The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1918, Page 9

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918 - Fifth Year of War Dawns With 1,319,115 Americans » Pounding Waves of U. oldiers, Ever Increasing | in Volume, Have Proved Even Greater Factor in| Turning Tide of Offensive and Wresting Initiative From Germans Than Allies Had Dared Hope, and, Our Part in Greatest Battle of War May Turn dt) Into the Decisive Conflict and Insure Victory to, i the Allied Arms. | By Robert Welles Ritchie | OUR years ago to-morrow the dual Government of Austria-Hungary, F playing the pawn in the mailed fist of the Kaiser, declared war | against the Kingdom of Serbia, and the greatest tragedy the world has known since the dawn of time was born out of the smoke of a crazed assassin’ revolver In th © four years earth's surface, exc Sarajevo. now completed, there is not a square mile of the pt in the dead wildernesses of ice at the two poles, that has not felt in greater or less degree the impact of that first cannon shot fired a s the Danube, War has been carried through the air and under the water, as well as on the five continents and men numbered by the millions have flown to arms. | But the fifth year of the World War dawns with a new and great hope born in the hearts of all that part of the globe not locked inside the steel gates of the Central Empires. This hope suddenly has sprung from out of the murk and horror of the battlefield of France and has for its inspi ration the sturdy, heroic figure of the American fighting man, coming fresh to the conflict when others are wearied by the grilling years of acombat { , In less than two months—first at the defense of Chateau-Thierry and | the capture of those woods, now called the Bois des Americains, and again | within the Jast ten days of fearful fighting in the Rhetme-Solssons salient the American soldier has proved that it weight of his steel which will be the deciding factor in Teutonte ferocity | This is not the idle boastfulness of partisanship. From those high in command both in England and France comes affirmation of. this single | eupreme cheering fact in a year otherwise blackest of all four for the Entente Allies e force now making itself felt against the trained vetchang of Prusstanism {s being augmented at the rate of nearly 390,000 a month and is battling with an energy surpassing even the most extravagant hopes of the French supreme command. Not, as Lloyd George once said, will tt be the last bushel of wheat that will win the war. It will be the last American soldier. On the first day of August, 1917, the total number of American soldiers that had followed Gen. Pershing overseas was 67.not the number engaged in a skirmish on a “quiet” front. On July 1 of this year there were in France and Italy 1,019,115 fully equipped and trained fighting men under the Stars and Stripes. ‘To-day there are 300,000 more! Every one of these men in khakl and the helmets of the Marine Corpa rted across 3.000 miles of ocean infested by lurking sub but 291 others recorded as casualties at sea. Not tory of warfare ha. imenta, been transport tn Idiers as our nari than one English transport has ret blow of the torpedo. ainst the French and Engilsh com: is the ringing to an end the criminal madnees of | faves cans) cme? | QQ x has been tran }* marin n the hi such a fi unee, Py the arried over such @ gre » the Mediterranean Ene to the and has lost several times as many and more total payment gone down under the se When th reat German offensive menced on March 12 the call came from our Allies for more men—more men! Then America began to speed up. Im February 48,027 soldiers had een shi th the month of March saw this number al ubled to 83,811 $ Was cumulative nost d April saw 117,212 \ \\ \\ GREAT OFFENSIVE MEE A Boa Army in France The Battle Lines To-Day— AZeBRVECE. G3 | Ae BRLGES S PONT BRITISH ADVANCED THE TO PASSCHENOMELE RIDGE, GUT RETIRED WHEN THEIR ELAN WAS THREATENED: MESSINES “BRITISM LINE ORWEN BACK “April OTTO 50 wera wn GREAT GERMAN DRIVE BEGAN HERE MARCH FORGING THE ALLIES WERE 12 MILES FROM amien \\\ Se AUX WW A \ ‘\ a [7 tens MAP OF THE WESTERN BATT ® FRONT 15 DRAWN To SCALE OF 30 TO THE INCH, THE DOTTED LINE DICATES BOSITION OF THE ARMIES LIne is | & VEAR AGO. THE SOLID WHERE THEY ARE TO-OAY. v DvEROme bac |] TALION Line vy ADRIATIC