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TAKEN FOK U-BOAT,
SUBMARINE CHASER
SUNK BY STEAMER
Seventeen of Crew Missing
and Number of Surviv
ors Wounded.
DESTROYER PICKS UP
MEN THROWN IN WATER
Tragedy Off Fire Island?Attack
ing Vesiel Gets Away in Dark
ness, But Is Identified Later.
American submarine chaser No. 209,
bperating out of Philadelphia, wasf
mistaken for a submarine by a mer
chant steamer off Fire Island, N. Y.,
early this morning and sent to the
bottom.
Seventeen members of her crew, in
eluding the commander and the ex
ecutive officer, are missing.
The chaser was manned by naval
reserves. Eight of the survivors, some
of them wounded, have been landed at
New York. One has been landed at
Lewes, Del.
The merchant ship was the Ameri
can steamer Felix Taussig. In the
darkness her naval armed guard mis
took the chaser for an enemy subma
rine and opened fire, destroying the
little craft before the mistake was
discovered.
Wounded Survivors.
Of the survivors landed, the follow
ing were wounded:
Thomas Harran. chief boatswain's
mate; Claude Wild, machinist's mate;
'Clarence S. Evans, machinist's mate,
and R. A. Corcoran, quartermaster.
Ufwounded survivors are: Elmer
Gleason, machinist mate; Elmer S.
Kirby, electrician; Claude Kalney,
quartermaster; Charles N. Thomas,
seaman, and George B. Weigand,
gunner's mate.
Vessels are searching the vicinity
with the hope that other survivors
may still be afloat.
FRENCH CAPTURE HON
! WHO SANK LIMANIA
i
PARIS, August 27.?Lieut. Schwle
'irer. the man who sank the Lusitania,
has been captured by a French patrol
boat in the Mediterranean, according
to La Joiynal. A large submarine,
iof which he was second in command,
had just torpedoed a British steamer
between Malta and Sicily. The Ger
man was waiting to see the vessel
sink, when two French patrol boats
emerged from the fog and sank the
U-boat. Of the crew of seventy-flve
only one officer and four men were
rescued by the patrol boats. ^
Tries to Throw Papers Away.
While being taken to Toulon the
?Ulcer appeared ill at ease. When he
thought no one was looking he tried
to throw some papers overboard, but
& sailor seized his arm. He refused
to answer questions, but an examina
tion of the papers explained his tin
easiness.
La Journal asks if the roan who
committed '*the most vile, the most
barbarous and the most cowardly act
' in the annals of war," is merely to be
6ent to a prison camp.
Germans Believe Him Dead.
A dispatch from Toulon last Friday
*vhlch described the sinking of a Ger
man submarine in the Mediterranean
by patrol boats, added that the mate
ipf the submarine attempted to com
mit suicide when brought on board a
Tescue ship. The man appeared to be
insane and was reported to have de
clared that the lost U-boat had tor
pedoed the Lusitania.
The German admiralty, according to
advices from London, August 10, has
admitted that Lieut. Schweiger was
killed when a U-boat that he com
manded struck a mine in the North
sea. The dispatch said that his death
occurred in September, 1916.
THOUSANDS INJURED
i IN JAPAN RICE RIOTS
By the Associated Preaa.
TOKIO, Wednesday, August 21.?
Emperor Yoshihito today summoned
governmental officials to the palace
to hear their reports on the rice riots,
which now have virtually ceased. Un
rest continues, however, in a few dis
tricts where considerable damage has
been done and a number of rioters
killed. The newspapers of Osaka es
timate that 2,000 rioters and 162 po
licemen and four soldiers were in
jured in the Osaka prefecture. Five
thousand persons were arrested. An
official statement issued by the min
ister of the interior attributes the
disturbances to the anger of the peo
ple against the extravagance of the
pewly rich.
WORK-OR-FIGHT RULE
ACCEPTED BY SENATE
The work or fl?ht amendment, writ
ten into the new man-power bill by
ths Senate military committee, was
approved by the Senate today by a
?vote of <0 to 29. with an amendment
providing that it shall not apply to
strikers who return to work and sub
mit their demands to the War Labor
Board.
