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MOOT PALLABIUM Do It Now Do It Liberally Do It Cheerfully Do It Now Do It Liberally Do It Cheerfully SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS VOI VT TTT XTr Ota Palladium and Sun-Telsram VULi.AL.lll., INU. J1U Consolidated 1807 RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1918. (Ml QCI fO)(Ml JttUV TEL BIG ft ft FBEII F 1ft ii 360 GERMAN PLANES ARE DOWNED TWO WEEKS French Airmen Drop 600 Tons of Explosives on En emy Army Crowded Into Aisne-Marne Salient. II. S, FLIERS ACTIVE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. July 26. An ac count of the activities of the French air service, obtained from authentic sources today shows the suffering be ing inflicted on the German army crowded into the Aisne- Marne salient. Tons of bombs are being rained from the air, night and day. During the period of the first two weeks of June, French airmen alone dropped 600 tons of high explosives on the Germans in the trenches, on rest billets, railway stations and on munition works far back of the fight ing lines. A total of 27,673 flights were made for military purposes dur ing that time pnd more than 2,000 combats occurred in the air. In this fighting, 190 German planes were destroyed or forced to land in French territory, and 161 others were damaged and probably destroyed, mak ing a total of 360 enemy machines i brought down against a loss of 72 ! machines by the French. Twelve ofi lae French planes brought down were only damaged. In direct aid of the army, the French pilots and observers made 1,159 pho tographic scouting trips and took 19, 478 snopehots of the enemy forces and nosltions. They also 'took 303 long flights covering enemy territory for hundreds of miles. Covered with this French effort to day in the Aisne salient is the work of concentrated British and American squadrons and the airmen are at work night and day. Not a spot within the -enemy lines is neglected and his re treat is carried on under the same deluge of bombs and machine gun fire Trom the air that played an important rart in forcing a way for the advanc ing Franco-American armies, which have crossed the Marne. BRITISH AIRMEN ACTIVE LONDON. July 26. The official communication dealing with aviation, Issued tonight, follows: On the 24th Inst., there wa3 still a very strong west wind blowing and the weather mainly was overcast. To ward evening, the sky clear and a cer tain amount of sharp fighting and bombing took place. "Fifteen hostile machines were brought down an dthrce driven down out of control. Three of our machines are missing. "During the night over 24 tons of bomb3 were dropped by us on the rail ways at Valencennes, Seclin. Courtrai ana Armantlerres and on hostile bil lets on different parts of the front. Two trains were hit with bombs and thousands of rounds were fired from machine guos at various ground tar gets, including active anti-aircraft guns, search lights and transports. All C ""machines returned. One of the enemy's night bombing machines was brought down in our lines by anti-aircraft gun fire." 21 INDICTED FOR THEFT OF ARMY REEF iHv Associated Pres NEW YORK, July 26. Twenty-one persons were Indicted here by the federal grand Jury on the charge of being Implicated in the theft of beef consigned to the United States army. REV. JAMIESON TO SPEAK Rev. R. A. Jamleson, of Morning Sun. O., will preach tonight at the Reid Memorial church at 7:30 o'clock. The Weather For Indiana, by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy to night and Saturday. Slightly cooler tonight in north portion. Today's Temperature. Noon 02 Yesterday. . . i n i Maximum -'i i Minimum bS For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. . Continued warm and scattered local thundershowers. General Conditions Weather contin-! ues mostly fair over the state; some I places the drought is unbroken al though there were showers in some part of Wayne county last night. Cool wave which was moving south ward, has shifted eastward, cross ing Ontario. Canada. Weather con tinues very warm south of the 45th parallel. Maximum Temperatures at Canton ments. Chicago Partly cloud;; T Louisville Showers; V. New York Cloudly; 78. St. Louis Clear; S8. San Antonio Clear; 96. Pi U ra: & iJ , German This French official photograph shows a German tank captured by the French in the recent fighting on the west ern front. The tank was all but demolished by the terrific gun fire of the French and it took the crew of Frenchmen shown in the picture twelve days to repair it. The crew is now operating it with great results against the kaiser. According to reports American and French troops south of Soissons have captured four more of these Hun tanks. SOVIET REPUBLIC IN ACOTE DANGER, LENINE CONFESSES (By Associated rreas) PARIS, July 26. The Matin says that Paul N. MHukoff, former Prussian foreign minister and a leader of the Constitutional Democratic party, is suspected of having bound the party to the Germans. He will be asked to give an explanation "of the report at the next general congress, of the Con stitutional Democratic party. POSITION ACUTE, SAYS LENINE (By Associated" PreS'sI' AMSTERDAM. . July. 26, Premier Lenine, in -a speech at Moscow before tory committees, -said the position of the soviet