The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1918, Page 4

"AGH ON FOES * tines a From Page One| Riperete encounter continues eastward, in the region of wood, St. Agnan and La ~Monthodon, with the pans fighting elbow to elbow the French. line south of the Marne sways And forth as the opposing ar pe continue in their grapple of ‘The latest definite inforsna that the Marne line in- the Americans extends from to St. Agnan, to La Chappelle to Comblizy, to Le Mes » thence northeastward to Wild Battle Mediey of one kilometer (621 mile) Mesnil-Hutier represents the al progress mace by the enemy in ; of terrific fighting. Attacks " attacks follow each oth bewildering succession and are by unprecedented artil his shows the Americans ar an unbroken front of more Miles south of the Marne. Chateau Thierry eastward to five miles cast and north of Thierry, the Germans have pee across the river and tempted to recross. From Ditunenetwere to St. Agnan, a of six miles, the Americans tly are opposing the boches From there eastward and d. they are brignded French. is two miles directly east of Comblizy is four miles of La Chappelle-Montho- | Le Mesni!-Hutier is about four farther to the northeast and two miles south of the Marne) French Praise Americans Americans’ ability and dash in Attacks and in counter at has won the highest praise French officers. American and initiative and French | and gallantry, coupled Most excellent artillery sup-_ by French and American | fs what has held up the the Mont Mirail road, enemy expected to hold to men and w were peace in gardens. The stop the Germans by the Ameri east of Chateau Thierry upset ‘ ¥Y Program of operations to- oo, Mirail. ‘@ttack today was centering on on the American right, in to reach Epernay. Regiment Wiped Out instance of the German Prisoners said the American r fel 20 men, five were destroyed Sixth grenadier regi killed or captured. Three 0 (36,000 men) were d that they have not ap- in the battle since the first | nary weather has marked @aily. Scorching sunshine succeeded by clouds and, every hour with monoto- ty. e latest information shows that | divisions (520,000 men) used on the entire front. aviators have brought | Plane, raising their ; fighting in g in the present battle of the is most unusual. Companies, men, are waging their own in clearing out the boches. Smash Gun Nests “J. F. Brown, separated from zeatoon. encountered the captain h company Pointing at Wir enemy machine guns, the cap Mm said: “Let's get ‘em.” pair charged the nests, seem impervious to the hail of bul- B, and killed or captured the crews f of the guns. The prisoners re in their way, so Brown turned M over to the captain and clean the other two guns alone, tak encore! Prisoners and smash the pieces. fhe captain had started back to “American lines with his captives followed some distance in his ‘The sergeant encountered a » Corporal Pipp, who volun. to guard the prisoners. Brown ‘accepted, as he had just sight of a shallow section of half filled with dead boches other half was filled with very much alive. Brown's r rifle had becorne so hot he sould hardly hold it. But he across his arm and opened fire the a. Killing several of its cee ef the Huns yelled, “Kam. I right, come out,” Brown re- between shots. All of the numbering nearly a hun dropped their guns and surren — fear and encountered other mem Of their platoon with prisoners took charge of them ail. The | where Brown and the others fighting was being shelled aly. vILUS, YANKS GERMAN EFFORTS IN PERSHING SAYS UP HEROIC ©=FIFTH DRIVE DWINDLE a La Chappelle Mon: | ‘wiped out one entire rest: | it was abie to cross the ‘& group of six boats, each | utterly annihilated, every the fields and| . and even croups of two or | Brown and Pipp again started for Once Brown and Pipp | le L || wall Dispatch From Ed. L. Keene By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star ] | LONDON, duly 18.