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1,530,000 AMERICAN SOLDIERS ORDERED TO FRONT; ALUED ARMIES PREPARE FOR NEW GERMAN DRIVE NO.) 4177.' WEATHER-FAIR; ONE CENT '????? THE HERALD?one cent daily, two cents Sunday?at your door before breakfast for 30 cents a month. Telephone Main.3300. V. S. PREPARING TO INCREASE ARMY AS 1,530,000 MEN READY TO MOVE AWAIT TRANSPORTS TO TRENCHES Congress Will Adopt Changes Necessary for Mobilization of NewDraft Army, to Com prise 500,000 Men OPPOSITION HAS DISAPPEARED Indications Point to Necessity of America Raising Greater Forces for Support of Gen. Foch and Allied Armies. The executive machinery by which the United States army must be immediately increased to meet the demand for men on the battle fronts of Europe was placed in motion yesterday. At the suggestion of the White House, the Military Affairs Com mittee of the House of Representatives agreed to urge at once the adoption of the resolution which would ratify the re-classification of 9.000,000 draft registrants. Other steps are to be taken that will give priority to all pending legislation regarded as vital to the efficient conduct of the war. Hie arrangement of draft registrants, not already called to the , colors, into five classes, according to eligibility for military service, was completed by Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder. provost marshal, many weeks ago. * ? vboliahes . The Plan was evolved to the human lottery ?> stem ??der which the first selective draft array V. as called. It places in ' *" unmarried men without dements as 1 subject to the first call In the order ol ? then umber, on the Class 2 includes registrants next in eligibility. Classes 3. 4 and o a 1 graded in the same winner. . Before this system can be placed into operation it must be a^'roVed bv Congress. The Joint resolution in tendedtTgive the neceswry power) was introduced on March 2, rerred to the Military Affairs Cora | mittee where it has sihte remained, j The cause of delay was ach.'geby certain Representatives that an> | . hanae in the draft ayatem would he , unfair to the men already .selecU-d un rier the lottery system, some of whom are already fighting In fnnce The developments for the ' which make apparent the neces .^ToT raising an army greater than ever before conceived is said to hav j mulllfied the objections to the classi fication scheme. The opposition from the ftfst was regarded In admlnistra (ion circles as being purely politi '"I" favorable report on the resolu tion from the committee is in this way assured. The unanimous adop , on bv congress of the plan repre ,..?icd Is also said to be practically lrTh",niast reports from Ihe adjutant tcneral's o?ce give the approximate :r;;?B,h of the mued at^e.. which includes National ouard Re-. ?-rve Corps, and national army units -,s 13.SOO officers. 1,53D.?<? men. The, built of this total is under orders to move The destination is Europe and ,he date of departure depends only on Shipping facilities.^ IMeaty ?* SM? Rv early summer there will he am ?)* snace in the cantonments for the forces that must be called under lhi> selective draft system. More than mw of the lota I military It i ength given In the procedmg para .-ranh were obtained Ihrough the draft Tflese men haw been trained a!rf are now ready to So the work of re*V??>errdraft of has been ?>?rtrized and is now beintr sent the cantonments for tmlnln*. Vh" ;^r7h^-hm.^b?uft^ MX? *c?ta#y of War Baker left /f>w*rance. which was even before /i?. Ki>tlne emergency arose, he Military Affairs Committee JX ?V It would be necessary ? the irnmediate future to call still another 50?.W? hy draft. The total draft authorised by , Jncress to date I. LMMM. Be . J1 this figure can be exceeded r/re must ? new legislation The T Trims of the classification sys ^mP win t the first step in that '"^report Vom Europe re ined at the White House and the Wsr OeP-rtment 1. ,aid to empha^ ??,- increasing need of man power to withstand the of the Teutonic armies. The assur ance of support made to Gen. Foch president Wilson through MaJ. G? Perahln. make. It certain the ^dminintra tion will use every en j?