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a a i i ee a i il ee ee ee Se, ee busy. One enemy flying machine, “hearing a French insignia as a x die) | guise, flew over the American line at a height of 500 metres and at-} tacked with bombs and machine gun fire American soldiers on the m. The Americans took cover and there were mo casualties. Heports that | mans have been using French signs on their airplanes save been rous during the past fortnight. RMANS HELD AT EVERY POINT FROM MONTDIDIER TO THE OISE French Gain at Many Points—One French Di- vision Takes Prisoners From Four of Germans. [FRENCH REPORT] PARIS, June 12.—Following is the text of the statement issued to-day by the War Office: o “The battle between Montdidier and the Oise continued without freat change during the night. On our left all attempted attacks by the enemy against positions we had reconquered were broken. “The French troops have realized new progress east of Mery and the Genlis Wood. Violent German attacks have' likewise been repulsed by the French on the Aronde front, at St. Maur, the Loge amtheuil “The French troops have withstood the shock of attac flicted heavy losses upon the assailants while guarding their p os “On the right the Germans, in spite of repeated eforts, been able to debouch south of the Matz. The French are part of the field south of Chevincourt and Marest-sur-Matz. °° “According to new information from the battlefront the French counter-attack yesterday occ ii, preparation on the same front. French troops came in heavy forces of the enemy and threw them into disorder ev “Prisoners taken by one French division are found to bel different German divisions. “South of the Aisne the Germans allacked this morning between the river and the Villers-Cotterets Forest. Violent combats are going cn on the front of Dommiers, Cutry and south of Ambleny.’ BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT. LONDON, June 12.—An enemy raiding party last nig!t attacked the British pest in Aveluy Wood, but-was repulsed, the War Office an- pounced to-day. The British carried out a successful raid in the Boyelles | region, capturing a few prisoners. » There was sporadic activity by the enemy artillery during the night | fn the region west of Lens. Farm and not holding that | have mn FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCED * ONFIELDS STREWN WITH DEAD, Yesterday's Counter Attacks Between Mont- idi i i | (2,620,000 men) om the weat front, he] Amiena and Chateau-Thierry with | 1qaier a anes to < | Above total means that a great nUM-| heavy losses. It has encountered ’ Where They Stood Sunday. her of slviions have Wen eneaKed| Oven more terrific Towsee Im the bree two or three times, while the Ger- 4 ’ ° PARIS, June 12—The ground ovet|ed until Monday noon against. ro- ; SBE GHYG: tye: ly isin. (hme men) +i | asatea tana fib: |mans still possess more than titty | being replaced on the firat day alone. @tiich the French advanced in thie | ete a most ferocious ary As; | fresh divisions (360,000 men), which} ai of which has steadily decreased | ®ounter-attack Tuesday was Uterally | eke a wireiean message, cua | have not yet been used. the Sighting value of this ‘army heaped with German dead, says the| ways read: “We're holdme.” Finaily,|. Uader the present organization of | since the beginning of the war the was correspondent at the front. In|when the hour of noon was striking tte German army in the west, the|consumption of German man-power | | Mond: . i Ff “a. {entire cream of the army, both off-/has never been so great as it has in etaking Belloy and reaching the | Co meses) one word came tnrousn: | cers and men, ia concentrated in von|the last few months. This gives ad- uthern outskirts of St, Maur, the eae | Hutier’s “shock” army, This army Is! ditional reason for the belief that rench surprised the Germans. Tre | BRITISH DOWN 1 PLANES counted upon to deliver Initial blows|the enemy is now making Its last su- ermans retired in disorder and | with ‘tremendous for Permitting | preme effort. Recent, terrific losses less able troops to pass through the! have already caused the crisis in rought horses to the frat line at full | ON THE ITALIAN FRONT irescis tnt routed [German effectives, ‘They are tilling aliop in order to carry away their The “shock” army consisted origin-|up their depleted ranks from augil- uns |Great Destruction of Enemy Air-|# craft Announced by London War Office. | LONDON, June 12.