republic had become ex tremely acute In view of International complications, counter revolutionary conspiracies and the food crisis, ac cording to a Moscow dispatch received by way of Berlin. . The Russian proletariat knew very well, Lenine told the conference, that the united action of the workers of the entire world or of some of the highly developed capitalistic countries was an essential condition to the victory of tho Russian revolution. It was easy for Russia to begin a revolution, but extraordinarily difficult to continue and conclude it. On the other hand tho beginning of a revolution in such a long organized bourgeois country as rm.mr -ir - ...o m nvfi.mnalif rMflRnlt Vint ! UC1 UJUU Li . CAlltUClJ uiuiv. nil, U" then it would be so much easier to car ry it to completion. Russia Must Pay. Referring to the Brest Litovsk treaty, Lenine said that according to the tretaty Russia must pay Germany 6,000,000,000 rubles. The atempt of the Social Revolutionists of the Left to entangle Russia in a war with Ger many by the murder of the German ambassador wa3 no way to evade the treaty. The way out must be found by the joint exertions' of the proleta riat and the poor peasants. Russia, -under the Brest Litovsk treaty, was to indemnify German sub-j Jects for the losses incurred tnrougn the war. Advices received in London early in April said the Russian gov ernment estimated these losses would total five billion rubles. It has been reported, "out never officially confirmed that Germany also demanded a cash Indemnity of several billion rubles. (By Associated Press) DEPOSE LOCAL COUNCILS LONDON, Thursday, July 25. A Russian despatch received here today says : After the siege of Yaresley, by the council's troops against counter revo lutionaries who had seized power and deposed the local councils and execut ed them, the palace was occupied by a red army sent thither from Moscow, Kestroma, Bybinsk and Vologda. Between 300,000 and 500,000 white guards, who ordered the mobilization tried to save themselves on the Volga, but a majority of them were drowned. The town suffered severely from bom bardment. Hundreds of prisoners were taken. Railway communication between Moscow and Vologda by way of Yaresley will be renewed. Germany Rewards Prisoners. Hy Associated Presst KaRBIN, Manchuria, Monday, July 22 Documents found, on captured Magyar prisoners show that the Ger man emperor has ordered the Aus-tro-German war prisoners to consider the Siberian front as important as other fronts and that thefre they will serve the fatherland as Austro-Ger; mans are doing elsewhere. Promises of suitable future reward are made. Owing to pressure from enemy caval ry. General Semendorf, the anti-Bolshevik leader, has fallen back on the left flank to the Manchuria station, which is within the Chinese frontier. The Bolshevik and German ex-prisoners display an intimate knowledge of the latest German methods of war. It is believed here that an allied ad visory commission should be sent to Siberin. to advise with General Hor- FRENCH FIGHT GERMANS WITH tank and French crew which repaired vath and othr leaders, who, it is said, ; wouia De wmmg to worn wun n. musi of the Russians in Siberia are most ! anxious to unite and co-operate vig orously with the aJlies in a campaign against the Germans. CZECH'S DUTY TO FIGHT AUSTRIAN'S SAYS SOCIALIST "Austria Embodies Century Old Crime Against Liberty of Mankind." (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM. July 26 "The Czechs declare they hate and will fight Aus tria forever, and God willing, they will destroy her completely, because Austria omhnlpii a f nf niv-nlH rrlmA against the liberty of mankind." said J Deputy Stransky, a Czech socialist, in moving in the Austrian lower house an indictment of the ministers for their decree ordering the partition of Bohemia. "The highest national duty of the I Czechs is to harm Austria wherever j and whenever possible," continued Stransky. "This we owe to the Czech people and to our loyalty to the Bo hemian crown which loyalty can only be put in practice by betraying Aus tria. Therefore, we are determined to betray her whenever we can." Czechs Take Simbirsk (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, July 26 With the capture of Simbirsk on the Volga, Czecho- Slovak troops now control not only the left bank of the river, but part of the territory on the right bank. The fall of Simbirsk, which is announced officially in a telegram from Moscow, by way of Berlin, oc curred after the Soviet troops had made a strong defense. The Pravda, the official soviet or gan, commenting on the advance of the Czechs says: "The rising is spreading like a ofpatch of oil on water. May the cap ture of Simbirsk awaken the sleepers. Simbirsk was one of the bases of the council's power and also the corn granary. The danger is growing. It it war. The enemy is numerous and well organized. If the fall of Sarara has not awakened the workers, may the fall of Simbirsk make the prole tariat tremble for the fate of the pro letariat revolution." Simbirsk is on the right bank of the Volga, 600 miles from Moscow. It is an important training center. Kazan, 150 miles north on the Volga, was re ported captured by the Czechs on July 15. 