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SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918
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WEATHER
Fm\r to<4s? j fair and somewhat warm*?
to-morrow; gentle to moderate
shifting winds.
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_-?._-_ fin Gr*?t?er ?r>w Yffi* and I IHREK CENTS
TWO CKMTS j ?fthla ??mmutln* dluUutc? | ???owhern
Americans Batter Foe Back OoetFaMile;
360 Guns, 17,000 Germans Taken in Drive;
U-Boat Sinks Big U.S. Cruiser Off New York
San Diego, Hit
By Torpedo, Goes
Down Fighting
Bt?fle With Cam?n
flaged Submarine
Occurs 8 Mile? Off
Fire Island
Many Lives Lost;
Hundreds Rescued!
Quartermaster, Left
Aboard, Salutes Com?
rades as Boats De?
part, Then Dies
The United States cruiser San
Diego was sunk eight miles off Fire
Island at 11:10 o'clock yesterday
morning in a battle -with a German
submarine. The vessel was torpe?
doed amidships during a fierce fight |
at close range, listed and went down I
within fifteen minutes after she was j
struck. s
The number of men killed in the I
explosion of the magazine and boil- i
ers, and -who went down with the j
sinking ship, was not known at a I
late hour last night. Thirty-five
survivors who landed in lifeboats at
Point o' Woods said that a number
were lost, one or two estimating the ;
casualties at 300 or more.
One of the men, a member of the |
ship's starboard gun crew, declared i
he and his comrades continued to
blaze away at the submarine after I
the deck was awash. He insisted he
saw one of the shells strike forward |
of the submarine's periscope and she I
immediately disappeared.
Barrel Conceals Periscope
According to the story of the res?
cued sailors the attacking submarine
disguised her presence by concealing
the periscope under a floating barrel.
The lookout noticed that the barrel
was moving toward him against the
tide, grew suspicious and sounded the i
alarm.
When the attack came the gun crews
fired at the barrel, but it is believed
the U-boat already had dived. The
majority of sailors on the vessel were
recent naval recruits. Stories of cool- i
ncss and heroism were told by the sur?
vivors. All stayed by their posts.
Several explosions were reported, the j
boilers going first and the magazines
blowing up a few seconds later. The
ship heaved up clear out of the water
and then immediately began to settle. ;
One of the most heroic deaths was
that of a quartermaser, who had been
ordered to stand on the bridge while ;
the men were being sent to the boats. '?
This officer stayed at his post until it
wag too late for him to save himself!
oi be saved.
Saintes as Ship Goes Down
Just as the San Diego was going]
down, the quartermaster turned, fac-j
'i? to the sea where hundreds of his I
comrades were in boats and in the sea, !
and calmly saluted. The last seen of :
him the ship was going down and he {
*as still at salute.
There was no excitement after the ?
explosions. The'men were piped to :
their battle stations and life belts were ;
?luietly donned. The gunners stood by
to the last, fighting waist' deep in the
water that washed up over the sloping |
d"eks. It was feared that several of
them were carried down by the sinking
ship.
The captain and the first officers
stayed until the ship made her final i
plunge. It was reported that the en-1
fine room crew was trapped below and
lost to a man.
The Navy Department early this
morning received information that
two steamships, which are proceeding
?o an unnamed port, have aboard 1,
?S6 officers and men of the United:
States cruiser San Diego. These are!
'n addition to the one officer and:
thirty men previously reported landed.
If this should prove true, it would
'"ave only fifty-eight men unaccounted
for.
Other Ships Reported Attacked
The men are said to be in good con?
dition. So far as is known none was i
injured.
There also were reports last night, :
though not confirmed, that other ships1
had been attacked, one being described
"* a coastwise passenger ship.
The coastwise steamer it porte?' in
farine circles to-day as having sent \
r,ot wireless signals of ??istres*. on
?ccount of a submarine attack, had .
among her i-aasengers a detachment'
m marine recruits. She carried a large
quantity of freight.
