credit only for not believing fools who said It couldn't be done." Two young .Americans captured by Germans were put in a canvas boat to be rowed across the Marne to the German camp. They were thinking while sitting in the boat, and did not Tflra the German camp idea. They rocked the boat, fell out with their captors, swam ashore and got away. Napoleon, watching his gunners shooting at enemy troops fleeing across a frozen lake, gave the or der. "Lower your aim: shoot at the ice." ' The Ice was broken, the fleeing anay Jell in, and was DROWNED. American soldiers in the fight ing of two days ago found them serves scattered in the woods and entirely outnumbered. Tinder such conditions, Prussian soldiers, with no one to -command them, surren-' dered. The Americans in groups' of two or -three went fighting, their motto being, as one of. them put it,, "to fight While the fighting is good." j Aa American machine gunner, all alone, arranged his gun to cover a line of advancing Ger mans. Just then part of his light hand was shot away. The German column changed its direction.. He was not able to change the posi--tion of his gun with only one hand. He fired his automatic re volver with his left, "guiding the German column back to the line of his machine gun, which he turned loose with telling effect. Napoleon knew how to make the most of his numbers. When, a mere boy, he took the French army into Italy and against Aus tria. He was always doing things which the experienced Austrian generals said "were not war." The Austrian command put half of its force on one side of a river, i1f on the other, "to be sure to meet Napoleon." They met them. He kept his forces together and beat one-half of the Austrian army, then crossed the river and beat the other half. Sergt. J. F. Brown, twenty-three years old, found himself alone with his captain. They hid in a thicket, while Germans passed in large groups. Then charged and cap tured a machine gun. The gun killed The captain. Brown killed the gunner; another stray Ameri can came along. He and Brown got another machine gun. Eleven other Americans heard the fighting and .came up, making a party of thirteen. With their repeating rifles they scattered and chose well-separated positions about a German trench. The cabled account says: "Brown raked the trench with his automatic rifle. Twelve Ameri cans opened up from twelve dif ferent places." The Germans, attacked in thir teen different places, imagined themselves surrounded by superior forces, -and came out with their hands in the sir, led by a German major. More than one hundred of them surrendered to thirteen young Americans, who were new at fight ing, but not new at THINKING. "Circumstances. I make circum stances," said Napoleon. The thinking American soldiers TAKE circumstances as they And them, and make them suit their purpose. They fight better in scattered groups than in crowds. Napoleon knew that the individ ual if given the chance could do his own planning. He made a lawyer's son King of Sweden the family still rules there. Ho told his men that each had a marshal's baton with his knapsack. It was for the soldier to produce It. The average American in tha khaki of a private has the think ing mind of a pretty good general la bis bead. Put ten thousand Americans op jtCoaUaued onPace 2. Column 44. SIX MORE VIOLATORS OF MILK LAWS TO BE ARMED IN 0. C. COURTS Outcome of Hearing on Pro posal to "Relax" Rules Will Be Prompt Prosecution of All Offenders Here. Vanaroneek, IT. T., Jnly 19. Washington Ttaesi Just read In your -edition of 17th that District milk dlstrlbn tora want to sell milk from dajrlea not rcgnlarly Inspected. While It la always a crime to teed Tonne; children' on such milk without the safeguard of pas teurisation. It Is .especially ao, f nowadays,' when-' theWastae-'or- ltnman (lie makes the Boring; of children a national duty. To act such an example at the seat ot National Goremment would canse most serious consequences thronshoat the country. 'When I made propaganda tor milk pas teurisation I found some of the dealers In Washington the most unscrupolous of any city In which I tansht how to protect the pub lic from milk-borne .disease. JiATHASr STRAUS. Dy Bin TKICE. What's going to happen to a bunch of Washington milk dealers who ad mit that they have 'been bringing In and selling milk from dairies without permits from the District Health De partment is Just this: "Within a few days they will find an officer waiting upon them with a warrant for violation of the District health laws and they will have to defend themselves in the District courts. Conrad Syme. corporation counsel, and scrapper par excellence when he goes over the top, has decided that the answer of the District to the ap peal of milk dealers is to prosecute them to the limit and to prosecute all other violators of the laws relating to the bringing in and sale of milk in this city. Heard Testimony. Syme reached his decision this morning after listening to the test! mony before the District Commission ers yesterday afternoon at the hear ing at which attorneys