The vote on a motion o< Senator
McKeliar of Tennessee to strike out
the "?ork or fittht" clause was 40 to
?9 for its retention.
The test fame on a motion by Sena
tor McKellar of Tennessee to strike
out the clause after the modification,
proposed by Senator Ciimmlns of Iowa,
had been adopted 72 to OL
? ? . .; i ? .
Plan Is to Draft All Between
Ages 19 and 36
First.
ANOTHER CLASS, 32 TO 36
BT DAVID LAWRENCE.
(CopjTifht, Ml*. t?T the N*w York ETenlnf
Post Company.)
Notwithstanding the fact that the
man-power bill is expected to pass
the Senate as It did the House with
out any provision to postpone the call
for eighteen-year-old boys until the
classes of older registrants have been
exhausted. It is the intention of the
War Department to defer summon
ing the younger men just the same.
This would seem at first glance to
be an Inconsistency, for it has been
virtually at the request of the execu
tive branch of the government that
the leaders in charge of the legisla
tion have pressed for the passage of
the bill without any amendments spe
cifying time and classes. But the
War Department is at one with the
desire of Congress as well as the
country that the call for younger
troops be made only after the numbers
of older men have been exhausted.
Put Drafted Men Into Groups.
So the provost marshal general is
prepared, as soon as he has the au
; thority of Congress, to instruct his
district and local boards to handle
the questionnaires with the men of
eighteen years and those from thirty
six to forty-five fn one class and the
registrants from nineteen to twenty
one and thirty-two to thirty-six in
: another class.
In other words attention will be
concentrated at once on raising men
i between the ages of nineteen and
I thirty-six, though this latter limit
may yet be changed. But tentatively
i it is the plan to lay aside the group
of eighteen-year-olds and men beyond
thirty-six. They will be classified a
1 little later.
For the present the man power will
come from the nineteen to thirty-six
class. However, that phrase "for the
present" contains the very reason
why Congress was asked not to do
the very thing which the War De
partment is now doing?making class
es of the ages. The cause is the un
certainty of the military situation.
Dividing the new registrants into the
two new classes doesn't mean that the
eighteen-year-old boys will not be
called at all or that those above thir
ty-six are immune from service.
10 to 36 Ken Come First.
It simply will establish an order of
liability and as soon as the men be
tween nineteen and thirty-six have all
been called, which nay be in fix
months and may be la a year, the de
mand for the other set of registrants will
begin. By having specific law to cov
er this sftuatlon the hands of the War
Department would be tied. By leav
ing the matter entirely to the discre
tion of the War Department, the mili
tary situation and ita emergencies can
be met as they arise. The plan has its
advantages also in enabling the selec
tive draft machinery to function more
smoothly by dividing into two classes
the immense number of new regis
trants, so many of whom must be sent
to camps so quickly.
On the other hand, .it is quite prob
able that with the plans announced by
Gen. MaVch for the placing of eighty
divisions on the western front by the
end of June, 1S1?, the boys who are
now eighteen years old will have to
be called to make up that army.
Want 18-Year-Olds in 8chooL
It is hoped that many of the boys
now eighteen years old will be able
to pursue their courses in the
schools and colleges, and plans to
that end are already being worked
out tn co-operation with the coun
try's educational institutions. Some
of them may be kept even longer
than June, 1S19, in order to get spe
cial training to fit themselves for the
many kinds of specialised work
which is demanded of officers. But a
relatively small percentage of the en
tire number of eighteen-year-old
?boys in the oouptry today will be In
that group.
In general it is the hope of the War
Department not to be obliged to send
the boys overseas until they are at
least nineteen years old. but even the
best of plans may be upset if Marshal
Foch and the allied war council be
lieve a conclusion of the war can be
forced by putting an overwhelming
number of Americans into France in
the shortest possible time. Man-pow
er is expected to issue also from
England and France, but so great
have been the sacrifices and so in
tense the drain on men, young and
old. that as a source of supply both
countries can only be regarded as
tributary to the main stream which
must flow from America.
Unmarried Men to Make Army.
So far as can be judged at the pres
ent time, the unmarried men between
the ages of eighteen and forty-live
will give America the Army she is
planning to use to attain victory.
