The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1918, Page 10

* THE SEATTLE STAR MONTDIDIER 1S NOW TANGLE OF WRECKED BUILDINGS TOWN REGAINED U.S. BUILDING HUNS GLOOMY 305 NAMES IN LUDENDORFF IS BY FRENCH NOW VAST HOSPITAL OVER DEFEAT ON U.S. CASUALTY STRUGGLING TO | HEAP OF RUINS FOR ARMY MEN WESTERN FRONT REPORT TODAY CHECK DISASTER ——- - —# SOUTHAMPTON England, Aug WASHINGTON Aug. 12-—-Three Dispatch Reon 1 sa-vateertend goldiers whe ere S% Continued From Page One|) casuaity iat, totaling 205) nan | » _ - were announced by the war depart 4 from the battle-fronts to Ini | Lowell Mellett {| Yalided from the battle-fronts tong) - 14, war in hopeless without «| sment today By United Press Leased Wwe ) | land will find their country has made | thor, gincere house-cleaning They included 67 killed in action Direct to The Star || the best possible provisions for their She is frightened over her dwin. | 10 dead of wounds jead of disease i dlino —————18| weitare in “Blighty.” ling man power and the poasible|4 dead from accident and other a ” “ — o fruits of the kalser's extravagant | caunes, wounded severely, 168 SP WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES! Immense country estates have fruits of te, Katee ceeriyictory | wounded, degree undetermined, and THE FIELD, Aug. 12.—Trees) been leased by the United States gov And Voas' ette, in an |7 Missing in action across roads and paths ernment, on which to construct the article, saye the German| This brings the total thus far re with abandoned German ma! necessary hospitals to take care of command's new motto is now ported from the Franco-Americar are contributing toward sloW) 10 wounded omy in human life.” The Gazette | Marne drive to 5,019 mene French hook gyre Ameri.| Plans have been completed for the A new method of attack has waned te viagereed vate Aneing construction of the largest military been evolved = conalats in cal ce eeenamaie a eeterday. We) hospital in the world on a country sgn er pyr eo a miatanes is too ton. if the mass i ert te called « poy The central building will be Spirit Shelves “Brute Force” "Mon taicier recaptured by the/ SA old manor house there, around) fy an “allishell” editorial confens Saturday, has been a battle; Which the American Red Cross i / ing real anxiety over the Ruswan only since March, and we we ten acres of frame hute.| situation, the Hamburg Nachrichten| SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 12 to find it only partly devas buildings for the med peasimistically summarizes The | Extra police guarded the nearly de the kitchens and the ope danger grows from without and | serted streets of Chinatown today ing room are called for. Spey within . hoot . Church Is Ruined tention is being given to thy n The Voesiche Zeitung throws fearing further ahooting When we reached Mesnil, the/ struction of a large isolation hospital | tight on food conditions in Germany Karly today one Chinese was killed suburb, we began to see what | for the treatment and cure of special py these naive remarks ‘The firet | and another fatally wounded, pre canon, The hospital will be able to support like buildings, but they were wrecks, Of the ancient church ®t. Pterre only a battered tower if in a large measure. two years of the war Ten acres the field received extra food parcels from their relauions at home sumably by members of the Suey Sing tong, who are said to have de clared war on the Lew family our troops in Today enough of the facade to form a egetable gardens will be inten: | ail that ix reversed, and food parcels! Five kunmen entered a room, in arch above the doorway re cultivated, asturing the menitrom the front play an important| Clay street occupied by Lew Gim E ontinual supply of vegetables. part in nourishing the home po and Lew Chew, shortly after mid Mesnil forecasted the condition of Four hundred beds will be avail | ¢ night. Three of them fired. Lew jer nil apparently was 5 from the time work is force—“might right tantly Lew Chew SOMposeat chiefly of houses built of Many of th will be in| has always been the G n motto r n and in the framework, built of plastered which will be turned over to put fr does strange things to peo 8] e fatally wound Walls and tiled roofs. Only the | cony pen on the completion of | pie We find Capt. Erich Von Salts | ed Femained, shining in the sun-| the main bufldings mann, German military critic, trying| Police my the Lews are not a t. A direct road to Southampton will | to cheer up the people as follows fighting family. One Lew in said In Montdidier the first building we enable ambulances to bring the to have coveted a Chinese girl who ized was the railroad station. fe only recognized |t because the lives of months ago Montdidier was Of the prettiest of French towns. its condition revealed how is contributing not only men Money to the war, but whole nd Ent céolly facing | the cost U. S. Field PARIS. French war American wounded direct from the plers to the hosprtal these men. themselves for their cause No Change Along Avre Oise Front Aug. 12 office that the situation between the Avre and the Oise is unchanged spirit will who have given Allied many's scared other, even finding out about mar All tha {Noon.)