Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 16, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Bulletin VOL. LIX—NO. 169 POPULATION 29,519 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1918 TEN PAGES—76 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS FIERCE BATTLES N PROGRESS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CITY OF RHEIMS West of the Cathedral City the Germans Have Crossed the Marne at Several Places EAST OF CITY THE ENEMY FAILED TO ABVANCE The Two Battle Fronts Aggregate About 65 Miles in Length —Between the Town of Fossey and the River Surmelin, Where the Germans Crossed the Marne, the Americans in Strong Counter-Attacks Forced Back the Enemy to the Right Bank of the Stream, Taking More Than 1,000 Prisoners—In Their New Offensive the Germans Have Used a Tremendous Amount of Explosive and Gas Shells, Numerous Tanks and Naval Guns—Rheims Ap- pears to Be the Objective of the New Offensive, as the First Stage Seems to Be an Effort to Envelope the City and Force Its Capitulation—British and American Troops Are Now in Control of the Entire Murman Coast in Northern Russia. night that the Americans had cap- of Germans were on the ils| yreq 3 thousand or more prisoners S EH] m"un on o9 "l.U-‘jJ side of the river south of tae Marne, and to having gress on both | showering high explosives and _gaS|Griven back the enemy. Mr. Honar shells upon them. But the boys from |}, read the lollowing communication the United States went forward, nev- {25 -4 the. ertheless, with gas masks adjusted and | “.ple ‘onemy attacked carly this crawling at times for considerable | morning on a front of ninety xiwme- distances on all fours. = ires, preity cvenly Givided east and sermans under | In this way they advanced bit by |yesi of Rneims. The vity itself was pmbers of | Pit, and when they came within N2e {not attacked.. close_enough to come to =rips With | W\Woct of Rheims the Germans pen- the Germans, they drove the enemY | rated om a front of 56 Rilemotres jve back dn quick order, . . miles to an average depth of enabied s ) _in a measure they repeated today | {rom' foun 1o fre Kilomarses. ox. I ihe heroic deeds of those who defended | South of the Marne by a brilliant e bee the road to rarls in the second bat-| counter attack the American troops gains, by t tance, ol e of the Marne. {drove the ememy back and took 1 Altozether = thousand or more prisoners. sout | AMERICAN INFANTRY MET “East of Rheims, the enemy has o ; THE ONCOMING BOCHE |bven heavily repused and nas sut- ng val- fered a complete checl they aave been | Machine Guns Poured a Stream of | Sir Walter Runciman said that the ng, a W ints ve met Bull W ), offar_congratu- notabie success. At Vaux they hag i L T i-...on\ Gt 0 Sfer cpem not atone Lroke down a vielent attuck ;- 4 the American troops, who had justi- %1 with the o o | the Ame s S ne it drove him back | Wil in N garmy on thelfiea themselves not for the first time . 1 yurds ad only re-j ., s T+ . i |6 a critical occasion. : Ge: southwes aulgonne . mer positions when | Germans southwest ot Jaulgonne this|™ 5 ¢ e reading the communtcatton, - o morning crossed the river with al|, %9 oy v the Germans southeast |JLOTINE crRet e e i art | v, Bonar Law said it had reached ) h oo h and promptly started to fizht [ : Ldt hacs % g 76t “their | thelr way to the south, having ab their | B2 from the front shortly befors 11 o v object a out iles dis- o i 5 " por hes ¢ rategi cvalue i T ket omne miles dis<1” 9 may add,” he said, “in addition to Americans Drive Enemy Back. |up this advance 1o such am exjent|What I am going to reid, that the! Along Marre. baiween the town|that two hours after the time set by | FTlme MIISer nas ‘1:’:“]f’|’1 '!_’;:r‘ll‘?':;l Fossg the R Surmelin, | the enemy for reaching his objective, | Communication with St st - ed the Aia o 5 [the report. given to him as comins | Germans crossed the Miarne, | he was still far away from o e i b rong countec-at-| While fighting in {he open tontin- | ff0m General Foch 18 that he s well K ne wnemy fo theued heroically, the American counter- | Sitisfled with the results o e o strean At other lattack was organized. Lignt artillery | NSnUNS alons the river they used towas hurried into position. It concen- | e the greatest advantage their wachine | irated a heavy fire at short range. and | GERMANS ARE SHELLING suns wsainst enemy elements which|when this fire had ceased the Amer- sing the river on pontoon |ican infantry dashed from cover and THE AMERICAN FORCES killing or wounding many of | met the oncoming boche. e the counter-attack nea: Foc- | Machine gunners moved forward, | But They Are Getting Shell For Shell and 1500 Germansand, Iying on the ground, poured a| in Return. er by the Ameri-|stream of bullets into the enemy. The = i men_included a|fierceness of the fire brought the Ger-| With the American Army on The stafl. Tae French|mans up short. Thev would not face | Marne, July 15.