Intermittent cannonading was heard
?il day and evening along the coast, :
Continued on page three
Roosevelt Will
End Political
Doubt Monday
Republican State Convention
Closes After Rousing
Talk by Taft
(Staff Correavondenee of The Tribune)
SARATOGA, July 19. -Colonel Roose?
velt has promised the anti-Whitman
men who want him to run in the pri?
maries for the Republican nomination
for Governor that he will give them
an answer Monday. Until they get
that answer, both they and the Gov?
ernor and his friends will be on the
anxious seat.
Francis Hendricks- of Syracuse, who
has stood with the Whitman men dur?
ing the primary canvass, announced
before leaving Saratoga for his home
that he had signed the round-robin
petition to the Colonel, asking him to
bwonie a candidate. His defection
from the ranks of the Whitman men
is the most serious setback they have
suffered, and lends color to the proph?
ecy of the Barnes-Lewis men that
others will follow, and that by Mon?
day Colonel Roosevelt will be for?
mally in the race for Governor and
the Whitman leaders will be in a
panic.
For Roosevelt Only
The defection of Hendricks to Roose?
velt does not mean he has left the
Whitman camp for any one but the
Colonel. If any one but the Colonel
is Governor Whitman's opponent, Mr.
Hendricks will be for the Governor.
He was a close personal friend of
the Colonel before he allied himself
with the Governor, ?nd his defection
means that he does not love the Gov?
ernor less, but the Colonel more.
"I have made my decision and
signed the petition asking Colonel
Roosevelt to become a candidate," said
Mr. Hendricks. "There is nothing to
it now but Roosevelt."
All day long th* refrain of the
Barnes, Wadsworth and Brown men
was "If Roosevelt will run," and the
answer to the refrain from the friends
of the Governor was "Roosevelt will
not run."
There was a fresh rumor every half
hour, but the situation was all tied at
Sagamore Hill in the bosom of the
Colonel, who has not authorized any
one to speak for him.
"I have talked with the Colonel's po?
litical representative within the last
half hour," said Theodore Douglas Rob?
inson, Attorney General Lewis's cam?
paign manager, this afternoon. "He
told me the Colonel has not authorized
any one- to speak for him, and that he
will not answer the request of those
who wish him to enter the primaries
until Monday."
Talked With Colonel
Cornelius V. Collins, of Troy, an old
fiiend of Colonel Roosevelt, and W. W.
C?cks, Governor Whitman's campaign
manager, sponsored a typewritten
statement to-day that Colonel Roose?
velt will not be a candidate for Gov?
ernor. But it was an opinion and noth?
ing else, and did not till the poliitical
aching void. Mr. Collins talked with
the Colonel in Albany while he was on
his way home from Saratoga yesterday.
".My talk with Colonel Roosevelt,"
said Mr. Collins, "was entirely satis?
factory. He ha3 no desire to be a can?
didate against Governor Whitman, and,
judging from our talk# he will not be a
candidate, despite the statements of
some of the Lewis people to the con?
trary."
The following telegram was sent to
Colonel Roosevelt by Gertrude Fran
chot Tone, a delegate from Niagara
County:
"Think you should know that th?
Whitman sentiment among women is
very real and strong, and that Sena?
tor Wadsworth, William Barnes and
Elon R. Brown can never command the
allegiance of the women voters. As
'their candidate you would lose much
of the strength that otherwise might
be yours."
William A. Orr, the Governor's sec?
retary, after a talk with the Governor
over the telephone, said:
"I have just had a talk with the Gov?
ernor, who is in Albany. He is in the j
race to stay."
Text Not Disclosed ,
"The text of the round robin will j
not be mude public until the petition
to Colonel Roosevelt is received by
him," said William Barnes, in answer
to a request for the text of the pe?
tition. When asked about the possibil?
ity of the anti-Whitman men having
misconstrued the Colonel's attitude
toward the Governorship matter, Mr.
Barnes said:
"You dont suppose you can get old j
birds out on the end of a. limb and then
have the limb sawed off under them j
without their knowing it, do you?"
