The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 2

SRE Ree ter ‘b ce et tn OL ARON THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1918. peer arenes @ud gas shells throughout the night. ter wherever it was available. bullets. began after 6 o'clock A. M. city of Meaux, twenty-five miles from Chateau-Thierry. 40 and 12 inch naval guns. is continuing. seemed of the hottest character in Vaux itself. BRIDGES THROWN ACROSS THE MARNE. gunners. to the utmost and are continuing this character of resistance. lantly opposed by more of the American troops and the French. stood here. east of Dormans, making additional crossings. Shortly after 11 o'clock one of the American Jaunched a counter-attack in the region of Conde. [The town of Conde is probably Conde-en-Brie, three and three-quarter miles south of the Marne southeast of Chateau-Thierry.] Reports recelved here shortly after 11 A, M. on made no progress whatever there. nated the river salient. becoming more intense. The day opened surtny, but low now scurrying over the battlefield, threatening rain. ‘ cans Immediately Counter Attacked. WITH THE AMBRICANS ON THE MARNE, Py Thierry. The result of this fighting is not yet known, the face of a heavy fi northeast of Fossoy. Mezy.! toll for the privilege of bridging the historic river. in excellent order. Varennes to Reuilly. [FRANCO-ITALIAN REPORT] Office announces: from the Valarsa to the eastern sector of the Asiago Plateau. dispersed moving enemy troops north of Borocola Pass. ‘enemy airplanes were brought down in air fightin: Teport from Paris says: Bulgarian jines. confluence of the Tornorica and Devoli Rivers. Devoli we occupied Gramshi.” (This represents an advance of three or four miles), NEW CABINET FOR HOLLAND. LONDON, July 15.—Quken Wilhel- mina of the Netherlands, according to & Geepatch from the Hague to the Central News Agency, has charged Deputy Nolens, leader of the Catholic Party, with the formation of a cabi- in succession to the ministry *\ den, which recently resigned. AMSTERDAM, July German headquarters, where tak 4 vacation until Sept learned to-day. Vic Payer will act in his place, The Americans and the French commanders have resisted the enemy The operation at Vaux appeared to be a feint, for soon afler it began the Germans attacked all along the Marne, where they were gal- The first crossing was made at the peak of the big river bend. American machine gunners and infantrymen fought and died where they Others of the American troops withdrew strategically a the enemy attacked from east of Chateau-Thierry to along the Marne, | infantry regiments ! uds July 15, 2 (United Press).—The Americans, shortly before noon, launched a heavy counter-attack against large forces of Germans which had forced a cross. Sing of the Marne at three points on a four-mile front, east of Chatean- At daybreak the Germans threw pontoon bridges across the Marne Supported by artillery and machine guns, their infantry rushed across in The Germans succeeded in crossing the river at three places—at Mezy, at Jaulgonne and at La Bretonnere Farm, north of Fossoy. LFosaoy is four miles east of Chateau-Thierry. Mezy is two miles Jaulgonne is the same distance northeast of German losses were heavy everywhere they attacked, but they were| * particularly severe along the Marne, where the Germans paid a heavy Withdrawal of the Americans and the French traops to their right to the base of the salient formed by the bend in the Marne Was eflecte.i | Their first rush carried the Germans forward three kilometers (a mille and three-quarters). At noon the battle ine east of Chateau-Thierry | ran, roughly, from Fossoy through Paroy and between Courtemont and FRENCH AND ITALIANS CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCES IN ALBANIA Poilus Take Hill 500 and Occupy Villages Along Tornorica and Devoli Rivers, Gain of Four Miles. LONDON, July 15.—Regarding the Albanian front, the Italian War “The usual artillery actions were more intense at intervals yesterday Our fire At Cornone new attacks by enemy patrols and detachments were promptly repulsed, Thr Regarding Saturday's operations in Macedonia and Albania the official “West of Doiran British troops carried out a successful raid on the “In Albania the French troops continued their successful advance, ‘They drove the enemy from Hill 600 and from the village of Narta, at the On the right bank of the | headed by Premier Cort Van Der Lin- HERTLING ON VACATION. 