The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 1

; Ever a nickel in the © slot and fail to a, et your nm ber? You also failed to get your nickel back lots of times, becanse Central forgot all about you, and you had to hang up in disgust. Why not look into this, Mr. Telephone Manager? at FULL LEASED WIRE VOLUME 2¢ REPORT OF } a1 UNITED PRESS Asse ). NO. 129 QRIFRaKikto wikn LL , THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION Entered @ Becond Clase Matter UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS at the Postoffice at Beattio, Wash, * COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE MONDAY, JULY MERICANS CAPTURE FOUR TOWNS RR ommomoomomElll—lole————y———y—y——yy—y——yy—————ar The Seattle Sta OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST jor the Act of Congross March 9, 1878, 1918. Hun Prince 7 on Way to Aisne Line DISPATCH FROM FRED S. FERGUSON (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star one | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, July July 28.—(11 p. m.)—The crown prince is rapidly retreat- ing toward the. Crise and Besle rivers, and may fall back to the Aisne. (The Crise flows from a point five miles northwest of Fere-en-Tardenois northwestward thru Soissons. The Vesle flows westward thru Rheims, converging with the Aisne about six miles east of Soissons. It forms practically a straight line between Rheims and Soissons. The Aisne flows straight westward, thru Soissons, passing Rheims about 12 miles to the north.) GERMANY LOSES BIG CHANCE ON » WESTERN FRONT patch From William Simms United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Stor } The biggest American advance since the start of the Franco-Amert can push was carried out across the Oureq, near Sergy (three miles east and south of Tere-en-Tardenols), Sunday morning. Squeezing of the pocket on the right and left sides. while thrusting northward in the Middle, sent the boches farther in re treat The Americans steadily advanced all day Saturday thru a heavy rain They fought thru tangled. narrow paths, in woods and across fields. routing out machine gun nests and | Pushing on as resistance was demo! ished. I asked a wounded doughboy how they cleaned up the nests. He ex WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES | plained IN FRANCE, July 28.—4Night—| “When we rushed ‘em, we'd yeil px “4 toot & n.| OFer the top, fellows. Get ‘em Barring worn “Then we'd run forward, firing S@le for the allies, the German pars ati.” armies never again will be able to| There are many additional prison @rive forward with the punch they ers. but they include few machine pant t! ory they opened their FUnners. The Americans killed or drives last March | Wounded practically ail who were |left behind as sacrifices. the starting point of the) The Ourca is na: naa challow <year of the war, it seems to me to be merely a question of time ‘The Americans forded it. The genera! withdrawal from the before a forced retreat to defensive bottom of the pocket took place Fri- positions will have to be carried out| day night and Saturday. Gernan ar by the boche in the hope that it will tilery fire began to decrease in vo! be possible to obtain peace before! ume, apparently because of the move the stream of Americans so swells! ment of batteries to the forces of the allies that an UN-|Ourcq. The Americans captu i conditional surrender will be forced. thousands of rounds of machin \e north of the It is an open secret that it is be ammunition and many very | Lf coming increasingly difficult to fill| dumps of large and xmall-calit the German field depots. Boys of shelis. along the th and south e younger German classes cannot counted in the same class with ; the Americans who are dally ing in such numbers as to comp ly nullify Germany's new crop. road in Fere forest. Numerous ma chine guns also were taken, but they have not yet been counted Wounded men returning from the M fight are in the highest spirits Documentary evidence in the of their wounds are -nachine eur hands of the British army shows «ir arm or leg. A that Gen. Ludendorff fears political! them expressed regret at | results at home from too quickly fight. They said that whe » shoving boys into battle. The Ger-| enemy lines broke, the boches turned * man people, who reluctantly con. and ran in an effort to escape sented to the participation in battle by these youths to gain the promised Pr isoners included members