It was said by a member of thel
Syracuse delegation that before Fran
Continued on page six
Foe Is Hurling
Reserves Into
Soissons Line
Allies Steadily Press Ger?
mans Back at Many
Points
French and Italians
Win a New Success
Ludendorff Draws Heavily
on New Divisions to
Block Advance
By Wilbur S. Forrest
(Special Cable to The Tribune)
(CnjiyrtgM, ?H1S. hy Tlio Tribune Association)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES,
July 19.?With some of their impor?
tant communications in the region
of the Allied advance between the
Aisne and the Marne under French
gunfire and others menaced, the
Germans are throwing their reserve
forces into the battle this afternoon.
Scores of cannon, more than 10,
000 prisoners, hundreds of machine
guns and other important booty so
far have been counted as the result
of the surprise attack. With the en?
emy reserves in play, the fighting
was extremely severe late to-day at
many points, with the Allied artil?
lery fire and bombing 'planes caus?
ing heavy losses in the German
ranks.
The night was calm and the rapid?
ity of the advance forced the Allied
troops to slow up and organize their
new lines and bring up artillery, in
preparation for the expected weight
of the German reserves which are ;
being hurried from the region to the
westward, north of the Marne.
Southwest of Rheims, the Franco
Italian forces, who since Monday ;
have been facing heavy enemy
forces, were able to launch a coun?
ter offensive Thursday evening, ad- :
vancing their lines beyond the vil- !
l?ge of Montvoisin, south of the :
Marne, and retaking considerable i
territory north of the Marne, over '?
which the fluctuating combat has |
raged for three days.
As your correspondent forecast :
on Tuesday, the enemy activity on J
the Champagne front has become '
nil, and Friday evening finds Hin- '
denburg's forces almost everywhere
dominated by Allied troops.
Italy to Use "Eagle"
Submarine Chasers
WASHINGTON, July 19.?Italy is tc
use the new American type of subma?
rine chasers, the "ICagle" boats, in its
campaign against the Austrian fleet in
the Adriatic Sea.
Announcement was made to-day that
the Italian government has completed
negotiations for taking over from the I
Navy Department a contract for twelve !
of these vessels to be built by the Ford j
Manufacturing Company, of Detroit, !
and Italian officers said they regarded
this as the forerunner of orders for a '
large number of the craft.
The "Eagle" boats have been de- ;
scribed as a "cross between" the
American torpedo boat destroyer and ?
submarine chaser and are about 200 i
feet long, built of steel and of high
speed.
Italian officers would not say when I
deliveries would begin other than that i
it would be "very soon." The model
for the craft was completed recently ?
and the Ford company expects soon to I
be producing the craft at a rate of one I
a day on contracts awarded by the
Navy Department some time ago.
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Airmen Reduce Metz
Railways to Ruins
LONDON, July 19 (British Wireless!
Service (.--Striking evidence of the:
damage cau.'ed by raids of British i
bombing squadrons upon the German I
railway system at Metz-Sablons ?s^ af- ?
forded" by an official British photograph '
published to-day. This photograph,
taken shortly'after the double raid on j
July 6 and the night of July 6-7, from i
a height of over 10,000 feet, shows in [
minute detail the whole of the im
portant railway junction ?'?. Metz, in?
cluding the famous "railway triangle";
at Metz-Siblons, where nn immense
number o? lines converge from the
Metz central station and ;'?e south to?
ward the Western front.
The effects of some exceptionally
destructive bursts are visible in the ?
photograph among the engine shed and
workshops in the centre of the tri?
angle, ar.d th?.- remains of two
trains, completely burned out, can bel
seen c-fttajly. I
Crown Prince
In Trap Faces
An Utter Rout
Rupprecht Must Strike on
North With Reserves
to Save Him
30 Crack Divisions
Demoralized in South
American Preponderance
to Force Ludendorff Into
New Offensive
By Arthur S. Draper
(Special Cable, to The Tribune)
(Copyright, 1918, hy The Tribuno Association)
LONDON, July 19.?The fighting
continued fiercely on the Marne,
where the Franco-American divi?
sions have dealt the Crown Prince's
army a heavy blow. Latest reports
indicate the bag of prisoners taken
by the French alone will exceed 16,
000 and captured guns will number
around forty-eight.