wee Aan o ene q OIG NE JULY I WHERE AUSTRians rohit ie Rearep yonri9g GERMANS BEGAN THE Ais DRIVR on M&Y 26 AND CONT NUD UNTIC OULY IS) WHEN Tae AMERICANS SOUTH OF THE MARNE BEGAN “TO FORCE THEM BACH LINED spa. INDICATE Pomrs e GER mans! SLe Seen Date, WHERE ons Back Sten to overwhelm | have succeeded decision hour by hour, and the hearts broad strip of territory Jooys in khaki sent overseas nd June 276,382. lf In brief, America heard ; ; : — “’ epairins call for help from |knees and has risen to fight a . rth ttlofields ance, |and Germany's final furious effort to break the back of the French and = = < events of the past ten days ant , bes answered in time to| English before American aid could — rae ae w ns tack. the German {come seemed at one time nearly to OUR MOTTO: stop pack ; hordes advancing : ' “E Plaribus Squattum”’ Paris, To-day what is considered the| The year opened with the advan- an greatest and perhaps the dectsive tage appa ntly on the side of the sila om - battle of the war is wavering to @ battlers for world freedom, Hinder United We Stand yattle ¢ burg ad been forced to evacuate a along the iron of the Marne Fast of Rheims they took part In t held he last phase of the German offen with French reinforce. = Hv famou Gen. Cadorna to do but withdraw h Americans are ‘ ice eT amactin There You can easily see from the carte 3 tor, portic of the| wh 5 st to the Tagliamento St. Mihiel ,sector, 5 R ak Sante Gh be much easier at 6 cents a toss. Heights of the Meuse and in Alsace, iver and fina 0 the River Piavo, Edited by ARTHUR (BUGS) B ¢ merica beat high in the ? t eget that in the delicate scales Somme; the French had established of victory more than a million hemee es firmly long the Chemin % cat si American fighters have added their ast Dames to bar the road to the SUBWAY STATISTICS farne. The Russians had carried l wee the taking of Cantigny, wh thelr line deep into Hungarian terri- are 999,999,999,999,999,999 drops of perspiration shed was the first all-American action, tary ay every minute in the year, and the subsequent participation of } Then. me a su coaslon of ai 1 American “doughboys” and pom SH ORer Aten Resrel Tap The sub has one of the uminer heating ems e@ | necks" tn the fighting before and tonic propaganda had undermined installed =" north of Chateau-Thierry, American {he MOrAle: (0 part of the Italian forces in France had been getting |/!ne holding in the Isonzo, an Au TL catenin wae ater <i their training by being brigaded with trian arey stiffened by German f Sa } * the French and English in trench units, broke through at Caporetto before he gels ripe and tal i sectors, N besides the forces voured like a flood down toward ee ales wheat kama tie , hn tha Baul Plains of Venice, The Italian Subway inmates shouldn't to dirt on the car windows. under our flag thrown into Pla Dr hha Aled pattle, units of centre broken, there was nothing for y The extra cent would e pany to pack their clients in oi like real imported sardines. : We point with p: the remarkable absence of accidents* on Jsive, which Foch suddenly turned to ™¢ Beef adorns managed to throw) 1. sunway, ' Outside ef @ sing nickel once ne whi: Sine present desperate defensive, for! ba¢ he Teutonic forces, almost target ac nedD : the Tetuon South of the Marno, Within sight of the towers of Vente aks sins mer on? h h MG Americans held ground against the and to reorgan beaten forces when a new and inexper ard J out the na " overwh » German attempt at a A new spirit was born in the Italian) tion so that a stout gentleman understood him crossing ten days ago, and now a that moment. All doubt and along the ring of fire with which ? Msloyalty d 1; every It is suggested by one of o passengers that we run Foch has hedged the army of the; Man was pledg out the pur titution like th th y . ' Crown Prince—east, west and south | Stain of Caporetto and Thursdays the boya from the United State Meanwhile the we happened —-- are dedicating their lives to thi Rus Mme The revolution had broke We demand a 6-cent fare for subway rides. One trip on our line cause of liberty the back of Tussia's will for war. combination of vibratory treatment, steeplechasing, steam bath, Swed The year 1918, reckoned from July! When the Bolsheviki overthrew K ish massage and Turkish atrocities. to July, has been one of grave change