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Kl J W At, ' ; JLLE ! L 4i -a. The Weather RENT THAT FtTRXISHKD ROOM-RENT IT WITHOUT DELAY. AND RENT IT AT A VKlil PRICK TO A DESIRABL.E TEN ANT. A Li. POSSIBLE THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED. Fair Friday and probably Saturday, light west winds. Highest temperature yesterday, BS de gree; lowest, 78 degrees. V VOL. XXL NO. 221. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1918. PRICE FIVE CENTS SMSBBSBaaMStfl c OV II -4 V , Posotfoims Txsd Iby rreinclii m II- u t I t Ml B DRIUEH SIX W11LES BYFREKGH RI10VE ALLIED MAT Germans Lose 7,000 Prisoners and Suffer Heavily in British French Surprise Attack. CROWN PRINCE'S FORCE IN RETREAT ) At Last Accounts Smashing Blows Caused Boches to Give Much Ground. Paris,-7 -p. m., Aug. 8.- Prog ress of the Franco-British offen sive .continues favorable. In some instances the advance hsa reach ed a depth of more than six miles. SEVEN THOUSAND TAKEN PRISONERS London, Aug. 8. Seven thou sand prisoners and one hundred suite have been captured in the France-British offensive, Chan cellor of Exchequer Bonar Law announced to the house of com mons tonight. Their advance is between four and five miles on a .ront of fifteen miles, and at one - oint-sveen miles hare been . .::ned, ha said. 23 - GERMAN DIVISIONS BADLY , DISORGANIZED, RETREATING British Army Headquarters in France, Aug. 8. (Reuters) On the horizon, enemy motor trans ports a;e visible, scurrying away. The 27th, 43rd and 108th divisions of Crown Prince Rupprecht's army suffered heavily, while the 117th division, which only came into line last night, was badly cut up, and the only determined enemy stand maae around Morlancourt, where ' there was righting throughout the day. The enemy made several counter attacks, but failed, to re cover any ground. French fortes have also done wonderfully. - AMERICANS CONTINUE TO PUSH BACK GERMANS. "Washington, Aug. 8. "North ot the Vetle locaV ibom'bat! resulted in a gain of ground for our troops," eays Per shing's communique covering today's operations, as given out by the war de partment. '" , . , . U. S. ARMY OFFICERS ARE ' ELATED OVER NEWS. Washington. Aug. 8 American ar my officials were deUghted tonight with the news t that . Franco-British forces had launched a smashing blow at the enemy on a wide front, tn Pi cardy theatre. The outstanding fact to observers here was that Foch was ablj to strike again on the heels of the Marne victory, which i still being pressed. The enemy faces alternative opera tions on, at least, two fronts. He must bolster up the bottom of the PIcardy salient or undertake immediately a great withdrawal there. If he with draws troops from the Alsne-Vesle line. It Is certain he will be forced back there. If he summons reserves from the north, a British attack to flatten out the Flander salient Is al most certain. Secretary Baiter said the new Pro gram of the war department of five milMon men by spring was recommend ed by the military secUon of the su preme war council at Versailles. ALLIES MERCILESSLY DRIVE SURPRISED GERMANS TO COVER 15Y THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. British and French In the first day's battle on the historic field between Amiens and Montdidier have deeply penetrated the German positions on a front of more than twenty miles, reach ing from the region of Braches to the neighborhood of Morlancourt- Follow ing a short Intensive artillery prepara tion, and aided "by misty weather, the allied attack took Germans by sur prise and they fled almost everywhere before tanks, motor and machine gun batteries, cavalry and Infantry sent against them. All allied objectives were attained In remarkably quick time, and the line was still making progress Thursday night. Wherever the enemy turned to give battle he was decisively defeated. Thousands of Germans were ma le prisoners, and numbers of guns and a quantity of war material was capture. BRITISH HMD on THE Satisfactory Progress Made Des pite Very Strong Enemy . Resistance. . GERMANS FIGHT 'V IN SAVAGE MANNER Try in Vain to Repel TankLed Hordes of Their Al : lied Invaders. . 