21 U. S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN ACTION ' WASHINGTON, July 26. The army casualty list today shows: Killed in action, 21; died of wounds, 4; died of disease, 6; wounded severely, 60; missing, 6; prisoner, 1; total, 98. Voters Are Registering at Average of 40 a Day Men are registering at the court house at the rate of 30 to 50 each day. There were 51 registered on Wednesday and 42 on Thursday. HUN TANK it BEWARE OF RUMORS The public is asked to ac cept with reserve all exagger ated reports about war events. Rumors Friday were that the crown prince and 400,000 Germans had been captured. This was false. The Associat ed Press, most accurate of all news gathering associations, has trained correspondents on all war fronts, transmits all war events as quickly as they can be cabled across the Atlantic. The public must ex ercise caution in giving cre dence to highly optimistic re ports, which sound well, but in the - last -analysis are mere rumors. MOB RIOTS ARE BETRAYAL TO U. S.--PRESIDENT Wilson's Statement Says American Who Shows Mob Spirit Emulates Enemy. (By Assoclaiad Press.) WASHINGTON, July 26. President Wilson today in a personal statement addressed to nis reuow countrymen, denouncing mob spirit and mob action, called upon the nation to show the world that while it fights for democ racy on foreign fields, it is not de stroying democracy at home. The president referred not alone to action against those suspected of be ing enemv aliens or enemy sympathiz ers; he denounced most emphatically mob action of all sorts, especially lynchings. and while 'he did not refer specifically to lynchings of negroes in the South, it is known that he included them in his characterization of mob spirit as "a blow at the heart of or dered law and humane justice." It is know that the lynchings of negroes, as well as attacks upon those suspected of being enemies or sympa thizers, have been used by the German propaganda throughout Central and South America as well as in Europe, to contend that he pretensions of the United States as a champion of de mocracy are a sham. Deeply concerned by the situation, the president decided to address his fellow countrymen and to declare that "every mob contributes to German lies about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by way of calumny." Blow at Justice. The president's statement in full, follows: "My Fellow Countrymen I take the liberty of addressing you upon a sub ject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of our institutions that I trust you will think me justified in speaking very plainly about it. "I allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and. there very fre quently shown !ts headV amongst us, not in any single' region, but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynch ings and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can Justify mob action, while the courts of justice, are open- and the governments of the states and the na tion are ready and able to do their duty. We are at this very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the ' sa cred obligations of law and has made Continued on Page .Ten HON CHIEFS ORDER MEN TO HOLD ON ATANYCOST Foe Reinforces Right Flank of Soissons-Rheims Pocket With Army Commanded by Gen. Von Even. ALLIES LOSE VILLAGE WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON AISNE-MARNE, July 26. Franco American troops on the front north east of Chateau Thierry moved their line forward today. The allies along the front to the east likewise made progress at places, the Americans at one point attaining an objective a kilo meter distance. Clinging desperately to the hills and the woods the Germans are using their machine guns, their artillery and their air forces and quantities of gas in an effort to hamper the advance. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 26 Satisfac tory progress is being made by the American troops assisting the French and British in pushing in the German line on the Soissons-Rheims salient, members of the house military com mittee were told today by Secretary Baker and General March, chief of staff. Position May Fall. (By Associated Press) WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 26, (morning) The entire German position within the Marne salient is such that it may fall at any instant as the result of some sharp forward movement by the allies affecting a vital point. It is for this reason that the German commanders have ordered their men to hold on at all costs, while a defensive position is prepared upon which the German army - canfall. baeki ,x,.f.. ,v.... Reinforce their Flank. PARIS, July 26 The Germans have reinforced their right flank of the Soissons-Rheims pocket, eays La Lib erte, with a new army commanded by General von Even, which has been placed between the army of General von Hutier and General von Boehn. ALLIES CONTINUE PROGRESS (Sly Associated Press.) LONDON, July 26. On all sides of the German salient the allies are re ported today to be continuing to make progress except on the heights behind Soissons. The German resistance to the French pressure has been very determined in the latter sector. The advances reported elsewhere are for the most part slight.1 On the other side of the salient just to the west of Rheims the allies lost the town of Mery and