—G:15 a, m)—|! st dwindling efforts of the Ger: mans, originally spread over a front of more than 50 miles, are now con centrated on the 20mile front be- tween Vrigny and Combligny, in an attempt to advance toward Epernay and pinch off the Rheims salient, (Vrigny is four miles southwest of Rheims, Combligny ia 11 miles due west of Epernay and four miles south of the Marne) It is a lagging advance, petering out hourly Elsewhere there are fluctuating local attacks, decreasing in power and intensity Bast of Rheims, the French and Americans have completely stopped the Germans. South of the Marne. from Ch au Thierry to their with the the Americans are holding like a stone eastward ench Han Faces Failure | So far the Germans have fatled to| attain any of their objectives. They have engaged 30 divisions (360,000 men) and have nearly that number of reserves left, which it would be necessary for them to throw in if they would continue their push to: ward Epernay There in just the barest possibility that instead of using these reserves, in the apparently fruitless effort to take Epernay, the Germana will at tempt another gamble and attack the British in the Somme region toward Amiens, where the boches are active But the British are on the alert and in the meantime the allied reserves are growing London mornin cautiously optimi. declares there in a the failure will become a to the Hun.” It is dangerous to say It in a co. lonsa! defeat until we are more cer tain the German has shot his bolt,” the Mall said. newspapers are The Express posaibility that dinaster | YANKS AND FRENCN | CAPTURE (2 TOWNS iDodtinued From ‘Pag 2 Oney French in this offensive, which was laun morning. launched at 4:30 this Eight German cannon were captured by the French where. and Americans at Courchamps. Latest reports say that the advance continues every-| The towns named in the dispatch cover a front of more than seven miles. Chateau Thierry. Torcy is Licy-Clignon is a mile north of Torey. Hautesvesnes is two miles northwest. St. Gengoulph is three miles northwest; a mile and a half north, and Givra mard is two miles and a half nort! miles west of Torcy. | goulph. Belleau is five miles northwest of half west of Belleau. Vinly is three a mile Courchamps is is a mile east. Dam- and west of St. Gen-| American Brings in Prize Catch ' of 159 Teutons | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY } IN THE CHAMPAGNE, July 14. ( After killing or capturing the crews of four machine guns and raking a boche filled trench with his automatic rifie until the sur vivors surrendered, Sergt. J. F. Brown walked into © American headquarters late yesterday with 159 prisoners. “Tam sorry, sir, that I was un able to bring In at I had.” he said, in reporting, “but four of the wounded died on me.” | but they fought were surrounded. their way out with their automatic | rifles. | At the edge of the wood Brown's companions left him to “get some more Heinies,” and he herded his | prisoners along a shell-pitted road to | ward the rear, still clenching his trusty automatic. Arriving at headquarters, Brown | made an accurate count of his bag for the first time. There were 159 |of them, including @ major, a captain and two lieutenants. The sergeant ansured the commander he had a re |ceipt and turned over a pistol and pair of wire cutters he had taken from the major. Had Close Call Brown had narrowly escaped death a number of times, as his uniform was torn with bull arly in the fighting hia pack had been shot from his back by shrapnel Brown's feat was the climax of dozens of similar episodes. Eight Americans, captured by the boche were taken to the nomgb aide of t river. They overpowered guards, took valuable maps from a German officer, grabbed a boat and paddled back. A single machine gunner saw two of Huns advancing platoons ‘The gunner had n injured and waa unable to awerve it to bring them into the line of fire. Whipping out bis automatic pistol, he fir eral shots, picking off the on one side and causing them alter their This brough them within rang gun. He then wiped them out Small groups of Germann fliter thru the American but our line way not withdrawn. In atéad, the Americans hunted down and killed or captured every boct One American trumpeter took com: nev course. mand of his company when the cap-| tain became ADMIT SERVICE MEN AT BIG PICNIC FREE Soldiers and sailors will be admit: ted free to the annual B. B. plenic of the Hildeshetmer lodge, No I B. B., which will be held Sun day at Fortuna park. Luncheon will |be sold on the grounds. Picnic pro- eds will go to patriotic work. Boats every hour from Leschi park separated from them 502 i) ( Seattle ia determined to manufacturing and shipping the First National Bank to that end. is For ing for wervati line. Making Seattle a Shipping Center of the First Rank tle business men and houses, are always glad to give our customers the benefit