- jemy airplanes have been destroyed on The princip! "@Y®l the Lallan front vy the British ine Associated Press correspondent, | forces operating there, according day's War OMice statement reportinz vce Domfront, near b = Retween Do the British operations In this area. Rubescourt, Important territory was won back he | jecman positions, and the Allies cap- ured more than 1,000 prisoners inroads even were made into the Twenty-one ¢ counter-attack, and = Wacquemoulin, - | jouth of Belioy, a front of more than JOHN J, O’LEARY’S TRIAL { ven miles, Allied infantry, sup- or by tanks, retook Belloy, ealfhed the edge of St: Maur, arrived orth of Porte and Loges Farms and bta‘ned a foothold at Antheull | Brother of Gann O'Leary, t ugi- | The counter-attack on the French Jett wing Tuesday took the Frenen| "ve, Charged With Obstructing wiose to the original lines as they Justice in Aiding His Escape tood Sunday. The Allies also got yoad Mery in another assault,| Leary, who is a fugitive from justice hile tho further flerce return blow) with a charge of treason hanging over | natied them to reach the vicinity ot | his head, was placed on trial to-day be. jt. Maur, fore Judge Augustus N. Hand in the %, French cannon and machine guns | United States District’ Court on the| PERSHING REPORTS VICTORY. ve reaped a peavy toll since Sun- srameat eves reget batch “ ve Gey HINGTON, June 12.—American troops northwes: of Cha- i 5 hopes to prove John con 4 fl ; i areas entire division yen ROUAFEY Tee Us aver ite ancoee oF bis vectane j eau Thierry peiilay 0 wlyanced their position in Beileau Wood, captur- fwad cut to pieces at Ressons-sur- Jeremish from the jurisdiction of the ling > 1 e siuding (Matz, while « Guards division lost A bel thd oven ioek a oe anette 250 prisoners and considerable war material, inciuding a number of | jaredh proportion of its effectives.|torney {rom him in anticipation of his | Machine guns and trench mortars, Gen, Pershing reported lis: night in ther divisions suffered equally dur- | flight. his daily communique img the preparation for the attack] Assistant District Attorney Earl D. | 7 4 , Barnes, is conducting the pre cation | It is in this section that the marines have been fighting for a number eys, all the passes of which Cae eary. = The day was cons! of days and it was assumed here fc the advance to the narrow val i “i eetibated by, the Allied guns Bvery |*umed in the aeiecilo on of w jury jprisone; taken seems horror-stricken ! fat the slaughter of his comrade NEW SHIP RUNS ASHORE. | The brilffiant counter attack Hivered by the French left has undone de- Freighter Lake ¥ robably most of the advantages gained by| | Will Re Ts fie Germans in the first two days of mark one lean freight steamer lake the battle, threatening as it does the | "asi '00. ® ryan . Mesentary bu flank of the enemy columns in the! by the United States sienna joentre marching on Complegne, from | ran © neh 4 |which they are now only six miles | night and may be a to: away to information received by After three days of fighting in | Board officials here 1¢ A brief which the Germans have incurred a | PO'! of dent suid the wha serious wastage of man power, he bearers iq has failed to reach Compiegne, bie! 3000 tons yrose temeten oat a nbout Ammediate objective. His advance | por way to be assene mie Was oh om the right bank of the Oise is not! 1 America sufficient to place in jeopardy the Allied positions on the other bank 1,000 for Her Husband's Klee between the Oise and the Aisne | troeation, } The heroic stand of a detachnient | A Verdict of 11,00) was returned to-day Jof dismouated cavalry on the height |b¥ 4 Jury in the Federal Court at jot Le Plemont, says the Associated | Done", WO the Mut of Ale ‘Therine }Preas correspondent, will be remem-| the rons. uveine! rag se bered as one of the most heroic opi- | Klectriec Compan 1 Lgodes of the war. Surrounded sun. | purd for damaxes tt dag morning at 4 o'clock they resist. cuted on Sept. 23, 16 urréd while a powerful German attack was | °'e!* men.) DUGOUT FOR DEFENSE AGAINST AIR BOMBS This d ! cans in made of ten fee BRoor FOR igout was built by samer | space | «French port. The roof is | Shock surface ort 1 iron wet in cor Jhave p underground. An air resistin of coner a A second layer dowith granite roved themselves bomb concussion tfeient Thes oe GERMAN LOSS OF 660,000 MEN AMERICAN the hat in SINCE DRIVE BEGAN ON MARCH 21, FIGURED BY MILITARY EXPERTS Some Divisions Have Been Used Two or Three WITH ly It of twenty-five div the n opened drives ————_-4—— total at least 660,000, engaged 260 divisions in the original Picardy-Flanders of-| near at hand came the sound of heavy | fensive, 53 divisions in the Marne drive and 20 so far between Montdid and Noyon, the Germans have thus employed a total of 333 divisions (3,996,000 men) since the first attack average enemy loss at 2,000 men to a divi With a maximum of 210 divisions@———————————— | whistied overt n, (300,000 | jaries which heretofore iKainst empted on account of age or wounds. Times, and Its Average Loss Is Estimated at 2,000. THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, June 12,—Ger-| | man casualties in the great offensive since March 21, according to sciea- jat night and had an exciting time. The tific military calculations, Having “ Military experts estimate the] tinea betore it left port. had been ex- MARINES WIN BELLEAU WOODS © IN BRILLIANT FIGHT, SAYS PARIS; PERSHING TELLS OF ADVANCES BEGINS IN FEDERAL COURT | Battalion of “Soldiers of the Sea” Capture 300) Prisoners, Machine Guns and Mine Throwers. [FRENCH-AMERICAN REPORTS] PARIS, June 12.