The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1918, Page 2

THE F EVENING _WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 23, _1918," “Be disposition to fight for all they are worth _ GERMAN BASES NORTH OF MARNE |: ——-> SET ON FIRE BY ALLIED FLYERS; |; |.” CROWN PRINCE STILL RETREATS! \ sexs ‘cHauoGN ViLLesgo VAUCASTILLRO Premier Clemenceau’s Paper Estimates Ger- man Casualties Since March 21 at 1,000,000 8 ~ Men—Allies Tighten Grip Around Soissons. | ¢ viene f PARIS, July 23.—Allied aviators have set fire to Fere-en-Tardenois | ¢ and Fismes, the points of enemy concentration with in fhe Soissons-| : Rheims salient. More than 32,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on the two cities. is The Allies are still progressing at several points on the front and the ans continue to withdraw toward the Vesle. ® , Oulchy-le-Chateau, the dominating point on the line between Soils pons and Chateau-Thierry, is reported to have been captured by the Allies | Bis morning. « Additional important gains are said to have been made in the) ns region. Gen. Mangin is tightening his grip on Mont de Paris, + BI csecnends the City of Soissons. | As a result of the Allies’ bombardment from both sides of the Rheims-Soissons pocket, the German Crown Prince has only a seven-milz | passage for withdrawal of his troops, it was reported from the ial to-day. uo! NoReyY oO “i af ii % a » ° © Se eet $444.64 BS “tome TEE ka es Ys commu Gs so. Ze a) Snes founRames/ Yio Z GoM OVINY Ll e Shisnon Wy oo”. away “WY cv °° o © B0uvaRves) crate Some iy | i+ 6-4-4006 909004490014 0004 ptured by Americans and ervigatiiemmnrrinetetnticnmtatiniaiae ' [The width of the eallent on the Fereen-Tardenois line ts about | Arrows point to new towns ca | twenty-five miles.) | Rheims “pooket,” the section of the Marne at which further crossings have | Eritish have made gains. ' ¥ The French War Office in its report to-day makes no mention of | ————— as an ? ‘ occupy the vills =f take 350 prisoners. Albert. GERMA NS HAVE LOST 1,000,000 SINCE MARCH 21. | The German artillery showed , According to a review of the military situation in L’Hommes Libr te newspaper owned by Premier Clemenceau, the German losses since | March 21 are approaching 1,000,000 men, ‘ HOLD NEARLY EVERY INCH OF North Bank of River Prisoners Have Increased by Thousands and) Captured Material Forms a Veritable Mountain. * WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE-MARNE) WASHINGTON, July 23.—Gen, munique: ee ee ee 2 Vershing and Gen. ! Lave gained since the counter-blow began on Thursday last. abandoned them in great haste, ' LNo official statement that Gen, Pershing 18 {n actual command eae AORGURGHL ESAPARE RUREEG BlGkt of the American troops on the Marne front, but the above despatch, sents a gain of about a mile A Dassed by the censor, clearly Indicates that the Commander-in-Chiet of Sera , ur troops in Lurope ts directing their actions on the field.] } The Franco-American forces north of Chateau-Thierry now are hold-| rough official sources of the aggres ' ing Epieds and nearby villages, and a bit of territory northeast of Mont gp Foie Kor 5 YRiany RON Pouncy if OW RO! ROPE ARE RODDED neh in the | been forced by the Frerich troops, and the sector below Rheims where the ounces a new blow north of Montdidier which enabled the French 44 Albert and south of Merris and Meteren on tne Flanders front. in Marne-Rheims “pocket,” speaking only of artillery activity. But | pushed forward “slightly south of Hebuterne, cn the front between a onl s of Mailly-Raineval, Sauvillers and Aubvillers, and| British positions also were improved in the Hamel sector and north of le activity last night with , | gas shells in the Villers-Bretonneux vena east of Amiens, PERSHING TELLS OF FURTHER GAIN GENS. PERSHING AND PETAIN AFTER AMERICANS CROSS MARNE IN FRANCE, July ~A correspondent officers and men fresh from the fight in the Soissons-Rheims salient to-day heard some of the most thrilling sto- ries of the war. A certain Brigadier G sonally led his men in a charge, going over the top with the first wave of in- “Hastily Evacuated” by GROUND THEY HAVE GAINED Germans, Washington Has Been Informed. [AMERICAN REPORT] Pershing reported in yesterday's com- WASHIN ernment to-day took over the Cape C Yesterday evening, our troops, continuing their advance tn co-op- President | weekily premiums, eration with the French south of the Ourca, eros teau-Thierry road between the Oureq and the Clignon and passed through the towns of Bezu, Epieds and Chartreves. Other American FRONT, July 23, 7.40 A. M. (Associated Press).