Having recovered from the tempo?
rary surprise, the Crown Prince is
! now rushing all his available re?
serves against the Allied troops
storming his defences between the
: Ourcq and the Marne. The initial
momentum continues and the
s*
I< rench and Americans still are mak
j ing progress, although the pace
i grows slower as the opposition stif
? fens.
Simultaneously the Allies are
? pressing the Germans back south of
j the Marne, having recaptured Mont
i voisin, while between the river and
j Rheims the French have advanced
more than half a mile. East of
Rheims the Germans have made
slight gains, having taken Prunay a
second time.
Crown Prince Menaced
No serious attack has been made
by the enemy south of the Marne
since Wednesday, and attention now
is directed almost solely against his
long, weak flank. The centre of the I
Allied attack is meeting stiffest op?
position, but the progress here is :
highly encouraging, while west of;
Soissons the Crown Prince finds his i
communications in a bad way.
Viewed as a whele, the battle is ;
going extremely well, and Foch
must regard the future with less >
anxiety. On the other hand, Luden- '
dorff must feel decidedly gloomy as
he reads the reports of his shattered
offensive and of the brilliant enemy
counter stroke. A large proportion !
of his army reserves have been swal-1
lowed up in less than a week, and !
there is nothing to show for them
except weakened tactical positions.
Foch's retort to Ludendorff's of- ;
fensive looms larger as the details i
increase. It is a milestone in the ;
course of the war, and the future
now looks rich in possibilities. In
less than a week a dramatic change
in the war has taken place. Luden?
dorff has not lost the initiathe and |
he has not suffered an overwhelm?
ing reverse, but, nevertheless, this !
week is one of great disappointment
to the German High Command.
Germans Caught Napping
Ludendorff struck without the ele?
ment of surprise and he found a '
stone wall of defence; that same ele?
ment of surprise has now been !
turned against Ludendorff and
found him napping between the
Aisne and the Marne.
Ludendorff has been striving for
months to crush Foch's reserves and ?
to render them impotent as offensive ;
factors. Foch has now given strik?
ing evidence that Luderrtlorff failed
in his foremost design. Ludendorff
can still strike powerful blows, but
henceforth he must use extreme cau?
tion.
Foch could seize the initiative
now, but lie would be in much the
same position as that in which Lu- ,
dendorff finds himself. Neither has
the superiority of numbers to justify
a long-sustained offensive. But Lu
C on tinned on page three
FOCH'S PINCERS AT WORK
_?_-_=x__^_._-_Z-J
In their continuing attack on the west wing of the Champagne
salient between arrows (1) and (2) the Allies won new ground on the
greater part of the front. An American attack at arrow (1) late yes?
terday drove the Germans back a mile and a quarter. An Italian ad?
vance on the east wing of the salient, in the direction of arrow (3),
advanced the Allied positions.
The solid line indicates the present fighting front. The dotted lines
represent the positions of the battle line before the German drive of
July 15 and the Allied offensive of July 18.
The diagonally shaded area is ground won by the Allies it? the first
two days of their drive launched July 18. The horizontally shaded re
prion is territory occupied by the Germans in their fifth great offensive
of 1918, started July 15.
Victory Drive
Later in Year;
March States
Chief of Staff Adds That
the Rainbow Division Is
Probably Engaged Now
WASHINGTON, July 19. -War De?
partment officials expect the real coun-i
ter offensive against the Germans to
be launched later in the present year, j
? This was disclosed to-day to mem- !
bers of the House Military Committee
by General March, chief of staff, who
indicated that the employment of pos- ?
sibly eight American divisions in the j
present double battle on the Aisne- i
Marne-Rheims front would not affect
materially plans to hurl overwhelming:
man power into the srreat struggle to j
come when the effort to beat the en- j
emy back off French and Belgian soil j
begins.
It was made plain that the smashing
attack of Franco-American forces on j
the Aisne-Marne line is as yet regard
ed as only a minor operation in com
parison with what is to come. The '?
success of the drive launched yester
day by General Foch, however, has al
ready been startling.