—(By The Associdted T n command on this sector|the steel, and, hesitatingly at first, fi- | Press.)—At 5 o'clock this evening the e congratuiatory message to rally broke and fell back. Within|Germans werg heavily shelling the 4l in command of the American | three hours the Americans had driven | American forces but were getiing shell roops them two and a half miles to the|for shell in return, and their fire seem- The Germans, in addition to thair | Marne, ed to he diminishing. remendous expenditure of explosite The Vaux district is comparatively as shells used numerous tanks st the lines of <o ope: the defenders and nents of towns and cities 1 ttle line, dropping rom 10 and upon (hem inch pieces Rheims the German Objective. The deta the strategic scheme he Germans have in view hav: been folded. It seems gappar- however, that the main objectiv: the first stages of the offensive is the throwing of their es soutnward » both sides of Rheims, enve that city and forcing its capituls The gaining of the southern bank of e Marne and the straightening ont sastward of their batt e toward Verdun also may be in the programme of the German hizh command. Suc- cess in these movements would be of freat strategic value to the Germans if it is intended by them ultimately to attempt to drive on to Parl British Harass German Lin While the Germans are inakl their drive in the south the British around Ypres ure pecking away at the German lines with success as regards aking the gaining of ground and the of prisoners; the French and I in Albania are keeping up their spc tacular drive against the Austrians and the French and Italians in the mountain region of the Italian theater daily are harassing the cnemy with patrol attacks of considerable vio- Jence and bembardments. In the few instances where the Austrians in this region lately have tried to take tegic positions they have met with a! most instant repulse. in Palestine Turkish and German troops penetrat- ed British positions north of Jericho, but almost immediately were ejected with the loss of more than 560 men made prisoner, including 260 Ger- nan Allies Centrol Murman Coast. British and American troops are now in control of the entire Murman coast in northern Russja, according to unofficial advices. It is through rhis \erritory that it is hoped ultimately to lend aid to Russia by way of the Aretic ocean. In violent fighting with the Bolshevik troops in middle Rus- sia, Czecho-Slovak forces hava ca tured the important commercizl city of Kazan, which lies on the Voiga river 430 miles east of Moscow. lians AMERICAN TROOPS WENT FORWARD IN THE OPEN While Being Showered With High Ex- plosives and Gas Shells. With the American Army on the Marpe, July 15.—By the Associated Press). Alone one extended sector of he Marne front, the Americans wers oges ground, o the use as ed with numerous naval guns r not | Shells With the Am Marne, July Press) liberately of tr Marne front tod: vond disturbing With Marne Press) attac the July A Am in retreat the enemy railway gion southwest position is now ers were taken. jor, counted The the French group of aj sent a congrat afternoon to t commanding GERMAN Rifle or M ican. This is ports from all these cases are ht of the Germans Fell Distance From Them. intermittentl: from them. They 5—(By In the counter-attack many of ATTEMPTED TO SHELL AMERICAN HOSPITALS erican —(By Army on to shell a. a short did no damax the patients. FRENCH GENERAL SENDS CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE erican Army The on way of Jaulgonn=. being held. They general commandinz rmies on this sector ulatory message this he American gel the forces which back the enemy. INFANTRY NO MATCH FOR AMERICANS Few Americans Were Wounded From achine Gun Fire. evidenced by th; serious. BONAR LAW TELLS OF CAPTURE OF GERMANS By Americans South of the Marne— More Than 1,000 Taken. TLondon, July < el 15.—Andrew sever: near the A number of shells distance whatever shelter a Short th. The Associated The Germans apparently attempted American hospitals de- a . be To American Forces Which Beat Back the Enemy. the Associate, strong American counter- south of the river bend com- pletely upset the Germans, who broke The American troops drove back all the skirting the Marne in the re- This to the prison- included a ma two captains and 400 men, so far neral beat With the American Army on the | ure. Marne, July 15—(By The Associated| Reports from reliable sources in Press). The correspondent talkeq | Sweden indidate a surprising change with some American soldiers now in | of sentimen: amone the Finnish people | hospital, who were in