-VOr to avoid delays. It Is regarded as likely that Sec retary Baker ?,r (If hi mended Increases which will n? available to Congressmen when -he new legislation Is taken up for con sideration. The latest reports to the War oe nartment did not arouse the same Si^unt of optimism as those received _ Monday The official diapatghea uJd the allied armies* under Gen. rock were making "?dyto counter another blow from the Germane. It WJYISCXD OK PIG I TWO I GAS MASK REPORT TO BE INVESTIGATED Surgeon General Gorgas Will Gath er All Facts Obtainable. Surg. Gen. Gorgas last night an nounced that he would immediately investigate the charge made on the floor of the Senate yesterday by Sen ator Thomas, of Colorado, that 3.000 gas masks sent to Pershing's force had been rendered useless as the re sult of the work of German spies. Gen. Gorgas said the statement of Senator Thomas was the tirst infor mation he had received on the subject, and that he would not let the matter rest until he had made a thorough Investigation. LABOR STRIKE i ADJUSTMENTS IN PROGRESS Departments Request Nor folk Laborers to Return Pending Settlement. j Aiding the Navy Department in the labor troubles around Hampton Roads, where approximately 5.000 carpenters and other navy yard workers struck for more pay. the Department of I>abor yesterday sent a special conciliator to in duce the men to return to work i pending settlement. ? The Depart j ment sent Ethelbert Stewart, chief * statistician of the bureau of labor | statistics. Demand Wurc Inorrnnr. The workers in the navy yards and naval bases demand sixty-two and a half cents an hour for an eight hour day instead of flfty-nine, as at present. The present wage decision of the Shipbuilding Labor ? Adjustment Board for that district J drives a minimum of sixty-flve cents ; an hour for an eight hour day to (carpenters and similar skilled work* ers in the wooden ship yards, and the shipworkers, 1 who recently threatened strike in protest of the sixty-five cent rate and have just ifinished a conferenee here, probably I will get an approximation of the Philadelphia scale, about five cents an hour, or eleven cents an hour more than the striking navy yard workers were getting. The Norfolk draft boards, which have been reported as placing striking government workers in class 1, are acting under general instructions con tained in the selective service regula tions. it was said at the ofllce of the Provost Marshal General last night. A striker automatically loses his de ferred classification by his change of status. ** * , j Ckantet Draft Rating. This rule ha# been impressed upon all local boards and a strict watch for such cases is maintained at all times. The registrant himaelf Is required, un der penalty, to notify hi? board ok his change of status within five days after the occurrence thereof. COMJM.-ED QN PAOS THK G======* Favorable Report Upon Bill to Find Soft Job Officers Representative Anthony, of Kansas, introduced the fol lowing resolution in the House on April 1. It was re ferred to the House Commit toe on Military Affairs which passed upon it favorably yes terday. The House will prob ably take action on it within the next few days: Resolved, Tli at the Secre tary ef War he, aad he la hereby, directed to furalah to the House for Information of the a* ?non an prac ticable. the farta In reference to the liwuancf of a eom mlaalen to Herbert A. Meyer, aa captain In the Aviation section of the *l?;nal Corpsj alao any Information aa to whether the recent ofllelal ntntemcnta of the War De partment dlacontinuinic the Inauance of commlnsiona In the nrmy of the United States to peraona In civil life, and to rexlatranta under the aelectlve drrfft act of May 18, 1917, were violated In the caae of Herbert A. Meyer; alao a llat of all commlaalona which have been laaued In violation of anch procedure. HOUSE STORM BROODING TILL ! SLACKER GOES Congress Indignant Over Delay in Action by War Department. COMMISSION QUERIED I Congress is simmering with indig nation over the "slacker commission" scandal which was first given pub licity by The Washington Herald. Storms threaten in both House and Senate unless the War Department accomplishes quicffly and thoroughly the promised weeding out of officers within the draft who ate doing cleri j cal work in Washington. A resolution calling upon the War 1 Department to declare whether or not I it violated its own official rulings In I the issuance of a commission to Her bert A. Meyer as captain in the | aviation section of the Signal Corps has been submitted by Representative Anthony, of Kansas, and passed upon favorably by the House Committee on Military AfTairs. Cal la for Llat. j The resolution also calls upon the War Department to furnish a list of all commissions which have been is sued in contradiction of recent of ficial statements of the War Depart ment discontinuing the issuance of commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps of registrants under the selec tive draft. Representative Anthony said, In speaking of the bill: "Bureau chiefs of the War Department informed va rious members of Congress more than a month ago that no commissions were being