The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1918, Page 4

RD BATTLE BY CARL D. Groat iy divisions engaged pe are the first, th Mth and | Addition the is on the 42nd right flank of the naming press correspondents. Gain 10 Miles me, he revealed penetration of P Uwited Preas Correspondent NGTON, July 20.—The ke larger front of the present second, and fourth regulars, and Natlonal National together with a colored from the new Mird divie Ameri Dattling in the great of was given by Chief of Staff _ today in his weekly confer. ” an that the cans is 10 miles, with a tration of seven miles 370,000) actual Official dispatches ity more than Guard camp ‘National ‘trained at it was y gector and part with the i near Lunéville, m unit under its Chateau = Thierry over which we advanced | fighting are engaged in the main re the war department today Phe fighting was still in , with the capture ot guns in very “hopeful® March stated we have 1,200,000 4. The positions of the! division, | Logan, | ‘was revealed as the British) made | a unit from that organt Aus im their fight last week division was revealed as operating own the German advance and had been brought to a stand- jin that region in an effort to sa struck hard along the| i penetration as re ity was to a depth of 10 of colored troops. at Supply Line general penetration of | In this advance there dugouts, Many machine guns can divisions and one) taken before the Germans had time | counter-offensive is not) movement. ows oe Marne. from below would merely og exit without crippling| ing a machine gun STRUGGLE FOR TO BE WAGED § ENEMY'S ROAD » : * Continued From Page One * —* are fewer enemy machines along the battle lines, they evidently having been withdrawn (o other localities An American unit notified the com mander of an exoadritie today that three German observation balloons near Chateau Thierry were “seeing too much.” Twenty minutes later all three were blasing wrecks on the ground Incomp! figures today show that American units have captured more than §,000 Germans, including numerous officers. Among the It ter were several majors and a lew tenant colonel. The figures will be greatly augmented when the count is completed, Additional prisoners are constantly being picked up. The areas in the rear of the allied line are almost as busy as the front Unending streams of supplies, artil lery and men are rolling forward while similar * of motor truc * are moving to the rear carrying wounded. Yanks Are Eager burst all about. Trees are 1 until they resemble tooth while substantial buildings are 1 to shapeless heaps of rubble The men are excited at the prospect of getting into the fight, as they ar rive at the front, and are constantly cheering and singing. The Americans who swept forward with the French from three to fiv kilometers on the first day ne: Chateau Thierr impatient be cause they a siding the pivota sector and must wait until their com are rades swing in, sur rounding th Allied airmen report heavy conges tlon on the in extending north ward from Ch ui‘ Thierry while prisoners say ¢ ty removing Germans are hast all guns and thatertals them. Every prisoner expressed maze ment at the rapidity and unexpected ness of the allied attack. The dough. boys report that most of the prison ers were taken when the first wave caught the boches asleep in their 2 to remove the protective cases fromm | them. ‘Takes Movie Film An advance of one American unit ting It is aimed iy preserved for posterity thru the supply line of the Ger-| bravery of a movie into Chateau Thierry, | ficer. ‘on the flank be/ line before the infantry charge, cool @ blow would cripple the | ly set up his camera and clicked off than a push up from/a few hundred feet of film as the ™men stormed the German positions. | He advanced ahead of our) One scene shows our meh attack in a chureb tower with the boches, panic strick kere talk with members| en, trying to get thetr gun into ac military committee to-| tion. The operator's audacity was March cautioned | amazing. ptimism as a result of| C1 Franco-American| estly that many diffi etl ahead and too much ping the Germans.” “He declared be expected. "9 oe this nt officials admitted | Doughboy” that the German claim | He says he is happy anywhere now nets is true, but it was| He went over with the firet wave if the Germans had and helped chase the Germans over mumber they had done it ty early stages of the fight-/seif. His party was obliged to come the French-American | back when couriers were sent out to “It wasn’t anything,” he auld mod “The folks back home ought to be able to see the Yankees whip A chap known as “the Homesick no longer is homesick three hill tops. He got five him recall his company, which was ad ttee was told that the| vancing too rapidly. for the next 30 days. prepare for heavy cas- Which would probably