15 —Chaneelior yon Hertling has gone to piace near 1, c¢ Chancellor von the [the ot The American ‘Hoops seit shei- When the enemy infantry appeared the Americans swarmed out and met the attacks with a rain of machine-gur. The Americans wore their gas masks as they fought the attacking Germans. An enemy bombardment of towns in the rear of the pas | Heavy shells from German naval guns are falling in regions far be- hind the actual battle area. Many of these projectiles have fallen in the In many of French and Iafla these towns the German shell fire is constant, the projectiles being from Reports from American advance positions said that the American troops were “handling the enemy well” in the desperate fighting, which The whole line in both directions from Vaux was dense with smoke and gas fumes. The roar of the cannonade was punctuated in the few intermissions with a terriffic din of machine-gun and rifle fire, whcih baile freat are ripértea ates | In their attack on the Marne front the Germans threw many bridges | across the river, Over these the Germans are passing under a withering fire from the artillery. German progress is being stayed by the machine The which lies about and eight miles the fighting to the py the Italians and Fre east of Rheims said that the enemy, up to about an hour previously, had | ern Albania have seriously compro- In the Conde region, however, before the American counter-attack, the German advance appeared to have elimi- | northward, At 14.20 o'clock this moming the long range bombardment was are AUSTRIANS ADMIT NEW ADVANCE OF ~ ALLIES IN ALBANIA Italian Troops Make Further Important Gains. | | LONDON, July 15—he “pincers | | movement” of the Allied Armies in [the Balkans continues successfully, ond further important advances Me ‘reneh and Italian troops on the from both Paris and Rome, Vienna officially admits that the Allied forves are advancing. The Pren ‘ jadvanced four miles. The Allied advance in the “aa, is menacing the flanks of the Aus- trians’ new line and may result in turning the enemy out of all his| Semini River positions and forcing him to fall back fifteen miles further | |to his entrenched camp along the | Skumbi, French forces, advancing victor: | ously, have taken Hill $00 and the; villages of Narta and Gramshi, which | bring them nearer to the Allies’ east- | Neutral ern flank at Lake Ochrida, In Mace- donia, west of Dotran, the British Kuehlmann have struck the Bulgarians with good results. The line running northward frofii Uskum is believed to be their objective, with the object of flanking the Bulgars out of thelr positions northwest of Monastir, Retreat ed in Northward Ex- Albania, July 16.—Further advances ch in South- Farther ROM inived the enemy positions and prob- ably will necessitate further retreat {freeing the Allied com- munications between Western Mace- donia and the Adriatic, a despatch from the Italian front in Albania stated to-day, The Austrians continue to Ml back |in disorder, burning depots and vil- MARNE CROSSED AT THREE POINTS. AT HEAVY COST TO GERMANS Withdrawal of American and French Troops Was Made in Good Order and Ameri- P.M. h they are foreed to aban- Village of Bulchar is) in The ames, Italian troops, co-operating jwith the French, have reached Clu- naka Pass, Allied Troopa to Advance, Says View VIBNNA, July 15 (via London.)— Allied troops in Albania cohtinue to advance, says an official statement from Austria-Hungarian headquar- ters, Increased activity is noted on [the Italian front, The statement read “Between Lake Garda and the Adige the reciprocal tillery fire was very acti On the Venetian |mountain front activity has in- eased, Italian battalions fruitlessly | \agement on the | | attacked southwest of Asiago and |north of Monte di Valbelta. tern slopes of the Hrenta Valley also ended in our| favor, “In Albania the enemy 1s grad- ually pressing forward against our |new line of resistance, In the De- voli Valley a French squadron has been ssh) eee 40,000 AUSTRIANS DESERTED AFTER THE Teutonic Losses, Exclusive Slightly Wounded, Said to Have Exceeded 200,000. LONDON, July 15.—Forty thousand deserters from the Austrian Army fled inland after the Piave disaster, the Zurich correspondent of the Datly News has learned from neutral sources, Some of these are armed and are hiding in the mountains, Three thou- sand deserters were arrested in Bud- apest. Austro-German relations are seri- ously strained as a result of the Plave defeat, the correspondent said. German Chancellor von Hertling’s re- cant slatements were the result of Austrian pressure, designed to bols- ter up the tottering dual monarchy by showing its oppressed people that the Central Empires “earnestly de sire peace.” Despite the rigid censorship, it is learned that the Austrian losses on the Piave, exclusive of wounded, were more than which 10,000 were drowned Austrian Premier von Seydler, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Burian and Count Czernin and Count Berehtoldt, former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministers, are going to Gere man Headquarters on an important mission, slightly 200,000, ot Allied Troops ¥ ROME, July 15.