Hill 204 to a German counter attack, but retained Vrigny, and the greater part of the line thereabout looking toward Fismes. Between the Ourcq and Chateau Thierry the Franco-American line now shows an advance beyond the line of a week ago of from 6 to 8 miles. BATTLE OF THE WOODS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 26. The Franco-American push northeast of Chateau Thierry has resolved itself into a battle of the woods, which abound in this region. The Germans are fighting a rear guard action with artillery and machine guns, retiring gradually before the allied forces. The German infantry is not in evidence. The allies moved up their heaviest Continued on Page Ten. Village of Epieds Wiped Out Under Ceaseless Bombardment; Not Even Pile of Bricks Remain (Bv Associated Press) LONDON, July 26 American troops met and conquered the enemy in a tremendous combat in the region of Epieds and Trugny, says Reuter's cor respondent ,with the American troops in France. German infantry, which had been pushed back from the Marne was hurried forward to check the Franco-American thrust toward Fere-en-Tardenois from the southeast. The Germans fought well and check ed the advance for some 36 hours and three times wrested the village of Epieds from their determined Ameri can opponents. In the meantime, the village grew constantly smaller under the ceaseless bombardment from both sides and finally disappeared, not even a large pile of bricks being left behind. When the village disappeared the Germans were in possession. The Americans tired of the ceaseless ebb I and flow of the fighting there bad tak ! en the slopes on either flank and forced the Germans to .make tneir final massed attack into the ruins of the village. Meanwhile the allied guns have been brought up beyond the crest of the hill and as soon as the Germans took possession of the village, they concen trated a tprrift fir nnnn it until the L place smcked with its own red dust Official Statements AMERICAN By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 26. American forces between the Ourcq and the Marne continue to press back the en emy, General Pershing reported in his communique for yesterday, received today at the war department. FRENCH (By Associated Press.) PARIS, July 26. Capture of the towns of Villemontolre and Oulchy-le-Chateau, is announced by the war office. The French took four cannon an many hundred prisoners In this fight ing.. The statement follows: "Yesterday afternoon French troops captured Villemontoire after violent fighting and captured 200 prisoners as well as twenty machine guns. "Further south, Oulchy-le-Chateau fell Into the hands of the French. The French made progress east of town and captured four cannon. "During combats yesterday in the region south of the Ourcq the French took many hundreds of prisoners." Villemontoire is slightly more than five miles directly south of Soissons on the Soissons Chateau Thierry high road. It is in this region, on the Ger man right flank that the enemy has been making his most determined re sistance to any further advance by the allied forces because of the danger to his line of retreat from the Marne salient. Oulchy-le-Chateau is about seven miles south of Villemontoire, on the Soissons-Chateau Thierry railway line. This line has been virtually useless to the Germans for some time, however, owing to its having been closely ap proached or cut by the allies farther north. The taking of Oulchy-le-Chateau, however, will definitely put it out of business. The capture of this town also represents a further closing in on Fere-en-Tardenois, about six miles to the east, although the allies are closer to Fere-en-Tardenois on the line to the south. BRITISH. LONDON, July 26. The Germans this morning launched a local attack against the positions recently taken by the British in the Meteren sector of the Flanders front. The war of ffiice announces that the attack was repulsed after sharp fighting. Last night the Germans delivered an attack upon the new British posi tions In the Hebuterno sector on the front between "Albert and Arras.' The enemy was driven off with severe loses, leaving prisoners in the hands of the British. UKRAINE REVOLT THREATENS HUNS (By Associated Press LONDON, July 26. A peasant re bellion has broken out in the Ukraine on a formidable scale, according to in formation received today. Five thou sand peasants, fairly efficient troops, with their instructors and officers are advancing against the Germans, de tachments of whom have withdrawn before the hostile advance, retreating to Kiev. The peasants are well armed. ABANDONS CLAIM (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Juyl 26. The Ukranian gov ernment has announced officially that it abandons its claim to Bessarabia, says a Bucharest dispatch to the Ger man press transmitted by the Zurich correspondent of the Matin. As a re sult diplomatic relations between Ru mania and the Ukraine have been re sumed. The peace treaty between the cen tral powers and Rumania ceded, Bes sarabia to Rumania in return for Do brudja and other territory. Most of the inhabitants are Rumanians. The Ukraine borders Bessarabia on the north and east. as though afire. When the guns ceased firing, there were no Germans left to capture or even to bury. At