r 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST $ 1918. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, ,19.18. SEMI-WEEKLY. B m m m mm . ft aw Vtt ; M 1 A t Ail 1 J. r.ii. i t l ill '. ; V- ' il 4. . l . " " til' ' . REltlJElIT TO SIST FIDES AT litt Americans Score Considerable : Advance On Mile and a Hity Front and Overcome' Grenadt and Flame Throwers GENERAL MARCH TELLS SENATE OF PROGRESS Million and a Hall Men Are Over seas and Are Worthy of Ev ery Confidence People At Home Place In Then WASHINGTON. August 25 (Associated Press) Diminished activity on the paft of the German forces on the north of the csle opposite to the Am erican held sectors lias caused a suspicion that the enemy is pre paring to evacuate all ground to the south of the Aisne. This sus picion is materially strengthened by the reorts of aerial observers who said that all night they could see fires Mazing at various points between the Vesle and the Aisne Around Fjstnea the Americans ad vanced a considerable distnare to. the Hoisaons Kheims road oa a, frost extend ing for a mil and a half., Beyoad this ia these sectors there were onTjr minor actions throughout yesterday. To ra port of this advance eaoae from Ameri can headquarters and wai confirmed In the official despatch from Pafia last uight. In the Lorraine sector three enemy planes were recently dowsed ia a sin gle day by Lieut. Donald Hudson of Washington, who thus became the fifth American "Are". In a conference with the seaats mil itary committee yesterday Chief of HtnfT Uenoral March told the members nf the committee that the stories of great lists of American casualties with held from publication by the war de partment were wholly falsa and that all casualties in the American expedi tionary fqrees were being gives to the public as fast as tbey wera transmit ted to the war department by cable from Franco. Million and Half Ajnartcatui Genera! Marc.i noted a further im provement iu the shipping situation and said the program for the transport atien of troops whs going ahead with out change. The total of Ameirean ex peditionary forces that have passed overseas is now more than a milllba ii nd a lull I Commenting on the military situa tion he said tliut since last Wednesday the French aihanco had continued from the plateau overlooking Noyon down to the Oisc Kiver, making a maximum ndvance of nine miles since August 18. This had fun -ed the enemy back across t tnc uisc. The H r it Ili dad duplicated til French Huccevses, inaugurating nn attack, on Wednesday south of Arras. Rapidly advancing the British forces had reach ed a depth of three mile. On Thursday the British trust in the Albert region resulted in an imxirtant udvauce bi'tneeu the Aucro and the So mine and there developed a new sal ient. The rest of tlio liue had been reason ably iuict. Allied activities continue largely as "nibbling tactics" and ar tillery fire. Sa rmuies Deserve Confidence Regarding the achievement of the Araerirau troops. Uoneral March said: ''The A inern n soldier deserves the confidence of the American people. Kvery time they have been tested they Imvo absolutely delivered the goods. " lie added that every man who has serv ed with the Aiinerican troops baa ab olute ciiiihdencc in them. He cited t lie reports of American 11 nn nrlicers vilio have returned from France. One described au action in which an American division captured sixty eight Uerraau gua and brought tliooi to the rear oa srmy trucks, at tbe Mime time this division captured 3500 prisoners. Another American division iu a sin gle action took complete ten tier man batteries and pieitcated tbem to Gen eral Tershing. Penning Reports In bis communique of August 23, (rcueral Pershing told of another suc cessful bombing of the railroad yards at Couflans, carried out by American aviators without losaca. Au American outpost oa the Aisne between Fismes and Bazooxhea had beeu driven back in a small local en gagement but later countered and re covered t lie poaition. Jn an engagement west of Fismes yesterdiyv the enemy resorted to the use of flame throwers -and band gten ades but were unable to check Ameri cans, who proved to be deadly marks men, killed many Germans, put the rest to flight and straightened out the American line to the north of the Vcslo iu accordance with previous plana GREEN RIVER WHISKEY IS