Reports late in the day from London
and Paris indicated that further ad- j
vanees had been made by the Franco- j
American forces during the day.
No official announcement is available
as to exactly what American troops are
engaged in the great offensive, but it is
considered certain that troops of the
three recently organized army corps !
are represented.
This would include the New England,
Rainbow and Sunset divisions of na- !
tional guardsmen and selected men :
from Michigan, Wisconsin, New York,
Kansas, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia,
Tennessee, North and South Carolina, i
the District of Columbia and Pennsyl- ?
vania.
These would be in addition to other
national guardsmen and regulars.
Secretary of War Baker indicated
the high hopes of War Department offi?
cials in issuing the following state- ?
men i.:
"The attention of the world is, of ]
course, focussed on the tremendous
counter blow being delivered by Gen-;
eral Foch. Gradual extension of these
operations to the east is indicated in j
the press dispatches, but as yet is not
officially confirmed. The gain on the,
front of the original counter thrust
has been deepened, narrowing the
salient, and making the position of its i
German occupants less and less tenable..
"We have no report of the capture '
of Soissons, but. the battle has been;
raging at that part of the front, and
the fall of Soissons seemed to be indi?
cated by the progress made at the time
of latest official dispatches.
"The significance of this movement
lies in the fact that the supreme com?
mander evidently feels that the Allied
forces are now sufficiently strong to
justify vigorous offensive action."
The belief began to take shape in the
minds of many staff officers here that
another forty-eight hours mie'ht see
the Germans beating a hasty retreat
from the salient they now hold south
of the Marne and possibly from the
whole great bend they forced in the
Allied line when thev struck on the j
Chemin des Dames front last May and I
forced, their way to ?he Marne.
Berlin Silent
On Success of
Pershing Army
Official Statement Is De?
void of Reference to
Crushing Blow
LONDON, July 19.?The official
statement on the battle situation issued
from Berlin to-day does not contain
one word to indicate to the German
public that heavy forces of Americans
are driving eastward in the great Al?
lied counter offensive between the
Aisne and the Marne.
The communiqu? is go worded that
the reader may believe, if he wishes,
that the Germans are winning. It is
stated that 20,000 Allied troops have
been taken since July 15.
The statement follows:
BERLIN (NIGHT).?On the bat?
tlefield between the Aisne and the
Marne a fresh attempt by the French
to break through our lines failed,
with heavy losses to the enemy.
BERLIN (DAY).?The battle has
blazed up again between the Aisne
and the Marne. There the French
have begun their long expected coun?
ter offensive. By the employment of
extremely strong squadrons of tanks
they succeeded at first in penetrat?
ing by surprise into our front in?
fantry and artillery lines at isolated
points and in pressing back our line.
Afterward our line divisions, to?
gether with reserves, which had been
held in readiness, frustrated the en?
emy from breaking through.
Toward midday French attacks on
the line southwest from Soissons to
Neuilly, and northwest of Ch?teau
Thierry were defeated. In the after?
noon very strong partial attacks of
the enemy on the whole line of the
front of attack broke down against
our new line. Enemy columns, which
were endeavoring to reach the bat?
tlefield, were the objectives of our
successful battleplanes.
Our chasing 'planes shot down
thirty-two enemy airplanes.
On the front south of the Marne
the French, since their failure of
July 16-17, have only directed partial
attacks southeast of Mareuil, which
were repulsed. Between the Marne
and Rheims and east of Rheims the
lighting activity has been confined to
local operations. Enemy attacks in
the Bois du Roi and on both sides
of Pourcy broke .down.
We have captured prisoners in
successful attacks northwest 'of
Troesnes, on the Suippe River and
on both sides of Berthes. The num?
ber of prisoners brought in since the
15th exceeds 20,000.