This means that the new registrants,
both those in the eighteen-year-old
and thirty-two to thirty-six-year-old
class and the unmarried men between
thirty-six and forty-flve, will be sum
moned to the colors before there is
an invasion of the men in classes 2,
3, 4 or 5. Thus the eighteen-year-old
boy will go to war before the twenty
six or twenty-seven-year-old men
who are married or who have been
deferred for industrial reasons.
Deferred Classes Not Exempt.
When, however, all the unmarried
men and those in class 1 of all ages
have gone to the front, the additional
man-power will have to come from
the deferred classes. Many men have
regarded a deferred classification as
an absolute exemption. It is really
only an order of liability and It has
taken on the meaning of exemption
only because most everybody has
imagined that the war could be won
before any necessity would arise to
call the registrants in the deferred
classes. Nobody, however, can abso
lutely guarantee the hour of victory
or the season when calls for man
power can be, comfortably stopped.
Whether or not there will be an
order of-liability established so that
men between twenty-one and thirty
one now in the deferred classes will
be called before the registrants above
these ages of the same industrial
status or with the same kind of de
pendency claims has not been de
termined. For the present our man
power needs do not contemplate any
thing^ so far-reaching, but official
Washington hopea and expects that
with the men already at the front or
in training and those who are to
register September 5 the allies can
jrln the we* 4
KIM MM,
STATE AND (MAI
Washington, With New
Hampshire and the Whole
Nation, Mourns the Loss of
an Able, Faithful Public
Servant.
CONGRESS AND CAPITAL
THEODORE W. NOTES.
[Editorial Correspondence of The Star.]
The District of Columbia grieved as
sincerely over the death of Senator
Gallinger as the state of New Hamp
shire. The people of Washington
quickly and heartily rendered their
tribute of fxonor to the memory of the
man and statesman. Neither the peo
ple of New Hampshire nor of the na
tion felt and showed for him greater
esteem and affectionate regard.
Why? Beeanw a* a national legis
lator he was faithful not oaly to his
matt on ani to his state Vat to his
Washington constituency, to the Capi
tal community, to the people of what
is left of the ?Ten Miles S?nnre," one
of whose municipal, state nnd national
legislators the constitution of the
Unite* States had made him.
Faithful Trustee of "Nation's City.
Senator Gallinger recognised the
trust imposed upon him by the consti
tution in respect to the National Capi
tal and Its unrepresented people. He
was broad enough and strong enough
and not too lazy to meet fully the ob
ligations imposed by this trust with
out neglecting in the slightest his
obligations to his state and to the na
tion. In what he did for the Capital
he was not only influenced by a keen
rense of duty as legislative trustee
for- the nation's city, but was. in
spired by a strong and wholesome
patriotic pride. As our local legisla
tor he wan not only wi?e and Just, hut
considerate snd sympathetic. He has
made his influence felt helpfully upon
?very sound project of Capital up
building during hia long public serv
ice on Capitol Hilk His name will be
speciflca?ly commemorated in our great
Gallinger Hospital, which, like him, is
to perform a noble and vitally impor
tant municipal function, and which he
did so much to create. In addition his
name is written large on almost every
page of the Capital's records for two
decades. Grateful memory of him is
impressed indelibly upon every
thoughtful Washingtonian.
Able, Just, Sympathetic.
To the host of personal friends here
whom Senator Gallinger won to him
self during his long public service his
death brings a sense of personal loss
and shock, and in their tributes to his
memory these friends mingle affection
with esteem. But all appreciative
Washingtonians. whether they knew
Senator Gallinger personally or not.
honor him today as a due type of ahle,
faithful, loyal public servant, with
whom no labor for his country, for
kin state or for the nntIon's city was
too great or too small.
Honoring Men of Gallinger Type.
In thus honoring Senator Gallinger
Washington honors the great men of
the past, of the present and of the
future whom he typifies. It renders
a deserved and belated tribute of
grateful appreciation to the long line
of senators and representatives who
have faithfully performed and are
now performing the unselfish, difficult
and almost thankless task of dealing
as considerately and Justly with their
capital constituency as with their
home constituents. Washington knows
and truly honors these men?its
loyal, helpful friends, public-spirited
workers in the task of capital build
ing, though it may not have put this
appreciation and honor into words as
promptly and adequately as it ought,
>and though it may in some instances
have even postponed expression of its
heartfelt sentiment until the death of
its benefactor and faithful public
servant has unsealed its lips.