1 BY' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. , On the French Front in France, Aug 8. A combined attack by the French and British was begun at dawn today along the front between Albert and ! Montdidier. Satisfactory progress was made despite strong enemy resistance. Around Mdrisel and Moreunl the German resistance is terrific. Along the French front the artillery s preparation .ed for 40 minutes ai j ter which the .. oops left their trenches j with wonderful f'.aah. Before 8 o'clock considerable - progress had been re- corded and the first objectives had been attained. TANKS CROSS VALLEY AND ROUT OUT ENEMY FORCES "With the British Army in France, Aug. 8 French and British tanks have crossed the Avre-Lure valley in the new drive this morning. The German positions just south of the Anore river -were heavily attache by the British. Their assault extend ed to the south where their right wing Joins the French lines. Three-quarters or an hour after the British attacked the Germans, the French took up the battle. '''." A very considerable number of vil lages have ' been captured In' the Franco-British offensive and substan tial progress has been made, accord- ing to news received here this after noon. Reports received up to mid-afternoon indicated that the offensive -was progressing favorably. The average advance was approximately 2 1-2 miles on a front of slightly more than 23 miles. The allied advance at some polnt3 was more than three miles. Important material has been cap tured by the advancing troops. " BRITISH HAVE ATTACKED OVER A 12-MILE FRONT. : With f the i British Army in France. Aug. 8. The British attacked over a 12-mtle ' front on both sides of the Somme. Theyr gained " all tneir ob jectives within four hours and have captured . a considerable number or prisoners and guns. The line attacked this morning ex tends roughly from the neighborhood of M or lan court, about three miles and a half southwest of Albert, to the Avr river south of . Moreull. Details of the fighting are coming in slowly. "Going fine, constitutes . the best available information. The Brit ish launched their attack in a mist after only three minutes of artillery preparation. According to advice received in London, the French and British forces which attacked this morning In the Piardy sector have advanced at somo points to a depth of more than three miles. The attack must have taken the Germans by surprise as the weath er has not been such as would gener ally be chosen for the commencement of new operations. On Monday there was a continuous downpour of rain along the Amiens front, but advices state that the Brit ish troops were congratulating them selves that the ground was not as bad as they had experienced In Flanders, where sheU craters were filled with water and there was no means of draining then. GREATEST SECRECY SURROUNDS PLAN OF ALLIED ATTACK The greatest secrecy surrounded plans for the attack. During the night the Germans heavily bombarded the British lines but their shells were in effective. An extraordinarily large number of tanks accompanied the storming troops, clearing the way for them in the gray light of dawn and helping to overcome enemy strong points. The allied attack on tne Albert Montdidier front today was apparent ly unexpected by the Germans and many prisoners were taken. One Ger man division was surprised as it was coming up to relieve the front line troops. The main weight of the allied blow was directed against General von (Continued on Page Six.) 0 . " - - - I ON TO L AON! f ' -.---. ..!. . Vf : ' . " i , v ; 1 , 11 1 ,J ;V7JJL. 1 ... 3 - & ,.. hludllllMAMiMtefariiiii ilia 11 Just when the Germans thought they could stop in their big flight and rest awhile, those Yanks and Frlsh hit 'em again at Soissbns and started them toward the Aisne. It looks now as if the allied armies won'tvstop until they; chase theHuns back to Laonand St. Quentin. The lower white line is the battle line f of Aug. 2, when the big advance was resumed; the upper is today's line.-..-; 7 '. "- : ' ' - " ' ' . :" ' SUBS WORKING OFFCOASfSIM AMERICAN SHIP FORMER GERMAN , STEAMER ME- RAK SENT TO ' BOTTOM "NEAR HATTERAS, BUT ALL MEMBERS OF CREW ARE REPORTED SAFE, New York, Aug. 8. Information that the American steamship Merak, 3,224 tons gross, was sunk by a German sub marine off Cape Hatteras on Tuesday night, was received today in Marine cir cles here. One small boat containing 18 members of the crew is still un accounted for. . The captain and twenty-three mem bers of the crew have been landed at Norfolk. Th Merak, one of the former Dutch cargo vessels which were taken over a few months ago. by the United States shipping board, was on her way from an American port for ' Chile, carrying coal. : TWENTY SURVIVORS ARRIVE AT AMERICAN PORT Elizabeth City, N. C; Aug. 8. Twen ty survivors of the crew of the Ameri ioan stea-mship Alerak, ; ; which i was sunk by a German submarine off the North Carolina coast Tuesday landed here today, accounting for all persons aboard the vessel. " - . . A