Te? ky and with him the t ves o> sotiinaa 166 the Walecis tige of sanity, the powers at Pots ¥ rien They have seen themselves dam began to reap the haryest for COMPLAINTS. pees the: print Aina which they had scwn so assiduously ore I kittyir wit Ae oka Bente cron eA hase ia ti On Nov. 0 Bolsheviki announced nt treatm 1 fj a A t ie the high road to victory, In twelve Russia's willingness to treat for er A tax I n 1 other pleas months Russia and Roumania have Peace with her enemies and proposed | shee pig cava i ; been put out of the war by the enn. * the Allies unite to bring YOKEL M'FISH * ning and secret diplomacy of the a sort of golden millennium Germans no less than by force of butsied coat M 1 ev a Hinde 5 arms; Italy has been brought to her (Continued in Last Two Columns.) Hi 1 ds jske »pishly, GAPPER. LATER EXTRA Subway There n that travelling in the sub would le the com THE WEATHER: Sudden at starts and Jerky at AER We Pack You Dry for Five Cents \: We Can Pack You in Oil for Six é ORDERS and a Year Ago To- MAP OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN FRONTS, SHOWING GAINS MADE BY THE GERMANS IN THEIR AND GROUND WON BACK BY ALLIES IN THEIR COUNTER THRUSTS. muses | | Sen RE EONE OT I a ee @ SATU RDAY, JULY 27, 1918 World War’s Greatest Battle, Allies’ Biggest Offensive, Anniversary’s Bright Omen Day . Centralized Allied Command Under Foch, Cohesion | Of Fighting Fronts, Unity of Strategic Plan and | Co-operation for the Common Weal Have Done Much to Offset the Savagery of German Assaults in the Great Offensive of 1918 and Made Possible Present Counter Smash Which Now Threatens to Entrap a German Army of Half a Million Men Caught in Foch’s “‘Pincers.”” INS | (Continued From First Column.) | before the arrival of French reserves finally checked the Germans with a terrible defeat on April 9. But an- other big dent in tne Allied lines was the result But before through a preliminary general armi- atice. Followed the farcical negotiations —— at Brest-Litovsk, On the one hand ie eecoud Iaraes, ae % Allies took a step the importance of which cannot be meas ured. Lloyd George's insistence up- on a unified command had been bit- terly opposed by many old-line poll ticians at home who would not let their jealousy step aside to serve the Interests of the common good. In the darkness of disaster Lloyd George triumphed and the English agreed to the appointment of Foch as Supreme Commander of the English, Frenco and Italian forces. The immediate result was a unity which left the Central Powers with) of strategic plan and a co-operation the bird and Trotzky holding the] for the common weal which has done rmany and Austria agreed| much to offwet the savagery of the | German assaults. A period of under way the wild dreamer res, utterly in statecraft and the Trotzky, a was Leon | of revolutionary nightm | inexperienced wiles of statesmen of the Potsdam On the other, shrewd, cal- culating agents of the Kaiser, They held all the cards and knew it; they back In their ‘otzky and his asso- achool could afford to sit chairs and let clate peacemakers rave, Out of it all came the “peace”} bag. ¢ to ore ths “Independence” of Poland, the of the Re- public of Ukraine and the Republic nize en quiet followed the erman repulse in Flanders, then came the most staggering blow of of Finland, as well as the separate/all, Striking at the Chemin des governmental status of Lithuania, Dames, considered the strongest part Esthonia and Livonia, Turkey was|of the Allied lines but unfortunately given a great area east of the Black; held very lightly, tne Germans drove Sea. Subsequently Germany made| downward across the Aisne Riv separate treaties with Ukrania and and clear to tha Marne at Chateau- | Finland, which served only to rivet| ‘Thierry, a penetration of about twenty-eight miles on a broad front. states | With hardly a moment's pause they Since that time so many new re-! followed this with another drive, publics have been born out of the choosing sector between Montd! old corpse of Russia that the best dier and Noyon lexicographers cannot decide how to But here they were stopped by a independen srman economte control upon those OF oT] 2 WHEeRe pronounce the names of all of them. strong concentration of Foch's re. The madness in the Kast is under- serves with’ almost no gain and stood only by the