—The troops of Gen.) gnits have crossed the Marne from positions south of the river and Petain are holding almost every inch of ground they| have occupied towns the condition of which shows that the enemy thirty-six hours) Canal. ed the Soissons-Cha- transportation. Quantities of canned tomatoes were hurried up. : opened the ting with their bayonets Enstand canned tomatoes, : The same unit arrived at the front Ine just five minutes before the time sot for the attack on the morning of They had marched at the double-quick through mi and roads that were mud to get there. (The occupation of Bezu, four miles north of Chateau-Thierry, The taking of Epicds repre Charteves is about a mile eastward along the north bank of the Marne from the position re- stward, ankle-deep in depth from 1 will borne ports, to pasa through the c Secretary of War Baker said the highest estimate he had recetved number of prisoners taken by French, American or Italian troops in the present operations was 20,000, 8 on either side of them. tt. Pere. Further east the enemy is continuing to counter-attack unsuc- } | idtivity, although at places brilliant infantry operations are taking place, H | | while machine-gun nests make every open field a potential trap. | we The number of prisoners has been increased by thousands, and a veritable mountain of captured and abandoned material is in possession by the enemy before he abandoned them. | ae The British efforts along the line near Kheims have been rewarded | brought down another German by a bag of prisoners and machine-guns, stances. Among the hundreds in German re as fighters by his presence. South of Soissons the Allied troops maintained all positions as ri In the area nortiv of Chateau-Thierry the enemy was reported by air| WaS the first big eng Observers to be still moving northward, but very slowly and fighting ticipated, earguard actions all the while. The French and Americans hung close aereeeenryeeerereseyr et tm ate aamenintinics! _ Army headquarters moves ahead bit by bit as the line advance. | 1 ‘THREE TOWNS TAKEN BY FRENCH | —Artillery Active in the Rheims Salient. [FRENCH REPORT] fantry of New York a battal of the 168th Infantry, Alat gagement. They broke the point | to-day : “Along the whole battle front only artillery actions were reported |om July 16, the » Crown Prit s Dig drive, d ie past night. [in the prox “North éf Montdidier a losal operation, which was conducted in a| fns!¥é $ manner, resulted in the capture by the French of the villages of Ww weld cor ond . A and othe n Li Raineval, Sauviller$ and Aubvillers. The French up to the present Pay in a fbi a he un nut they men en known to be in them, Marin Foody, who shot down PORT. »” prisoners and captured twelve ‘batteries, including six batte -778, two of .2108 and four of . Fe avn the greater part of the front the artillery fire was the ow TWO BRAVE AMERICAN UNITS HOLD UP CROWN PRINCE’ S ARMY | Their prisoners in- , one of tham a Colonel of artillery. this unit advanced Doubt Story of Ve NANTUCKE’ Mystery to-day of @ vessel in distress a few east of the Island of ght here yesterday by of the Allies. Many of the guns taken had been blown up or damaged) (Continued From Pirst Page.) wineers jumped into the fighting y (six mules south of Sols- s), taking the town by storm, aeroplane who distinguished them- who remained in tren In the midst of the fi tance resulted in harder fighting yesterday. The opera-! selves for bravery in action was the Chaplain, tions were robbed of some of their spectacular features as the day ad-| dressing stations throughout the engagement vanced by the determination of the enemy not to be crowded into a ling men he assisted in removing wounded and kept up the spirits place the Americans They kept right at it and finally swept over the German post- , despite a murderous rifle and Another man who won distinction was Major (deleted) of New] machine gun fire, were Sunday night except in some cases where they have been improved York, to whose foresight in preparation, in encouraging his men during slightly. ‘The Allied positions are in no apparent danger from attacks} the attack and resourcefulness in supplying food and ammunition, was by German reserves. due in no small measure the success achieved by one of the units, ch either of these units had par group, all the Germans yelled * A German-American among gefhent in w the prisoners and a to the heels of the retiring Germans and took every opportunity to move NEW YORKERS COMPRISE ONE moved from » couriers where place to place, the new location aoereree OF UNITS IN CHALONS FIGHT Allied Zeodruges, © the frontier to-day oS