the edge of the wood beyond Turgny, the correspondent adds, the German machine guns stationed ten yards apart held up the advance a little longer. Making a. feint frontal attack, however, the Americans crept, Indian fashion, around the flanks and captured all the guns. Afterward the pace of the advance quickened. All the high ground north of Epieds was taken and the line carried beyond Courpoil. ADMIRE U. S. FIGHTERS. ! T X-T-Vi-VT T..1 Off rnMrni-vi work of the French and American troops in the battle now going on, Reuter's correspondent at American headquarters writes: "The French have had four years of hard study and the lesson most laid to heart is the value to France of live Frenchmen and dead Germans. When sacrifices are required we are quite ready to make them, but pride is to kill and nav little for killine. Thev ! n1ni(iA f ha vaftVloeo vqIa rt tha imar. icans, but their own methods are some what slower and more subtle. Each ! gets to his objective, but the French leave fewer men behind." Z MORE TOWNS ARE CAPTURED IN ADVANCE OF ENTENTE Fall of Oulchy-le-Chateau Pivot of German Retreat Southward, Serious Blow to Enemy. CLOSING MOUTH OF BAG (By Associated Press) Villemontoire, little more than 5 miles south of Soissons, has been taken by the French and Americans while further south they have captured Oulchy le Chateau and swept on to the eastward of the town. Between the Ourcq and the Marne the Americans are pres sing hard against the enemy lines and have taken the south ern half of La Fere forest, which brings them up to about four miles directly south of the vital town of Fere en Tardenois, the center of the roads leading back out of the Marne salient and through which the German forces along the southwestern sector of the line must retreat. Ris Rorest, farther southeast to ward the Marne, Is also being emptied of the Germans. Concentrates Large Forces The capture of Villemontoire and Ouchly le Chateau seem to show that General Mangin, while keeping up his pressure along the German lines, is able to concentrate large forces at vital points, the loss of which is men acing to the Germans. Villemontoire is on the Sois sons Chat eau-Thlerry road. It is southwest, of the town of Bucancy, which has been reported unofficially to have been taken by the allies. Its capture marks a new step in the process of closing the mouth of the bag in which the Germans are struggling. Serious Loss for Huns The fall of Ouchly le Chateau takes from the Germans the pivot upon which their retirement farther south has been singing. Its loss to the en emy, who defended sternly, is a seri ous blow. The French official statement says that the allies have advanced east ward of this town, which should bring them to the vicinity of Hill 150. which is the dominating height in that reg ion and which would give the allies an observation point over long reaches of the Ourcq as well as both banks of that stream. There is nothing known as to Brit ish progress on the line from Gueux and Mery Tremecy. west of Rheims. The reported r&pid advance of th3 British there, however, would seem to suggest that there was plenty of power behind the thrusts and that their progress should continue. Retirement Continuing. On the whole the German retirement from the Marne salient appears to be continuing. This retirement is quite evident on the western side of the salient, but to the southwest of Rheims, toward the Marne, nothing has been reported as to an enemy withdrawal. German attacks near Meteren, In the Lys salient, and near Hebuterne. north of Albert, in both of which local ities the British have recently ad vanced their line, are reported from Londan. Both enemy onslaughts were repulsed. It is announced officially from Lon don that Japan has agreed to the American proposal to assist the Czecho Slovak army in Siberia. Caught Within Vise. Relentlessly, the allies are pressing back the armies of Crown Prince with in the pecket, between Soissons and Rheims. Allied capitals would not be surprised if the situation changed sud denly and most favorable for General Foch. Caught as within a vise, the Ger mans are struggling at the height cf their strength to stay the steady pres sure, but apparently to no avail. The French and Americans are advancing in a northeasterly direction from Cha teau Thierry and north from the Marne, while the British and French push forward northwestward up the Ardre toward Fismes and the Vesle. From east to west at th'e height of the pecket, is now but 21 miles, the enemy havirg been forced back some thing like sixteen miles since Gener al Foch launched his counter offen sive. The German lines of communi cation are almost gone and the allies are striking with force and moving rapidly toward the two most import ant bases within the salient, Fere-En-Tardenois and Fismes. Allied guns now command every point in the pock et. Forests Being Cleared. With the capture, of Oulchy-La-Vllle on the -west and an advance of more than a mile on the southwest, Fere-En-Tardenois is now within t three and one-half miles of the allied line in the Tournelle wood, where the French continue .to. progress.. .Allied pressure maintains its forward movement mark edly between the Ourcq and the Marne and the latest gain has averaged more Continued on Page Ten.