patrol brought , the men from the Kenneykeet coast guard station af ter they had landed there in their boats subsequent to the sinking of the ship. The captain' and other members of the cerw - were landed last night at Norfolk. The submarine sank' the Merak about two-thirty o'clock Thursday fternoon off Cape Hatteras. According to the story told' by members of the crew who were landed here forty warning shots were fired at the steamer before they, took to the boats. -The Merak sank within ten minutes after she was abandoned. The Merak was bound from New York to a South American port. STEAMER IS SHELLED TORPEDOED AND SUNK. New York. Aug. 8. Sinking of the small unarmed American steamer Me rak by a German submarine off the coast of North Carolina was reported today to the navy department. No details were given. The navy's dis patches' said : ."The American steamship was shell ed, torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine at 1:50 p. m. on Tuesday, 15 miles northeast of the Diamond shoal light ship off Cape Hatteras. N. C. The Merak was of 3,023 gross tons." This was near the time the Diamond shoal lightship itself was sent down by the enemy raider. LAKE STEAMER AND A BRITISH VESSEL. SUNK. Washington. Aug. 8. German sub marines operating off the French eoast on August 3rd sank the nall Ameri can steamship Lake Portage ami the British steamer Berwin. A belated of ficial report announced here today told of the sinking without details. The Lake Portage, of i.908 gross tons, was built last year at Duluth, Minn. '""w!:ifr'""'w'' ,,L"1' ' "" ''m. ..jm..M. lwi.u j'- i i'r'wi x if - EIGHTEEN DEAD IS LATEST TOLL OF HURRICANE DAMAGE TO" ?AE RO v F IELD ; NEAR LAKE CHARLES SAID TO HAVE BEEN EXAGGERATED IN FIRST " REPORTS. ' V Lake Charles, La., Aug. 8 The known dead as the result of the hurricane which struck ; southwest Louisiana Tuesday afternoon stood this morning at 18. .Many points believed to have been in the path of the sttrm, howev er, had not been heard from and it was believed the - list was. incomplete. The number of injured will probably reach one hundred. The property loss will total ?i,000.000 according .to conserva tive estimates. - .. , , The dead includes: .... Nine at Lake Charles, one at Sulphur, three at Grand Lake, three at Gerstner Field and two at Dequincy. . ; ; The property loss at Gerstner Feld according to unofficial reports will not be .as heavy as first believed. It was stated today; that many of the air planes thought to have been destroyed, were later found to have escaped dam age and that a great number of those damaged could be quickly repaired. It was also declared that sufficient build ings weathered the storm to accom modate all the men stationed- there. AH passes, for men to leave the camp except on Important business wera or dered suspended today." 'Communica tion with outside points was partially established but telephone, telegraph and electric light wires-and poles are down ; in all parts of the city and it probably will be several days before this service is entirely restored. . Hundreds of houses not; completely wrecked by the storm .were made, un tenable and about 300 persons unable to obtain shelter elsewhere owing to crowded? conditions were taken . care of at the court house Tuesday "night. Every church in the city was damaged, several of them being entirely demol ished. . Anotner death due to the storm oc curred at Gerstner Field today. The name of the victim was not given. ' The body of Corporal AY. S. Williams, killed at the camp when a hangar coir lapsed was shipped to his former home at Nettleton, Miss., today. The home address of private George' S.. McGhee, who suffered a broken back during an airplane accident two weeks ago. and died , during the storm, was Tenafty, N. J. Mayor Trotti, of Lake Charles who has received many offers of outside assistance today declared that all the help Lake Charles needs is labor. MAJ.-GEN. GRAVES GETS HIS ORDERS Washington, Aug.. 8. Confidential instructions were handed Major Gen eral Graves at Kansas City bj' Secre tary Baker, covering the American military expedition to Siberia, which Graves will command. On his return to Washington Mr. Baker said the ob ject of his trip west was to confer with Graves, who came from Califor nia to meet him. . . 