of what experience and ob- First National Bank make of herseif center of the first determined to help an export rank, and all it can a long time we have been study eign trade opportunities for Seat and we jon have taught us along this First and dames En their | 0 | ENEMY TROOPS WILT IN PUSH FOR EPERNAY —% » L Continued From Page onal car this thrust with teaeasaat counter attacks, which at last re ports were causing many of Ger many’s most violent efforts to wilt without appreciable success ‘The fighting was described in bat tle front dispatches as the mvat furious of the offensive with the Ger man shock troops meeting the French counter assaults in repeated clashes, were not e of the machine! o¢ machines drop vast quantities of missiles, are frequent. 90 YOUNG MEN | BEGIN TRAINING ‘FOR U. S, MARINE Fifty young Seattle men, recruit lines near “pie | ed by Uncle Sam to take up training for the merchant marine at the new school constructed out of the Yacht club quarters, began service Thurs day “The call for motg men will not be issued immediately,” W. J. Grambn, supervisor of training and section chief, announced, “In about another week rything will be in shape. The young fellowa who reported to day are fine Americans between the | agen of 21 and 40. They will live in quarters here from now on.” The training ships Chippewa and Troquois will be used by the appren A huge ship's bridge has n constructed ashore, to be equip: ped and used for instruction. Prin ciples of navigation will be taught to classes SOLDIER LOSES HIS tices TOES ON RAIL TRACK) William J. Jewell, 24, private in Company 14, 44th Infantry, Camp Lewin, Is suffering the loss of all the toes of one foot, following an ope tion at the city hospital. He was run over by a freight train at What com ave. and Holgate st. at 2 a.m ‘Thureday. fle attempted to climb between the long line of freight cara, when the switch engine started up| with a jerk, Jewell fell with his foot on the rail, UNS FAIL TO MAKE OBJECTIVES jeast of Vaux | withering machine gun fire on bean | THE SEATTLE Ld i eal one 18, 1918, YANKS REGAIN MARNE SECTOR WASHINGTON, July 18 —Ameri can troops have gained entire pow seasion of their sector on the south bank of the Marne, Gen, Pershing reported today under date of July 17 German thrusts againat the Ameri can posit ‘Thierry up” *» northwest of Chateau “were completely broken Pershing’s communique fol “In the Marne sector, our troops have entirely gained pomseasion of the south bank of the river, North west of Chateau Thierry, the enemy yesterday repeated his attenmpt of the preceding day to penetrate our tines near Vaux, His attack was com pletely broken up by our Infantry and artillery fire before reaching our lines Yesterday in the region of Thia court, a hostile airplane was shot down by one of our aviators.” Northw of Chateau Thierry between evening of July 14 and the evening of July 16, the enemy made determined but entirely unsu cessful attacks on our positions near Vaux,” Section B said. “During the night July 1415 he delivered a heavy bombardment, which included the une of much gas and which In the early morning developed into a bar rage on the Vaux area Withering Fire of this, a storming the village. The kystem of infiltration by groups was used and some of the groups pansed one of our advanced outposta, north Our troops delivered the Axsault and counterattacked on the right of the assaulting party where the penetration had taken place At the same time our artillery dropped a barrage tn this section cut off the enemy's retreat. Th enemy fled but many were caumht by cur barrage and 15 taken prison ors “On the evening of July 15 the at tacks in this region were renewed. A box barrage, which again loctuded many gan shells, was placed by the lenemy on the Vaux region at 910 o'clock in the evening and several | large hostile groupe attempted tc j advance, firing heavily on « | tions, This attempt also col Our infantry nd a creeping t » batteries 70,000 BOCHES OWN IN TWO DAYS OF BATTLE iy United Press Leased Wire| Direct te The Btar PARIS, Joly 14. The Ger mana sustained fully ogy oe ualties in the first tw fighting in the “Dormans’ rev et.” south of the Marne, the Matin declared today. BY JOHN DE GANDT (United Preas Correspondent) PARIS, July 18—(1035 a m)— |The second phase of the new Ger man drive in the Chacnpagne region began today, when the allies again passed from the