an guard, who were victory that was foreseen, in the! of trees, where they were opers hope of bringing about an early| machine guns. peace, are beginning to feel they j have been betrayed. Opposition is af growing to the giving up of remain ; ing sons for cannon fodder 7 0, 8, AIRCRAFT LEAVES SOFIA : | WASHINGTON )—King Ferdinand has left Sa garia for an ‘extended trip” to foreign lan presumably on account of his health according to French dispatches to Premier lanoff, who reorgan tour of the shipyards was made ‘74 ministry, will replace the londay morning by John D. Ryan,|*!n# during his absence, the cable director of aircraft production; Maj . Gen. William L. Kenly, director ot! ¥ # sudder military 4 and Col e| from while the Pr. Disque, v t lispute js critica a reg tle. President Rhodes of the Cha nificant in diplomauce circles here ber ot Commerce and William Pig hing has been aid ott, head of wooden ship construc erally known t tr tion, were hosts to the visitors is on an unstable garia is tired of the The aircraft men will be guents| nee eof flahting nee Monday evening at a dinner In the | 64h, the two Balkan wars, in whict y Washington hotel given by the] oo. tout heavi rsa aa i a Chamber of Commerce and Com man-power In addition to this, the prospect of 4 poor harvest is having a distress effect on the Bulgarian mind. mercial club. Ryan, Ke conferences speeding up f timber for the and Disque will hold] with a view to uction of spruce making of airplanes.| ¢ W. Price, field secretary, nation , nell, will addre ea tle safety council No, 4 exda evening, in the Metropolitan club in the Stuart building, at & rooms. The Largest Audience in the Northwest Will Mintey nadian soldier with his head bandages was reporta a ©. Awaits your “Want Ad” messages. If you have riding on astreet car a few days a room to rent, heip to 1g0 at Toronto A sympathetic secure, furniture to bu woman or sell Phone Main 600. wounded in the No m raid he, up question, “I but the with answering that was wounded in the bandages slipped up.” Your Credit Is Good leg, * ON To Beriin VW oee StS TAKE THEM 6 The Americans and French are today within eight miles Fismes, on the Vesle river, and threaten to split the German armies in the Rheims-Soissons area. Two caches of Nour, amount ing to more than 800 pounds, were seized in cities nenr to Se attle Monday and libels were filed by Assistant U. 8S. District Attorney Charlotte Kolmitz for the seizure of hoarded food stuffs within the city limits. nt a quick he Germann ement north of Fereen-Tar E. D, Fiske, dwelling three miles) denois threatening to split the nd ©. A. Toner enemy for The crown prince nwood, Wash. were) is endeavoring to flee from the excess flour in their, dangerous position. fficern maid, aft PICARDY FRONT—A ustratian t they were breaking advanced on a two-mile ealed eight between the Ancre and t flour under e rivers, taking first and cache of five l enemy trenches and cap overed buried 100 prisonera. id trunk, of ENGLAND — Striking muni tions makers are returning to ures within the city lim work. The tleup evidently is » expected before night. One| practically ended. of the libels concerns an over supply ALBANIA—The driv of macaroni being held by a local slowing down on Italian He sa oe 40 inte hea pounds of macaron P*Federal suthoriten are preparing aes Women Milling company, of Boreman, Mont., of Italy Shower for a o s firm Flowers on Yanks said 40 per cent ROME Ju 29.—Progress company will be charged with viola-! American troops thru Italy toward tion of the food and drug act and the|the fight front, where they wil interstate commerce act t Aust liers, has been al, | continuous ovation assing thru important cities, th America’s War Bill Reaches Vast Total sti), ant smerny coer tt WASHINGTON ut mi Amer lower an : ther souvenirs ca'n war bill has reached $13.9 Soceice ue tok Gee With expenditures during th pretts women and girls. joo and estimated expenditures ror President Favors eae pavink oe 2 Vote for Soldiers an hour | dent W ils on and Seer ry Kaker are Soatiens on Marne Owing to the fact that the voting Enjoy Big Battle pose prot lem confronting the mi zt The — Ital-| authoriti permit, particularly in nm taking elections, voting b: King George of England has seen| eaten buck Germans fire a certain sort of shell which makes a grinding sound in the|@ pall game and has air, William Bee beset igi" France to the At AA (rare uP aan oHeme? it (> Soldiers hug Ne. the United States ay 4% th ports he has not hour He sat in the ¢ rway of bi jee cream r dugout and turned the crank of the ed with chocolate grinder from time to time to see the syrup and sprinkled with hashed | ‘ others fall on their faces in the mud. pases and chopped frul's ‘Drive Foe From Base in Pocket Allies Shove Germans Out of Important Rail Center Fere-en-Tardenois ARE SWEEPING AHEAD * Dispatch From | Lowell Melleit By United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star a | NOSES ict WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Jul 941245 a m)—French and American troops have driven the Germans out of the important center of Fere-en-Tarde noin and have pushed a short ¢ Ourea Franco-Americans also have Roncheres (five and a half southeast of Feren-en-Tarde ovF nols), and Villere@gron (nine miles LASSES, east and south of Fere-en-Tardenoia). No Quarter Given Hard fighting by the infantry, caw alry and tanks, following up the ter- rific artillery bombardment, has giv en the allies complete possession of the lower half of the wide, deep nal jont between Soingons and Rheims. Feroen-Tardenois was captured | only after a desperate struggle, lax ‘Wer «The the Americans co-operating with them found many machine guns clev erly concealed in houses and cellars These nests were wiped out in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, in which no quarter was asked and none given The Germans ad destroyed all the bridges across the Ourca, but the poll und doughboys forded the nat several points, a storm of bullets ed their lines { Fere-en-Tar weet of the important enemy base, in denoix, taking the village of Ron cheres and Villers-Agron ause he was born in Berlin, ed ? r ‘ Proceed Cautiously ucated in E n and lived in Berlin) phe French and Americans are until three yer ago, Albert Dejon ing cautiously, determined to the Bols de Stew f Fere-en-Tardnois). the German pont no men | niere (northeast Cavalry felt out tions there late yesterc jo, of Shang to the United States, presented credentials from a British was Saturday denied entry altho he ambassador that he British wan a The boches are expected to put subject a strong resistance, as they are a Dejonse, fe. sought to Ville-en-Tardenois nava He car m ) successfully em gaged in similar 9 A man of ed 1 ueation and culture, De e was de ai nied entry to Seattle and the Un , with re Staten when doubt was thrown upon | markable number dead his allegation that he was born in the Brtish embassy in Berlin His foreign residence would have classified him as an alien enemy, and as such he could not have entered Dejonje and his wife Saturday, after be ) MORE TOWNS WASHINGT GAIN 3 MILES SINCE SUNDAY Capture and Roneheres rey d toda The communique North of the July 28 LONDON, July 29.—(1:40 p. m) pita ae effort to delay their progres he French and Americans have ad-| Suara action. they } vanced three miles on a 20-mile ‘on : — ee ieee y mile front | Gureq. and have taken t since Sunday noon was learned | go nce ed from an author e source. 1 w hold all of the Rhe 1 the ims-T mans highwa north bank of the Oureaq The ¢ from the but th jermar end of the nues ENEMY COUNTER IS HURLED BACK WITH THE AMERICAN AR : MIES IN FRANCE. (Noon,) Germans | n),4 sisal Amer lower pocket > enemy Ardre K and at Soissons, ‘The gaged in heay perate Buzaney th of Americ ure € fighting he latter in the ims in July 29 Marne, the movement w from three to five k of their old front, North Thierry, the allies than nine miles first counter against the on Satur cans in any force since the miles bi » made east of Cha anced more German retirement an wi and on today between D RY nay 1 front of more than two miles east 3 will of Fer arden It Metro r bardment, but t building Seattle Safety council No. the ety meet in Stu ised line. Afore found y | Th - th ad narrow German de dina single L ured a fi ne American the Oureq direct capt vot guarded by frontal gun bridge | machine | rush, Major Alexander Lambert records Very Well! Hindy the comment of a who was caught > ae | Isn’t Dead; Let's ged’ in an im | Drop the Subject ortant piece of AMSTERDAM, J 29.