LOST IN FLAMES OWKNeiBOKO. Kent in k v. August 25 (Associated l'ressi A iir at Greea River last night destroyed forty three thousand barrels of wbiskev, valued at three million dollum, ciilunive of the reveuuo taxes. REAEjLV SHARE NEW! YORK, Annum 2 (Offi eial) rople of the I'nfted State will share with those nf tlio Allied Nattoue is tact,' sacrifices of food , as well a In their aaeriflees nf blond in the cause of world democracy, i was naaoaivteik by UerUcit C. . Ifoov tt, I nitcd tjtates food admin istrator, folHiwIrtg his return finm Uveal Bitatn And Franca Th. toHed States wiH next year supply the allien with four I Tl ' i pound of fatf), nine bundled m l Iron pound of beef and heel prod , nets, naif a billion bushels of ,c seals nmi- a m'Mim aati haif town of SPgAtyb , als!j,4' P etitciwbcr 1, tnc: W.ity Dja.WOBT b uee.1 -Ira-tie wnliaiujtV tood'ip Ike vouatriea nf the aIUea ezeept a to beet and SU0 be M.ii' -T" ft'rr- I ! a I.i Trartisirorl aruf' Stipply Ships Sari CtV Schedule Without Danger ot Attack WASHHS'GTOX; Aagttat 23--(Asso- citetl Frss)Ta activity of the Gerataa submarine raldiag against the Alaatie Voast kars; been cnhnel whol ly t antaQ saiOng ships and unarmed cofatuig steamers, not m warship hav ing btjra attacCed and) at a transport eitaei threatened or delayed. The Gaxmajs. eampaiga has bees a complete failure, sa far as a ay practical results fos lerlia are eorernei- 8ub' ia; the statemeat officially made yesterday by Kear Admiral l-rmh ('. Paboer, acting secretary of the saw, wU said; ' ' K&eiajr. aabaAriaea operating off tbe American coast have armolut en tailed ia their purpoee of interrupting the despatca ux .troops auil supplies. Transport ba-; bees kept moving in a steady stream sod their sailings have not bee dedyI a single day. Not one of them bpunl for Europe has been sunk ar even attacked off these shores. ' "The U boats seem to have directed their efforts mainlv towards the sink ing of schooners and fishing boats and attacking single steamers and unarmed vessels. While a aumber of schooners and steamships have beeu sunk, the only naval vessel lost as a result of submarine activities was the armored cruiser San Diego, which was sunk by a mine. "The military effect of the 1" boat campaign has been negligible. In fact the embarkation of troops for Kurope has reached its maximum during the very period in which the sulminruics have been most active iu American waters and more than half a million sobliers have been safely despatched to Franc since the I' boats tirst nppearc I off our shores. ' wTrebelsTo New Revolutionary Government' In Canton Is Pro-Ally TOKIO. August -i- - ' .ecilil to Nip pu .lijii-Ore moie gov eriiineut will soon be added to II long list of the countries ivhi-h are now at war with Germain , the ti') eminent w hich is Slaking the nc" vin move aya nst Hun ' being the rev olu' miiu: y guvei nineiit at Cantos. China. Aceord'iig to the pre despa t c lies I received heie from the seat of the new revolutions! v uovei iimeut, the South I China parliament, which us recently called by the revolutionary government at auto" and which is still in session, is couaidering seriouslv a foiinal doclnr atioa of war against the Kaiser bands. It is expected here that the declara j tin will be voted shortly as the leaders of the revolutionary government are do cidedly pro Allies. OFFICERS OF MARINE CORPS ARE PROMOTED WASHINGTON, August "JS (Asso ciated Press) President Wilsou yester day nominate. I' Hrigadlcr General John . LeJeuiM- and BrigaiUer Gcuernl Lit tleton W. T. WaUer both of the Ma rise 0rp, aa major generals. Six Ma rine Corps colonels have also been uor inated as brigadier generals. BURSTING OF SHELL IS CAUSE OF FATALITIES A Is .MI.A.MH I'llKI, Auausl -.) t Associated Press) Seven men were killed and a number of others injured by a bursting shell aboard an American transport at her dock here yesterday. The transport was a former German steamer. SIXIY-lESMD F A CUBAN POUT, August -'5 (As sueiated Press i sixty one survivor of the i-r of the Japanese steamer Shu aka Maiu, hoh was wrecked upon a coral reef on the twentieth, were hi ought into poit yesterduy by a fruiter. The .lapauese captuiu .jump ed from the lifeboat which the fruiter picked up and swam buck to tiie wreck ed ship, refusing to answer the rails that were mud to huu It is