the thick of the |toward their Cerman-controlley gov- fighting this morning. They were in|ernment, ing it impossible for that complete agreement that the Cerman|government to raise anv volunteer; infantry was no match for the Amer- re. the American hospi- tals, there being only a few cases of wounded from rifle and machina gun fire, while most of the men are suffer- ing from shrapnel wounds. Some of Bonar Law, chancellor of thé exchequer, an- Cabled Paragraphs: Paris Being Bombarded. London, July 15—The bombardment of, Paris with the German long range guns began again this afternoon, ac- Cording to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from the French capital. K. of C. Opens Second Club in London London, July 15.—The second of the clubs of the Knights of Columtus was opened in London this afternvon, It is situated in the Ldgeware Road. Wal- ter Kerman of New York, overseas commissioner of the Knights of Co- lumbue, and delegates of the supreme ouncil of the Knights wer: present iis also were prominent English Cath- olics and representatives of ths Amer. ican army and navy. BOSTON ELL MEN REQUEST ARSITRAT!ON AGREEMENT Of the Wage Demands of the Boston Street Car Men's Union. Boston, July 15.—An agreement re- questing arbitration of the wage de- mands of the Boston Street « Union by the National War Board was presented to President Matthew C. Brusk of the Boston Ele- vated Street Railway Company today by a committee representing ihe union. If the state trustees of the road sign the agrecment the demands of the men will be submitted to the National War Labor Board alcng with some forty other wage schedules from locals of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electri Railway Emp! of America in all parts of the countr: rounced in the house of commons to- calm now. On_the American heavy fighting is in progress. American machine gunners along the river assisted materially in break- | ing up the carly boche plans. for they | stuck to their post and poured deadly | streams of bullets into the enemy, and only withdrew when their guns were| <0 hot that they, could not be fired. One | group of machine gunners happened to De in a place where the Germans were anxious to ercct a bridge, but their efiorts were fruitiess. The America | buliets piled up_the German dead on the opposite side of the river every ting the enemy tarted to cross. right | 1 NEW PHASES IN SITUATION IN RUSSIA AND SIBERIA Strength of the Soviet Government Has Been Greatly Strengthened. Washington, July 15.—Although ov- ershadowed by the tremendous devel- opments on the western front, the sit- uation in Russia and Siberia is daily presenting new phases. At no less than three widely separated points have the opposition to the Soviet gov- ernment greatly strengthened their po- sitions, thus heavily taxing the inade- quate military machino of the Bolsh- viki. On the shores of the Arctic and the| White Seas, the small international entente force which has been holding the railroad terminus at Kala and Mu mansk has been considerably rein- forced and siunderstood to be advanc- ing southward along the railroad to- wards Vologda and Moscow. It is ad- mitted officially that there are some American sailors and mari in the neighborhood of Kola, but is is doubt- ed whether, in the absence of special instructions. they would participate in this southward movement unless it | were necessary as a defensive meas- troons to attack the entente forces on | the Tine of the Kola-Moscow Railroad. | his ¥ q the minds of offic: reaiize that this railroad could ty held only by a very large force ii attaclked from Finland. Cut ting off communication in' that wa would greatly endanger the position of the entente forces on the Murmansk coast when winter. come: With Finiand virtually neutral and | the local population in the Murmansk | country coming to the aid of the en- tente forces, it is believed that the al- Llies are rengionably sure of heing able to maintain a_channel of communica- tion with central .Russia and Siberia against any German attack. Chemical Companies Feared ‘Seizure CHANGED FROM GERMAN TO AM- ERICAN CONTROL AT OPENING OF WAR W. O. Hamann, Directing Head of Three Companies, Admits the Object of the Transfer Was to Prevent the Concerns Falling Into the Hands of the Government. New York, July Almost simul- taneously with the United States'sev- erance of diplomatic relations with Germany, control of three large chem- ical companies in_this city, Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Perth Amboy, N. I, was transferred from German to American_ownership to prevent the concerns falling into the hands of this sovernment, W. A. Hamann, directin - head of the companies, and Oscar R. Seitz, who went to Germany to negotiate the sale of