The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1918, Page 2

f — a be, 2 hs VENING WORLD, 8A ‘VAST ENEMY STORES CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES IN PICARDY4 o'clock this afternoon was to the effect that the French line was still advancing on both sides of Montdidier. To the north the important junction of Chaulnes is now untenable for the Germans, as it is well within the fire of :the British field guns. BIG BRITISH DRIVE ON THE CENTRE. An Associated Press despatch from British Head- quarters says the enemy seems to be retreating all along the battle line, especially in the centre, where Haig’s troops are making heavy attacks. The opinion in London to-day was that the enemy could not now possibly hold any sort of a line until he reached the Somme and the canal from Nesle to Noyon. That would make a maximum retreat of twenty miles. Roughly speaking, the Allied advance in two days on a front of twenty miles has been twelve miles. On the British front splendid progress is being made, and the average twelve-mile progress forward was an in- fantry advance, with the cavalry, tanks and armored cars well ahead of the infantry and pressing the retreating enemy. When the French captured Beaufort Friday they had made an advance of thirteen miles eastward of Castel. This | is the maximum infantry advance of the present offensive thus far reported. One important result has already followed the Allied plunge east of Amiens. The Paris-Amiens Railway, by way of St. Just, use of which had been blocked by the prox- | imity of the German line, was working again last night. iacidesateaps GERMANS IN HASTY RETREAT AS FRENCH CAPTURE TOWNS ON BOTH SIDES OF MONTDIDIER Blow at the Junction of Forces of German and Bavarian Crown Princes Unbalances Their Line at Critical Point. PARIS, Aug. 10.—The War Office announces that the French troops last night advanced above and below Montdidier and scored important successes. The towns of Assanivillers and Rubestcourt were cap- tured and the French reached Faverolles, less than two miles east of Montdidier. Northwest of Montdidier the French have advanced east of Arvillers, six miles northeast of Roye, and have captured Davenescourt, two miles east of Pierrepont. The German army of Gen. von Hutier is retreating from the Montdidier-Noyon line. {The German line from Montdidier to Noyon is between 25 and 30 miles in length and forms a semi-circle, swinging southeast from Montdidier to the south of Noyon. A retirement on this line probably means that the Germans are going to give up the Mont- didier salient, which would be the first marked consequence of she Franco-British offensive in Picardy. {In retreating from this line the Germans are forced to ise roads and railways going through Roye, which is six miles southeast of Arvillers, east of which the French continued to advance fast night. Continued pressure might force a retreat on the line from Noyon to above Soissons, the northwestern corner of the former Marne pocket.) The retreat of von Hutier’s army is showing traces of utmost haste. Much war material is being left behind. The German rear guards are fighting desperately, The retrograde movement of the Germans is being ac- | celerated by the favorable progress of the new attack south of Montdidier. Von Hutier’s retreat from Montdidier was cut off when the French captured Faverolles. The German posi- tion along the Montdidier-Roye road is precarious. GERMANS AFRAID TO RISK BIG GUNS. The Germans are relying on machine guns to stem the Allied tide, not wishing to risk their artillery, which is bound to be captured under even the slightest mischance. The enemy is defending himself with desperate courage wherever the position affords means, and the officers are shooting down any soldier who shows symptoms of quitting, The enemy is fighting against time--time for the German com: mand to try to readjust itself and to limit the consequences of the blow devised by the genius of Marshal Foch, At this stage of the battle, military observers here say, the problem facing the rival commanders is easily defined. Thus, Marshal Foch Struck skilfully at the point where the army groups of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and