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Elsewhere
U. S. MarinesJLdvanceo?Six-Mile Front;
Win 4 Towns in Joint Attack With French
O'Leary and
Six Others
Indicted for
Irish Plot
Woman and German
Officer Accused of
Sending Military
Data to Berlin
Death Sentence
Is the Penalty
Washington Expects
Further Revelations
in Scheme to In?
vade Ireland
The Federal Grand Jury yesterday
Teturned indictments against nine per-!
ions, charging conspiracy to violate ;
section 2 of the espionage act, which
is a capital offence, and an attempt to
commit treason punishment for which
is two years' imprisonment.
The alleged plotters are: The Baron?
ess Maria von Kretschman, alias Mme.
Maria K. de Victorica; Lieutenant
Commander Hermann Wessels, alias
Karl Rodiger, of the German navy;
Jeremiah O'Leary, the anti-British
agitator whose publication "Bull" is
denied the use of the malls; Willard
J. Robinson, a Sinn Fein orator; Al?
bert Paul Fricke, alleged to have been
the paymaster of the group; Joba- T?
Ryan, a fugitive attorney from Buf?
falo, a Smn Feiner who frequently was
mentioned in the proceedings follow?
ing the plot to blow up the Weiland
Canal; Emil Kipper, an American cita?
sen who is alleged to have materially
aided the band in their operations, and
Hugo Schweitzer and Rudolph Binder,
the latter two now deaa.
Two Accused as Spies
Mme. Victorica and Rodiger are
charged with being spies in the pay of
the imperial German government,
being in this country on a special mis?
sion for the German Foreign Office to
gain the active aid of Irish radicals in
itarting a revolt in Ireland and convey?
ing intormation of military value con?
cerning the United States army and
navy to Berlin. The others are charged
with assisting them in their operations.
When the indictments were handed
up to Judge Hand only four of the de?
fendants were in court and all pleaded
not guilty to the charges. They were
the Baroness Kretschman, Lieutenant
Wessels. Willard Robinson and Albert
Fricke.
While the clerk read the findings of
the grand jury the prisoners, under
heavy guard, stood at the bar ;'.nd lis?
tened with attention. At times when
the reading showed the knowledge the
government had of their operations
they looked with scorn at the court.
Baroness Kretschman was haughty
when the proceedings started, but as
the evidence against her was revealed
she shifted her eyes from Judge Hand
and stared straight ahead, leaning
heavily on an umbrella she carried.
Judge Hand, after receiving pleas of
not guilty from the quartet, held them
without bail and placed ail in the cus?
tody of United States Marshal Thomas
McCarthy to await trial. The baroness,
in response to a question by the court,
asked that Dudley Field Malone be as?
signed to her as counsel. This request
wae granted, Judge Hand directing
that the attorney be communicated
with immediately to ascertain whether
or not he would appear in the case.
Fricke announced that William H.
Daly, of 62 Broadway, a partner of
John J. O'Leary, now in the Tombs
awaiting trial on the charge of ob?
structing justice, would represent him.
Robinson said he had sent word to his
attorney, and would not need the as?
sistance of the court in obtaining coun?
sel.
Accused as Spies
The indictments charge that Baron?
ess Kertschman, or Victorica, and
Rodiger, ialsely and fraudulently
gained entrance into this country after
our entrance into the war by claiming
citizenship of friendly countries and
ihat they came here for the purpose of
Promoting an espionage and propa?
ganda ring in the interest of the
enemy and were in the pay of the Wil
neimstrasse.
The indictments brand them as spies
and gives detailed information as to
tneir operations since they came here
? January of 1917. They are accused
of assisting in the military and naval
operations of t.ie German government
gainst Great Britain and her allies in
tnat they collected and recorded and
conveyed information of value and
caused others to aid them in this coun
t ?iin comrn*>nicating this information
w the German Foreign Office.
aJv '* specifically charged that they
?Wut*d the aid ol Irishmen and others
w'ow country *<> cooperate actively
with persons in Ireland who were plot
"?g to land German troops on the Irish
**Mt, and that they attempted to
?Pt?ad a dangerous and insidious prop
?jjjnda in this country against Great
?IjUin and the United States.
?me. Victorica and Rodiger were ar
?ated ftx weeks ago by Mr. and Mrs.