stock, today admitted that this was the object of the transfer. They tes- tified at an inquiry conducted here by Deputy Attorney ~General Becker of New York at the request of A. Mit- chell Palmer, alien property custodian. Denied They Were Dummies. While denying American that he and other purchasers of the controll- k were “dummies” servinz for German interests until after the war, Mr. Hamann confessed freely that fear of government seizure of the property we “had worked so hard to build up” prompted the sending of Seitz as a nfidential ~messenger to Germany carly in 1917 to buy out the German shareholders. Mr. ~Seitz. who com- pleted the purchase in Frankfort on I'eb. 6,,three days after .President Wilson sent Ambassador Von Bern- storff his passports, said _that thz “break” was the final factor in induc- ing the Germans to sell their stock. The Comnanies Concerned. The companies concerned tre the Roessler and Hasslacher Company, the Niagara Electro Chemical Company, and the Perth Amboy Chemical Com- pany. They were established by the Scheide-Anstaldt Company. of Irank- fort, which until the date mentioned held 55 per cent. of the stock. Con- trol was given to. American citizens by sale of 7 per cent. of the holdins: at prices which ‘the alien - propert custodian alleges were far below thei value. To contradict the claim of Hamann and Seitz that the German sharehold- ers were willing to sell at a sacrifice to insure retemtion of the properties by the Americans who had represent- ed _them,. the government .offered “in evidence a_letter from Dr. Fritz Roes- sler, a principal in the Scheide-An- staldt company, to Mr. Hamann, which said: ‘Rather than accept genuine sale at inadequate price would let the worst come and trust to a fizht for "our rights in free America.” The letter was mailed at Frankfort cnly two months before the sale of control, which invoived almost $1,000.- 600, PLANS FOR TAKING VOTE OF MEN IN SERVICE Ballots to Be Returned to Secretary of State in Sealed Envelopes. Partford, Conn., July 15.—Plans are now beink mdde it is learned. for the participation in the fall clections of 13,443 Connecticut electors in camp and naval training stations in this country and at the front in France. In order to make as certain as po: ble that the ballots will reach the elec- tors overseas the secretary will send dulpicate ballots on separa ships. They will be sent to individual sol- diers- and to designated officers for distribution These baliots are to be returned to the secrctary of state in sealed en- velopes with ‘the soldier's town and voting district indicated on the en- velope These . envelopes will -then be tributed to the proper officials in s towns to. be deposited in di the | the ballot boxes on election da; The absent electors by counties are Hartford, 3. New Haven 4.31%; Tairfield 2,695; Litchfield 759: Middle- sex 523: New London 1.161; Windham 394; Tolland 304 OPERATORS OF CANADIAN TELEGRAPH CO. TO STRIKE To Compe! the Reinstatement of Two Employes of G. N. T. Co. Toronto, July 15.—nlesUs the gov- ernment intervenes, the operators of the Great Northwestern Telegraph Co. all over Canada will go on sirike at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, union lead- ers declared tonight. The action will be taken to compel reinstatement by the company of twe of its employes. dis- missed some time ago for allezed mis- use of the company’s wires to trar mit betting information, on which charge the men in question were tsied and acquitted in court. The company has been holding out for a further in- vestigation. AVIATOR HAROLD HIGGINS KILLED IN ENGLAND Son of Former General Manager of the New Haven Road. New Haven, Conn., July 15.—Lieu- tenan: Flarold Higgins of the British royal air service, and Higzins, former general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad, was killed in the per- formance of duty somewhere in Eng- land last Saturday. A cablegram an- nouncing the death was received by Mr. Higgins at his home in New York today. Liegtenant Higgins was 21 vears 0id, He sailed for Enzland June SPLIT IN THE BOOT AND SHOE WORKERS’ UNION | Of Members in Factories in Brockton, | ‘Whitman and Avon, Mass. Brockton, Mass. July 15.