aggreasive to the dotenntve, according to the latest bat th front dispatches: The enemy is directing his heavi eat blows eastward, toward the for | Huns Are Hard Hit | Yesterday, the Germans throwing in their reserves, which had been massed in the rear, These were originally intended to be used only in developing any gréat {nitial cens. The fact that they are be ing thrown into the combat now is another indication that ine Germans are hard hit. French and American hammer blows have crashed into the enemy lines at every point since the drive began Dispatches * received during the night said the Germans had started an attack on the line from Fonsoy to Ocuilly, a front of more than 16 les, along the Marne, This battle takes In some of the ground recap ned in American and French counter attack earlier in the week Huge Shell Cyclone The Germans are across the Marne on a front of about 15 miles, but the strongest effort to develop this advantage is being made only along the roads to Epernay. To the th, they able to exploit their gain, inasmuch as the whole river valley is under a constant shower of Irench shell« A new feature of this offensive is the development of screen fire over a great belt of terrain behind the lines. In many places this belt of shell fire is miles deep, The | American and French batteries are searching every inch of the enemy ack areas with high explosives and allied bombing raida, in which scores | ost of the Mouptain of Rheims, which he expects to penetrate thru the middie and reach the main Rheims Epernay highway, splitting the f today Moderate estimates of the casual ties fiflicted by the Americans and French in the Marne fighting dur ing the first two days placed them at 60,000. Woman Attorney to Tackle Case “She'll have to stand on her own feet,” said Attorney Mark Litch man, representing Nathan P. alleged draft registration evader, when it became known that Char- lotte Kolmitz, new assistant U. 8 district attorney, would aasist prom- inently in the Birch trial in the federal court. “She'll stand on her own feet and rest on a north and south line your's, too, legally,” retorted Ben I. Moore, first assistant to the U. 8 district attorney Following the courtroom bad- inage, Judge Edward Cushman an nounced that the Birch case would be put over until Friday morning at 10 o'clock. BRITISH PUT BAN ON AIRPLANE EXHIBITION Bpecial to The Star by N. B.A LONDON, July 18-The use of British airplanes for exhibition pur poses and for dropping war loan propaganda, a use for which air planes have also b popular in America, has been prohibited by the air ministry. SMOKES A MATTRESS LANDLADY SUES HIM Special to The Btar by N. F. PARIS, July 18 —A@odger, o ioe the shortage of tobacco, smoked dried seaweed in his mattress. His landlady is now suing him for damages ROOSEVE Ts And the enormous lon And you never read Among the kalser's son We're selling now at CLEARANCE SALE, And On every HA rely will wi iT, COAT, \ Biren) These quotations from The Wash- ington (D. C.) Times, are full of good thought. Read them carefully. They occurred in an editorial which urged on soldiers the importance of caring for the teeth. Lock for mein year deoler's “Make sure that he has a good tooth brush— better still, two of them—when he leaves, and a supply of the kind of dentifrice that is conveniently care ried and conveniently used even in the dark 3 “See that every soldier has his good tooth brush and his good dentifrice, with frequent renewals of the supply.” 1 “conveniently used even in the dark.” Colgate’s comes out a ribbon, lies fiat on 3 “frequent renewals of the supply.” ate’s is the general favorite and is easily mailed. “SCHWAB TAKES UP SHIPYARD WAGES ———-——-—-—-i (brought about here and In Ei [Continued Fi From Page One} afternoon, Schwab and Dr. Baton going to Aberdeen and Piez remain ing in Seattle with members of the shipping board. The two parties will unite at Tacoma Friday or Sat urday An earnest tribute to the patriot iam of Theodore Roosevelt and syin pathy with him in the losy of his son Quentin, was extended by Schwab at the Wednesday evening meeting in the Arena, where an audience of 5,000 greeted the visitors. “What American heart ts there that does not throb with sorrow and sympathy when they read of the death of the son of one of America greatest men? asked Schwab. There are not the days when we stop to nak what a man's politica or his re jon may be. In the case of Quentin Roosevelt, the answer 4 that he was the noble son of a noble American father For Organized Labor Schwab and the other speakers te) nd their messages before a banner on which waa represented Washington's span in Pershing's bridge of ships. Plex lared himself as entirely in aympathy with organized Iabe “I stand not only for organized labor, but for an organized nation,” he declared “Think in terms larger than Se- attle,” advised Dr, Eaton, who told of the close relationship between capital and labor that was being DELIVERIES OF U, S, REVEALED WASHINGT( July 18.