for milk deal ers urged an alleged shortage of milk and asked a letting down of health laws that they may be permitted to bring milk here from unlicensed dairies which means milk from herds that have not been tested for tuberculosis; which means milk from farms where there is no more sani tary cleanliness than in the abode of a drove of pigs; where flies swarm and the colored help wash their hands only on Sundays when starting to church. So the response of the District gov ernment to the appeal of milk dealers is to be prompt prosecution of a num ber who have been and are violating the laws and regulations as construed by the health and legal departments of the city government. Inspectors of the Health Depart ment and police officials have been obtaining evidence against dealers ever since the decision by the Supreme (Continued on Tage 3, Column 1.) LOST AND FOUND MARYLAND DEALERS AUTO TAO NO. S ls. Iteward for rrtum to BCICK MOTOR CO.. 1GS L tt. N. TV. 2 BAG-rElIk-llned tatUnr. on Wrdnndar, be tween Bomruonian institution and Dot. garden: containing pune. hand. Phone Col. SC. Jl J"JUll KTAK UOU) SERVICE PIN Mrs. HAiuiT miTO.-i, as oarntid rL. or 1M0 H . N. W. SI PURSE Woe beaded, on tin and T L car about S p. m. Return to owner Reward, MJ Plckford place N. i: a RKWARD-tnet. etnye4 or eto'en. three black kittens, one iery email: one with whlte.pou on chet. one aU black. Reward, H' Ch et. N. E. 1-a JCnlsMMtf Plutijltd JtwcaJi FRENCH American Cruiser Sunk Off New York v$4ys3vKSf saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaisssaaaaaaaanaaaaaasaafllLAr "" 1 f j J labff ' '.a v'sffil'a' 9 lt?o? f.iiji tt'J llT&BmnBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBr'BBBBBBSBBBBSn rJtMSLlfaSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBT?'?r 9 . The armored cruiser San Diego in 1902. She was christened the California. Later, when .the dreadnought California was -launched, the name of the cruiser was changed to the San Diego. She had a displacement of 13,630 tons, was 602 feet, long, and had a speed of 22 knots an hour. It is estimated that the cruiser cost $5,341,754. She carried an armored belt fore IT IS SHOT IN JEALOUS FIT BY AJWISTON, Ala., July 10. Sergt Herman Mack, of Baltimore, a former member of Company G. Fourth Mary land Infantry, was shot through the stomach' here at 2 o'clock this morn ing by W. M. Kerr, a pool room pro prletor, and is in the base hospital at Camp McClellan, dangerously wound ed. The shooting occurcd at the room ing house of Mrs. Kerr, from whom Kerr recently separated, and, accord ingto the statement of several women roomers, who witnessed the shooting, Kerr shot the soldier while in a fit of Jealousy. Kerr was arrested by members of the military polico shortly after tae shooting, and is a military prisoner at the city JalL Mack was a member of Company C, HCth Infantry, following the re organization of the Blue and Gray division, and since this organization moved overseas, was on duty at the camp stockade as provost sergeant. E ATLANTA. Ga., July 20. Winning their fight for union recognition, striking street railway employes who have tied up the city's transportation system for four days returned to work early today. The strike ended last night, when President P. S. Arkwrlght. of the Georgia Street Hallway and Power Company, Bigned an agreement In which the company recognizes the carmen's union "as a fact,' and con cedes the right of employes "to af filiate with same." GERMAN PASTOR JAILED. HARTFORD. Conn., July 20. Rev. Theodore Bucssel. pastor of the Ger man Lutheran Church at Bristol, found guilty of seditious utterances, has been sentenced to ten years, on each of three counts. In Atlanta Dcnlten- tiary, by Judge II. B. Howe, of tha TTnll. Stal. .-niief Th rtn ntn concurrently, i ERGEA POOLROOM MAN A UN A A IN WN IK AND RETURN TO WORK TOWNS CAPTURED AND was laid down Germans Confirm. Roosevelt Death PARIS, July 20. Confirmation of 1 Lieut. Quentln Roosevelt's death during an aerial battle Sunday near Chateau-Thierry was con tained in a note dropped by a German aviator in the aviation camp to which Roosevelt was at tached, the Journal announced 'today. AND 2 ZEPPELINS COPENHAGEN'. July 20. A British air raid on the Schleswlg-Holsteln coast resulted In the destruction ot a great hangar and two Zeppelins which it contained, it was learned to day. Schleswlg-Holsteln Is a German state bordering on Denmark and con taining the great Kiel naval base. It is 350 miles frorr the English coast or the nearest part of the western battlefron. IS. TO GET COLONELCY Eight officers attached to Provost Marshal General Crowder's office are to be recommended for promotion as a reward for the efficiency and co operation with which they have been conducting the draft machine. The list follows: To be colonels: Lieut. Cols. C. B. Warren, Detroit; James S. Eaaby Smlth. Washington, D. C and John H. Wigmore, Chicago. Majors to be lieutenant colonels: Joseph Fairbank, St. Johnsbury. VL: urani i ireni. iiogersvnia, ienn. : Roscoc S. Conklin, New Yorli and H. C. Kramer. Elizabeth. N. J T