—Striking shoe cutters from factories in this city, Whitman and Aven voted today to quit the boot and shoe workers’ union and form a new orsanizataion to be known as the Independent Association of Cut- ters. Leaders said 2,700 were repre- sented at the meeting and expressed determination to continue the strike until their demand for wage increases were granted. son of Samuel, German Planes Use American Insignia THUS DISGUISED THEY CLOSED IN ON AN AMERICAN BALLOON SET BALLOON AFIRE Made Their Escape By Means of Parachutes—17 Am- erican Pursuit Planes Pursued Five The Occupants Enemy Aircraft—Last Seen Within the Enemy Lines. With the American Army on the Marne, June 15—(By The Associated Press). Five Gérman airplanes, mod- elled after the machines American aviators are using and carrying Amer- insignia ican on the wings, attacked one ¢ American sausages souti of Thierry this evening and managed to get so close under the dis- zuise that they were able to fire in- endiary bullets into the balloon, which burst into flames. The eccu- pants of the sausage, however, mad: their escape by means of parachutes. Seventeen American pursuit planes immediately left the ground. and when weil iast seen they all were inside the enemy lines. Along the front as far can see the big zuns were stil ing and roaring tonight, and the batti Fave no sign of diminishing. Ameri- can staff officers, nevertheless, expect that the position will be even more improved by morning. OPENING OF TRIAL OF REV. THEODORE BUESSEL German Lutheran Pastor, of Bristol, Charged With Seditious Utterances fighting Hartford, Conn.. July 15.—Rev. dore Buessel, a Gern tor of bristol, testifying in his own behalf in the federal court here to- day where he is on trial charged with seditious uiterances, declared he had no aims, hopes or interests except those of the United States. He plead- ed not suilty to the . zovernment's charges, denied recollection of hav made the statements alleged aga him and asserted he had made siurring ‘remarks about the States flag. The trial Theo- n Lutheran pas- ng nst no | United before York and charged with to be “noth- war,” and of derozatory to and navy, and the se of Germany and the Three witnesses were called 3 the government, the chief beinxMaric (. Kerr of Searsport, Me., a government agent. She told of tal ing @ room in February in the board- was begun today Judge H. ifowe of New @ jury. The accused aving declared the war ing but a Wall Street making other remarks the country, arm: flag and in pr: kaiser. ing house where Buessel lived, or a dinner at a Hartford restaurant in May when she and Miss Leonore C. Murphy, another investigator, iwere guests of Buessel, and of a gathering in her room at.the Bristol hoarding house at which her husband S. Kerr, Miss Murphy and Buessel vere nresent. On both occasions the witness said wine or liquor was serv the accused drinking, and making tatemeris aileg: Misg Murphy and Ke; zave corro- | vorative testimony. In his defense the accusex sald on { ihe stand that he had taken liguor on hoth occasions. He was not ordinar- {1iy_a drinking man, he said, and was |easily affected by intoxicants. He d no recollection of having made any of the statements he is accused of. He was still on the stand when adjournment was taken until tomor- row. COVFESSED TO STEALING 100 BLANK GOVERNMENT CHECKS James Benjamin Vaughn, a Youth, is Under Arrest at Seattle, Washington July 15.—The most im- portant public foreery case growing out of the war came to light todav through the arnouncement of W. T. Moran, chief of the secret that James Benjamn Vanghan outh under ar- service rest a: Seattle hud confessed to steal- ing 100 blank g ment checks from the quartermaster’s office at Camp Upton Y. and passing 28 for amounst agzresating more than $3,000. The « were cashed by merchants and ho#ls in New Vork. Chicago. San i -ancisco and Seattle. They bore the forged signature of' Major Willis B. Hayes. acting quartermaster at Camp Upton, the secret service charges. Vaughan is 23 vear Spartanbure, S.'C.. and until May 22 was employed as a cl in the Camp Upton auartermaste spent the money freely, living at hotels and entertaining friends 1 old, a native of s office. He £ood . e was to have married a_Chic 20 girl this week, He is awaiting ex- tradition to New YoYrk for trial. CHARGED WITH ASKING FOR A BRIBE OF $100 Oswald Cericola, Government Inspec- tor of Overalls at Roanoke, Va. Roancke, Va.. July 1 5—Oswa'd Cer- 1 zovernment inspector, detailed § overalls being made for the 7 ‘s department of the army ¢ the Biue Ridze Overall Com- city, is under arrest here on a warrant ck nz him with ask ine for a br 5100 to pass ear- ments not un to sovernment snecifica- tions. Tnable to furnish $5.000 he is held in custody awaiting at the Augast term of = the feder: court. Officials of the averall company co-operated with the dJdepartment of istice gatherink evidence against Cericola pany of this hail OBITUARY. Joe Weleh, Covn., July 15—7Joe the best known Jew- he American_ stage, im at Greens Farms, this morning at 9 o'clock, Bridgeport, Welch, 45, one of |l~h comedians {died in a sanita: Westport, He was walkinz around the ward of i the hospital en stricken wi a {1ainting speil and died in five min- iutes.. He had been in the nospital labout a month to recover his mental | poise and during the early