—The today reported “The position on the west front, the whole of it, can only be de officere whone duty it in te ull over the enemy press know Cer And the a more certain ways o! conditions in Ger: | st an be maid in t ermany's having a fine was the “pr ty” of a Suey Sing ‘The Suey Sings resented thix and de i bearing the name was left, Milex of sunny walks inside the, seribed as one of the greatest lared war at midnight, opening hos We rode down the main) hospital will be open to the soldiers anxiety. We certainly do not tilities immediately past the hotel Deville—in| Entertainments and amusements jerestimate the additional lingo, the town hall. Noth-| will constantly be provided. The mgih that the entente has Femains except ruins and more spacious grounds give ample oppor derived from Americ ntribu many of which bear German tunity for all sorts of games from tien in human mater! But in Across the main street are| croquet to fishing. Everything pow the great game that is to be Strips of matted camou- sible will be done to brighten the ocak amet = VESSELS SUNK WASHINGTON fishing schooners were foe submarine off the Massachusetts st Sunday official navy ment declares The submarine the midst of the little lying in a grqup, and Aug. 12-—Nine sunk by & » have an my Is Organized “uring the night. the Marguivid. TP dowrn't mer ' torpedoes and-gune opened fire os lers and Grivellers regions (six m war's about over * all sides on Western Front (20 ie Monaidier were bombarded clove 10 40 fresh reserve divisior The naval department has no S WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY the communique said Rupprecht’s front with wh © | record of loss of life, altho Capt FRANCE. Aur. —The first —————— starta “bic show" io Flanders al: | tweed a, Proc of the Gleaner, field army has been cre- most ay time she fecie'like Te. And | 4 isre, \e one two England to Send T Carmany's offetihive year is ehded, |{ceres” anak at les t fm France, as the first step bgqgemogre masted schooner wank instantly mydl | ogee gg in U. Ss. Dead Home But the German fright, which be.| Without time for all the crew to rong Asgerel (Special to The Star by N. FA) | comes more and m dent every oo ey yan A gyal ea a LONDON, Aug. 12—The English | day, does show that whether the| Four survivors of the crew of i Joke J. 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[continued From Page One} able to make @ stand the situation may become eritics it ie eur prising, therefore, that the mans are massing beyond Proyart, a mile and a half south of the Somme, be yond Bray Sees Battle Storm The Cahadians have advanced two and « half miles beyond ( nes, cutting the Chaulnes: Koy way. While at Damery (thr northwest of Kt witnessed the taking of the last high 1 be fore Roye, th glish and Fre cooperating hill in 900 f above nea leve Acronm its orest runs the Roye road, Three miles from Roye & thick wood crowns the bill. To the left the German positions were ¢ b pickle guns obser el rail Amiens the r fe: boxes” and nests of while trees were fitted up fo machine vation posta A mile to the northward lies Dam ery village, Half way between in Damery wood. Between these pos! Lions the allies could control the en trance or exit of oye rmans rep kind. enemy's counter showed he had brought t . artillery, but, as « wide remarked, “It home about French 755 Bark French 75s opened up and a light French patrol advanced toward the hill. This frightened the boches who began laying down barrages south of the road, apparently think « they were about to under other charge ish made Jn this region the day nuch as before The tanks came up from behind us and charged the woods in plain night. Enemy shells fell to the left and right, but none of the tanks was hit. Kuch tank had to cross the highway The machine guns on our left began pe ilets into the wood, the Ge retaliating blind. ! The French began advancing up the bill, cromsing the road within a short distance of the wood itself Here, for the purpowe of steadying his men, a nh officer cool! walked up ar n the road. in plain view against the chalk-white dust, waving them on the British were approaching ery wood. ‘The tanks were now clone up and our barrage was lengthened falling in the wood Iteetf. Excellent Target Then, as tho from a signal, a vast mass of Germans ran out of the north end the wood toward a copse to the eastward The « ers never had a finer tar get. the enemy running in compact bunches, carrying machine guns and machine gun parte, All enemy ma chine gun fire stopped and all but the heaviest artillery fire stopped. I have gone into the fullest detail on thin battle, because the getaway fighting on the whole front is like this, from Albert to south of Montdidi or. where there are many little bat ties inside the big one, but they a timed to fit inside each other, while whippets,” tanks and airplanes pave it into a compact whole. Forty One Divisions In Rupprecht is throwing in his re serves an fast an he in able to bring them up. for the purpose of « ken ing the advance. Since last Thurs day, ten fit divisions of hin already lrnited reserve have been identified, making a total of 41 divisions engag ed since the start Pr ors may thi six of thene 4ivinions were hurried from the Vesie region in omnibuses, Indica tions are that the German high com- mand will make its biggest effort within the next 48 hours to hold up the allied advance ENEMY EDITOR ADMITS DEFEAT AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12.—Morale in Ge has suffered severely from recent defeats. Several critics are dumb, and the people are gloomily suggesting that the army may be compelled to fall back a long y all along the line, according to rmation from German cities re- ceived here today of the evening newspapers Haig had given the & serious check, but ex d that the withdrawal was due to unfavorable weather, saying that a heavy mist gave the allies an inl tial advantage Others asnerted French suc and that th the British and Id not endure, not of any raen WC ung the only unpleasant feature of the battle wan the loss of «uns and the number of prisoners taken by the allies ‘There is no use hiding the check received by us south of t the Volkszeitun, view of the prisoners and guns lost, it hits us hard.” The Cologne Cologne te remarked up. nae mist enabled the enemy tank squadrons to surprise us break in our front lines.” and Monster Tank Lays Village Flat and Wipes Out Boches PARIS, Aug. 12.—Military men and civilians are today discussing en rformance of a enemy post in the French advance along the Amiens Roye roadway tanks crushed nine houses in a village out German machine gunners hidden jin the buildings. 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