Capital,
Senator Gallinger's prominence in the
national councils, the time and thought
and labor which he gave to national
issues, never made him neglectful of his
constitutional obligation to the capital
and to the people of the "Ten Miles
Square." The greatest of our public
men have been the strongest champions
of the capital. George Washington
created it and gave it his name. Thomas
Jefferson, with and following Washing
ton, was a planner, founder and up
builder of the city. Andrew Jackson
threw himself with enthusiasm into the
work of adequately bridging the Po
tomac; urged the allowance of a dele
gate in Congress to the District, and in
his administration, with his co-opera
tion and sympathy, the nation came to
the financial relief of the community
bankrupted in performing the nation's
task. Discrimination between the
later Presidents from Lincoln to Wil
son?all of whom have been friends
of the capital?would be invidious.
Grant, the man of deeds, not words,
had the opportunity, which .he effect
ively utilized, to lay broad and deep
the foundations of Washington as
truly the nation's city. Great men
from all sections. In Congress and
White House, have delighted to labor
to make the capital worthy of the
republic. Clearly there is no nobler
work for any statesman than to iden
tify himself conspicuously with the
upbuilding of the nation's capital.
"Go Thou and Do Likewise."
Senator Gallinger's record as a leg
islator?municipal, state and national
for the District of Columbia fur
nishes pointed and valuable hints of
"wbat to do" and "what not to do" in
the exercise by Congress of its ex
clusive power of legislation over the
unrepresented cb*>ital community.
Obligation follows power. The ex
clusive powers In respect to tbe capi
tal conferred upon Congress by the
Constitution and by legislation under
It Involve equally far-reaching re
sponsibilities and obligations.
What, then. Is the obligation rest
ing upon Congress when It acts as
local legislature for the capital?
Clearly It denies the justice when
legislating for the District of disre
garding entirely local needs, condi
tions and prejudices and using the
capital as a national experiment sta
tion, where dubious legislative- proj
ects may be tested as an example or
I a warning to the nation, with no one
! injured but the District (as apothe
cary's cat), if the experiment is un
successful.
It forbids such legislation solely or
primarily from the point of view of
the legislator's home constituency,
with the congressman posing as the
grudging dispenser of alms alleged to
be contributed by his district or stats
1 tTTsMr'itil ?"* ytHh JPigjiX
,4.
AMBASSADOR PAGE
RESIGNS AT LONDON
HI Health Take* Him From Court
of St. June*?President
Accepts.
?Walter Hines Page of Garden City.
N. T., ambassador of the United States
to Great Britain since April. 1?U, has
submitted his resignation to President
Wilson, who has accepted It. This
was learned In official circles here to
d Ambassador Page has b??n the rep
resentaHve of the United States at the
court of St. James since April 21. 1?1?.
Before his appointment he was editor
of theWorld's Work and a member of
the firm of Doukleday. Page * Co..
publishers
Dinner Speech Stlrrad.
In March, l>14. b< attracted oeri
slderable attention by remarks he
made at a dinner In referrin^W Uje
Monroe dodtrtne ??
a5"a complement to President Wilson's
speech on Central American relations,
caused considerable discussion, but't
**s indorsed by the
Mr. Page had^abled its full teat to
WDurin??the days when American
troops were at "Veri Cru* and were
operating across the Mexican border
Mr. Page had a difficult role to play,
but his work resulted in a perfect un
derstanding between America and Great
Britain on the situation in Me*i?>.
When the war broke out Mr. Page
was called upon to carry on labors
which were very hsavy and eatactinjr
During the period before the United
States entered the war the American
embassy at I>>ndon was.qne ,of the
busiest spots in England. Man>
thousands of Americans- who were
abroad when the war demoralised
travel went to London. and there got
in touch with, their relatives in this
country or found means to continue
their journeys to the Uj'ted SJJJ,1**
There were rumors in October, 111?,
and December, WH, that Mr. Page in
tended to resign, but they proved er
roneous.
Involved in Controversy.