period at { the . sanitarium showed signs’of im- provement but of late suffered several relapses. Several specialists from were called into_consta ous times and ail of them agreed there was little hone for a complete recoy- ery. He is survived by his wife, mother and some brothers. The body was taken to New York for burial. | Station. ed | boys, Condensed Telegrams British casualties for the week to- talled 14,911 officers and men. More than 100 soldiers were arrested in Washington for not saluting officers. The Fuel Administration announced a ban beginning Dec. 1, on country clubs using coal. Much railroad material, wool and straw were transported to Belgium through Holland last week. Fire in the garage of the Knicker- bocker Ice Co. at Rockville Center, L. L, caused $20,000 damage. The Amsterdam Telegraaf says the death of many Germans is from hunger and not from the Spanish grip. Beef may be used at one meal every day and served not more than four consecutive hours in restaurants. Of nearly 2,000 men in the draft age arrested in Indianapolis 600 were un- able to produce registration cards. The 3,000 Dutch seamen and officers of the ships taken over last March by the United States were sent home, Tom Sharkey, pugilist, and Tom Gal- lagher, famous runner. enlisted in the service of the Y. M. C. A. as instruc- tors. Karl Rosner, the Kaiser's war cor- spondent at_the front, with -the aiser, says Wilhelm would “harness the sun.” Lieut. Nunggsser, French aviator,| has been officially credite,i with 38 vie- tories. Two new aces each won ten victories. President Wilson nominated Major- General William Crozier and Major General Henry G. Sharpe for service in France. The arrival of Charles M. Schwab at | Portland, Ore., shipyard, was lebrat- | ed by the launching of the hulls of six wooden ships. An American made Caproni airplane | equipped with a Liberty motor made | a successful flight at Mincola field with three passengers. Two hundrad soldiers, principally from the harbor forts, apeared in fed- | WASHINGTON ELATED WITH WAR» NE\'IS Secretary Baker Says Reports at the End of the Fu‘st Day Are Encouraging RESISTANCE EFFECTIVE ALONG ENTIRE FRONT Every Line of The Associated Press Report Was Read By President Wilson, Secretary Baker and General March —All Showed Delight as It Became Apparent That the Enemy Had Met With a Decided Check in the First Rush of His Greatest Effort Thus Far—Latest Advices Showed the Germans Were No Nearer Their Objective Than When the Offensive Was Launched at Daylight Yester- day—Further Desperate Fighting is Expected. Washington, July 15.—An air of ela- tion was apparent in government ci cles tonight as Associated Press des {the assault were made brought out by ment of is sharply the intensive bombard- the positions in rear of the patches from Irance unfolded the|iranco-American-Italian lines with story of the valiant stand of American suns which hurl- troops along the Marme against the into towns more than twenty renewed German offensive. miles back of the defending lines. Official advices were stow and no| Probably much of the thirty day pe- formal report on the German effort|riod the Germans have taken to make to drive the jaws of a great pincer|ready was devoted to moving these movement about Rheims on a sixty five mile front was available at a late hour. Press reports made it clear, weapons into position and setting them in place for high angle fire. The work had to be done at night to avoid the however, that the enemy had not oniy | ceaseless watchfulness of Armerican been siopped but hurled back by |and French airmen. American_counter-attacks along the e i H uns H 07 N Marne, where the Americans hold the ) Hngdlocibyicaie, left flank of the zreat battle front,| The guns probably come from the while the French army, aided near Rheims by Italian divisions, stood fast over the far greater extent of the line they defended against fierce a by the enemy. Reports Eagerly Aw: reserve stock and are handled by detachments of sailors from the fleet: There is no warrant, officials believe, in any suggestion that the German fleet | has been stripped of great cannon to provide the means of blasting a way for the attack. ed. = | At the White House the president 28isy finalinaturalization’ papers. did not v At the war depariment |jine shows that General Foch was T Secretary , General March, chief | fully forewasr o G B ke John Wahl, a well known riding in- | of staff, ang other high officers at the r?l,',,.\v ‘::f‘:‘a ,'('f,d !?fe ':(mf,frflgflffi "5:_ structor, and head of a riding acad- | department received cagerly the bricf | veton. 