be| objectives by 10 o'clock in the morn. No} ing. One unit attained its entire day's It started at 5. One company Ing casualties has yet stormed Torcy and took the town in from Gen. Pershing. DANCE Given by or PYTHIA Rapk Nes. 1 and 51 Evening, Jut Leseht Park Pavilion TSe, Inctuding War Tax |10 minutes, holding it against a heavy counterattack. Bayonets Eftective The doughboys say the Germans won't fight with the bayonet, pre ferring to surrender if it is impos sible to fight in mass formation, be hind guns and bulwarks Marksmanship of the American infantry took a heavy toll among the Come in the morning. refresh yourself for the di ‘plenty of lockers in the morning. _ LADIES ONLY class every Thursday and Saturday, 12 to 2 p, m. ‘SEATTLE NATATORIUM CO. Second and Lenora. Largest and Most Sanitary Swimming Pool in Pacific Northwest. | CRYSTAL POOL We can’t han- dle all who come in the afternoon and evening. The pool opens , Sunday at 9 A. M. Bring your family and Plenty of room, man—an of.) | } | THE SEATTLE STAR--SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1918, | FULL SPEED AHEAD YANKS KEEP UP_ ADVANCE ALONG xiss itany Festaree SOISSONS LINE BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON United Preas Correspondent WITH THE AMERICANS, BE TWEEN THE AISNE AND THE MARNTE, July 19.—411 p. m)>—Amer lean troops attacked on a front of several kilometers southwest of Sole sons late this evening. Fighting Was still in progress the hour of bling, with the Americans advance The Coeuvres. extended southward. (Minsy-Aux-Bola fs more than four miles southwest of Solssons, The whole line between the Alsne and the Marne apparently ia very irreg ular, especially in the region of Sois- sons.) German counter attacks in the re sion of Soissons continued and were repulsed. The French and Ameri Asnault was made east of near Missy-Aux-Bois and over a wide front to the cans made further advances north-| east of Chaudun, east of Vierzy, and east of Courchamps. (This indicates new Franco-Amert- can advances in various portions of a front of about 16 miles. Chdudun is five miles southwest of Soisnons and two miles south of Missy-Aux Bois, Vierzy is two miles south of Chaudun. Courchamps is 12 miles south of Vierzy.) Meeing Germans, The Americans say hard to catch on foot t outrun bullets. trenches and villages from the enemy attempted to flee are filled with German dead Ameri ft pris ermans fail t Many of the captured officers are of high intelligence. Some of them ad mitted German lost, owing to the army's detailed to ex ere amir the ¢ show any the is lack of confi | dence in {ts leaders and the govern ment. Captured copies of the Zeitung, the German army paper, blatantly declare the Americans are of “no use to the allies.” RAISE ae.eunn HARES >" Krieges rr Dept. 1279, Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. J. E. Crowther Morning, at 11 The Christian Triangle Evening, at & The Religion of the Hun Dr. Crowther will discuss the question, “Is Germany a Christian Nation?” The verdict will be reach: ef on the evidence of pub lished statements by the leaders of religion in Ger m Come and Bring Your Friends ae | pedo. a [pearpeeng a or Lene Film { pers and men were { distinguinhed service aa} ADD T0 CAINS 4 | (Toss for gallantry in action,” accord res) n B The men are ? § First Lieuta Walter RO Flannery The Star Liberty Weekly, start ) and Joseph J. Brown; Sergta, Jam ing tomorrow at the Liberty the | Hyde and Charles E. Cunningham, Atre, is replete with interesting | and Corporal Henry Willard.” features, included in which Chas. | pa io M. Schwab and Mrs. Schwab are : Boxi Bou shown on their visit to Beattie. ) Battle Report From 100 xing ts, Other numbers filmed by Cinema: | | Paris Today Carnival Feature tographer Jacobe are: Clara Kim } | By United Presse Leased Wire Fully 100 bouts will be staged by ball Young, famous movie ac i Direct to The Star j| the pupils of Willie Ritchie from | tress, boosting the Seattle Girls’) 5. ——| Camp Lewis at the Seattle Girls Victory carnival; tars trom — ? PARIS, daly 20120 p.m)j— | Victory carnival July 22-28. Ritehi ) training camp, pony nner was | French and American troops | Will bring the beat he has to Seattle | } ing on Becond ave.; etle’s pa continue to advance on the great- next week for the “scrap” tourna ) rade, comenemorating the French er part of the offensive front |ment. Most of his fighters have between: the Aisne and the | been developed from raw material ) ter, Independence day, and Gov. Lin meeting the French consul. Arey sereee(o— ALLIED TROOPS ‘CONVICT BIRCH ” OF EVASION OF THE DRAFT LAW president of the Newsboys’ union, found «uilty in the federal court Friday, of vi lating the conscription act by fallin to reginter On poll olght tim once at Mireh temtified the stand that he was born in New York 52 years ago, and