It was also said that Mr.JPage was
involved in a controversy^ with other
American diplomats in Europe, but
this proved to be untrue.
Since America entered the war Mr.
Page has been active in conferences
with governmental officials of the al
lies, has been at sessions of the inter
allied war council and has visited a
number of the entente nations on mis
sions of importance. In May It was
reported that Mr. Page was ill and
was going on a vacatiojL Where he
went was never made public, but on
July 18 it was announced that he had
resumed his work at London and had
fully recovered from his indisposition.
MEW FISHING SCHOONER
RUSH IS SUNK BY U-BOAT
A CANADIAN ATLANTIC P.ORT,
August 27.?The new American fish
ing schoner Rush of Boston was sunk
yesterday morning by an> enemy sub
marine while on the fishing grounds
off this coast. }
The crew arrived here safely today
on board another fishing veskel.
BOSTON. August 27.?The auxiliary
schooner Rush, sunk by . a, German
submarine off the coast of panada,
sailed from here a week ago today
with a crew of twenty-three, under
command of Capt. Alvaro Qua'lros.
The vessel, owned by the Common
wealth Fisheries Company, was
launched at Essex last Thanksgiving
dayl
No word had reached the owners
from Capt. Quadros at tho time press
dispatches reported the ions of the
Rush. It was known that she had
been near the western banks and In
lother waters In which schooners bare
been sent down by subroirines.
FOE USING TROOPS
BELEASff) IN RUSSft
By the Associated Pens.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sunday. August 26.?Ger
man soldiers released from captivity
In Russia h*/e begun to arrive on
the western front. It has beep learned
from prisoners captured In recent baW
''one hundred of these men wb?.re
turned to Germany through ? the
Ukraine, were sent to a reserve di
vision. Eighteen deserted before the
detachment got out of Germany, while
three were killed In jumping from a
railroad train. The others reached
their destination in a refractory mood.
All the prisoners from this division
agree that the men returned from Rus
sia make the poorest kind of re
inforcements. They are not only Hl
humored. it le declared, -but resent
V.
WHOLE GERMAN RESISTANCE
- CRACKING AT VITAL POINTS
Allies' Attacks on Flanks Forcing Dis
orderly Retreat Opens Possibility of
Real Disaster for Enemy.
BY FRANK H. SIMOXDS.
There is no mistaking; the fact that
the whole German resistance at crit
ical points shows signs of cracking,
and I am informed from Paris that
there is a very general belief In that
city that the Hlndenburg line will be
in allied hands by October 1. This is
| obviously extreme optimism, but it
finds an interesting confirmation in
the message Clemenceau has just ad
dressed to the general councils of
France. The German is still fighting
bravely ana with skill and determina
tion? but the hopeful and significant
thing Mjthat despite his colossal ef
fort# he defeated-heavily and
continuously- ,
The British Offensive south.of Arras,
which developed last week and is still
going forward unchecked, has now
extended to-the scene of the battle of
Arras of April 9. 1917. and is the meat
considerable and important movement
i since August 8. The proof of this is
the frank statement in the German
1 official statement of Saturday that
Ludendorff had accepted battle be
fore Bapaume and In front of the old
j Hlndenburg line. Having accepted
[ battle, probably because he was un
able to make a successful retreat, he
has been eaten and driven -straight
across the old battlefield of the Somme
in an engagement which will hereaft
er be of utmost interest to all stu
dents of the campaign of 1916.
Hans Occupy 20-Mile Bulge.
As it now stands the Germans oc
cupy a great bulge from Croisilles to
the edge of fcoucy-le^dhateau?a bulge
which at points is twenty miles deep
between the present front and the
Hlndenburg line. But at the two ex
tremities the successful ' pushes of
Byng and Mangin have almost reached
that line itself. Moreover, in the long
stretch between these two points the
German lines have been shattered and
the German retreat is being harried
and hustled at the cost of much mate
rial and many prisoners.