?}**y ??fntzer, of the Department ot
?u?>uce,ttob,o, acting under instructions
'rom Chief Charles De Woody, took
^^"jcuatody at a fashionable hotel
Contint*??! on Page h, Column 2
Billion Bushel Crop
Of Wheat Is Forecast
WASHINGTON, June 7.?-The
second largest wheat crop in the
history of the country is fore?
cast by the Department of Agri?
culture, which to-day announced
a total of 031,000,000 bushels of
winter and spring wheat com?
bined. Continuation of the ideal
growing conditions is expected to
produce a harvest of 1,000,000,
000 bushels.
Production of oats was fore?
cast at 1,500,000,000 bushels,
barley production at 235,000,000
bushels and rye production at
81,000,000 bushels.
Details on last page.
Invents Airplane
For Enemy. Lands
In American Trap
Bronx German Tricked by
Government Agent Pos?
ing as Kaiser's Aid
Bruno von Bultzingsloven, the in?
ventor of an aircraft which he ?alls the
"aeromobile," which has rotary lifting
dices enabling it to hover stationary in
space, entered the Manhattan Hotel
yesterday with a man who had intro?
duced himself two weeks ago as "the
unofficial representative of the Kaiser
in the United States." When the in?
ventor entered the hotel he h'.d every
reason to believe this was the truth
and he would emerge the benefactor of
the Fatherland.
He emergad an hour later with one
bracelet of a pair of handcuffs attached
to his wrist. The other was fastened
to the wrist of "the Kaiser's unofficial
representative." Von Bultzingsloven
was a prisoner, charged with making
seditious utterances and harboring dan?
gerous sentiments. The precious in?
vention that was to confound the foes
of the Fatherland was the property of
the United States government. Last
night the inventor was committed to
the Tombs ->y United States Commis?
sioner Hitchcock in default of $10,000
bail.
Two weeks ago the Department of
Justice learned a middle-aged man of
Germanic name a..d aspect had per?
fected a flying machine which pos?
sessed the unique advantage of being
able to stand still in the air, giving
it obvious superiority in warfare both
in manoeuvring and in gunfire. From
that day until yesterday Von Bultz?
ingsloven was shadowed.
Shadowed by U. S. Agent
Every day an agent of the Depart?
ment of Justice unsuspected made the
trip with him from his home at 910
Trinity Avenue, The Bronx, to his of?
fice at 26 East Twenty-first Street. His
observations convinced the Federal de?
tective of the correctness of the in?
formation previously received that Von
Bult'/ingsloven would never sell his in?
vention to the United States, but would
uso every endeavor to place it in Ger?
many's hands.
At the first opportunity he "intro?
duced himself as "the Kaiser's unoffi?
cial representative." At first the in?
ventor was suspicious and uncommuni?
cative. But at last the "unofficial rep?
resentative" convinced him and the
meeting at the hotel was arranged.
The inventor was laden with the
plans, specifications and model of his
aeromobile. The couple went to a room
on the third floor. Preliminary to the
discussion of the aeromobile the talk
turned to America, Germany and Ger?
man-Americana. When the incident
was. closed with von Bultzingsloven s
imprisonment the "unofficial represen?
tative" had the following recollection
of his remarks:
Would Aid Germans
"The President is the head of the
United States government?he actually
rules this country?the Senate and
Congress do his will to show the world
a united front. If you cut the head off
a serpent the body may wriggle, but
the sting is gone. Vice-Pr?sidents are
nonentities ?- confusion, disorganiza?
tion, panic and demoralization would
result. This would bo a tremendous
help to Germany."
There was also talk, the Federal
agent said, of war, in which the aero?
mobile man declared that all was fair
in war, and that he would not hesitate
to destroy a whole city that Germany
might benefit. He advocated guerilla
warfare against the United States, the
detective continued, but deplored the
decadency of German-Americans, say?
ing:
Germans Now Americans
"There are no mirt German-Ameri?
cans. They are all damned Americans.
It was all right when it was merely a
matter of talking and giving a little
money, but whs-n their skin began to
be in danger they go* cold feet. Isn t
it disgusting how poor O'Leary, the
editor of 'Bull,' was left in the lurch
by tho German-Americana? All that
was raised in his defence was $176, and
his work for Ireland was of grct value
to us." . A . .
Eventually they got down to busi?
ness. The "unofficial representative"
pulled a roll of bills amounting to
$1,000 from his pocket, papers were
signed and the plans, specifications and
model turned over.
At a prearranged signal a member or
the Army Intelligence Service entered.
Von Bultzingsloven realized he was
trapped and collapsed. He was searched
and the $1,000 found on him.