issued to civilians within the draft. It was said that the only men of draft age receiving commis sions were enlisted men who had worked their way up from the ranks, with the exception of a few men of extraordinary ability. "It Is know that a number of civilians within the draft have been ' commissioned within the last month. This 'extraordinary ability' needs some definition. I have no wish to disparage Capt. Meyer, but it may be said that he was a clerk in the Department of the Interior prior to his commissioning in the Signal Corps. "We want the War Department to tell us a little of the mysterious ways in which it moves its wonders to perform. Politics and Influence would easily explain the granting of many recent commissions. It Is now the War Department's move. Unless the War Department can ex CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. SECRETARY BAKER ARRIVES IN ROME ? ____________ Receives Welcome from Italian Statesmen and Military Leaders. Rom#. April 2.?Secretary of War Baker arrived here today. He was greeted at the railway station by a reception committee composed of Ital ian statesmen and political and mili tary leaders. A huge throng gave htm a tremendous bvatlon as he came out of the station and stepped Into a waiting antomoblle. He was accom panied by United States Ambassador Nelson Paga. SOLONS GIVE RIGHT OF WAY TO WAR WORK Minor Measures to Receive Scant Attention During Crisis. TO AID ALLIES MORE Senator King Calls for War on Turkey and Bulgaria. | Five important steps were taken here yesterday to back up President Wil son's promise of immediate aid to the allies. They were: 1. Representative Julius Kahn. ot California, ranking minority memb-r of the Military Affairs Committee, put in the House a resolution calling for a rule that would give precedence in the legislative calendar to all war bills. i. Ratification by the committee of the administration's plan of reclassify ing drafted men in anticipation of a greater army was ordered. Shlpbulldrra It cprininndrd. 3. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping . Board, sent to the managers of all shipyards engaged on government j work a circular telegram sharply call- | ing them to task for a fall-down on | the ship production program for March ( and asking explanations." 4. The War Industries Board an CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. SHIP PROGRAM FALLS BEHIND DURING MARCH Emergency Fleet Corpora-1 tion Urges Yards to Speed ' Up on Construction. WANTS TEAMWORK Declares Estimates Furnish ed by Builders Were in Excess of Output. "America wants ships, not excuses." says Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, in a telegram sent last night to every government shipyard manager. Em phasizing that the March production was far below expectations based on the promises of the shipyard man agers themselves, he insists on a state ment of plain facts as to prospects for April. The telegram, which is signed also by Charles Piei, general man ager of the Emergency Fleet Corpora tion, reads: Skert of Skip*. "We are keenly disappointed in the n mount of tonnage delivered by Amer ican shipysrds during month of March and the slow progress made in many yards. Only twenty-one steel vessels. | aggregating 1 ?6,700 tons, were dellver j ed during that month, and our ralnl i mum estimate was for 197,075 tons. ' CON TIN CCD "on PAGE TWO RETURNS INDICATE LENROOT VICTOR IN WISCONSIN FIGHT Republican Candidate for Senatorial Toga Leading Democrat by Slender Majority, with Indications That La Follette Men Sup ported Wilson Nominee. BULLETIN Milwaukee, Wis., April 2.?Official returns from 899 of the 2,283' precincts in the State, including 75 in Milwaukee county, give Lenroot 66,672; Davics, 58,985. Madison, Wis., April 2.?Returns from 687 out of 2,283 precincts in the threc-cornercd Senatorial race, to choose a successor to the late Senator Husting, showed Representative Lenroot crawling up and almost tied with Joseph C. Davies, while Victor Berger trailed last. The returns showed: Davies, 50,385; Lenroot, 50.332; Berger, 36,722. Claim Victory. As returns continued to come in. W. R. Hollister, secretary of the Democratic Campaign Committee, de clared that Davics would be elected. He said information to this effect came from the Wisconsin State committee. I and that private returns showed that Davies was running strongly in the cities. The site of the majority claimed for Davies was not given. Karl? Return*. Milwaukee, Wis., April 2.?With com plete returns from 203 out of -.283 pre cincts in the State, which gave Len root a lead over Joseph E. Davies of 3,500, indications were that Davics has won tho senatorial election by a very slender margin. Gov. Phillips, who managed the dam paign for Lenroot, still claims the election as certain for his candidate. In Milwaukee thlrty-ono precincts with practically every ward represent ed gave Berger 6.446. Davies 5.133. and Lenroot 4.889. Lrflroot Confident. In 114 precincts scattered over the State the vote stood, Lenroot, 7,830; Davies, 5,869, and Berger. 