Teuton Reserves
Unable to Stay
Allied Advance
Fighting Rages Along Entire Line From
Soissons to Chateau Thierry, Luden
dorff Hurling in Reinforcements
From Northern Battlefront
\ Capture of Big Rail Centre
| By Pershing's Men Near
_
PARIS, July 19.?With the battle still raging on the thirty
mile front from Soissons to Chateau Thierry, the Allied troops
to-day continued their victorious advance along the whole line
despite the enemy's desperate efforts to block their drive.
Fresh German divisions have been drawn from the north
I and thrown recklessly into the path of the Franco-American
| march. This stiffened resistance slackened the speed of the
i drive at some points, but in heavy fighting the Allies pushed
! forward for new gains on the greater part of the front, General
I Foch announced to-night.
Seventeen thousand Germans have been taken prisoner and
360 guns captured by the Allies in the two days of their drive
! in addition to enormous quantities of war materials. The cap
1 tured cannon included one entire battery of 210 mm. guns.
Every Counter Attack Breaks Down
From the Aisne to the Marne the French and Americans crushec
i the defending forces. At Soissons, on the north, the enemy redoubled hi;
I efforts to hurl the Allies back from their newly won dominating position;
! on the plateau one mile west of the city, but every attempt broke dowr
under the murderous fire of the French guns.
Meeting the German counter blows with new efforts, the American:
attacked late this afternoon southwest of Soissons and drove the enem;
! back for another mile and a quarter.
On the centre of the line the Allies advanced more than a mil
through the valley of the Ourcq, inflicting new losses on the still-sur
! prised enemy forces.
Allies Win New Successes Near Ch?teau Thierry
Northwest of Ch?teau Thierry the Allies won new successes. Earl
in the day's fighting the Franco-Americans stormed the German position
at Torcy, and in terrific fighting captured the plateau to the north, fort
ing the enemy to fall back into the low ground beyond.
The Crown Prince's drive on the east wing of the Champagne salier
has been halted by the Allied forces, and in counter strokes along the I in
from the Marne to Rheims they have won new ground and taken ai
other 500 prisoners
Meanwhile the British forces m Flanders have struck a sharp an
sudden blow against the foe's line southwest of Ypres, and in a douh
advance on both sides of the village of Meieren captured the village c
Meieren and nearly 400 prisoners.
Franco-Americans Gain 1V4 Miles
And Put German Tank Fleet to Rou
i By The Associated Press)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY BETWEEN THE AISNE AN
THE MARNE, July 19.?The Franco-American troops made an advan
late this afternoon on the Soissons-Ch?teau Thierry front, averagii
about two kilometres (about a mile and a quarter). Vicious Germi
machine gun fire southwest of Soissons hampered the advance for only
short period.
In the same itction the Germans attempted to use tanks against t
Americans, but a hot fire soon compelled the tanks to retreat.
The advance began with a barrage opening at 5:30 o'clock. Tan
were sent in by the Allies to assist the infantry and machine gunne
and the Germans endeavored to stem the tide with a heavy shellfire.
The advance was one of the;,best organized the Allies ever attempt?
the system working wonderfully well from one end of the line to the oth
The machine gun defence of the Germans was feeble and was quid
?silenced, the Germans falling back upon their rear defences.
Southwest of Soissons the Germans repeatedly attempted to rea
th*- Allies' big guns. The German firing continued until long after da
but 1he French and American guns responded in kind, and gave full p
tection to the Allied forces as they advanced along the line. Seve
towns were captured.
Heavy reinforcements were rushed up from the north by the Germ
command in a desperate effort to head off the hard-fighting Allies, wh
rapid advance would, if continued, sever the German lines of communi
tions.
There are still strong German forces south of the Marne.
(2 p. m.).?One of the towns taken by the Americans last nipht \
Vierzy, six miles south of Sissons. Towns to the north and south of t
also were taken in the carrying out of the plan to straighten the enl
line on the Sissons-Ch?teau Thierry front.
No resistance was encountered at Vierzy or in the neighboring
lages captured.
( 1 p. m.)?American a: d French forces are continuing to adva
their spearhead midway between Soissons and Chateau Thierry.
Americans took several towns in the course of the night.
Early this morning the Americans also made further progress.
During the night Gt?rman reinforcements were coming; from Lite