— ‘operations on the Itallan mountain front, tha War Office announced to-day de main.” the stat enemy airplanes wer nt said brought down. machine BALL FP by Hi fan Lower House LONDON, July 15 fth ranchise bill, the arolyi and som rters of jeal franchise ting agains party of sun reform measure, It was ways a despatch from udapest to’ the Frankfurter Zeitung. 000, at 37 7) aoe U.S. AND BRITISH BALKANS OFFENSIVE GROWS AND VIENNA ADMITS NEW LOSSES. _LINE OF NEW OFFENSIVE AND ITS RELATION TO PARIS Al (ee Vit her Beste dass PLPCOTOOTOCSE Ht CUTE TPOOHSTTF OSDU* 64 4444 ADAG EARARDOVIADA DOH? s* Ccorenet hd BIDE EOIGDAGEGIA DEED EROed pels <, ree RHE 096 6. 656-8 0 9-64-4- 9008 foe Swi Pata coke SECTOR OF ‘a ee eticn \ ELOCOL GOGGLE F ECOOOCOTTE DOSE VOODOO OD OTE DOO DHOT HED oes TROOPS OCCUPY MURMAN COAST KAISER’S INSANE JEALOUSY OF ARMY COM TO SPLIT IN GERMAN. RANKS Asserts Monarch’s Fears Forced DISASTER ON PIAVE. of | tallan and French troops conducted three successful local "On Aviago Plateau the French carried ‘ut tWo and we carried oue one coup The Lower House Hungarian Diet has adopted the Count a ‘ranchise bill fixes the number of Take Possession of Whole Re- gion as Bolsheviki Demand Withdrawal of English, LONDON, July 15.—Almerican and Britigh troops have occupied the whole the Murman ‘coast, in Northern Russia, says a despatch from Moscow to the Central News | Agency by way of Amsterdam, After capturing Kem, a railroad sta- tion on the White Sea coast, the de- |spatch adds, the American and Brit- \ish forces advanced toward Toroki, the Russian Bolaheviki authorities having withdrawn to Nirok. [Kem is the port and important station on the Murmansk Rall- way which the Germans have been planning to setze as a base of operations against tho tce-free Arctic port, where buge military stores were gathered by the Allies while Russia was at war.) The commanders of the Entente Allied forces have issued an appeal to the population on the Murman coast requesting help against Germany and Finland. It is declared that the Mur- man Coast Is Russian territory under the protection of the Entente powers, ‘The local population is co-operating with the troops, which have arrived to defend the railways connecting the | coast with Petrograd. Meanwhile the | Germans are making a desperate at- tempt to secure the control of th Murman coast. They need the har- | bors for submarine bases now that Zeabruge has been closed and Os- tend rendered of little value. The total German force in Russia} is thirty-two Austrian divisions, composed mainly of is spread over a vast area from Potrograd to the Black Sen. In Finland, threatening the Mur- man Railway, the Germans have rather more than a division, but the bulk of this body in in the south and not easily within reach of the Mur- man Rathway. The railway may, however, be attacked by airplanes. M. Tchitcherin, the Russian Foreign German and fifteen | of old and inferior men. This force) LEADING Dutchman, well A mann, The Kaiser, he sald, is jealous opinion in Germany, hence he order of Field Marshal von Hindenburg tensified by his distrust of the Cro’ them. The two generals know that own way. tween the two opposite feelings. throw all the blame on them. The “But while they command the burg rorize him.” a on among Soviet troops, War Minister ‘Trotzky has declared a state of war along the Murman Coast and rail- is seventy miles southeast of Vladimir, on the Oka River, ahd at the last cen- sus had @ population of about 14,000.) PEKING, Saturday, July 13 (By the Associated Press).—The British, French and Japanese Ministers to China have strongly protested to Gen. Horvath, the anti-Bolshevik military commander, who has formed a tem- porary War Cabinet for Siberia, ask- ing him to withdraw his dictatorship | proclamation on the ground that it 1s | unwise and untimely. | The proclamation, the Ministers) say, is calculated to cause a sit! tion which may impede the movement of the Czecho-Slovaks, which move- ment at the present time {s all-im- | portant. Gen, Horvath is requested | to reply to the 8 ciploraatio protest. | | | | Minister, has addressed a note to Great Britain demanding that the British detachments now on the Murman coast be re-embarked without delay, | says a Central News message to- day from Awsterdam,’ relaying a Moscow despatch, CZECHS CAPTURE KAZAN, EAST OF MOSCOW. Crecho-Slovak troops have cap- {tured the city of Kazan, 430 miles east of Moscow, an Exchange Tele- graph despatch from Copenhagen says it is reported from Moscow. The city was taken after the Bolsheviki had put up violent resistance. (Kazan is on e¢ Kasanka River near where it joins the Volga. It fy a manufacturing and commercial centre and is the entrepot of the commerce between Siberia and European Ruasia. Kazan is about 100 miles north of Simbirsk, where the Bolshevik Government troops were reported to have defeated the Czechs last weak.) An Amsterdam despatoh says Ge: Alexieff, former Russian Chief-o! Staff, has been appointed Command- er-in-Chief of the anti-Bolshevik forces, it is reported from Moscow. He arived in Omek with a large army and was accorded an enthusiastic re- ception. {Omak is in Asiatic Russia, 1,400 miles east of Moscow.) AMSTERDAM, July 15.