Capt. H. C. Stephenson. Colilngs- wooo, xi. J, to bo aaado BOMBERS DESTROY HOLSTEIN HANGAR EABY-SiTH EOR DRAFT WORK AMERICAN Photo Copyright by International. and' sltC extending above and below the wafer line. This belt was. five .inches thick at the ends and six inches amidships. The armament of .the .ship con sisted of four 8-inch, fourteen 6-inch and eighteen 3-inch rapid fire guns. She also carried four 3 pounders and had two 18-inch torpedo tubes. She had four funnels, one standing military mast, and one basket mast. WOMAN ENDS LIE BY SETTING FIRE IT CUMBERLAND. Md.j July 20. Mrs. Elizabeth Alex, wife of Charles Alex, committed suicide by fire at Western port last night. Tha suicide bad been carefully planned. Mrs. Alex prepared the material for the fire in the day time In an outhouse and last night stole away from the rest of the family. She poured oil on her clothing and ig nited It. She was discovered frightfully-burned, and preparations .were being mado to take her to a hoa pltal when she died. Mrs. Alex had been til about three months and was subject to fits of In sanity. It is claimed, the result of an attack of typhoid fever five years ago. She was forty years old. Two children survive. U.S.WIREC0NTR0L President Wilson's order taking over the telephone and telegraph lines of the country is being held up. It was learned today, while the De partment of Justice Investigates the international phase of the situation. It was pointed out that some of the cable companies are either wholly or partly foreign-owned, and the Juris diction of the United States In these cases will be fully determined before the. President acts. There Is some possibility. It was said, of the President taking over the lines that are entirely American owned In the very near future, but the general belief Is that he will wait until the department has submitted its report, and then take over; all the lines, If so authorized. In one order. The Investigation Is of such a char acter that it cannot be completed much before the end of next week,, it wis Indicated, and possibly may re' quire two weeks. ROADS PLEASE McADOO. PORTLAND, Ore.. July 20. Railroad Director William G. McAdoo arrived in Portland yesterday on his tour ot the Pacific coast, accompanied by Mrs, McAdoo and his official party. MR 01 HING NTERNATIONAL PHASE HOLDS UP HE BELIEVES Navy Department Officials Still Doubt That U-Boat .Was -Re-, sponsible Despite Report Re ceived Today. That tha IT. S. Cruiser Saa Diego was- sunk by a torpedo Is the "belief expressed by the captain of the ves sel in his report to the Navy Depart ment today. Navy officials here, however, are still undetermined aa to the cause of the sinking of the San Diego, Rear Admiral Palmer, acting secretary of the Navy, stated today. While the captain bellTesirlorpdo struck the war vessel and sent It to the bottom, no one saw a submarine, a periscope, or .a wake. Palmer said . ' .' Other YesselaTVearby. Furthermore three vessel standing by. were not attacked. No internal axploslonoceurred. of ficials are positive. The extent of the loss of life is undetermined, pending checking up of survivors with the muster-roll of the ship, which Is expected soon at the Navy Department. The San Diego was going at the rate of fifteen knots and sank In fif teen minutes. Admiral Palmer said. The sea was smooth and the weather fine. The rescued of the crew were transferred to the U. S. MauL JHen Behaved Well. All reports say the San Diego,, men handled themselves splendidly, tak ing their stations as though oaly go ing through dally drill. vTOe mine theory was discounted by 'reason of the location of tha .explosion. A mine ordinarily explodes forward. In this case there was a single explosion aft. No magazines blew up. and everything pointed to absence of a mine. There was a suggestion in some quarters, however, that a mine loosed by the first U-boat raiders had strangely exploded aft. Department messages indicated a small loss of life. Some persons un accounted for are believed to have perished In the explosion. A statement by the Navy .Depart ment says: Official Stateaaent. "The captain of the San Diego re ports that he Is Inclined to the belief that the ship was sunk by a. torpedo. There are no conclusive factors, how ever on'whlch to base a definite opin ion at present. In view of the follow ing circumstances: First. No torpedo wake was seen. Second. No convincing evidence that periscope was seen. Third. No submarine appeared, in aDlte of the fact that three unarmed rescue ships were in the vicinity for about two hours. Fourth. The ship was struck on port side abaft beam, which discourages mine theory. Fifth. Weather was line; amoom aea. RUMOR OF 300 LOST STILL UNCONFIRMED tv!xv TORK. July 20. Reports that 300 perished In the sinking of the V. S. Cruiser San Diego off Fire Island were not confirmed here today. Con siderable confusion existed aa to the tinmbur of Eurvlvors. The rumor that 300 were missing was ascribed to sail ors who landed at fire isiana. ana who said S00 men had been counted In tho lifeboats tiat got away