the German Crown Prince join, obliging the enemy to hurried!y reorganize the higher command and to place tt WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRAN Aug. 10 (Associated armies of Gens, yon der Marwitz and von Hutier under one chief. This| : mhachna sane [obs tatraline ia 7 aioe Hy tHe operation has temporarily thrown the Germans off their balance, and it Press),—The enemy see © be retreating to-day all along the battle is their object new to regain it. The task of the Allies is to throw the Germans still further off their balance. EVERY MOVE DANGEROUS TO VON HUTIER. That there must be a change in the German positions generally between the Somme and the Oise is evident, if the German Second Army and part of the Eighteenth are beaten. A great part of the posi- tion of the Eighteenth Army, which is commanded by von Hutier, every | battle on the Amiens-Somme district. They succeeded in overcoming moement becomes more danger It is deployed from Montdidier tol stiff resistance and heiped the British capture important positions in| the Gise. The country behind it is hilly and wooded, licking in roads, | aM attack Taunehed yesterday between the Ancre and the Somme. and altogether unfavorable for the withdrawal of masses of men and| British tanks have been seen well to the east of Meharicourt, al German divisions have been engaged by Gye eivancing Alles fer a - par J 01 e e ie Ie AMER prtelecgey se LRIOONE DS z AKEN. lishpplagithe and mation received from Senile JET that the fighting may soon - : become heavier, ean | HOW PICARDY WEDGE WA U ees BRUSSELS sfrmeniere B E Lb oubaix Aun ons vel lenciennes lors The above map of northern France shows, by the diamond dotted line, by the black dashes, the line they held before March 21, when they began their great offensive that was to take Paris and end the war, and by the unbroken black line the positions to which the Allies were driven on June 10 by this | | ‘the height of the German advance toward Paris in 1914; advance. BRITISH. LONDON, Aug. 10.—Following is the text of to-day’s War Of- fice statement: “Yesterday afiernoon and evening the Allied advance continued on the whole front from southward of Montdidier to the Ancre, “South of Montdidier the French attacked in the afternoon, captur- ing Le Tronquoy, Le Fretoy and Assainvillers, and threatening Mont- didier from the southeast. “The Canadians and Australians took Bouchoir, Lihons, entering Rainecourt and Proyart. “By nightfall Anglo-Americans took all their objectives, including the village of Morlancourt and the high ground to the southeast, Enemy counter-attacks were beaten off in sharp fighting, “Between the Somme and the Ancre Anglo-Americans attacked ‘he angle [probably eastward of Chipilly) with immediate success. “In the Monididier sector the French captured 2,000 prisoners. Since the eighth more than 24,000 prisoners have been taken.” FRENCH. | PARIS, Aug. 10.—The statement issued to-day by the French War Office before the reported capture of Montdidier is as follows: “The French troops operating on the right of the British forces continued their success throughout last evening and last night. Our troops progressed east of Arvillers and captured Davenescourt, “They attacked south of Montdidier retween Ayencourt and Le Fretoy and occupied Rubescourt and Assainvillers and reached Fave- rolles.” Meharicourt and resulted in the taking of prisoners to the number of several thousand. A Havas despatch says the attack launched by the French this morning was an exact reproduction of the military manoeuvre which brought about | the recapture of Chateau-Thierry on July 21. Gen, Debeney struck the Ger- | mans from Davencourt southwestwardly toward the Olse and succeeded in | carrying the French to a point three kilometres east of Montdidier, At that time the French front extended from Faverolles to Asgainvillers. Mont- didier thus was surrounded on three sides—the west, south, and ‘The enemy retains only one narrow means of exit. This Is along the road running from Montdidier to Berquigny, to the northeastward, His retreat along this line has become extremely difficult and hazardous, as the road is under a crossfire from the French oannon at