—By the capture of Kazan, 430 miles cast of Mosoow, the Czecho-Slovaks have be- come masters of the government of the lower Volga, says a despatoh from Moscow to the Berliner Tageblatt The Czrecho-Slovaks, the despatch adds, also are utilizing War Minister ‘Trotzky’s mobilization in the Ural Mountain, on the Volwa River, and in Siberia, for their own purposes by forming from recruits what they call Black Guards, which they use to strengthen their own forves. STOCKHOLM, July 11 (delayed) ¢ Soviet Government is about to moved from Moscow to Murom, according to despatches from Mos- cow. As @ result of insubordination it a ‘FOCH MAY HAVE SENT U, $. TROOPS TO RUSSIA; WASHINGTON IN DARK Senators Hear Appeal by “Battalion of Death” Leader for Amer- ican Intervention. WASHINGTON, July 15.—Amert- can participation in the joint Entente | occupation of the Murman coast of Russia bordering the Arctic Ocean, so far as known here, is Hmited to Marines and blucjackets. War Department officials said to- day that no American troops have | been landed on the Murman coast to their knowledge, and that if it should turn out such troops had made their appearance in the neighborhood of Archangel and Kola they must have been despatched at the suggestion of Gen. Foch, Supreme Commanding General, from some of the American forces now in training in England, A plea for immediate military in- tervention by the Alhes in Russia was made to-day to a group of Senators ‘by Madame Rotchkarova, former leader of the Russian woman's Bat- talion of Death, Speaking through an interpreter in the Marble Room of the Senate, she urged that an American army of 100,000 men, if possible, or a combined Allied force be sent through Siberia, Untess thus military ald is given soon, Madame Botchkarova said, it will be too Iatac to save Russia from Germany, Economic help is needed, she declared, but military intervention would be welcomed by the Russtan peasantry and is imperatiy Allies im to Make Speech Denying Teutons Can Win Victory With Arms. is authority for the statement that Dr. Richard von Kuehl- former Foreign Secretary, was driven to make his speech, declaring a Germany victory could not be obtained by military force, by the Kaiser's intense jealously of his war aids. and Gen. Ludendorff, and in addition is desirous of ascertaining public who has closely studied German affairs: “The Kaiser varies every week, not quite the autocrat he ts pictured, he has enough power to upset the plans of others and their vain ambitions. ardly; one day he is convinced that victory is within his grasp, and the next is In mortal fear of his own neck. “The only consistent factor in his mind is his almost insane hatred “With each defeat his hatred increases, constantly vacillating be- publicly caresses them, but when things are going badly he tries to the latest of these efforts to try the public. id Gen. Ludendorff can vanquish any one who goes against them, and if they cannot vanquish: |Chancellor, in a statement on the Ger- | Belgium.” three motor cars carrying thirty la borers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- '\road to-day at Louisa, Ky., near here, | MANDERS LEADS LONDON, July 15. informed in international affairs, of Field Marshal von Hindenburg ed the speech. Said the Hollander, almost every day. ‘Though he is He is exceedingly cow- and Gen. Ludendorff, which Is in- wn Prince, who always aides with they are necessary and have their When things are going well he speech of Dr. von Kuehlmann was army Field Marshal von Hinden- the Kaiser they at least can ter- sponsibility for the assassination ot) German Ambassador Mirbach, State Department advices to-day said no pre- tense is now being made in Moscow that the allies were in any way responsible med by Germany, The local up- if at Moscow has been put down, advices state, but communications bad and transportation are cated, is dislo- GUARANTEES FROM BELGIUM DEMANDED BY GERMANY |Hertling Declares They Must Be Both Economic and Military. AMSTERDAM, July 15.—'In peace we must be guaranteed against Belgium) being used for ground on which to de- ploy military forces, but from the eco- nomic standpoint we must have guaran- tecs against being isolated,” said Count vpn Hertling, the German Imperial man attitude toward Belgium. “It must be made to the interest of Belgium to secure close economic rela- tions with Germany,” declared Count von Hertling. “Should Germany suc- ceed in attaining such an intimate commerctal connection this would bring | about a political agreement with Ger- many in Which we should secure the Dest querantecs amainst future perils rom land and France by way of i CONGRESS BEGINS RECESS. House Jot WASHINGTON, July 15.