sareiy. The cruiser's complement was 1,1 It men, but she was believed to have more than that number aboard, as re cruits were being brought to New York from Portsmouth. Heavy firing was heard off the Long Island shore during the night. It Is known that destroyers and submarine chasers are on the lookout for U boats In those waters. After the San Diego was blown up. some of her guns were worked until she sank, nftten minutes later, sur vivors said. Much shooting was done at a float ing barrel, which it was thought jaliat bo ounce all n,g a neriaoopa. U; S. WISER TROOPS SOISSONS REPORTED ONSLAUGHT OF ALUES LONDON, July 20 (1:55 p. ra,J. Franco American troops, after repulsing therripst violent counter attacks on the whole front from oisspns to Chateau-Thierry, rushed forward again and" are, still making progress, it was learned from an authoritative source this afternoon. Prisoners counted by the allies on ihis front now, total more than i 8,800, if was stated. SokaoBS, one of die objectives of the Franco-Amer ican armies' in their counter according to Paris dispatches. Elsewhere along the AipMrWfroktthe allies coa tmuetheur. yt.caagn-gMr tjBpffs tfrTkipz are molioy, YiUetsHetoKO,ltaayt5toBb Xtcr-Cfecaoo. and Vietzy. i"--"r Nearly 170,000 actual fighting Americans are engaged in the'main drive, according to General March m his week Iy conference with newspapermen today. Latest official dispatches to the War Department de clare that fighting is stiH in- progress, with the capture off guns and prisoners in "very hopeful" amounts, . NAMES TROOPS ALLIED TROOPS NOW FIGHTING CONTINUE 'ONMRNE ADVICE The'Azneriean divisions engaged oa the larger front of the present offen sive are the First, Second, Third, and Fourth regulars and the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-eighth national guard. In addition, the Forty-second na tional guard is on the right flank In the Champagne together with a col ored regiment from the new Ninety third division. Official naming1 of the American forces how battling In thejgrcat of fensive were given by Chief of Staff March today in his weekly conference with press correspondents. At the same time he revealed that the maxi mum penetration of the Franco-Americans is ten miles, with a general penetration of seven miles. 170.000 American Flahtlns;. Nearly 170,000 actual fighting Amer icans are engaged in the main drive. The last official dispatches receiv ed at the War Department today de clared the fighting was still .in prog ress, with the capture ot guns and prisoners in very hopeful amounts. Incidentally March stated we have now shipped more than 1,200.000 troops abroad. The position ot the Illinois nation al guard division, which trained at Camp Logan, Tex., was revealed as the English training sector, and it was made known that a unit from that organization took part with the Aus tralians In their fight last week. Under Own General. . The Seventy-seventh Division waa revealed aa in the line near Lune vllle. operating as- an American unit under its own commander. The Twenty-sixth division Is com posed ot New England national guard troops and the Twenty-eighth Penn sylvania. The Forty-second Is the Rainbow division and the Seventy seventh is New York national army troops. Captures of prisoners, March admit ted, follow closely press accounts thereof. The last official reports concerning Solssons declared t to be under heavy bombardment, with the allies very (Continued on Page. 3, CoiriTrm 30. BY clrivt, has been recaptured X PAKIS, July SOThe Franco American forces between the Alsaa and. the Marne have continued their, advance, capturing Ave mora villages, the French war office announced to day. The allied forces retook Motloy, Vlllers-Helon, Neullly-St. Front, Uey Cllgnon, and Vlerzy. Reports reaching here today saw Solssons has also been recaptured. A wood was recaptured from tha Germans on. this front also. Dnrlng Friday evening, said tha communique, the Franco-American forces continued to fight their way forward over the ground on which the big counter offensive was launched on Thursday. . v South ot the Marne the French, threw back the German forces be tween Fossoy and Neullly and .gained ground, advancing northward toward the stream. ALLIES CAPTURE NEIELY-ST. FRONT PARIS, July 20 (1:15 pi m.). French and American troops continue to .advance on the greater part of tha offensive front, between the Alsna and the Marne, tha French war offlea announced today. , The Important town of Neullly-St. Front has beaa captured. South ot the Marne allied troop hurled the Germans back on the fit-teen-mile front between Fossoy and Oeullly, gaining more ground toward the river. -Between tha Aisne and the Marne, throughout yesterday evening and last night. Franco-American forces advanced on the greater part of th front," the communique said. "We reached Vleray (already re ported In the hands ot the Americans) and. passed out of Melloy wood, east of Vlllers-Helon (nine miles south ot Solssons). We took Neullly-St. Front and Llcy-CUgnon. "South, of the Marne we hurled tia II 1 4 i I 4m 'V.. 3