—When America Ughtene up her belt June 1, 1917, she made it possible for the United States to ship to the allies 844,600,000 more pounds of meats and fats and 80,900,000 more bushels of cereals during the ensuing 1 months than was possible the year previous. In a letter to President Wilson. outlining this nation's grocery deliv eries to her associates in arms ‘ood Administrator Hoover said that all the millions of our people who have contributed to the results| should feel a very definite satistac tion that In a year of universal food | the northern hemis shortages in phere, all of those people joined to gether against Germany. have come thru into sight of the coming har vest not only with health and strength fully maintained, but with only temporary — pe of hard ships.” The OLYMPIA, July 18. li ne of J. M. Salter, an Island county | teacher, charged with disloyalty and unprofessional conduct, was revoked Wednesday by jent of schools. lent Evelyn plaint the state superintend. County Superintend Spencer filed the com WASHINGTON, July 18 Marines were named in today’ ualty list, including three killed in action, one dead of wounds and three! severely wounded, ja | | | as @ result of the war. ing to rebuild this world and we're) going to stand together,” he de-| claimed. ‘The finish in a new world’s rec- ord in shipbuilding—the launching jof an §,800-ton ship In 50 days—| was marked when Mra Schwab broke the christening the West Gotomaka, as it slid tnto| the water at the Skinner & Eddy/| yard Wednesday afternoon. Two silver loving cups were pre sented to Mra. Schwab and Mra. Piez at the close of the launching cere mony by the men of the Skinner @ Eady plant Dave Rodgers, general manager of the Skinner Eddy y, wan Presented with a gold watch by Schwab in front of the employes of the entire plant. graved To David Rodgers from C. Schwab in token of apprec efforts in behalf of The watch was en try Organized labor boosted the f season tickets for the Vietory night at the Schwab the Arena, when over pasteboards were sold. of the wab party, asked every member the Metal Trades council to into | his pocket and not leave hall without @ season ticket Over 6,000 copies of “The Sub Chaser,” the weekly paper taeued at the naval training camp, were distributed at the meeting. It was special edition descriptive of the Victory Carnival, its purposes and program | sale Seattle Carnival considerably iris’ <inesday eting in W m 2,000 of the Dr, Eaton, of “dig down the SCHWAB VISITS EVERETT EVERETT, July 18.—All stores} clowed and all manufacturing plants) shut down here yesterday afternoon | in honor of the visit of Charles M.| Schw director general of the emergency fleet corporation, Schwab | in his speech said “I believe this section of the coun: try will be able to use and need ail the steel ship producing yards th have, War or no war, for years to come jemand for steel carriers will for years after the war “The United States builds 1,000| wooden ships a year,” sald chwab, touching on the wood ship situavion. ‘OLD AGE A CRIME! Some t 60. 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Imported di |Taboratories at (them et your druggies ke & substitute, In. box D from the a, ngland | Pershing today reported $7 camuaities, |mail and 141 sacks of newspapers ad- “We're £0-| divided as follows: bottle over |offictal lis | his 4 “The wise soldier carefully cleans and brushes the teeth that will be im; to him and contribute to his ha; and health and success twenty-five and from now.” Note how COLGATE’S fits in with this advice 2 “take one-half minute more.” Colgate’s has a delicious flavor that makes the half-minute easy to give. 4 “the teeth that will be important to himese fifty years from now.” Colgate’s cleans safely, thoroughly. 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