Teuton Threat
Fails to Free
Capt. Rintelen
U. S. Menaced With Re?
prisals in Effort to Lib?
erate Plotter
Germany Warned
To Think Twice
Lansing Says Harming Pris?
oners Would Invite Retal?
iation on Germans Here
(Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 7.?A demand
by the German government for the re?
lease of Captain Franz Rintelen, Ger?
man plotter, now in prison in this coun?
try, coupled with a threat of reprisals
against American prisoners in Germany
if the demand is refused, brought a de?
fiant reply from the United States gov?
ernment in diplomatic notes given out
by the State Department to-day.
Germany proposed the exchange of
Siegfried Paul London, an alleged
American, under sentence in Germany
as a spy, for Rintelen, accompanying
its request with the threat that "per?
sons," presumably American prisoners,
would be "made to suffer" by "some
appropriate measures of reprisal" if
Rintelen did not receive his liberty.
In a note that bristles with defiance
Secretary of State Lansing refused the
demand for the release of Rintelen, de?
nounced the principle set forth in the
German note that "reprisals occasion?
ing physical suffering are legitimate,"
and gave this added warning to Ger?
many:
"It would be wise for the German
government to consider that if it acts
upon that principle it will inevitably
be understood to invite similar re?
ciprocal action on the part of the
United States with respect to the
great number of German subjects in
this country."
Many Hostages Here
As an evidence that the United
States is in position to make any
counter reprisals effective, figures were
given out showing that there are far
more German prisoners and interned
Germans held in prison and detention
camps here than there are American
prisoners in Germany. The plain
threat of the United States is that
these prisoners, many of them officers
and powerful German civilians, will be
held as hostages to guarantee the fair
treatment of American prisoners in
Germany.
Captain Franz Rintelen, paymaster of
the German plotters in the United
States, was arrested before the United
States entered the war and convicted
on three indictments. He was sen?
tenced to serve a term of four and a
half years at the Atlanta Federal
prison.
Rintelen was convicted of being the
paymaster for the propaganda con?
ducted by the Labor National Peace
Council, convicted of a part in the fire?
bomb conspiracies to sink British ves?
sels with bombs placed in their holds
in American ports and was convicted
on a third indictment for perjury in
obtaining a fraudulent passport. He
was also mixed up in the Weiland
Canal plots.
Siegfried Paul London, who was
offered in exchange for Rintelen, is not
recognized as a bona fide American
citizen by the State Department. The
records show he was born in Leipsic,
Germany, in 1862, came to the United
States in 1882 and was naturalized in
New York in 1887? remaining in New
York until 1900.
Lived for Years In Warsaw
From 1903 until his arrest in War?
saw in 1915 as a Russian spy he had
been a resident of Warsaw. On the
theory that a naturalized citizen must
take some steps to keep his citizenship
alive, the State Department refuses to
interfere in London's case.
The demand of the German govern?
ment for the release of Rintelen was
made in a verbal note presented to the
State Department April 20, 1918, by
the Swiss Minister.
The German note is as follows:
On December 20, 1917, the mer?
chant and interpreter, Siegfried Paul
London, a citizen of the United
States, was condemned to death by
court martial at Warsaw for treason
as a spy. The Governor General of
Warsaw exercising judicial clemency
on January 9, 1918, commuted this
sentence to ten years penal servi?
tude. According to facts estab?
lished at the court martial, London
obtained citizenship in the year 1887.
He is marriod to an American citi?
zen, Mary Leonhard.
London was found guilty because,
for the period from the beginning
of the war until about May, 1915,
he served the enemy as a spy. Ho
was arrested on this acrount as
early as August 27, 1915. He suc?
ceeded, however, in escaping, but
was recaptured on September 24,
1917. For this reason the chief pro
Continued on Page 5, Column S
*'Can't Drown or Kill
Marine," Says Daniels
{Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 7.?
"There are no better fighters in
the world than the marines. You
can't drown a marine or you can't
kill one," Secretary of the Navy
Daniels said to-day in comment?
ing on the fighting qualities the
sea-fighters showed in the battle
at Ch?teau Thierry.
"The marine is the minute man
of the military service, and he
will give a good account of him?
self wherever ordered," Daniels
continued. "He is the handy man
of the service, the emergency
man, who can be swung into any
action at any time and be counted
on for his maximum worth."
ChinaMenaced
By Teutons in
East Siberia
Advance of Austro - Ger?
mans May Force Jap?
anese Intervention
WASHINGTON, June 7.?News that
Austro-German troops are operating |
near the Chinese boundary in Eastern j
Siberia in conjunction with Bolshevik ?
forces against the anti-Bolshevik j
leader, General Semenoff, has revived
the possibility of Japanese interven?
tion in Siberia.