5,903. The result Is being slowly counted as In many towns the polls did not close until 9 o'clock. Davies scored heavily and upset all predictions when the town of Port Washington in Washington County returned Davis 544 votes, Lenroot, 180, and Berger, 80. Washington Is a strong German set tlement and in the primary, the Dem ocratic strength was less than half the normal showing for the party. The entire county only polled 69-"? Democratic votes in the recent pri mary. Not any too comfortir>g to Lenroot people was the first bulletin from La Follette's home?Madison township in Dane County, which gave Lenroot j 178, Davies 100, and Berger 44. The contest in Milwaukee County is believed to be ^ see-saw affair between the Socialists ?nd the non partisan ticket. Indications are it Is neck and neck between Mayor Hoan, Socialist, and Braman, the entry of the old party combination. La Follette Showing. The Republicans in their final es timate. which was based on reports from party workers declared they Celtic Reaches Port, Although Torpedoed New York. April 2.?The Wblte Star Liner Celtic, which wan torpedoed while en route frolfa England to Amer ica, has succeeded In making her way safely to a British port according to cable advicesKrecclved here today. would pile up a plurality of 2,000 j in Dane County. In the Davies camp the show in j DaFollette's township was taken to j indicate the possibility that LaFol- j lette followers who were beaten in j their efforts to nominate Thompson, j might have preferred to give their j votes to the Democrat. Berger ran away from both his op- . ponents in the township of Manito woc, polling 100 votes against Den root's IS and Davies 22. Rlpton City, in Fondu Lac County. ] gave Den root 394. Davies 221 and Ber- ; ger 179. Republicans had despaired ! of bagging Fondu Dac County, al though the German Democrats up there had chopped the Democratic primary vote from 2.311 in 1914 to 1.541 in the recent primary. Early in the day reports began to reach headquarters of the three par ties of a heavy outpouring of voters. In this city, where Interest was acute because of the cily election, the bal loting also was early. Madison Reaulta. Madison, Wis., April 2.?Two hun dred and three precincts in State give 1 .enroot 14,379; Davies, 10,899; Bergti, S,4?*. Oshkosh City complete gives Davies 2,141; Denroot, 1,725; Berger. 1.717. Wautoma ? Twenty-three precincts j out of twenty-five In Waushara Coun- i ty give Lenroot, 1,350; Davies, 705; Ber ger, 416. Senator Smoot, of Utah, who has been active in planning the Republi can campaign In Wisconsin, said last night that information which had reached him indicated that Denroot would win by 30,000 majority or more. This will make party strength in the Senate. 44 Republicans to ?2 Democrats, said Smoot, so that win ning five seats in the fall elections, I he declared, will give a Republican j majority. Senator Oallinger, chair i man of the Republican senatorial campaign committee, said: * The attempt of President Wilson to gain a partisan victory through an appeal to patriotism and loyalty has proved a boomerang. The voters of Wisconsin have shown that they regard this as an American and not a party war. I cannot but think that the President's Interference turned many votes to Lenroot" Chicago Pats Ban on German Concerts Chicago, April 1?No more concerts will be given in the German language in Chicago, so long as the war lasts, it was decided last night at a meet ing called by the Verelnigte Manner* chore (United Male Choristers) and at tended by representatives of many ottatr organizations. f GERMANS FAIL TO BREAK THROUGH ALLIED ARMIES GUARDING AMIENS; COUNTER ATTACK MADE ON HUNS Latest Casualty List From Gen. Pershing The following casualties are re ported by the Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Forces. Dyd of Wotndi. Lieut. John B. l.rakaai. Private Ewceae W. Klatvn. Died of Accident. Private Frank Hrsesek. Died of Diseuc. Magoaer Ljla Vera Hkoadea. look Tkoma> I.. KItspafrlck. I'rivate Melvin Matlaon. ?'rtrale Frederick J. Snlllvan. Died of Wounds. MerhiRir Fred Harho. ?