44 v-v t T T rrVi v - TEACHERS ASK WAGE INCREASE SCHOOL BOARD DELEGATES APPEAR BEFORE THE BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION AND PRESENT. STRONG ARGU MENT FOR MORE MONEY. The meeting of the Escambia county school board was featured last night by a request from the principals of the primary schools of the city for an increase in salary.' Miss Annie Mc Millan, principal of School 35, and Miss Evelyn Thornton, ' principal of the Eliza Jane Wilson school, formerly known as School Number 2, presenting the claims of the teachers, others pres ent including Miss Florence Higgins. School Number 27; Miss Allie Yniestra, School Number 74; Miss Ethel Suter, School Number 40. The principals of School Number 41, 43 and 70 are out of the city- ; Miss "McMillan, in making the re quest, declared she . voiced the senti ments of the teachers of the primary school when she said that they had come with no complaints. She wished, however, to call attention to the fact that the primary teachers were filling a dual role, that of teacher and super visor, indeed, even more than this, as they were frequently called upon for many other services. She ealled at tention to the fact that with the in creased cost of living, in all lines, the expenses of the principals were also greater, and asked for an increase in the salaries of all primary principals. Miss Thornton, who . next spoke, pointed put that in other cities in the state the salaries of principals of pri mary schools were in some instances as high as $150.00 and averaged $133.00. Miss Thornton presented a scale which the teachers felt made an equitable adjustment, which was taken under ad visement by the board. In calling attention to the higher salaries paid principals of the primary schools in other cities. Miss Thornton pointed out that' these principals did no grade teaching, but merely gave their attention to the duties of prin cipal, with an assistant teacher, in many cases! , . Miss Thornton also called attention to the fact that the various lines of war activity consumed much of jthe principal's time and added to her oth er duties, glad as she was to perform this service. The following fable gives tne present salary of the primary teachers, with the increase asked for: Present Salary School Salary Ask'd For Number 40, 8 rooms $85.00 $100.00 Eliza Jane Wilson, 8 rooms 85.00 100.0.0 Number 74, 6 rooms .... 80,00 100;00 Number 27 72.50 85-00 Number 35 "2.50 85.00 Number 43 72.50 75.00 Number 70 ........... . 72.50 . 75.00 Number 40 72.30 75.00 The salaries of the Grammar school principals, who are not rade teachers, are, for the Clubbs Grammar School, $125.00 and for the Lockey "School $100.00. The salary for the principal of the High School is $200.60. It was pointed out by Doth Mr. Levy (Continued on Page SIx.) IG IS ARE SPENT HERE FORDSHIPS Report of Chairman Hurley Shows Vast Sums Paid in Salaries. LOCAL PLANT IS QUITE A FACTOR Senator Fletcher Receives Letter Which Is Self -Ex-. planatory. Millions of, dollars have been expend ed by the Emergency Fleet Corporation in -the state of Florida since the be ginning of operations, and Senator Fletcher, has been furnished at his re quest with a statement by the ship ping board, showing the respective sums disbursed in this state, in which the Pensacola Shipbuilding Company of course figures to no small degree. There are upward of 1200 men regu larly employed in the local ship plant, according to late reports, and the wages paid out here represent quite a figure in the city's industrial life. This is a copy of the letter which Senator Fletcher has received from Chairman Hurley, which is self-expian-atory: Letter to Mr. Fletcher. United States Shipping Board Washington. August 3rd. 1918. Hon, Duncan H. Fletcher, ; United States Senate. -My Dear Senator Fletcher: .Sine , the beginning of. the , opera tions of the Emergency Fleet Corpora tion in the State of Florida, the fol lowing amounts have been paid for la bor. 1917. August 43,608.77 September 55.088.57 October 65,113.92 November .... 70,849.67 December 108,255.18 Total for 1917 343,796.11 1918. January $ 224,931.92 February 288.427.31 March . 402,249.96 April ....................... 