Davencourt and Faverolles. BRITISH ATTACKS IN CENTRE "FORCE A FURTHER RETREAT ON ENTIRE GERMAN FRONT Capture Warvillers, Vrely, Folies and Other Towns—Tanks Are Also Reported to Be Making Great Progress. line, especially in the centre, where he is being heavily attacked by the British. The British have vaptured Warvillers, Vrely, Folies, Rosieres and Vauvillers, In the course of the fighting a German divisional headquar- ters and its staff were captured. American troops have been thrown into the fighting oMons in the great} run at Test wwe. S DRIVEN DEEPER TODAY DAY ~ ANTWERP oMalines | 7 Gol Thierry TERATORY REGAPTURED WY 15 ro AUGG {Commercy o***Vitry-le-Francois O NANCY _— ‘The shaded sections show the ground since regained by Marshal Foch's latest offensive, and the black patch shows the section gained by the Franco-British-American troops in their drive in Picardy. The shaded por- tion below the black patch show the ground gained by the French in sur- rounding Montdidier, The insert map show in detail the gain made in Picardy. Arrows Indicate the distance from Paris to the battle lines. OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE DAY \65 GERMAN AIRPLANES DOWNED BY BRITISH ON THE FIRST DAY OF HAIG’S ADVANCE IN PICARDY Kept Troops Informed of All Movements, Dropped Smoke Bombs to Screen Tanks, and Flying Low Lost 50 Machines by Gunfire. LONDON, Friday, Aug. 9.—Sixty- five German airplanes were de- stroyed by British aviators or driven out of control in the fighting of Aug. %, when the Picardy opened tllery machines, Other machines sup- Plied our advance troops with am- munition from the air. “Co-operation with the tanks was carried out systematically, By pe Allied offensive in| ping smoke bombs along the line of Fifty British |their advance, the approach of the the British losses tanks was concealed from the enemy. Our bombing squadrons, fying a few hundred feet from the ground, at- | tacked trains, railway junctions and ma- chines are missing, being due chiefly to fire from the ground. The official statement says: “On Aug. 8 our airplane squadrons | co-operated with other arms on the battle front throughout the day. The FIELD, Aug. 10,—Allied aviators {are continually bombing the impor- |line reached by our attacking infantry | tant railway centres of Roye and |Was reported by our contact airplanes. | Nesle. Many explosions and fires The positions of the hostile artillery | have been observed in these cities, (Roye is ten miles northeast of Montdidier, Nesle is seven miles northeast ye and six miles d to our guns by our ar-| southeast of ( nes.) in action and columns of German in- fantry and transport on the march were signal | emphasizing the necessity of Austro- | {German military co-operation, He tn- | spected the Trentino front, giving rise to the bellef that resumption of hostili- ities is imminent. | Other reports from Austrian sources |announce activity at the Austrian naval | bases, indicating that the Austrian fleet | [may be preparing to return the blows | | recently 4 ed by the Italian navy, | ge She Roosevelt Ends Vacation, DARK HARBOR, Aug. 10.—For. mer President Roosevelt brought his | | vacation on the Maine coast to a close jfrom the cargoes of the lighters Lena] yestenay, after a visit of two weeks With his daughter, Mea, Richard Derby, | With Mrs, Roosevelt he left for New (Continued From First Page.) and Serafine early in the year. Acting| all the Federal agents employed on|to Rockland, where train ule. the case are satisfied that the thefts |"** ™ale were committed by an organized gang | connection whose Seracrtcar Chote ITALANS DON'T WAR were to bribe lighter captains, ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN, in District Attorney Rorke stated thht a large share of the goods was traced directly to enemy aliens. | months ago upon receipt of the fol-| Fleet Under Command of d’Annun- lowing letter from George M, Schutt,| —_zio Drops Manifestoes, Not President of the New York Sal Bombs, on Vienna. Attorney Swann: | isan goad te Acie Atvinia Mont ini. do not make war on women, question and the cotton trade ia dis-| children and old men—only | on your blind, obstinate, cruel gov- Ih presenting the case, Assistant | WORD FROM AIRPLANES Immediate action was taken several | Wxchange, at the office of District OME, Aug. 10.