*H?t(e Robert Henry Tltael. Wounded Shghdy. Klrat Lint. Hearr K. Dlllar<l. Jr. *eeoad Meat. Aadretv ( alkoaa. *"?p. Maarlee Silverman. * ook < karlea 1'aplat rand. Private (ilea H. Caldwell. Private Karl J. Camphrll. Private Hirrr G. Dexter. Private Jaaiea C. Kerauaoa Private l.nlea B. (.odfrrr. Private SMale; <.ad?lad. Private Jaaiea F. MeHale. Private Jaka S. Malka. Private Kraeat )i. AMERICAN BOY SHOOTS DOWN TWO AIRPLANES Germans Bomb U. S. Hos pital for Wounded , Soldiers. WAR'S CRISIS IS HERE B7 HKMRV G. WAI.EK. Stair 1 orrrnpondent of the I. X. S. With the American Army in France. April 2.?James Norman Hall, of Col fax, Iowa, author of "Kitchener's Mob," now a pilot-aviator in the La- i fayette eacadrille, shot down two Ger- I man airplanes in seven minutes on I March 27, it was announced today. Hall accomplished the feat on the j scene of the great German offensive, j He first attacked a single-seater fight ing machine, maneuvering into a ^'sun position," and then diving andj sending a rain of machine-gun bul-' lets Into the enemy's plane. The lat- | ter crashed to earth after a few min utes. Later Hall attacked a low-fly ing German armored two-seater in-1 fantry machine, diving from a great height directly upon it, sending it down in flames. The above dispatch gives the first news of the presence on the Picardy battlefield of members of the famous Lafayette Eseadrille. composed almost exclusively of American flyers who joined the French Aviation Corps early in the war. Germans Ronth Hospital. German airplanes today bombed a certain town not far from Paris, where Elliot F. Shepard, formerly of New York, has converted his magnificent old French chateau into a home for convalescent American aviators and ambulance drivers. An aerial torpedo dropped within a few feet of the Shepard chateau, breaking windows, but doing no groat damage. When the first bombs began to drop into the town the patients at the chateau were removed to the cellar by Mrs. Shep and and Sisters Mercedes and Lo retta, two American girls from Trenton, who are nurses at the con valescent home. Elliott F. Shepard is a son of the late Col. Elliott F. Shepard, the New York publisher, and a grand son of William H. Vanderbilt. He haa made his home in France for the past twenty-one years. , ever since his marriage in 1897 to Mrs. Alfred Potter, of Green Point, Long CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO STRANGESICKNESS ATTACKS MME. NIX Third of Spy Quartet to Fall Prey to Disease. j New York. April 2.?Mme. Elisabeth Charlotte Nix. companion of Mme. |Despina Storch, the young and beau I tlful Turkish woman who died on {Ellis Island Saturday while awaiting [deportation on an espionage charge, was stricken with a baffling illness today. She was removed from Ellis Island to Bellevue hospital where surgeons admitted some doubt regarding htr ailment. y b If k ' - *. * ? -.'v ? v ? ' y ... ' _? . . Boches Are Pushed Back Between Somme and Demuin, Losing Prisoners and Guns in Desperate Fighting. KAISER CALLS UP HIS RESERVES Bombardment by Enemy Continued on British-Arras Sector, with Long-range Guns Figuring in Shelling. London, April 2.?The thirteenth day of the great Picardy battle confirmed the failure of the German attempt to break through to Amiens, and saw the allies fully in control of the situation both on the two flanks and in front of the spearhead of the German wedge men acing the great allied base. Both the French and the British renewed their counter attacks, pushed the Germans back between the Somme and the shell swept vil lage of Demuin. retained Hangard-en-Santerre. the storm center in the last two days' fighting, and took prisoner* and. even machine guns in various sectors. FIRST DRAFT CALL ALMOST COMPLETED Will Fill Incomplete Quot*? when Camps Can Receive Men. Aa a result of special call* made by the Provost Marshal General s office ' during the past few days, the first I draft now is complete, with the ex i oeption of a few Southern States i which have small numbers of color i ed men in their quotas, it w as learn * ed last night. Details of special i calls are not made public. The in I complete quotaa will be filled as soon as camp space can be provided. J probably within the next two ) weeks. SPAIN FACES BLOCKADE BY HUN U-BOATS Germans Make Effort to I Prevent Agreement with Allies on Shipping. Germany is blockading; Spain with I submarines in an effort to prevent that country consummating any agree ment with the allies which would con vert Spanish shipping to their uses. In the same way. according to the ad missions of Holland's own represen tatives in London, Germany prevented the consummation of a voluntary agreement with the Netherlands. Heaaona. Both statements were made in hiph i fficiat quarters yesterday. They wetv i ited to show the