It Is essential to recognize, further,
that while the allied blows have hith
erto. been limited to the front be
tween Rheims and Arras, ana more
recently to the sectors between Arras
and Soissons, there Is every proba
bility that in due course of time we
shall see blows by Haig's two armies,
those of Horne and Plumer. north of
Arras, and not improbably by th^
Americans between Bheims and Sois
sojiB and by Gouraud's army east of
Bheims. The latest extension of
Byng's attack north of the Scarpe is
a plain hint of this. And. if such
blows should win any considerable
success the Germans would be auto
matically turned out of the Hlnden
burg line and compelled to retire upon
the line of the Meuse?that is. to the
Franco-Belgian frontier.
Not Imitating Hlndenburg.
LudendorfTs situation is not yet des
perate, but it is becoming exceeding
ly perilous. He has been unable or
unwilling to. imitate Hindenburg*s
method and make a swift retreat to
the line on _ which the old marshal
STRANGULATION OF FOE
J ARMIES IN PROSPECT
PARIS, August 27 (by the Canadian
Press).?All the French military
Critics pay a tribute to the great
value of the present British opera
tions, especially in its pinhing-down
of huge enemy forces. They point out
that Bapaume could have been taken
two days ago, but that the British
prefer to maneuver the Germans out
of it.
Lieut. Col. Fabry, the military critic
of the Cui, explains) why it is essen
tial for the enemy to defend des
perately the way- to Douai and Cajn
braL If. he says, the allies could
seize the triangle formed by these
towns and Valenciennes, and the
crossroads of Longwy, Iionguyon and
Montmedy. then virtually, the who)e
network of railways which feed the
enemy's present front will T>e cut,
^which means the strangulation of his
armies in France.
DISPATCH BOAT SINKS
.v U-BOAT OFF BRITTANY
PARIS, August It (Havas).?Th.
dispatch boat Olse has been cited in
an army order for having conk an ene
my submarine August I off tfce asast
Ptood from March, 1917, to the spring
of this year. He has instead lingered
and procrastinated as Napoleon did
in eastern Germany in the early sum
mer of 1813, hoping for a victory, ex
pecting a turn of the tide and thus
moving ineluctabty toward Leipzig,
which was the ruin of his empire and
the doom of his European supremacy
Lingering, Ludendorff has suffered
heavy local defeats and an ever
mounting wastage of men and ma
terial. He Is not inflicting greater
losses upon Foch than he Is suffering;
on the contrary, his losses are far
more considerable and the morale of
his array Is breaking down under
which wai orderly and left bis sol
depression and pessimism of his awny
and Increased the sense of superiority
felt by his foes.
We have still to k#ep bur feet
solidly, on the ground, despite the
amaaing turn of events and the ever
growing magnitude of our suocesses.
The- decisive stage of our campaign,
or our offensive of thit year, has not
yet come. It cannot eome until the
battle for the Htndenbfcrg line be
gins. That battle may begin at any
moment, but if it does it will be on
new fields, north of Arras or east of
Rhelms, or ii? both regions, thus re
calling the double tbrust of Cham
pagne and Loos in 1916. In a word.
LudendorfTs center Is now that beat
en host retiring upon the Hlndenburg
line, which offers it a possible rally
ing ground. But in the nature -^f
things - an allied attack upon Oie
flanks. < turning the Hlndenburg line
and abolishing the position to which
the beaten center is retiring in mani
fest 'disorder. Is the stroke to be ex
pected. If It comes, then it will be
followed by a real disaster, for the
beaten center will then have no re
spite short of the ? Meuse, ? a^d this
means a new retreat without any
chance to reorganise and rest.
Critical Fortnight Akead.
All now depends upon two things,
the extent to wlilch the center can V*
harried and demoralised before it gets
to the Hlndenburg line and the abil
ity of Foch to strike on the flanks and
thus abolish the German line in
France from Lille to Verdun. A
more interesting and a more critical
fortnight than that which is before
us is impossible to imagine. More
than this, reoognizing how futile is
forecast at such a time, we can yet
see that events *are at least tending
rapidly toward producing another
Leipzig, not a Sedan or even a Jena,
but a Leipsig. a defeat which threw
Napoleon back into France and set
tled the fate of his ten years' strug
gle for the supremacy in Europe.
Watch the flanks, keep track of
the prisoners and guns taken; by con
trast pay relatively little attention
to ground gained In front of the Hln
denburg line; this is the advice all
military commentators are giving to
; day. The present hour Is the best
since the war began for the allied
cause; it holds out great present pos
sibilities, It insures ultimate military
i decision over the enemy, absolute
I and unqualified.