—"We Italians turbed, not only on account of the enormous los but because the, ernment, which cannot give you banks have become alarmed and are| either peace or bread, but feed you threatening to curtail the facilities ex-| oN hatred and illusion.” ‘This tended on cotton passing through| statement was contained in the million manifestoes showered on New York.” ARCHDUKE JOSEPH LEADING THE AUSTRIAN ARMIES. Vienna by Italian airmen yester- day. The manifestoes continued “You bave the reputation of in- telligence, Why have you donned the Prussian uniform? It is suicide Emphasizes Necessity of Austro-| fF you to continue the war, The eae ves i : decisive victory promised you by German Military Co-operation the Prussians is like the bread | in Taking Command, Sh A eet une ROMB, Aug, 10,—-Archduke Joseph na, think of yourselves, Awak has arrived at Innsbruck and resumed ; nes command of the Austrian armies, ac-| Psht airplanes were commanded cording to despatches from Italian} by Capt. Gabriele d'Annunazio, the correspondents in Switzerland, famous poet, The planes were not Tae Archduke made a speech,! molested, : v District Attorney Alfred J. Talley and | york, boarding the afternoon steamer | me wor | va RETLIER SAS GEN, MARCH | (Continued From First Page.) | U Boats, Fighting Airplanes) man General and his ata nad been | and Depth Bombs Mixed With Hurricanes. captured, Turning to the situation on the | Vesle, Gen. March said French and | American troops had been “nibbling” AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 10.— along that line, but had made no at- U boats, hurricanes, 8 O 8 calls,| tempt as yet to advance up the slopes fighting airplanes and threats of aerth ot the river, where the Germey: | lines of , drastic punishment for cigarette OF Ohiss Feslarance were euppered | to stand, smoking all combined to make life! interesting for the 100 passengers | who reached this port to-day on an The temporary fighting on the stabilization of the Vesle front had been promptly met by Gen. Foch, he add American ship from South America and the West Indies. ed, by the blow in Picardy where The hurricate hit the ship on Its|¢veMts of the Marne Battle seem way to Kingston, Jamaica, and kept |! to be duplicated it tossing and fighting for thirty-six ing emphasis on the necessity hours, [of pressing on vigorously and giv Steaming north again, the ship re. |ing the enemy no chance to rest o ceived wireless warning of U-boats, eadjust himself, Gen, March off the United States coast, and Cap-|this was the object of the War De tain W. Law spent four days on the! Partment jn seeking to raise the age bridge. He posted notioes forbidding | mits of the draft and to hurry t | France ever-increasing American passengers to smoke or light matches | - on deck, and when two foreigners | [O18 te guesubie Gen: She took the warning too lightly he posted | iswer to questions Gen, March a supplementary notice calling atten- aad the 4a (Rainbow) Division, ae tion to the fact that on one ship Baebes 3 Aa < us. i « in fae man who lighted a match aguinst | Anh oh aly 16 aie wateea bait ck been sent to prison for Aba 5 and helped *o breali perigee Wis rKedee Wal ‘obeyed | the enemy drive at that plaec. Mead : : é {in i vi 5 after that, But previously there bad, inde pliant ie vial hata been a lively fist fight, betweeen one of battle it had iad passage of the of the offending foreigners and a| (bulls 0 Une lrerent enemy divis dratted man who aid he didn't want i), 2o4 nag advanced 16 kilometre to be blown up before he got his Unt | te ae an aan from each of ti ee ing Board offer of $100 re. | °PPO#INg enemy divisions, A Shi joard offer o| - Gael’ tue Cas Tleat passenger to < The 29th Division is still in Alsa poet the presence of a U-boat was|SOuthoast of Epinal; the 79th is posted, and passengers atood all day| the American training areas and the ‘at the rail straining their eyes, } os rp hi a sf Revita nn ————~ | Wednesday afternoon the 8 O 8 pase Lids Maltese aetna heel) lor the torpedoed lightship Diamond Sah Preiiniee ean ye une gett Shoals was picked up. Next morning Uae Major G i ; A composed of New York National Guard | Frank M. Tracy of Newark, one of (0?) reported with the British in the passengers, sighted a ghip uine| 18 St | miles to starboard running at top| eating “ speed, Four shots were heard, then| “Very satisfactory, way a wireless call, and a little later two| the Army officials sized up the mili hydroairplanes from the coast came| tary situation during the weekly car sweeping out at eighty miles an| ference to-day with the Senate Muli hour. ‘They merged into the nig [Peay cecal ise: v roop ipments the above the running ship, and nothing | {Fst week of August were Gl more was seen of the contest, a}. | Same approximate scale as in uly | thous explosions were heard. ‘These | when 300,000 men were moved, com was the are believed to have been from depth | Mttee members said they were in | bombs dropped by the flyers upon the formed. ) Gen. Pershing has just completed « | subs. tour of the coast and spoke in higi | ‘Tracy bought a banana when he| | ae “4 | praise of the work that has been done reached this port and paid a nickel | Pra oe ane ete ke sulin ; for it, This angered him more than | deeb leergaceam tae tale dole to rance. ‘This work will facilitate the J-bonta, rapid movement of troops and sup “Bananas are delivered in New| Mi aan plies which will prove of value in the York,” he said, “for 35 cents a stem, i new army programme, committe and a stem holds 210 bananas. Figure es , the war profit.” atid ee | Plans of the French Governmen ‘tor enlarging and improving port | facilities to handle LUCIUS BROWN REINSTATED American troops IN HEALTH BOARD BUREAU ‘cris nave neem soportea tothe Ser |War Department by Gen, Pershini Director of Food “ql Drugs Re- buked, Also His Superiors, for | CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. Lax Supervision. | With wet ehangw from previous clove, lucius P. Brown, the suspended| , High ba we Director of the Bureau of Food and) Am by #k Drugs of the Department of Health, has been restored to } Sy s former posl- , tion and the cha tinst him, 10% Q which were brou owing the $7 g BAM investigation by James McBride, 1h % Chairman of the Civil Service Board, oy have been dismixsed. The Mayor ordered tion into the Bureau of Drugs last spring, which was fol- lowed by the suspension of Brown| and the indictment of two of his subordinates on the charge of elving graft from oystermen. Th head of the bureau was charged with neglect of duty, inefficiency and in- ompetency The Board of Health ministers @ sharp rebuke, 8. It concludes: We seriously | Brown's conduct of our sense of justice us to inflict undue punishment upon him, His superiors certainly failed [to observe his methods, their ption of the office differed radi- | ¥' ally . | “BILL” HAYWOOD'S s EARNINGS w. Ww. LEE Sz. the investiga- Food and letelett+ ++i t+! +t lee ltttt report ad- neverthe- SS2e0 disapprove Mr. the office, but will not permit or else ttt nl ler Made Much a #1,000 a Month, “Big Bil’ Haywood, Secretary-Treas- urer of the I. W. W., has not found his| 3 and leader of the |forces of revolt an unprofitable one, to his own testimony given om the witness chair of a job as organizer terday cago court As a mere “wage slave working for tb I. W. W. in his double executive acity, Haywood received but $28 a | week. But when he was lecturing for the Pettibone defense fund he received ‘° $150 a month. As a lecturer for or-| : ganizations his emolument was $50 al NeW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE night, or On an average of $1,000 a Geen. High tone coe month, This was while he toured] sept, .. + 29.82" 29, 5 | France, England and Italy, Oct water “Big Bil was offered $300 a] Pr night f oratory, but he "rejected" this dan incentive to become | capitalist ia ENGLAND TO EGYPT FLIGHT. | LONDON, Aug. 10.—Two officers of the British force have flown from Eng- land to Qgypt, about 1,800 miles, with only one or two stops for petrol, it ' was officially announced to-day, +++ + + Murch a) May 1" Market rous closed” strong Rize. 3 On Aug. ¥. JOHN O'RMITE . O'REILLY. LY, aged 43 years, Funeral at the Harlem Chapel of the Stephen Merritt Hurigl ang Cremation ©o., No. 2848 Bth Ave nese T9RIN Bt, Sunday at 11 o'clock.