-Official engineering, In tatements received from Berlin d Picard: | lare the health of Field Marsha It ‘was hisfiret Von Hindenburg ts excellent et’ Aida @nihA. ib much | This official statement undoubted ly was issued to refute numerous ro “But I noticed that it took my mind| mors of his death and illness, which off my work.” ihave been heard from Ume to time, he said. n NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE at NIGHT EDITION Tonight and Tuesday, fair; westerly winds Weather Forecast: gente ASSOCIATION Everwhe: PRICE POUNDING WEDGE IN DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT ' (By United Press aainasead Wire, Direct to The Btar) PARIS, Sy 29.—(4 p. m.)—Swee northward from the Ourcq, French American troops are now within eight mils of Fismes, the important German tration center of the Vesle river. Desperate fighting is under way in new pocket, between the Ourcq and Vesle, where the Germans are strongly ¢ ering their retreat to the latter line. In some places the Amricans arfd F; have pushed several kilometers beyond Ourcq. Important developments loom big today in the allied” advance against the Germans in the Rheims-Soissons al The defense along the Ourcq has been wiped out and crown prince is desperately trying to reach either the Ve |river line or the Aisne farther north. Following the capture of Fere-en-Tardenois, the jand Americans have swept on to the northeast and within eight miles of Fismes, important enemy base baesiel Vesle river. ~Phis movement is one of in " capture of Fismes would split the encircled area and p D result in the capture of a large number of Teutons. —_ The Americans and French, pushing forward . lower end of the pocket, have advanced three miles on a‘ mile front. Enemy artillery and machine gun conti are opposing the allied advance and one counter-attacl ; thrown back ; The Franco-American line apparently runs from north of Fere-en-Tardenois eastward thru Seringes to sharply southward to Sergy, then sharply eastward thru lers-Agron. The capture of Seringes, Sergy, Roncheres and lers-Agron by the Americans and Fere-en-Tardenois the high spots in the further advance of the allied fo FOE TRIES TO STOP ey FIERCELY — ALLY PU ¥ WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES’ enormous losses. ‘ IN THE FIELD, March 29 Newly won French positions north — p.m) The Germans are fighting of Fere-en-Tardenois are firmly 6) desperately to retard the Franco- tablished. In the wood east of Cham« American advance northward from plat (south of Ville-en-Tardenois), § the Oureq French captured much material, it Repeated enemy counter attacks cluding a number of 77 and 1504mnil on Sergy last night and y today meter guns. a resu in the v » changing Both artilleries are engaging in hands four times, remaining in the terrific artillery duel along possession of the French southern end of the salient. In add@e th of Sergy a German guard jon attacked the held their on, the Germans are dropping hi quantities of gas into the Marne at inflicted | Arére vi Ardre valleys. Americans, who and ir VILLAGES ON FIRE IN ENE! MY’S PATH LONDON, July 29. nsnom (southeast of Rheims) but © defending Vil n repulsed. Vighting these is ‘arden resisting on the continuing. ne from Chambrecy southw it) Germ » reported to be burn nthoritatively this aft the ing villages of Cuery“Housse, eres and Charive, on a@ line bee 1 Fismes and Soissons, an a mile east of » French took Buzaney capturing 200 yester- prisoners, but attacked allied of Mont day were unable to hold it ANZACS GAIN ALLIES NEARING ALONG SOMME IMPORTANT BASE LONDON, July Australian LONDON, July 29,37 p. mje roops advanced on front! Allied troops are fighting in the, etween the Ancre riv yu rn outskirts of Ville-en-Tarde: apturing two lines of man nois, the principal German defensive trenches and taking 100 pris point on the southeastern edge of the Vield Marshal Haig reported today Soiss R ns salient, it was learns The advance was made in the Mor- | ed authoritatively this afternoon, lancourt sector, astride the Bray-Cor nd Rozoy (two miles north of bie highway. H sualties wer Le-Chateau), on the western inflicted on th pmy, While the | edge of the pocket, has been captury Australians us were light. ed, and Franco-American troops A number of machine guns were cap:|have progressed several hundred © tured yards north of that village, 292 KILLED IN PLAUEN BLOWUP ZURICH, July 29.—The vA master has announced 292 sons were killed and 48 injured tm the recent explosion which destroyed ‘a munitions factory there, JAPAN TROOPS AIDING CZECHS AMS’ lunteers TERDAM have July 29.—Japanese v reinforced — the Czechs in Siberia, the Bolshevik gov jernment learned, according to a Mos: ‘cow dispateh today.