Germans, who losses which were terrible to the were counting on just this eventual- Germans The abortive Austrian drive agains! Ttaly, which started on June 15 and The collapse of Russia forced left them worse off than they were Roumanta Into inevitable peace be- before, at the tost of tens of thous cause her supplies were cut off on all ands, served as an interlude between aides and the Bo!sheviki even threat- Hindenburg and Ludendorff's ham- ed war against the little country mer blows fn France. because It would not join fn the dance Then came the last German effort. of death which Trotzky was leading with which we are afl famillar. the Central Leaping in a long line from Chateau- The Thierry to east of Rheims on the brave kingdom whic had been morning of July 15, the Crown trapped into war by iraperial Russla, Prince's army went forth to death then betrayed by revolutionary Rus-| They called tt the Peace Drive, and 4, signed a peace treaty on May 6/it brought oternal peace to tens of whereby a large slice of her terri-| thousands of men in the flold gray of ity all the time and expect to profit wholly by it might of Powers there was no escape. stops tory went to Austria as @ prize of Prussia war and Bulgaria got a bone from, The Marne was crossed at tremen- the feast of the vultures, |dous sacrifice and a little penetra- The result of this wiping out of an tlon was made south of Rheims. for the Central Pow-|Then on Thursday, the 18th, Foch « was inevitable strain for France, unleashed his masses of Americans now constituting and Frenchmen from the screening forests north and south of Chatean eastern front y and England the single remaining western front For the first time in nearly four| Thierry and converted the vaunted ) years Germany and tria were not, Peace Drive into something which } vattling a complete riug of enemies, | now gravely threatens to be a second Leaving but a thin holding line of| Sedan for the German armies, reserves and Landsturm regiments = ¢ old Russi m 1 > . mn th 1 Russian front, Hinden- Roston | Jad First Masonic began early fn the spring to | burs Lodge in America HE first lo | America wa. hundreds of thousands of men to the west for the grand assault vf Free Masons in hat was to crush France and Italy inaugurated a and leave England and America to be | Boston 188 years ke: hb omar , . [polished off at leisure w has almost 2,000,000 members tn R rhe result has been the grand of-|the United States and Canada. These ive of 1918, which ean well be|> are in fillation with the 1 ed one movement, even In- lish Grand Lod + and also with ling the ['alian campaign com Masons in Scotland, Ireland, Aus enced June 15, inasmuch as all the ca, Cuba and mos ot Europe, except nnection with the | subsidtary pushes under it he single grand strategic s¢ alc seeder heh motive | clerical organ ¢ first blow fell March 21 at the| za In Catholic countries Free rction of the British and French nry is under the ban of the near St. Quentin. The British | ct nd the membership is sma y broke, and for e = » /days the Germans poured through ye le th t a through a broken’ World's Greatest Voyage Jike. Finally the British and French four hundred und twenty HIF A FELLOW CFFENDER ANNIVERSARY OF MARSEIL- |i! they had driven ahead for thirty DAT IERLORS TORRE 1B: SER Ripe ARE he tl oni ieaiae five miles on a front of more than|tory of the world is approaching PN hicvel aie aise tes re epee ee On Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus, in com Praveen a AL ‘i 4 ie Almost before the staggering de-|mand of the Nina, Pinta and Sauta a erlande, a fi 2) suné|fense of the Allies could get jts| Maria, fitted out for him by Queen 4 country roa . ed, W ob M ; the second blow fell—tnia !sabella and King Ferdinand, set sail at F Wn 1 Flanders, on April 2, and ‘fom Valos, Many mombers of the for speeder ' F eth, Rng. | Crews of the little vessels were tilled oy 1 \ \ purpore of driving the Eng-| 1, superstitious dread because the pw und a r k from the Channel ports. | 9°) ioe, Ae tee r ia : Dae The historic City of Ypres, whieh! yooxy .wers grew r 1 t n means so much to the British be-| mutinous, but the great leader per- ; Ir ause of gallant blood shed there in! gisted, and late on the night of Oct yourselt pre Vicnch Ropugue. {te defense, was almost surrounded |11 land was sighted, ee Se