1t apiears erie ahaC il 46 $my n Greenwich died at his home!glimpses of the battle flashed across|hic reserves close upand ont gersmiit there yesterday, aged G2 yvears. the couniry in press bulletins fromthe enemy in this vital factor. - .. |the battle front. Every line of The 2 3 The Rev. Dr. Fort Newton, Minis- | Accociated Pre AR President Spend Hour With Baker. 5 ter of the City Temple, London. has|promptly relayed o -y m as the wires| President Wilson been requested to undertake a special | Government mission to America. Mrs. Adolphus Busch, widow of the late brewer, made application for her property claiming that she has lost her status on return to this country Four men of the crew of the Spanish tramp steamer Serantes. which burned off the flats of South Brooklyn when her cargo of oil took fire, are dead. A large mass meeting in Trafalgar Square London, demanded that all emy aliens be mterned and all of emy taint” be removed from pu office. Twelve persons were terday when a B wa injured yes on Eievated Ra n ran into a bumper at the North The Dutch government protested the dropping of two bombs by a British hombing plane, wounding one person and causing material damage near Ouderschans. A raid on a saloon at Eighth Avenue and Forty-seventh New York, discovered a picture of the Kaiser and von Hindenburg concealed behind the American flag. Premier Lloyd George speaking at a_dinner in honor of Canadian editors visiting England said that the colonies will have a voice in the peace terms because they have earned it. Payments under accident insurance or amounts received as the result of a or compromise for personal in- are not subject to income tax, the internal revenue bureau ruled v terday. The American steamer George L. Eaton sprang a leak while on her way to Brest owing to the abnormally hot weather and was sunk by a war- ship. The crew were taken aboard the warship. shuttle train trom the South Sta- | spent nearly an hour with Secretary Baker late in the day and it is probable that the battle situation was talked over, although no check in the first rush of his greatest | Announcement of the purpert of the It ko visit was made. Later Mr. Baker The fact that.credit for stopping the |'he had ‘only the press reports of the | beaviest parts of the assault thus far | fighting by which to judge but he reported belonas to- men of the first|could not hide his deen satisfaction at | American corps added to the feeling of | the showing made by the Americags in brought it in, was st 5 ed with grow- ing delight as it becu.N> apparent that | the enemy had met with a decided | elation officials had difficulty in con- | their limited sectors of the fighting cealinz. front. After readinz tonight's reports, Sec- Only a Forerunner, . retary Baker made the following state- | Officials were strongly incyned. to- ment to The As sociated Pres Secretary Baker’s Statement. “The attack made by the Germans is evidently the result of careful preparations. It covers a wide front and is madi force. We are at the {end of the day of a great battie. | The far are encouraging night to believe that the present .Ger- man effort is intended only as a fores runner for a later assault to the north toward tne channel ports. If it proves successful in dislodging the Frenehe Italian defenders of Rheims by later direct assault or by pressing the pin- cer ‘movement, it is argued that the Franco-British reserves back of Amiens might be drawn into the de- fense of Paris, weakening the ling, in the Albert region which is regarded as the certain objective of. the whole German plan of campaign. The German official :pitement to- night added to the impression that a striking defensive victory had been won on the first day of the battle. Its meagre claim that “parts of the Irench positions” had been penetrated was in vivid contrast with the extent in fi reports and seem to indicate hoth heavy fight- s0 ing and effcctive entire front.” The prompt ter-atta resistance along the | and hard-driven coun- of the American troops at | two points sent a glow of enthusiasm | through the whole war department when the word first came, Before the results were known, the fact that the counter-attack had been launched was cheering. It showed the Americans were meeting their first great test like veterans and that the German at- tempt to overrun them had failed to(Of the effort made. It was read as an disorzanize or demoralize their fighting | admission of initial faiiure, the extent power. of which is not to be revealed to the Then came word that at Vaux not!German people, v had the enemy been stopped but his advancing infantry had collided with Americans who first deluged their opponents with machine gun fire_then leaped forward to disrupt completely the blow at this section that had been in careful preparation for more than chirty days. All Doubts Set at Rest. Meanwhile meazve reports from Lon- don said the Marne had been crossed STRIKE AT LOWELL PLANT OF GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Work on War Cnn(rgc!s Seriously Hampered—No Formal Demands Made Lowell, Mass. July 15.