—‘‘American troops brilliantly carried Be!- | Thi The stat John J. O'Leary, brother of Jeremian laeu Wood this morning taking 300 prisoners. mnouncement is made by the War Office in its official | report last night. ement follows “Northwest | vaneing our position of whom three were officers of Chateau-Thierry n the Belleau Wood, ber of machine guns and trench mortars, ‘In harassi CITY CHAMBERLAIN A BROKER piivaty interests enn Quit Myta the Woevre fire.” View J, John ty For New ¥ appoir nk \dos the M M ¢ eM the that he had put ienin, York we were Presiden pander, a that they were the tro gain reterred to. successful in ad- We captured 250 prisonegs, batteries executed effective Pre Wen! ident A tral sys ted Regional D. ai under 0, resigned to-da Various subsid yatom owing In all to as Pre comy neutral n and considerable material, including ation GIVES UP 125 Jos, Former President Smith of y, a num- and | Smith of the nthe iat EIGHTH GERMAN WAR LOAN, bis the been Haat IN A FRENCH ORT ej piled high with sandbags and topped joft with a heavy roof of thick boil’ t | plate The suilors are seen here ting around the entrance when | re no German machines Le ot REPORT THAT THRE U BOATS WERE SUNK OFF THES. COAST (Continued from First Page.) put on full speed and arrived in port witbout @ seratch, The William D. Noyes was attacked | enemy craft fired without warning, The Noyes was without lights, when | fring. The men on board thought it | must be an American vessel warning | some vessel to keep within a route out- The faint | slimmer of a searchlight spread over the deck of the Noyes and a shell head. It exploded fifty feet from the vessel, after passing over the heads of the men on ber decks. Then those on board realized they were being shelled by a submarine. Orders to put on full steam were sent to the engine room, The vessel's gun- | Bers opened up on the submarine with twoeguna, left behind. When first attacked, the Noyes sent | out wireless calls for assistance. A score of vessels came to the as- sistance of the Noyes, but when they arrived the U |The Noyes was escorted to pert by destroyers, —~— MANY U BOAT RUMORS KEEP NAVY MEN BUSY; NO NEWS OF “BATTLE” Department Deciares ‘All Sinkings| on This Side of the Atlantic Have Been Made Public. | WASHINGTON, June 12.—The | Navy Department, to put an end to rumors along the coast, announces that every ship known to have |sunk by U boats on this side of the | Atlantic bas been reported, Also that jit will promptly roport the destruc. jtion of 4 U boat the minute it. gets | proof, | While there have been no sinkings reported for several days, ufficials are | not sure the U boats have departed, On the other hand, they would not be surprised to hear of further appear. ances of the submarines at any time {> It is not believed there is a mother | 3 | | | | | |ship with the raiders here |pointed out that there is n thentic instance on record of ( submarines accompanied by mother ships. One of the new suggestions, not official, is that the Sargasso Sea is }being ‘used as n hiding place for |U beats and supply ships, Also that in it may be concealed the missing collier Cyclops, Near the Sarguaso Sea three steamship lanes form a triangle. In it may be not only the \Cyclops and the mother ship of the U boats, it is said, but the Karisruhe, which from time to time is reported jactive again y officials say this part of the sea has been explored without finding anything Meanwhile the policy of keeping the transport and transatiantic supp lines open will be maintained. If ship masters follow instructions losses will be materially reduced. Avsistant Secretary of the Navy | Roosevelt said to-di that while |newspapers are receiving many |rumors regarding fights and new sinkings, the Navy Department un- |doubtedly receives two such reports lto every one reaching newspaper of- | tices: | “Every such report that appears to have uny foundation ts immediate! | investigated,” he sald baeriptions Marks, AMSTPRDAM, June b s from the army to oan brow despatches to-day Gradually the U boat was} boat had disappeared. | been | aa AND KAISER PLEDGED ALLANGE, BOLSHEVIK CHAR Alleged Verbal | Pact Made at Potsdam to Be Described | at Russian Trial. PETROGRAD, Monday, That the former Caar and the Kaiser formed a June 10. verba! alliance ;Great Britain and France during a against conference at Potsdam will be charged in the forthcoming trial of the former, vit was reported here to-day, The Czar | also said to have promised Kaiser a free hand in Turkey. ‘The Soviet members who have [charge of the pending trial promise | further sensational disclosures. They intend to make public telegrams and etters which the Caar sent to the, Kings of Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and | Belgium, to the monk Rasputin and to President Poincare | | | | ‘CADETS’ APPEAL FAILS >| TO CHANGE U, S, STAND ON ACTION IN RUSSIA | Only New Developments of Impor- ; | tance Likely to Alter U. S. Pol- | icy of Non-Intervention. WASHINGTON, June 12 the State Department of Rece by an ap- | peal of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party of Russia to the United | States and the Allies to send an peditionary force ox. to Russia to repel | the German invasion and an unofficial but authoritative statement of the present attitude of the State Depart- ment on the quesion, was considered | to-day as having put a stop to spec | ulation of the last several weeks as ‘to the possibility of American troops being despatched to ald in the recre- | ation of an eastern front. | | An unofficial statement was that lithe attitude toward intercession in Russia had not been changed and that some development of imporiarce would be required to cause the Amer- ican Government to depart from ita| policy of allowing Mussia to deai alone with the German menace, | pee ht aati: ANTI-BOLSHEVIK REVOLT | PLANNED IN PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW TOGETHER | | Reunion of Russia and Ukraine and Return to War Seen if Soviet { Is Ovérthrown. | STOCKHOLM, June 12( United Press) | -The action of the Bolsheviki in put- ting Moscow under martial law is) probably due to the uncovering of a! plot aimed at the | Bolsheviki by simultaneous uprisings ; in Moscow and Petrograd. | Prince Kropotkin, E. Savinkoff and a number of Cadet party leaders were | | involved in the piot. The return of Russia to the war is inevitable, Either this or Russia will become extinct. But before anything ‘definite can be done the Bolsheviki | must go, according to the opinion of most Russian observers. The separation of Russia and Ukraine is purely artificial, Already the Ukrainians are revolting against rmany and Hetman Skoropadsky. The moment the Bolsbeviki go @ re- juhion of Ukraine and Russia is cer- tain, a united front will be formed and Brest-Litovsk treaty will be abro- Baled, overthrow of tne) Mant. The three men to refused executive | are to be clectro- whom the Governor clemency yesterday, cuted in Sing Sing prison to-morrow night, it wi learned to-day. They are Hyman Ostransky, Alveh Briggs and | Bladis Commiskey It developed to-day that Briggs, during & previous term in Sing Sing, was a member of one of the brick-laying com- | |Panies which built the death house in Which he will die tormorrow night. | ‘nine | BELMONT PARK WINNERS. FIRST RACE-—Three-year-olds: $700 added; six furlongs, main course.— Elfinhart, 103 (Ambrose), 4 to 5, to 4 and out, won; Helen Atkin, 107 (Shut- | tinger), 16 to 5, 4 to 5 and oul, second Piazza, 103 (Walls), 15 to 1. 4 to 1, 6 to Winning Card | third. ‘Time, 1.14 2-6. and Sandberka also ran SECOND RACE—Steeplechase; i eara-olds and up; $600 t sell about Rta 10, third, ‘Time, 4 High ‘Flyer, Wolfeton ter also ran Ne Penee Wit Vietory im Weat, Sayn ¢ AMSTERDAM “Peace! cannot be we have atiained ¢ nt, anc tung de jthe President wanted open discuss {mean smaller | troit, an avowed Repu ‘SENATE VOTES DOWN “OPEN DIPLOMACY” MOVE Borah Resolution Defeated 80 to 23 After Wilson Explains Stand Against Secrecy WASHING N. June 12 The Sen ate to-day went on record against “open diplomacy” Ry a vote of $0 to t rejected the Borah amendmen t public consideration The Senate by this « on accepled President Wilson's own conatey tion of his peace terme speech of Jan. & when he told Congress he ¢ ‘ed open covenants of peace, openiy ar rived at." and that henceforth diplo macy “must proceed always in the open.” In & letter sent to Secretary before the vote was taken the Pi made it known that his advoca open diplomacy was not in reference the Senaie executive di ties, in which he recommended no jehange, but meant the discussion of treaties after their ratification Senator Hitchcock read a copy of the letter before the Senate Senator Borah, replying to Hitch- cock, quoted a nm the President's speech and said the language war open to only one construction—that on perwrew Rations in sp