waid the lice rec orda were “filled in” by officers ac cording to their own |} ” wit nesses for the government testified t Birch gave bis age to registra tion officials in 1914 am 21 Hireh's refutation of the records was his own statement that his |mother had told him he was born in | 1888, in New York city | The defendant denied being in any | way connected with the L W. W,, al tho he was accused by government wi sees of carrying a membership card, distributing literature, and be ing frequently arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. Erwin P. Ault was called by the defense as a character witness, Ault denied that Birch was a member of the L W. W., but said he ged to the I. I. U., which in a branch of the I, W. W., which left the original party several years ago on the issue of direct action. Desk Sergt. J. Warren Smith, of the city police force, testified that an L W. W. card was found on Birch at one time when he was arrested. The jury deliberated 15 minutes before returning a verdict of guilty Birch asked that sentence be sus pended until the arrival of his law yers, who had left Tt was decided to imposed sentence Ju 27. Birch under $2,000 ba FIVE OFFICERS GIVEN MEDALS WASHINGTON, July 20,—Report ing succinctly under date of July 19, Gen. Pershing today advised the war department that “between the han P. Bireb. we » records he wan entered oan 21 years of age on witnenn out Aisne and the Marne our troope con Unue to make progress Marne, the French war office hie takes the reeruits thru a Saturday's big parade, celebrating | announced today. The impor. ree of offensive boxing. as re the succenses of America’s fight tang town of Neuilly-St. Front (‘Quired in the new army rules. ing men in France, also will be (| has teen captured. Among the men who have already shown. }| “South of the Marne, allied troops | been announced for the bouts are y hurled the Germans back on the 15-|Leo Houck, Harry Anderson and | mile front between Fossoy and Ocull #aining more ground toward the HUNS’ RHEIMS the communique said. Frankio Tucker, all of the navy |Plan to Colonize the Almne and the Marne, thruout yesterday evening in Wi and last night, Franco-American| ¢ Erin | vith Troops forces advanced on the greater part| S0eclal to The Btar by N. E. A ai the rent: LONDON, July 20.—A newly pro- PARIS, July 20.—The notorious Wolff agency, of Perlin, the most ac- tive propagandist of Wilhelm strasse in Europe, has been caught lying again. This time it's a statement publish ed recently, with the object of justi the Rheims cathedral In the statement it quotes a eap- tured French artillery officer, Edo uard de deli, as stating that the | tower of the cathedral was employed | constantly as an observation post, | and that he himeelf had been assign-| ed as an observer there. ported east south of Soinnc St. Front and Licy-Citgnon. of the Marnm we hurled the Germans back between fying Germany in the destruction of and Oeuilly and gained ground to- | ward the river “We reached Vierry of Ville felon (nine We took Neuilt “South 25 Tons Reindeer Meat on Sale Here Four hundred dressed reindeer a rived in Seattle from Nome, Alaska, 4 riday. brought to this city on tb (already re in the hands of the Ameri cans) and passed out of Melloy wood. miles Fonsoy | posed solution of the Irish problem * to colonize that island with Eng lsh, Beottish and Welsh soldiers aft er the war Tt im claimed the isle | will support three times its present ¥ population if proper agriculture and COUNT SOMAGLIA DEAD ROME, July 20.—The de: Senator Count De La Somag’ | announ today RAISE WHITE MICE! Karn $25.00 yearly on each mouse, Big demand by Labe houpltals. for medica eS r ° The Swiss newspaper conducting ; 8. Victoria by Cari Albertson, Se re an investigation of this report has Mar RESEARCH CULTURE entablished beyond question that Ed. | “ttle reindeer buyer _ Da Be, Ewes, Wie. ouard de Bondelli died in Geneva. Twenty-five tons of this meat are |—— is : being placed on the local market im early in 1910, One of his two sons side of himself no member of the | “1 prica . beet Pee ‘ the face are Bondelli family has ever served at sigrllboaagllr yor pacagg tear yhh a dhe nce omve shee the y de tyr anal , “Sl of his trip, Albertson will return to t id BELIEVE DIVER ‘SANK SAN DIEGO [Continued From. Page “One| here are no conclusive tac tors, nite opinion at p the following facta Firat, no torpedo wake was seen second, no convincing evidence that & periscope was seen; third, no sub marine appeared in spite of the fact| that three unarmed rescue ships} were in the vicinity for about two| hours; fourth, the ship was struck to| the port side abaft the beam, which discourages mine theory fifth, weather was fine and smooth sea sent, in view of the frontier, which physicians de- | cy American naval vessels, however,| clare in due to Hun