reason." for the vic ! orous action necessary for tfie United States and England to close up the i long pending negotiations with Hol land for her Idle tonnage. Robert Otis Havward. representa tive of the War Trade Board at the London conferences with the Dutch, j yesterday stated that In his presence i the chairman of the Dutch commis I sion declared that German pressure j prevented Holland's carying out the terms of the proposed agreement. It I was only after this admission, ac ' cording to Mr. Hayward. that the United Statea and England notified Holland that they would act to close I the agreement by requisitioning the ships within one week. This time was j extended to two weeks on a request from the Dutch government. August Phillips. Netherlands' Minis ter at Washington, submitted to the State Department a document from I his government. It had not yet been ' ascertained last night whether the document was a formal note or merely a copy of the publication made In Holland's official gazette, protesting | against the action of the allies. Upon the character of the communication the reply of the United States will de pend. Wonld Hurt Npnla. It is understood that the document submitted to the State Department goes further than did the published statement tn endeavoring to austnin the Dutch contentions that tfce action with regard to iV requisitioning Of, uusmciD Olf PAGE two. ' Hbm m Dfffiftitr. I For the moment the Germtm ha<? been throws definitely upon the de fensive. However, there is feverish activity behind the invaders line: immense fresh forces sre being , brought up and heavy artillery ia beginning to make its presence Celt. A new terrific piercing attempt tn the renter, in snd beyond the ang> of the Ancre and Luce, is expected momentarily. Moreover, there *as every ind | cation late tonight that the foe is about to repeat his blow at the Arras front which proved so costly to him last week. t'terre Bam bar4meat. l*or da> * the whole British Arts* sector ha* been bathed in 5iicll(iis from Krupp heavies and today tlie bombardment assumed a character ; closely resembling that which pre ceded the opening of the dr^?r March 21. Long range guns are participating in this preparatory shelling, covering the British fight ing zone to a depth of more than 10 miles beyond the first lis?e trenches. Todsy shells fell into the town of St. Po!. !1 mile- to the northwe.-t of Arras, killing scversi civilians. Xake Nfw Kffert. ! I>s> break ia c\|*ccted to s?ee Hin?ien i burg's legion* surge forward on th.? front in a new effort to turn A.m. j and Vimy Rid?e, this Unie from Ul? ' North, and tlieieby swoop down upsn , Haig's Somme from which has s'* I valiantly and immovably held ita I ground agsinst all ihe cnem> t *? saults. The new Arras battle ma\, indeed, break looj^e during the night: verttn it is that the foe is preparing e^ ?l things on that sector. With the cJi priae element eliminated, the BrKUn having used every minute of the tim* that has el^pped since las; week's abortive sttcmp:. ??o? the ylightet doubt is fell here that the rew shoei* will glance off the Brit.sli granite wall. Battle mpioa*. Theie were also batfle symptom', though ks* noisj, on the Ypres front, far to the North. German heavy gun? spent some houi-* trying to pick trou ble with the Rritif-h batteries o:i Passchendaele tiu?e and on the Goe bcrg range. This activity licsr\tr mas taken rather as a "feeling out operation than foreshadowing infantr> action* Having flung one third of his whole striking power in the west into the Picardy maelstrom. Hindenburg is ??sounding'* the rest of the front f*r ; signs of an allied relieving offensive. On*the Picardy front the day was the quietest since the great Mhuggle opened. Savage local action* V^r fought from dawn to dusk attaV^ and counter attacks following inoei mntlv, but the Germans admitted II check of their whirlwind advance making no effort to keep it up Tonight's front dispatches told new massing of picked German visions against the French w threaten Hindenburg's Montdidi Noyon flank. In the Luce-A ere sngle embittered hand-to-hand fighting took pisce throughout the day. the Germans succeeding nowhere In making new inroads into the line? protesting the Kaatern approaches of Amiens. The angle formed by the Luce riser and the Avre is strewn with <?srman corpses, telling a grueaome story of the bloody failure of the few day* on slaughts. The Rritiah took fifty pris oners and thirteen machine guns is this sector and beat off two Germs4 CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO Rest snd Be Well si Ome linn. Aakevilla. N. C. Finest resort I faj^srorld^ Ko^israllda. ns sfcU t% J s