—Organizas tion of strikers whose walkout at the biz plant of the General Electric com- The torso of a woman was discover- ed floating in Mount Hope bay. half a mile from the point in Taunton, Mass., river. where the and other portions of a human were found last week. Thirty-five members of printers’ international day. presented about the head body the plate union vester- President Wilton with a steel engraved parchment bearing a | picture of the president and an tract from his address delivered fore the American bor at Buffalo last e- Federation of La- November. FIRST SHIPMENT OF 150 HUT HOSPITALS! Have Arrived the United States. Tondon. 5 ment of the 130 hut hospitals the Ame Red Cross has built the United States for the eight: camps throughout Great Brita today. The huts could not be con- ted in England on account of the ze of lumber without crippling important war work, o the American Red ('ross had them shipped in knock- down form, thus gettinz them into a far smaller cargo spaes than would have heen required even for the lum- ber to build them. The hnts wh arrived be immediatcly set up as camn sari olation hospitals and escent wards at aviation north Engzland. July shor nval- camps in TWO DROWNINGS ON NEW HAVEN WATER FRONT One When Man Fell Overboard, the| Other When Canoe Upset. New Haven. Conn.. July 15.—Two drownings on the water front occurred here teday. Louis Domino, a young married. man fell overboard from a M River dock while stepping from ladnch on return from trip..Hugh Short Jr., 16, years one of a canoeing party of half a dozen lost his life at Morris Cove when the camae overturned. in Great Britain From | the enemy at several points. De- i Caits ere awatted With some appre. |U4RY here foday seriousiy hampered hension. . Hour by hour the story fil- | WOrk on war contracts, has proceedod: tered in but the bulletin that told of | rapidly according to strike leaderss |the huriing beck of the foe in thelBetween 6.000 and §,000 employes who Conde sector where his first rush had | have heretofore been unorgarized are pushed back the Americans out of the|said by the leaders to have joined salient they held opposite Jaulgonne,!unions connected with their de. | did not come until tonight. Its mes-| No formal demands were made up- | sage set all doubts at res on the company during the day. The | Blahig el only announcement as to ths ~ause of P Amerie; He was driven back to|the strike came through prass raports- !the river and manv prisoners, | 0f a mass meeting at which speakers I by the destruction of |demanded the reinstatement of em-. | their bridges hehind them were taken. |Dloves s#id to have been discharzed H for connection with labor unions, the coznition of shop conumittess, Tanieht er. General | changes in worl nz conditions and an, eased wage scale. It had been expect Joys. Is were late at g the map un- d_that John Col- a federal lahor coneilintor, would ! x shape @8 ihe sent to this city in an effort to i French of ring about a sattlement f the trou- controlled the!ile, hut tonight it was said that in: orts thai badliis place H. J. Skeffington. of Boston, chowed hat | representative in this district of the. heen virtually held federal Jabor board, would come here. SREAE o zreat extent of the| The company issued mo form: f2ht had selected {statement concerninz the situaticns t day of the thourh seme of their offici e ons of th employes had been d hor activit] Manyv departments at the plant closed down while others were operated on a reduced scale. als denied e strikers that, charged for; la he 1leza i MRS. JULIA HEATH DECLINES TO RESIGN nt of the Naticnal wives' League. House- il 15, — Mrs. Juls the National hose resiznation. Ve pro ! overal weeks ago. todayé 3 preparatior | mal refusal to com: in & | short. | atement character: | What tomorrow | gener: action as eannot he told {2 ‘,‘rM[ guer of “conditions 1o { he form of insin n el et em | charges.” Her in the | ecnviction here, however. e ene- | league’s fight against food aduiterators, measu-e has hesn taken definitelr | Mrs. Heath declared rendered her hes- ana that the line will hold. 1o matter | i2nation and the dissolution of the what force he hurls-aga'nst it. Te leasue desirable to interested parties, he surrendered. but decisive) Who she od = I military victory is believed to be far- — away for the Germons tonizit Newsoapers Advance Price. - L e anchester. N. H., July 15. — The anchester Leader «md the Manches-" ter Mirror, afternoon dailies, today ad-: vanced their prico from one cent to two- cents a copy. March Preparations For the Assault, The care with which preparations for