gas. Swiss cus: lant night found and destroyed five|toms officials and persons living | se pra e or six mines in the same vicinity in which the San Diego was sunk, the! vy department anounced today. | The department has been striving since yesterday to clear up the mys. tery surrounding her destruction, seeking especially to learn whether ubmarine was responsible any naval officers have had the Germany would resume her U-boat warfare off the American coast. Rumors say that a submarine was responsible, but that theory is unconfirmed ‘The Inst information made public | was announcement that 1,156 of-| ficers and men had been landed from | the vessel, in addition to 30 previous. | ly reported | If a U-boat were responsible the fact is particularly significant, be o Fire Island light is at the very to New York. Hence it would mean that operations a rected nst traffic out of that port As against the submarine theory, | there were the theories that either amine or internal explosion had} caused the disaster, | | 28th Gernan American unite on the West front K | were expec man however, on which to base defi.| blow” ernment masks PARIS, July 20.—Soldiers of th division opposed fally command to the relected by to give the American forces, a cording to a letter taken from a Ger man prisoner. |Swiss Protest Gas Attacks on Border Bpectal to The Star by N. FE. BERNE, July 20 may A. near the frontier have to wear gaa | The Swiss press ix clamor: | ing for immediate action, If You Want A USED CAR Classified Section UNDER AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE to The Swiss gov make representations to Germany, following the death of a number of children in villages near Alaska for more deer, and expects to blood need the |be back in Seattle in October with | another shipment. Picked Hun Troops Oppose Americans FILLS. the Ger “death | | id everywhere Bones, 10c., 26¢. © Rev. M. A. Matthews WIM preach a sermon Sun: day morning, entitled ‘The sermon Sunday even ing will discuss the subject Seeing God The great song led by Dr, Ralph Atkin will be augmented by a sof service, diers' t from Camp Lewis ar these boys sing, Remember, this serv foo begins at 7:45 o'clock, He in your pew friend with you Bring some Every One Cordially Invited First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring | and strengthening action of | BEECHAMS: Lacpese Sale of i Any bey = mod iin the World. | | What This Date { Brought in War JULY 20, 1917 Kerensky appointed premier of Tuewia Germans unsuccensfully attack (French near Craonne and Vau clero JULY 20, 1916 { French advance on aix-mile front on Eatrees Vermando-viller eaux line. asians capture Kugl, in the { #, from Turks. } JULY 20, 1915 ( Germans close in abe War { saw ow within 20 miles of the { city § Italians advance on Carso ; |Prize Pigeon Lost on Racing Flight “Prince Ole ing pigeon of clergo been loat Prince aned by Lukens at Winlock, Monday for a #wift flight home. H. has not yet returned. Prince O} took part in the Winlock races o” July 14. Another race will be he the Besttie Racing Pigeon clu July 21 ITALIAN NAVY BUYS Hanson 11," prize John B, Lukens rac Ole was con of the Chamber of Commerce, re Wash., © ” ia b TWELVE ‘EAGLE’ BOATS WASHINGTON, Italian navy will the U. 8. government 12 of Eagle" boats being built by Yord company. against the Adriatic sea, The 200 feet long, built of steel, tain remarkable speed. July th and a = 20.—The take over from e the They will be used Austrian fleet in the agie” boats are ONE BADLY, IN Three men are serious injured. one perh fatally, as the result of reckless auto driving Baturday morn ing. All three are in the city how 45, of Kirkland. n Louls Larson, ¢., at 6:20 a. m., at First ave. and King #t. Larson was dragged about h a block wit nenson nay, His head was very bad lacerated. One of his ears was off, and he may have a fractured skull. Hin recovery is doubtful. Wales is at liberty on $250 bal B rasier, 29, of 2356 Tenth ave. while ing an auto was struck by an Kast Union est. car at 19th ave. an KE. Union et., about 6:15 a. m. ‘The machine was badly smashed and Brasier was taken to the hospl- tal with two broken ribs and his left side paralyzed J. C. Rawling, 15, of 911 N. 85th rt, riding a motoreycle on Western urday, struck Frank Eighth 8. Isig the city hospital with fracture of the left lex, ng is in the city jail on an open charge Five Marines Die 170,000 YANKEES FIGHTING IN SOISSONS DRIVE- H WARNS WAGING GRIM in Battle Action WASHINGTON, casualties today totalled 78, div’ as follows: Killed in action, 5; Burglars Cannot Touch a Savings Account HE bureau drawer is not a safe place in which to deposit your savings. Your money there is not secure from loss by fire or theft, nor is it always safe in your pocket. losses by theft and fire. 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