The advance of the Austro-German
force in Siberia, which probably is com- j
posed of former prisoners, may mean j
action, as the result of the military j
agreement recently concluded by China i
and Japan for the protection of their !
interests in the Far East and which j
was approved by the Entente allies.
The scene of the present operations ;
is so close to Chinese territory that !
it is probable Japan will bring the
long smouldering situation to the point
of action.
Dissension Said
To Have Broken Up
Semenoff*s Army
SHANGHAI, June 7.?General Sem
enoff, leader of the anti-Bolshevik
Siberian forces, has left the Trans?
baikalia front, according to an
Eastern News Agency dispatch from
Harbin. His departure is attributed to
dissensions among his forces. It is re?
ported, the advices add, that he will
disband his army and flee into Mon?
golia.
(By The Associated Press)
HARBIN, Manchuria, June 2.?Gen?
eral Semenoff, leader of the anti-Bol?
shevik forces in Siberia, reports that
Bolshevik troops to-day crossed the
Onon River, in Transbaikalia, and
strongly pressed a number of attacks
which were checked. An Austro-Ger?
man force, composed of a cavalry bri?
gade and four companies of infantry,
is threatening General Semenoff's com?
munications.
Japan Denies Pact
Gives Her Virtual
Control of China
(By The Associated Press)
TOKIO, June 7.?An official state?
ment issued by the Japanese govern?
ment emphatically denies the recently
published report" that the Chino-Japa
nese military agreement gave to Japan
control of the Chinese military forces,
finances, railways, mines, etc.
"The Shanghai Gazette." which
printed its first isstte on April 24 under
the editorship of Eugene Chen, an
Anglicized Chinese, who formerly
edited "The Peking Gazette," stated
that the Chinese government had
agreed to new demands made by Japan
which were of such a nature that the
country virtually had been turned over
to the Jepanese. "The Gazette" as?
serted it had been informed by a high
official in Peking that the Japanese de?
mands were of a far more serious nat?
ure thah were those in Group V of the
famous twenty-one demands made by
Japan in 1915. ? ., ,, .
"The Shanghai Gazette' said that
notwithstanding the fact that the ut?
most secrecy was being observed it
could be stated safely that the follow?
ing clauses were not far from the true
terms of the agreement:
"Chinese expeditionary forces sent
to Siberia shall be commanded by a
Japanese. .
"Chinese police shall be organized
by Japanese officers.
"Japan shall control all of China s
arsenals and dockyards.
"Japan shall have the privilege of
working mines in all parts of China.
"Special privileges shall be granted
to Japan in Outer and Inner Mongolia
and the whole of Manchuria.
"Other articles include provisions for
financial control and educational as
1 sistance."
U-Boat Sinks
Norse Ship
Off Virginia
Steamer Vinland Is Tor?
pedoed 9 Hours After
the Harpathian
Rescued Crew
Lands at Cape May
Sailors, Suffering From Ex?
posure, Picked Up by
U. S. Destr?yer
Washington, June 7.?sinking of
the Norwegian steamship Vinland by
a German submarine sixty-five miles
off the Virginia Capes at 6 p. m.
Wednesday, June 5, was announced to
right by the Navy Department. The
crew was rescued and landed to-day at
Cape May, N. J.
The Vinland was sent down nine
hours after the British steamer Har?
pathian was torpedoed thirty-five miles
further from the Virginia coast. Until
word of her sinking came from Cape
May to-day nothing had been heard of
the operations of the enemy raiders
since the landing of the Harpathian's
crew yesterday.
No details were given in the brief
dispatch to the department. This state?
ment was issued:
"The Navy Department is informed
that the Norwegian steamer Vinland,
1,193 tons, was bombed and sunk by
a submarino about sixty-five miles off
the coast of Virginia at 6 p. m. on
June 5. The crew was landed at Cape
May, N. J."_
U. S. Transport Chased
12 Hoars Up Coast
By Two U-Boats
AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 7.?How
a transport raced up the Atlantic coast
with darkened lights at night and
under a full pressure of steam in order
to elude German submarines, at least
two of which gave chase, was told to?
day by men on shore leave here.
Members of the transport's crew de?
clared they were warned in ample time
by wireless of the nearness of the U
boats, and were advised to keep in near
the coast and make all possible speed
to this port. They asked in return that
the ship be met at once by American
destroyers.