believed that he committed sun idc becuuse of the loss of his vessel. PICO ray Whfr'c the Tide of Battle RM t WASHINGTON. August .4 - ( Hii i al) The director general of the I'uit ed states employment sci v it e announces nt tlieii- is ''enuiiie i ooiiei at ion 1m- twceii hihor and laiutjil evnern thloiiejiuut the i-iniiitiv icsultiu from the 'i.i. -Ileal dcmonsl i a I urn of the pa trintiMii of luliei anil the rovvin rent iatioii on the pait of the eiuplovers of the roiuiiiou inteiest in the securing of a in a i in u in prinl.ii tinn nt' war mat erials and war essentials. lie sin-l: ''suii-e the entrance of Ameriiii lulu the war theie has been a niHiki'l psvc lining na I change In the feeling In-twecn tl itipinveis and the einplov ed ami then- has come to them an ii in lei si a ml i ng nt' one another vvlnih they did not previously have.'' FLOODS IN POLAND ARE CAUSE OF VAST LOSSES i i ni I'nl h pape re. . i, 't,at tl. ,s I, Hie I nil .1 ro .v in , wnle nr. wful 111 1 s , -1 t I V Own I t I III M 1 1 v pcoplc l n :i In a ;iA of tin- .c.ple to the tuuiine II tvph-is. are -pn.-nl,,,,. dy,.,-. .i.llout 'n the prev ailed Ivsenleiv .Up. : li ,1 I hoiisa mis ' ' I " ''mii'iimiiiii'' siiniiinminn xin' iinsar l I I I hi II 111 II ML "(Mil i "li I ' 1(1.. m -M"-T" WWW iiaa V I 11 I 'liJiei X SVT,iil FM. 1 II Uii . . Cfc ' I O D AVION fafiFstcsS STPCt? AJUliu ; s..y " AHRAIliVr? JaBirti At! X.fliA- f -rv ALBMTS, afyTlCOMBtrs V xs rsr . f Fvia 0Wv II MAMGARtTV. DASirart S ft -A r MA-uivr viv n sji rr z w nan 5rr" t v-,f . i f r r1 v m-Tvrnrtrrm-iTn a - mw- i r - . ' k -aassvr am J sb. i WJW&g( LA ON LABOR AND CAPITAL TREATY WITH ITALY VOTES FOR WOMEN IS NOW COOPERATING IS MADE OPERATIVE GIVEN GOOD BOOST a) 1 The ill roe i or general of the I'uit I A iiierien us in Italy and Italians in j ed states einplov incut s, i v i. e announces i America must light uinler the roiuis ot I that tlieii- is ''enuiiir i ooiiei at ion he ... . . tween hihor and iiipital genernllv ' thloiighuut the ciuiiitiv icsultiug from 1 S-Vta mZL? W'AHIIJNGTON, August i4 (Ofli.-ial i A iiierien us in Italy and Italians in America must light under the colors of or the other countries v h ailed iipnn to do so. Sieeietnrv Lansing and the Italian Ainliiissuiinr have sinned the treaty governing their selection for sei v ice. This treaty is very much in the same t'orin us that eulered into between the I'uited States and Great Britain vvhn h ;c fleets Canadians and Americans in t'unadu iu large numbers. W. s. S. CROWDER ISSUES NEW CALL FOR DRAFTEES WASHINGTON, August --( Aaaoi-i ale, I 1'iens) l'rovtist Marshal Ciowib-r has issued a call for lsd,77H registrant 4 1,, icpnit fni service before the end nf the in , , 11 b . The call includes men from eciv state, but none from the Tern tnrv of Hawaii. The men will etitrniu for their respective training camps be i tweeu A UK list MO and September 0. This 1 ,-all i iic Miles- -itloU registrants for limit I i ! crv icc. Brliwd: Tbe shifting battli Mm, allowing t&i territory regained from the Oermans on th western front tine July IS. Th rronch, American and British armies hav won back approximately naU th terrain over which th aennana ad vanced In their fir great offensive drive between March 21 and July IS, when th tld set la against thaaa, be ginning at Chateau Thierry and extend ing along: the) greater part of th front, through Flcardy into rundwa. Th shaded section of this snap shows approximately what has been won hack by Foci la kls great counter offnatv. now wall under way. Th4 dotted line on th right of th map marks where th Oarmau stood, tola, soring. ..Their furthest advance la shown by the' dot ted Una oa th left sJd of th map, while the black Una la the approximate front today, without yssterday's gains by the British. The Important battle fronts Indicated are: 1 The Lys salient where General Haig la nibbling and the German are retiring, la anticipation of a heavy prlt isk offensive. -An unconfirmed report yesterday credits the Oermans with gains In a counter attack against the Dranoutr ridge on the north aide of this salient. . 8 Tbe Arras-Albert front where the British Third Army under General Byng is advancing victoriously. Yesterday the British captured Bray and Thlepval oa this front and ar rapidly approaching- Bupaume. the fall of which Is ex pected shortly. 