Copyright, 1918, by..the Tribune Aneeiztioa,
N?w York Tribune.
TITLE OF HERO EARNED
BY DEEDS AT THE FRONT
N ?
When the first cs.ll to war came in
the United States In 1917 tbe men
who hurried forward to enlist were
called "heroes." Naturally the name
was applied simply because of tbe
pride that a nation takes In the man
who hastens to volunteer. However,
one Instance has Just come to light
testifying to the fact that these vol
unteers were heroes In action as well
as intent.
For Instance: - Recently a list of
seventy-six United States marines was
sent into Marine Corps headquarter*
specifying various acts of bravery
achieved by the "devil dogs" lji the
capture of Bouresches. It was one of
many such lists wirtch are constantly
coming across the ocean. And out of
that list of seventy-six heroes, sixty
three were' found to have enlisted
within three months aflfcr war was
declared.
Hew French Karal Attache.
PARIS. August 27 ?Capt.
Valsseau if Saint-leln* ha? been
pajB^ny^atta^ejtt^Wartto^rtop.
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BRITISH A T BAP A UME;
GAIN EVERYWHERE;
21,000 HUN CAPTIVES
Smashing Advance Continues
Unabated on Both Sides
of the Somme.
FRENCH ALSO STRIKING AHEAD
AFTER BREAKING FOE ASSAULTS
Br a* AmocUM Prtm. '
Smashing through the German lines in the battlefield of
northern Picardy British troops have reached the western and
northern outskirts of Bapaume, the town which has been con
sidered the keystone of the enemy lines in that sector of the front.
The official statement issued at London today shows slow but
continued progress in almost every part of the line from Croisilles,
far to the north, to well below the Somme river.
The British are advancing toward Beugnatre, two and a half
miles northeast of Bapaume. Nearer the Somme river they have
moved eastward along the difficult ground that borders that
stream. They are reported east of Suzanne, which is situated on
the northern bank of the river, and are closing in on Dompierre,
which may be the pivot of the German lines south of the Somme
in the direction of Chaulnes.
French troops are once more advancing near Roye, the offi
cial statement issued at Paris telling of successes near St. Mard,
about a mile southwest of Roye. Heavy German counter attacks
were repulsed in this region.
Sepulse ban Counter Attacks.
Between the Ailette and the Alsne
the French have repulsed German
counter attacks and have advanced
their line about three-quarters of a
mile in the district east of Bagneux.
This advance should bring Gen. Man
grin's armies nearly north of the town
of Juvigny, which appears to be im
portant from a defensive point of
view.
Each extension northward of the
lighting lines adds to the difficulties
the Picardy salient,
several miles
An advance of
uth of the Scarpe or
the winning: of the Hindenburg line
on a front of any width would out
flank virtually all the German gains
made in Picardy this year. Behind the
advancing British line astride the
Scarpe are the hills around Arras,
from which hundreds of guns pour a
devastating fire on the hard-pressed
Germans. Several miles in the rear of
the Hindenburg line east of Arras is
a trench system known as the Queant
Brocourt switch line. How formidable
this is is uncertain, but it is on a la
and dangers of the Germans within ble land with no hills behind it.
Penetrate Hindenburg Line
at Point East of Heninel
?f
Br'tto ^
WITH Tttii BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE. Auni*t *7 (11 ?.?.)??The
Hindenburg line has been ?penetrated by
the British troops at a 'point east of
HenineL
Troops of Field Marshal Haig today
are advancing astride the River Scarpe
and are pushing forward to the south of
Bapaume. Elsewhere along the British
front their progress also continues.
There has been heavy fighting a*
Longueval and on the adjacent ground,
where the Germans launched a heavy
counter attack with fresh forces brought
up especially for the purpose from Se
dan.
In the face of this counter attack the
British fell back to the edge of Lon
gueval. ?
In the course of the night the New
Zealanders. according to reports.. swept
around Bapaume at the north and
reached the railway just north of the
Bapaume-Cambrai road.
The Germans are offering stiff resist
ance in the neighborhood of Thilloy, to
the south of Bapaume.