Two of the submarines were sighted,
but at such distance that they were not
identified by number, and the race be?
gan between the submersibles for the
transport and the troopship for harbor.
It lasted for twelve hours, and al?
though handicapped by having to steer
a zig-zag course the transport main?
tained a lead out of torpedo and gun
fire range until American destroyers
were sighted. The U-boats submerged
shortly before the destroyers appeared,
evidently having picked up a wireless
message indicating that the armed craft
were near.
Vinland Attacked
In Rough Weather;
Crew in Hospital
CAPE MAY, N. J., June 7.?News of
renewed U-boat activity reached here
to-day when a destroyer brought in
nineteen of the crew of the Norwegian
steamship Vinland, which was sent to
the bottom off the coast Wednesday.
The vessel that rescued them was a
destroyer, recently launched, which
was out on a trial trip. The men, who
were suffering from exposure, were
taken to the hospital of the Wissa
hickon Barracks.
Members of the crew are mostly
Swedes and Norwegians, and speak
little English. It was gathered from
them that the Vinland was northbound
with a cargo of sugar. The coast was
fogbound and there were showers and
squalls when the U-boat made its ap?
pearance.
The Vinland was a small freighter
of 1,193 tons gross. She was 228 feet
long, 35 foot beam, and was built in
Bergen, Norway, in 1906.
Steamer Argonaut
Sunk by U-Boat
Off the Scillys
According to advices received yester?
day at the office of Edward F. Geer, 17
State Street, the steamship Argonaut
was sunk by a German submarine off
the Scillys on June 5. The Argonaut,
which was owned by Mr. Geer, was
originally the Hamburg-American
steamship Albingia. which was used in
the company's Atlas service to the
West Indies.
She was built in the yards of Har
land & Wolff, at Belfast, in 1893, and
was a vessel of 2,923 tons. She had a
length of 401 feet and a beam of 47
feet
Allied Troops Take Veuilly;
Poilus Gain North of Aisne
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The territory gained by the American marines and French in their
two-day attack northwest of Chateau Thierry is indicated by the shaded
area on the map. The Allied troops have captured Vinly, Veuilly-la
Poterie, Torcy and Bouresches.
Lloyd George
Is Encouraged
By U. S. Valor
Wherever Americans Fight
They Will Be Worthy of
Traditions, He Says
LONDON, June 7.?Premier David
Lloyd George, in replying to a toast to i
the success of the Entente allied
armies at the dinner of the Printers'
Society of London to-night, said that
Britishers have made unsurpassed
sacrifices for a great purpose and a
high ideal.
One of the most encouraging things,
the Premier continued, was the
"superb valor and the trained skill
with which the Americans have taken
their part in the struggle and defeated
the foe. It is a most encouraging
thing because there has been a great
flow of those troops and we were de?
pending on them."
If for any cause the Allies failed to
succeed it would be a sorry world to
live in, Mr. Lloyd George said.
"It is impossible to exaggerate the
importance or the significance of the
issues with which we are confronted
to-day," he declared. "The fate of the
world, the destinies of men and the
lives of generations would be fashioned
by the failure or the triumph of our
cause."
Says Crisis Is Not Yet Past
"If the Prussians should succeed to?
day, they would fling back civilization
into the dark dungeons of the past. We
are paying a big price, a sad price, for
victory, but the sum total of human
wretchedness which has been paid will
not equal in value that which we are
defending.
"We are passing through anxious
days and the crisis is not yet past,
but with stout hearts we shall win
through, and then woe to the plague.
In the interest of civilization, in the
interest of the human race, it must
be stamped out. You cannot allow it
to come again to darken the lives of
millions and desolate millions of
homes."
In his refemce to the Americans the
Premier said :
"I have just returned from France,
where I met a French statesman who
had been at the battlefront soon after
an engagement where the Americans
fought. He was full of admiration, not
merely for their suoerb valor, but the
trained skill with which they attacked
; and defeated the foe.
Americans Worthy of Nation
"His report on the conduct of the
I American troops, a division which had
i been in action for the first time, was
one of the most encouraging things
that I have heard. We know that when?
ever they appear in the battle line they
will fight in a way worthy of the grcatt
traditions of their great countrv. This
j is in itself a source of support, suste?
nance and encouragement to all those
who with anxious hearts arc watching
the conflict going oa in Francs."