5 The Soimne front where the Brit iih Fourth. Army is operating and mak ing steady gains. Roy and Cbaulnes ar the two points t which the Ger man ar tenaciously holding and which the British are now flanking. 4 Montdidier-Koyon front where General Humbert with the French Tenth Army Is clearing th Germans back. The progress of this army has been halted temporarily while artillery is being brought up. . Noyoa is th present objective on this front. 5 vAisne-Allette front, where the French under General Magnia have won a series of brilliant victories snd driven a wed?e between" th armies of th Crown Prince and Prince Bupprecht. The main fighting on this front Is to the east along the line north of Solssons, where French progress imperils the Ger mans north of ths Vssle River. 6 The Vesle River position occupied by the Americans. Yesterday the Sam mies drove the Germane back and im proved their line north oi the river at Fismes. Tbe despatches Indicate that tbe Germans are preparing to fall back all along this front to new positions north of the Aisne and close to the Una from which they advanced in May in their drive down the Maine valley upon Paris. WASHINGTON, August 'Ji ( Assoc i ated Press) Kepublicau senators met in conference today und selected a Moni leailer and discussed policies on . several issues. Among these vv us w om au sufiiugc ami it vas decided to urge the immediate passage of the concur rent rewilut inn. alieady passed by the house, submitting the coustit utioual amendment to giant eijual suffrage to women. Senator Lodge was selected us floor leader. TREATY WITH JAPAN EXTENDED FIVE YEARS WASHINGTON. August I'i-.Udi in 1 1 Kciiewnl of the arbitration treat v between the 1 int.-I States aud .lapau to extend in el a period of an other live years is a 11 iiouuced. The ex tension wus ulYccied bv the signatures of Secietary of Slate Lansing aud 1 lit penal dapaiie-e Ambassador, Viscount Islui 'FRORT HUNS ARE' MLL1G Bffl 1 ONDQN, August 25 (AisocUted Press) Without a paust the - British Third Army is continuing to drive the Germans back along the Arras-Albert front, while ta the south of this sector the Uritish havt captured the important td,wn of Cray and have taken the fortified positions a'vlTltepval by storm.' ' t Early this morning (Sunday) the New Zealanders struck in the direction of Croiselle and captured Henin on the L'ojeul, four miles northeast of the city. Elsewhere along the front, in many local actions, the British report uninterrupted success. Thiepval was captured after desperate fighting, the British swarming into the lines in the teeth of a heavy machine gun and rifle fire. The entire garrison was captured after the British had driven the defenders fronArench to trench in hand-to-hand fighting. The prisoners here number more than two thousand. BRAY TAKEN LAST NIGHT Miraumont, north of Thiepval, was captured yesterday after noon and early in the evening the British swept into and through Bray, advancing their lines both north and south of the Soinme, towards Peronne, gaining a wide stretch of territory. A large num ber of prisoners and guns were taken at Bray. During the afternoon the Tommies added Avesnes les Bapaumc 'to their toll of villages taken and the fall of this point means the early capture of Bapaume itself. REINFORCED LINES BROKEN General Haig, reporting last night, says that despite the heavy German reinforcements at the crucial points the British advanced steadily yesterday, having hard fighting at times. Bray, Thiepval, Miraumont, Grandcourt and Orvillers are among the important points taken in the advance. At Miraumont the Germans clung until the last moment, when the British gains both north and south made the further retention of the town too dangerous and it was hastily evacuated. Large stores were abandoned. The British are now safely astride the Thiepval ridge, which gives them observation over the surrounding country for miles around. Across a wide stretch the Germans arc seen to be falling back, with their transport apparently badly confused. Along the Thiepval ridge the British are advancing steadily eastward. The capture of Bray gives the British a dominating point over a wide territory to the east and British guns are being hurried to this height to cover the continued British dric and to add to the confusion of the already demoralised