Reports have been received from
the advanced lines that British patrols
have again entered the outskirts of Ba
paume, and that there has been street
fighting between the British and Ger
mans on the edge of the town.
The British have penetrated the
Hindenburg line at one point to the
east of Heninel, which is between Ba
paume and the Scarpe river, and hard
fighting is reported to be in progress
there. The British advanced lines now
are reported to be east of Monchy-le
! Preux. German rear guards are
1 fighting to retain their hold on Pelves,
on the south bank of the Scarpe. the
British having reached the edge of the
town. , .
North of the Scarpe progress is be
ing made by the British on both sides
of the road to Douai. As Haig's
forces advanced south of the river the
Germans soon found that the ground
north of the stream was extremely
dangerous. Here they are being
forced back, leaving their rear pro
tected with a large number of ma
chine gruns, and are employing the
same tactics that they generally are
using along the rest of the battle
front.
Are Moving Slower.
The British advance gives evidence
of temporarily slowing up at various
places along the front, but intervals
of comparative slow movements must
be expected during the course of a
battle such as this, for the British
have now been engaged in hard and
continuous open fighting without rest
for a week.
Many more prisoners and guns and
another German battalion commander
have been taken. The officer fell into
the hands of the British in the fight
ing around Beugnatre, north of Ba
paume. The total number of ma
chine guns taken from the Germans
in the present drive must now run
away up in the thousands. Stacks of
these weapons have been captured,
but it is probable there will be no op
portunity for counting them in the
immediate future.
Towns Taken Yesterday.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 26.?Suzanne and
Cappy, towns north and south of the
Somme, respectively, were captured Up
day by Field Marshal Haig's forces, ac
cording to reports received here this
evening from the British battle front.
The British also took Avesnes les
Bapaume, a suburb of the town of Ba
paume. British troops today also cap
tured the town of St. Leger.
British troops also reached the west
ern outskirts of Thilley, south of Ba
paume. An unconfirmed report states
that Wontaubed and the outskirts of
Longueval also were reached by the
British.
British at Edge of Bapaume;
21,000 Prisoners Are Bagged
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 27.?-British
forces in the great battle in north
ern Picardy are making progress to
ward the village of Beaugnatre, two
and a half miles northeast of Ba
paume, according to the official state
ment issued at the war office today.
There is hard fighting around Crois
illes, farther north, the statement
says.
Since last Wednesday the British
have taken 21,000 prisoners, the state
ment says.
British forces are established in the
northern outskirts of Bapaume. ac
cording to the official statement is
sued at the war office today.
The British have pushed through
the town of Montauban. three miles
north of the Somme, and, capturing
the wood near that place, have
reached Longueval, the statement
says.
Australian forces have made sub
stantial progress toward Dompierre.
south of the Somme, and east of
Suzanna, north of the river, the state
ment adds.
North of the Scarpe river Scottish
troops renewed their attack against
the Germans last night and have ad
vanced toward Plouvain, the state
ment says.
French Halt Foe Attacks and
Gain Southwest of Roye
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 27.?French troops
advanced this morning in the region
of St. Mard, southwest of Roye. after
having repulsed a numbe^ of esemy
counter attacks in that sector, accord
ing to the official statement issued at
the war office today. They have cap
tured 1,100 ^prisoners, including two
battalion commanders, the statement
says:
Bast of Bagneux, north of the Aisne,
the French have advanced their line
about three quarters of a mile, the1
statement says. German oouater at
tacks were repulsed in this region.
August 17 CHavaa) their
advance in the region of Monchy !e
Preux, Monday, British troops captur
ed more than 2,000 prisoners, the
newspapers here say.
On a front of six miles south of the
Scarpe, the British advanced to a max
imum depth of two and a half miles.
Important gains were made around
Bapaume and Croisilles, the centers
of enemy resistance between the An
cre and the Scarpe.
No Gerraai^g remain in Bapaume,
says the correspondent ef Le Matin on
the British front. He adds that pa
trols have penetrated the ruins which
mark the former enemy advanced con
centration center.
The newspapers do not believe that
the Germans will be able to hold out
in Roye much longer, notwithstanding
the enormous sacrifices they have
mads in attempts ta hold that tent