—The sum- mer vacation of Congress besan to-day Both Houses met for routine business. The Senate adjourned until Thursday under the agreement for Monday and Thursday sessions only until Aug. 24 The House approved to-day an agree- ment providing for three day recesses unti Aalg. 19, no business to be tran- sacted at the perfunctory semi-weekly meetings. Democratic Leader Kitchin said Use plan was approved by Preal Gent Wilson and that after. Important business had been disposed of in August and September a further holiday until after pe November elections would be possi EMPIRE WINN ERS. FIRST RACE—For two-year-olds; purve $600; five and one-half furlon —Sea Pirate, 118 (Robingon), even, o won; Minuet, 105. (McTaggart), 10, out, out, second, ‘Time, 1.69 Only two starters. Satins RES fix Workmenm Killed When Engine ni Car. HUNTINGTON, W. July 16.— Six men were killed and fourteen in jured when a locomotive crashed into | the MCLURE ADMITTED KISSING SERVANT MAID, LAWYER SAYS Notes Explanation That He Was Skylarking — Wife — Denies Charges Against Hed. Henry H. McClure, General ™ of the Associated Newspapers, suing Frances C, McClure for a#orce, denied to-day that @ serving maid in his household at No. 3%) Riverside Drive had become the object of his af fections in 1916. The charge had been nade by his wife in her application for counsel fees and alimony “There ix no doubt 4 the serving m Met! Edmund ' i admiswion thi is of record. he Law willing to note his explanation tha he was intoxicated and skylarking at the time.” Hartford Marshall, counsel for McClure, testifial he was with a raid is party alleged to have found Mrs. McClure with a co-reyponder Mrs. the “preposterous, per- rhe Court reserved MeClure ured against her were jured and false.” decision, THIRTY STEEL CARGO SHIP ‘CONTRACTS LET TO JAPANESE Bethlehem Corporation of Cali- fornia Will Build Twenty Trans- ports for Government. WASHINGTON, July 15,—Contracts for thirty additional steel cargo ships have been let by the Shipping Board to Japanese yards. Contracts also have been let for build- ng twenty transports to the Bethlehem building Cornoration at Alameda, oo /SPANISH WAR ‘VETS’ MEET. Fifteenth Annoal Encampment Opens at Mount Vernon. With 150 delegates present, the fif- teenth annual encampment of the De- partment of New York, Spanish War Veterans, opened at the Mount Vernon High School to-day. The opening of the convention was preceded by @ pa- rade, led by Mayor Edward F. Brush of Mount Vernon and the New York Police Band. Mayor Brush delivered the ad- dress of welcome. A business session was held this af- ternoon, A ball will be given to-night, Pocteciad + Stal ‘Three Police Bureaus to Be Consolid- The main office of the Detective Bureau, the Information Bureau and Missing Persons Bureau, which at fices on different doors at quarters, are to be merged into one office, it was announced this afternoon by Police Commissioner Dnright. The three bureaus will quartered in one large room on main floor of the Police Department Building. acc Locomotive Blacksmiths lotic Blea, SCHE . ¥y duly 16.— Striking blacksmiths, hammersmiths and helpers of the local plant of the American Le who have been out sinee Y. voted to- day to return to work t lecision waa reached | etter an appeal to. their patriotism Strtking Baltimore Uientenant Texns Fight. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 16.—Licut. Alexander Santos died at the base ho pital af, Fort Sam Houston from injur- near Brooks Field, to-day! Killed to His "Tather CHOCOLATE COVERED BUTTER ¥ fat iece on sale onc of the taatic that bh me your war. LONDON BUTTER TOFFER—This ix the old-fashion, — deticiouss Killed by Fall in imine House, NEWARK, N. J., July 15.—A frac- tured skull, the result of a fall through |a trap door in Engine House No. 4, on High Street, caused the death this after. | WASHINGTON, July he social revolutionary party has admitted ita re- noon of John Ryan, aged forty years, of Who) was visiting his brother William,” a English Chewing Can dy, made rich and but= ver fails andy lovers Fach piece 39c w Dauner. POUND BOX ‘or ex jorations ‘see telephone directory, s attorney, toh'p fading /HAYTI. DECLARES WAR; TWENTY-TWO. NATIONS NOW AGAINST GERMANY Council of States Carries Out Ree- ommendation of | President— Relations Broken Last Year. July P’ State ing in accordance with the legislative powers given it under the new Haytien con- stitution, has unanimously voted the declaration of war upon Gers many demanded by the President of the republic. RT-AU-~PRINCK, Haytl, The Council of 15, Hayti is the tion to de twenty-second na- ‘e war on Germany. 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