enemy. SEVENTEEN THOUSAND PRISONERS North of the Somme, since Wednesday, the British have taken mure than seventeen thousand prisoners and numerous guns, to gethcr with vast quantities of supplies. So rapid lias been the Bri tish advance at places that complete batteries have been captured, the guns being turned against the Germans and the supplies of shells in nearby ammunition dumps being expended to aid the uncs for whose destruction they were brought to the front. Howitz ers and trench mortars in numbers are among the prizes of the Iwttle. South of the Somme, in the early fighting yesterday, twelve cannon and a number of prisoners were reorted taken. The des patches last night do not report any further progress between Bray and Rove. DESPERATE BATTLE FOR BAPAUME The fighting before Bapaume is reported to have beeu very heavy, the Germans making a desperate effort to hold this very im Goit.-'nt junction point, from which four railroad lines and several important highways radiate. The British stormed forward through out the day and were driving hard at all points east and south' of the town last night. The Tommies arc now at the very outskirts i I the town, behind the ruins of which the Germans are holding i'.h numerous machine guns. It is apparent that this stand is being made to enable the Grown I 'rim e Rupprccht to save some oi the great military stores in the eitv. Kvcrv road back of the German lines here is jammed with i.msoorts. attempting to make their way eastward. The British guns are shelling these roads heavily and British airmen arc eon tiunoitsly Hying back and forth bombing the trains, destroying the roads ami sweeping the marching columns of the enemy with bursts i f machine gun fire. The greatest confusion prevails, the roaiN being jammed with tbe wrecks of lorries and gun carriages and covered wilh German dead. EVEN IN LYS SALIENT In the I.ys salient there was heavy lighting yesterday along two small fronts In a heavy counter the Germans are reorted to iihvc K'L'Hined their hold upon the Drauoutre ridge, southeast of Keuiniel, directly on the Belgian i'rencu border. Kb.ewhere in the salient the British have gained some ground und have tuk nn many prisoners. ()u the Kreueh seetions of the front, from BoisMojis to Cbaulnes, yesterday was comparatively quiet. Although the Krenea are ereeping nearer aud nearer to Noyons, tbo (iormaus wore apparently continuing to hold the city last uight, although il fail is mumuu tarily expected. General Magniu has apparently cens ed his attacks south of the Oisc, await ing the outcome of the British drives in I'ieardy before crossing the river in force. The artillery is maintaining ita activity, both east of Noyou and between the Oiae aud tbo Aiauv. w. a, s. AMSTKHDAM, August '.'4 ( Assoc iu ted Press) Krom the German point of view it is oue thing for Germany, by use of its submarines tr sink neutral vesse Is but quite a difTeient matter when a neutral nation seeks to recoup ill losses by th taking of German in U'i'iicd vessels in reprisal. Despatches from Berlin say that the Germrui foreign ofhec has sent to Ma drid a formal protest in answer to the note iu which Hpoin eipresaed its in tetitionvf taking Oerninu shipping to replace the vessels, ton for ton, sunk by German submarines. LIST OF CASUALTIES W ASHINGTON, August -o ( Associ atctl Press ) Official casualty lists is sued by the war nepiiitment and the oltice of 'tbe Marine corps yesterday were .'onaiderablv- smaller than tor sev era! du v pusl numbering less than I'Oli. The arinv list of losses showed four teen killed in action, eleven died of wounds, twelve dead of other causes. 117 wounded und fifteen missing. The M,ai ine corps list gave the names of six killed in action, five wounded, one. nii.ssing und one dead in action. W.S.S. DESTROYER 1$ NAMED ' v AFTPHILIPPINE HERO W VsHINGTON. August L'" lAsami ated Press)- The ,1.-st rover donated In the l-'nited states Navv bv the Philip pines is In be called the I ' S. S. ,loe Hlal. in honor of the ineinorv of the great Filipino putriot. - xv. s. g. -- - TEUTONS IN ALBANIA RENEWING ACTIVITIES ItOUL, August -Jl i Associated pre- Vfiei a cntnpaiative lull of several days the Teuton tones in A I bnni.-l have lesuoied their activities and vesterd.-'v lli. re wete renewed at tucks from the lower Seiinni Kiver to Toiuoricu bulge.