the airman's machine continued to circle ‘above him and he wrote out | TYPHOID RAGING IN IN BERLIN. next advance still under the ammunition pile, Returning from a part of the occupied by the Germans, spondent saw fifty-one captured Ger- man guns parked in a village, names, such as Anna, pile to escape The airplane |Private Foody, Who Brought Down Airplane — TROOPS NORTH OF MONTDIDIER | With Service Rifle, a Member of sb ic ammeananens the Old Sixty-Ninth. aris Announces 350 Prisoners Captured There| Two units of the Rainbow Division, | | the Second Huttalion of the 166th In | Eptdemte York troops took part in, na troops, have especially distinguished PARIS, July 23. —Fohiowihg i is the text of the War Office statement themselves in their first really big en bore feminine Dora, Margot and TURKEY TO io HER DUTY. aration to U, and again in the latter part of the German advance toward Chalon: nd day of the|cans entered them, time up that compan Jbut it is arrang aimnme for the entire of-) aumber of casualties from gas. Despatches trom The | Evening New York regiments is promised to do her “full duty that her troops are responsible for the {American outrages against Tabriz, | would attempt ayeld war oe the ple The nouned the Hiate De ke: at ee still vest Both are part of t 10s of rivaate | der 0} his corps has borne the brunt of all layed),—Several fighting lately, and in onsidered the best trained " ne with his service rifls, for ‘Advances in local operations were scorth by Teitadee isin “Company Gy loth War Office report shows, The lind was Jp(antey ‘That is the Second Mot | eas, te Amerieng army bas fe fay Hat Tu pay |ONE AMERICAN UNIT FIGHTS 36 LOURS WITHOUT WATER Had Taken 2,600 Prisoners and Twelve Batter- MORE OF FREUDENHEIM’'S ies at End of First Day—German-American Doughboy Finds Captive His Own Brother. WITH THE AMBRICAN ARMIES 23 (United Press). who went among CAPE GOD CANAL TAKEN ( They Fe Menace, ON, July by procinmation as a result of ately now moving to The Administration jh the canal ve an Steamship Company, 508, in |Line, and Merchants addition to an uncounted number of | ‘Transportation Company, 1 ated between Boston and Philadelphia, imore, Norfolk, Charleston, vannah and Jacksonville. Distrens. Mass., 4 aviftor. Coast from stations on the island and where searched the disabled craft was ° without finding any Mariners were inc truth of the story, rumors had been cur: sudden appenrance of an enemy sub- | as officers’ marine off the coast Sunday — ALLIED AIR RAIDERS boat off the Atlantic Coast and also coal shipment: The Railroad A e the canal, New fighting in the trenches with the A ugh the eventy tunning boats and barges th canal will save ap) niles between E wich, Mass., as route between those points The Railroad crease the present channel feet to & oximately zzards Bay and Sand: mpared with the sea which | of the Hnemy Allen mit of 10,00),0% tons of water- | por ‘ew England operate the Clyde Miners’ oper- Sa. hrouded report |fearty handclap. pre miles | cheers Nantucket, —— fn uniden, Stevens Institute a Military Reser- Preort vation. the vicinity lined to doubt the | Castle unfounded |!s housing @ detail of 60 soldiers, the |of the f as many INE sun BERLIN KEPT BUSY EXLAINNG DEFEAT _TOGERMAN PUBL Wolff Bureau Speaks of “Ex- ¢ | cessive” Losses of Americans %| “Mixed With Savages ;| and Niggers.” AMSTERDAM, July 23.—The Ger- man public is being told by all the German military experts that the French and American “ambitious at- tempt to break through,” which, in Baron von Ardenne’s words, “might have caused a decisive change in the military situation on the west fron| has failed because of the famous German system of an elastic tlefense. It is explained that the enemy only obtained initial successes due to the fact that Gen. von Boehm’a right flank _of twenty-five miles was not strongly held and his main strength lay on the eastern flank. But there is signifi- cart in Baron yon Ardenne's admis- sion that Chateau-Thierry and Sois- defense and that the former | n lost to the foe, “who was ided by not inconsiderable American | auxiliary forces." v t the front dwells on the ty pxcessive- seve losses suffered by the due to the Americans being z land niggers.” aioe Nera Pictu | Them lf They Fought eroUs pi by Max Freudenheim, an insuran Wilson Puts Operation Under Mc- | a#ent. as to what would happen after Adoo as Result of U Boat many won the war, were related to- day on the witness stand in the Federal Court, where Fi nheim is on trial. Most of the witnesses were negroes 1v- among whom Freudenstein solicited in- 4 surance and from whom he collected