Marines Sped
62 Miles to
Stop Germans
Untried Troops at Chateau
Thierry Faced Foe
Like Veterans
By Wilbur Forrest
(Special Cable to The Tribvne)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
BETWEEN SOISSONS AND
RHEIMS, June 7.?The complete
story of the first American action
on the Marne battlefront is avail?
able to-day.
It is a narrative that stands for ;
more, perhaps, than most of those
written in American history books.
It is literally another story of,
American minute men who aban?
doned the figurative ploughshares of
peaceful training camps and rushed
to the scene of action. They met
the enemy with weapons they knew
how to handle.
It is a story of American grit ;
which thrilled our French and Brit
ish Allies, and, most important of l
all, stripped away that unknown ''
element which could not help but
cling to new and virtually untried
troops entering the world's greatest
war at such a critical stage.
Fragmentary reports regarding
the American minute men at Ch??
teau Thierry have already reached
America. But the full narrative of
this important action?important
? because of its example to others and
! what it presages for the future?
only became available to-day in the
small village at the rear where I
found them rubbing sleepy eyes af?
ter a spell of desperately needed
rest.
11,000 Germans Shot Down
It is safe to say that American
decorations will hang from the ]
| breasts of many of these machine
j gunners called on to play the r?le of
I America's modern Minute Men. How
': they threw streams of hot lead into
hordes of the fanatical enemy who
were chanting war songs as they
came forward in an effort to take I
the bridges at Ch?teau Thierry ; how :
they withstood heavy shellfire for j
the first time in their lives and re- '
mained as cool as the veteran
French infantrymen around them is I
best told by beginning at the begin?
ning. ?
I've tried to trace every move of
the machine gunners from the time
?the alarm was given them in their;
Continued on Page 3, Column 2 I
Bouresches, Vinly and
Torcy Also Captured,
With 300 More
Prisoners
German Dead Piled
3 Deep in Places
Prussians Driven Back
Two Miles; Battle
Still Rages on
Entire Line
The American marines-, with their
French allies, yesterday swept on
through the German lines on the
high ground northwest of Ch?teau?
Thierry, capturing four villages
and pushing their gains to a maxi?
mum depth cf two miles en * ten
mile front.
Latest dispatches say the battle is
still continuing, with great fury.
Two new American attack? re?
sulted in the capture of 300 more
prisoners.
Forcing the Crown Prince's men
back at the point where they
had come closest to Paris, the
Allies retook Veuilly-la-Poterie,
Bouresches, Vinly and Torcy. They
wrecked quantities of reserve
stores which Ludendorff had
brought forward in readiness for
a new attack,
Bouresches and Torcy seem to have
been won by the Americans alone,
who advanced on a six-mile front,
and Pershing's men also had a
hand in the taking of Veuilly.
Elsewhere on the west wing of the
great Champagne salient the
French launched counter blows re?
gaining important tactical points.
North of the Aisne, northwest of
Soissons, they retook the village
of Le Port F?nten. South of the
Aisne they advanced their lines
near Ambleny, west of Soissons.
On the east wing of the salient Brit?
ish and French troops pushed the
enemy back in the region of
Bligny, and regained that city.
They held their new positions de?
spite desperate German counter
attacks.
In the Ypres sector the French
launched a minor attack near
Locre, regaining territory lost to
the Germans on Thursday.
Along the whole front the roll of the
artillery is increasing, observers
report. Another great blow by the
enemy seems to be in preparation.
Americans Capture
300 More Germane
On Six-Mile Front
{By The Agsociated Preu)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN PICARDY, June 7.?As the re
suit of the two attacks by the Amer?
icans against the enemy in a second
battle northwest of Chateau Thierrj
300 prisoners were captured anc
: the Americans extended their lin?
over a front of about six miles to i
depth of nearly two and a hah
miles.
While the losses of the American!
necessarily have been heavy owinj
to the nature of the fighting, th'
German dead is piled three deep ii
places.
A number of machine guns wer
added to the American booty.
The German prisoners taken b
the Americans, many of whom wer
mere boys, had been in the line fo
only two days. Some of them wor
the white bands of the Prussia
Guard.
"Each Man Get a German"
Private Carl B. Mills, of Visali
Cal., was in the first wave of Ame
?cans to go over the top in tt
Veuilly Wood to smoke out the Ge
mans remaining there. He taid thi
\ after his unit obtained its objectr*
many of the men went back ai
filled the ranks of their advancii
1 comrades. AH worked like cloc
work, he said. The favorite slogi
was, "Each man get a Germa
? don't let a German get you."
Many instances arc related of t
heroism of the Red Cross worker?