588,301.58 May 1,073,909.94 Total for 1918 ..; $2,577,820.71 Trusting that this data will prove of interest to you and with kind personal regards, I am. Very truly yours, - (Signed) EDWARD N. HURLEY, Chairman. U.S. MAY TAKE PACKING PLANTS Washington, Aug. 8. Investigation of the packing industry by the federal trade commission culminated today in an announcement the commission had recommended tosthe president that the government commandeer and oper ate for public benefit, stockyards, cold storage plants, ware houses and re frigerator and cattle cars. Monopol ists control of the food supply of United States, its army and navy and supply of the entente allies are charged against the five great packing plants. Close affiliation between the packing Industry and financial interests are re ported, it being charged the packers had representation on directorates of large banks through members of their families, officers, and directors or con fidential employes. CALL 130,207 REGISTRANTS TO THE COLORS Washington, Aug. 8. for 130,207 draft registrants to join the colors be fore the end of August were issued to night. One hundred thousand white registrants from forty-three state? were ordered entrained between August 26 and 30. Thirty thousand negroes will entrain from August 22 to 24. The assignments include: White Florida, 1300 to Camp Jack son, South Carolina; Georgia, 2750 to Camp Gordon. Negroes, Florida, 1,000 to Camp Joseph Johnston; Georgia 1,1 SI to Camp Jackson, and 2,000 to Camp Gordon.' SUFF. TROUBLE IS DENOUNCED Washington. Aug. 8. The suffrage demonstration attempted . Tuesday, which, resulted in the rest of forty. eight of the national woman's party, was denounced by senators at the semi-weekly session of that body. A number of suffrage senators declared that such demonstrations were nn calleed for and are hurtful to the cause. OF SHIP PLANT Gllfl S CE Inspiring: and Patriotic Address Delivered by Distin guished Speakers. REPLEDGE OF LOYALTTT B.Y ALL Site Takes on Governmental Air of Security by Cordon of Reg ular Soldiers There. Under the auspice of the United States Shipping Board. Director How ard I. Beal, of the national itrrjea sec tion, and John C. Taylor. Canadian . Expeditionary Forces, epoke to thev men at the Pensacola Ship Building plant yesterday afternoon at, 11:10 o'clock, introduced by Vice President John M. Sweeney, one of the execu tive heads of the ship building com pany. Mr. Beat, who first addressed the men, gave an inspiring and patriotic talk which dealt most particularly with the great importance of the worK which the men of tha emergency flet and Its allied activities were doing, making possible the transportation of ships and supplies across the water, for the remmforeement of the allies. Following Mr. Beal, ."Canada Jack." as Mr. Taylor Is known to service men. told a number of his experiences at Vimy Ridge, stirring the men with his message of service. At patriotic note was struck when Mr. Beal drew out an American' flag and called upon the men to again pledge their loyalty to the United States colors. with the men responding with much enthus iasm. REGULAR SOLDIERS ON DUTY AT SHIP PLANT. Forty or more regular soldiers from the post are now doing daily duty at the Pensacola shipbuilding plant, and have been for the past week or more. This guard is In addition to qute a police force which Is dally on duty there, working three shifts a day, un der regular chief of police and making reports from time to time w njei haps more palthful regularity 'than forces in many well-organized cities. It is understood" that the soldier de tachment is sent up by the war depart ment at the Instigation of tht local shipbuilding officials, but. It gives tht Pensacola plant an air of govercmentat security and it would not be wise for ' anything like an alien enemy to at tempt anything out of tha ordinary at the site. NEWS GATHERING IS INDISPENSABLE" SAYS'MR. BAM hii .. l a. - J. Washington, Aug.. 8. Newvp gathering is an indispensable In dustry. Secretary Baker said day in discussing tha draft regu latiens, though a particular mitfp relations to that industry must eie.' pend upon the facta in the aaa:: and tha possibility ; of replaoinf him. ' NO VOLUNTARY t ENLISTMENT IN, r ARMY AND NAVY Washington, Aug. 8. Voluntary, enlistment In army and navy has " been completely suspended to pre- . vent a disruption of Industry, ... pending the disposition of a bill proposing to extend the draft age to Include all men from 18 to 4a'.. Orders were issued today by Sec retaries Baker and Daniels direct ing, that no voluntary enlistments be accepted after today until fur ther orders. The orders also ex clude civilians from appointment to officers training camps until further notice. . CASUALTY LISTS CARRY 442 NAMES Washington, Aug. t. Army and marine corps casualty lista today con tained a total of 442 names, tha small est number since a toll of the Alnse Marne offensive began to come tn. In the army the killed were 143; died of wounds 16; died' from accident 5r wounded severely 81; wounded degree undetermined 31; missing 55. ' The marine corps killed was 2; died of wounds one; wounded severely 20; slightly, one; flegree undetermined, eleven. There were no Georgia or Florida names in the night lists. n D 4