That German soldiers would cut off the esars, and hands and gouge out t eyes of every negro soldier caught ican army was an oft-repeated threat, beginning sccording to the testimony If the negroes would refrain from ald- ted States in the prosecution ne war, Freudenheim held out the Kaiser's own promise of a negro king- dom right here In’ the United States w 0 kings and queens would rule with all and Administration will tm-| Pomp and pageantry of European royal Capt. Roger B. Hull, Assistant Chief Japanese Red Cross Mixsion Cheered on ‘Change. From the gallery of the New York tock Exchange to-day, the members lof the Japanese Red Cross Commis- sion making @ tour of inspection of Reported tm America's Army of Me viewed the tivity of the Br hers Sixchange As Japanese visitors appeared there is a pause in the business and @ led three lusty A military reservation has been es- to nology, Hoboken, 1 military officials of her, have taken over some of the buildings, ens, the historical bi rnity houses a quarters, Armed guards Were placed around the buildings. Ria Ra « Major Hoyer Ix M = Canton- | ment Chief, CAMP UPTON, N. ¥, July 23.— Major William E, Hoyer, who was a DESTROY TORPEDO BOATS "010, hig Two German War Craft portant Works at Zeebrugge Bombed. AMS DAM, July aid to he number of cases cially in labor districts north tern sect oon of the MOORS KILL | _ SPANIARDS. TANGIER, intrigue tor the and Im- latest r raid destroyed two torpedo boats and important military works at rding to advices from ean Milk, LONDON, July 23.—A serious out- break of typhoid has erlin, the Kxchange respondent at Amsterda The reports. epidemic is believed to have been n milk. , 8 not state by poisoned or uncle Mo- (De- Spanish soldiers were murdered by Moorish tribesmen ~|Melusa and their bodies burned, Gxt. and propaganda are uprising. aoe ff try, when it was commanded by | Col, Roosevelt, hax peen appointed | Chief of Staff of this cantonment, He formerly was Camp Personnel ’Of- ticer and commander of the First {Company Depot Brigade, or in cHocon Co but SUPER CRAAMERY CARAMELS When we ry we mew and plenty Stores: U.S. TAKES WIRES JULY 31; OWNERS MAY RUN THEM Wilson Proclamation Omits Radios and Cables—Wide Powers to Burleson. WASHINGTON, July 23.—President Wilson's proclamation taking over for the duration of the war operation of telephone and telegraph lines was issued late to-day, It did not include radio systems and ocean cable lines. Government operation and control be- gins midnight July 31 Supervision, contro! and operation of the wire systems are placed under the direction of the Postmaster Gen- eral, Tho President's proclamation pro- vides that th. ostmaster General, if he so wl may administer the lines through the owners’ managers, boards or directors or rei provides further that until the Poste master General directs otherwise the Present management shall continue n& There tosses, he says, | nixed for the first time with “savages | | NEGRO BOGIE MAN TALKS Tortures to Be Inflicted on | ¢|tablished at Stevens Institute of Tech-| « to be used| Regular dividends previously de- sons were the two cornerstones of the |lared and interest on maturing ob- gations shall continue to be pald until the Postmaster General directs otherwise, and subject to bis ap- |Proval the companies may arrange Wolk: Bureau's Sore pondent| Fenewal and extension of maturing mation: The PoMmaster Geneal in this dis- cretion hereafter may relinquish In whole or in part to the own any telaraph or telephone system over “sumed control neral Burleson, in a explaining his plans in ating the wire systems, id there would be no change affecting the press wire service except to improve it wherever possible. ——_—____ BAIRD FILES THE PAPERS. Senator Formally Announces Candi- dacy for That Term, N. J, July 23.—unitea or David Baird to-day retary of State Martin mal announcement of his candi-+ dacy in the Republican primaries, Sept for the nomination for short term as United States Senator. Senator Baird names Francis ¥. Patterson jr. “amden, as Campaign Manager and di First Na- tional nk of Ca of campaigu funds FIGHT SPOILS A PICNIC. In Pay Too Much Attention to Soldiers and the Latter Are Beaten. ing Word) J, July 23— ys in khaki ool picnic in ve, Carlstadt, Inst night We spoiled a Sunday se Lewe Private Jacob Kraft jr. of Camp Mer- i! Simon of Camp aten by William ritt and Private I Wadsworth were thelr attention some remarks a Chateau-Thic The four loc to-day by C held for th JERSEY TRANSFERS A PENNY, Public Service Company Accepts Uiiity Board Rating. N. 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