e! treaties Lansing to ussion of trea et PAPERS FACE GUT IN SIZE; WAR EXPENSES ENORMOUS : Publishers’ Representative Says Pro- Rating of Print Stock Will Cause Heavy Losses. CHICAGO, June 12—According to H. N. Kellogg, Chairman of the Special | anding Committee of the American! Newspaper Publishers’ vernment agencies are now consid- ering @ plan for pro-rating distribution of print paper which he said would papers and curtailment of employment “This action * said Mr. Kelloge doubtedly will be taken in the near fu- ture. This will, of course, lessen op- portunities for profits to some news- papers and ca serious losses to others.” Mr. Kellogg's remarks were made be | fore the convention of the International Steretoypers and Electrotypers’ Union. The speaker reminded his hearers! that the war had increased the e penses of newspapers without aug- menting revenues. Increased prices for newspapers themselves has not equalled the enormous increases in expenses fh have increased, he said, at a rate far greater than the living expenses of the individual, —_—__—_. CRAIG, AUTO SPEED JUDGE. Dennis Doyle, chauffeur for Comp- troller Charlies lL. Craig, was dis- charged by Magistrate Doyle in Jamaica to-day on a charge of speed- ing. Mocoreycle Policeman Platt |he timed the chauffeur and he w going more than twenty-five miles hour "poyle, Who asserted he was no driving’ the Comptrollier'a care more than twenty miles, was supported. by Comptroller Craig, who tr dhe |Nad ridden in automobiles over two hundred thousand miles and. could speed at which « car was He was sure Doyle was nore than eighteen to ; an hour. After. the Compt testimony was heard the complaint was dismiased HENRY FORD Ft FOR SENATOR, Michigan Demo Tho: Republic LANSING, Mich., June 12,—Michigan Democrats at their spring conference here to-day indorsed Henry Ford of De- an, for United States Senator, ‘This action was taken despite the fact that there has been no indication Mr. Ford will accept the nom ination if it is tendered him at August primary “DRYS” WIN | WIN IN JERSEY. TRENTON, N. J, June 12,—Seven local options elections in Central and Southern Jersey yesterday, resulted in five victories for the “drys” and two fo: the "wets." Lamberivilie, Pennington, Kast Am-| well, Hopewell and Franklin townships Freehold townshiv voted wet voted dry. “MERRY WIDOW”! DOOMED 10 DEATH AS SPY IN PARIS Mme. M., W yhose H Hobend Fell at Front, Used Children to Deal With Enemy. j PARIS, May 31 (Correspondence of Associated Press).-Frief announee- ment has just been made that a Paris court-martial has concemned to death asa spy Mme. M, thirty-seven years old, Her son Noel, sixteen years old, who was accused of being her accom- was ordered to be sent to a peni- comes of age. was too young Dlice. tentiary colony unti! he The court believed he to be held responsible for his acts. | As the case was not heard in publié ) only a few details have become known. M.'s husband was in March, 1916, and that the wife soon started a life that such ag that Mme killed at the front arned ber in the circies she frequent+ ed the name of ‘The Merry Widow.” the money she peventey and, to obicin more, com, j Btunicated with @ Greek diving im Spain, an agent of th spy bureau es She soon ran through Association, | {tablished in Barcelona by the Ger- mans, When mother and son were ar- rested, the boy was just about to engage in the aviation service in or- | der to obtain information to be sup- plied to Germany A writer in the Paris Midi identifies | the Greek as the heud of German prop- uganda in Spain and director in par- cular of the service for arranging explosions in factories. He was @ | regular visitor to a s' school af | Barcelona where he went to see three little girls whose guardian he was supposed to be. One of them, the youngest, afed about eleven, handed over to him, on each visit, several which he carried away These three little girls were French, being the daughters of Madame M. The “Merry Widow" used to pass on any information she obtained to her son who wrote ft to his young sister, placing it in the middie of his letters, which were never really examined, when it was seen that they were letters from: @ brother to a little sister at school, ——<»— 4 CHILDREN ble IN FIRE, the | Y., June eetric storm early this morning light- ning struck a house five miles west of here in which were sleeping Arthur Henness and five of his children, The house was set on fire and four of the children, three s and one boy, whose ages ranged from three were burned to death ‘The fifth chi aged twelve. jumped from a second-story window and escaped with slight burns. The father was badly burned, but will recover ———E—— DIED. 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