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> poet, is now trying io halt temporarily on the Roye- Noyan line,” He | fs Strong enough a! the Noyon end, where his flank rests on the Oise, but should the British succeed in debouching from the villages of Lihons, Chilly, Fransart, Fresnoy and Goyencourt in the general direction of Nesle, von Hutier's right at Roye would not only be turned, but he would gre cut off and hopelessly lost. The entire line, it is believed here, would then go down. Should von Hutier succeed in holding on sufficiently to get his guns and material away, his next move probably would be back toward the Somme, pivoting on Noyon. He would swing his right back on the line of Nesle and Noyon. The Germans are now fighting for time to make this possible and the fighting is likely to be even more desperate to-day than it was Sun- day. The Germans so far have done no more than check the Allied left north of the Avre. It is believed to be certain that they will spare noth- ing in an endeavor to push it back, Reuter’s Correspondent at Haig’s Headquarters Calls American Operation a “Remarkable Feat” of Arms and Praises Courage. | LONDON, Aug. 12.—Reuter’s cor- fespondent at British Headquarters describes the Anglo-American opera- tions that cleared up the awkward C..-.#4,"" the correspondent saya, “Bo | successfully did they do their job that | they made over 600 prisoners and | * Chipitly triangle as a remarkable feat, | opened the road to the further ad-| “The Americans were chiefly from| vance that has been made." : _ FOUR OF THE GERMAN BASES % ea i i Bi a f : 4 yf rae NOW UNDER AN ALLIED FIRE; ADVANCE STILL KEPT UP, Armies of Von Hutier and Von Marwitz Have Their Backs to the Somme and Fight Hard. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIBS IN | effort FRANCE, Aug. 12 (United Press),— ‘Von der Marwitz and von Hutier are trying desperately to stiffen the re- sistance of their armies, whose backs “ate now almost tight against the Somme. The Allies are advancing slowly but steadily, their guns commanding not only Roye, Chautnes, Neslo and Pe- | romps, but the Somme crossings everywhere. within the next forty-eight | hours to hold up the Allies on the present line, which ig practically the same as the old Somme line, NEW PEACE OFFENSIVE IS STARTED AT MUNICH; PROF, QUIDDE HEADS IT Bishop Franknei and Prof. Lam- masch Assisting in Move for a Conference. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12—A_ new “peace offensive’ has been started at Munich, according to the Tageblatt of Berlin, Prof, F, L. Quidde of Vienna, Prof, Heinrich Lammasch of Buda- pest and Bishop Franknel® of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, are identified with the movement. The Americans are with the British before Bray as this is written. South of the Gomme, the Australians are | pushing on slowly, despite steadily in- creasing opposition. The Somme makes a horseshoe bond east of them, and the sluggish stream is paralleled by @ canal flowing through a broad salt marsh. The Canadians: have progressed be- yond Chilly (two miles southwest of Bee nines), catting the Chaulnes-Roye| They have requested the General railway at Hallu, while below this,| Secretary of the Inter-Parliamentary at Damery (three miles northwest of | Union at Christiania to suggest to the Roye), the correspondent witnessed | Inter-Parliamentary groups of tho the taking of the last portion of high | belligerent countries that three repre- ground before Roye, the English and #entatives be appointed by a secret French co-operating. The bill is 300| ballot from each belligerent for the feet above sea lovel. Across its crest | purpose of exchanging views on peace Tuns the Amiens-Roye Road. A mile | proposals, to the northward lies Damery village, Half way between is Damery Wood. ‘With the possession of these positions the Allies could control the entrance or exit of Roye. ‘The attack on the hill began at 9.30, ‘with half an hour’s barrage from the British heavy guns, the Germans re- plying in kind. French 75s opened up and a light French patrol advanced toward the hil, This frightened the Germans, Who began laying down barrages south of the road, apparently think- ing they were about to undergo an- other cavalry charge, such as the British made in this region the day before. Four tanks came up from behind and charged the woods in plain sight. Enemy shells fel) to the left and right {mit none of the tanks was hit. Each Prof. Quidde, Prof, Lammasch and Bishop Frankne! have all been tdenti- fied with peace movements during the last two years, The most recent endeavor by them to take steps pre- Hminary to peace was by Prof, Quidde, who in March was reported to have made a peace offer in behalf of Germany for transmission to President Wilson. This report was later denied and Prof. Quidde was re- udiated in Governmental circles at erlin, a END OF TYRANNY SEEN, France Recognizes Conarese ton in Ho TH Ac- ring Bastille Day, j TON, Aug. 12.—France} Officially recognized the action of Con- gress in honoring Bastile Day in a communication from Ambassador Jus- | tamk had to cross the highway twice, | or Mute Toll and roteutted rea Machine guns on our left began | ',,Congress. ar pouring bullets into the wood, the| may not be tar remo eee wae Germans retaliating blindly, The | {hat Mt will: not "occur before ‘our tame Frengh bogan advancing up the hill, | hetore what the Fourth: and the deca | crossing the road within a short dis nth of Tuly stand for has ‘initely secured end of rt tance of the wood itself, Here, for the | ey Secured: the end of tyrann: purpose of steadying his men, a |BOY DEAD, PARENTS DYING) ‘The dark shaded part of the map showa the gains made yesterday by the Allies in Picardy, the lighter shading being the previous gains. The great- est advance was made by the Francn east of Montdidier in the direction of Noyon, They also pushed on toward Roye, near which the British too are reported. ment reads: Lihons. He was repulsed. of the river, Armancourt and Tilloloy. Merris,”” statement: way! follow occupied by our troops, From Chauines fighting has been very heavy, small advances have been scored by the British and Americans, especial- ly north of the Somme in the direc- tion Official reports show the Allied line as follows, starting from the north, near Albert: West of Meaulte, which To-Day’s Official Reports BRITISH LONDON, Aug. 12.—The text of the British War Office state- of Bray. FRENCH PARIS, Aug. 12.—Following is gee text of to-day’s War Office “Yesterday evening the enemy again attacked our positions south cf “As a result of a successful operation carried out by us immediately south of the Somme we captured 200 prisoners and linked up our posi- tions east of Mericourt with the line east of Etinehem, on the north bank “On the right of the Fourth British Army our Allies made progress yesterday afternoon in the direction of Roye, capturing the villages of “On the northern portion of the British front we effected local im- provements in our line east of Robecq and between Vieux-Berquin and “Between the Avre and the Oise the situation is without change. During the night tiere was artillery fighting in the region of Marquivillers | and Grivillers. Nothing is reported from the remainder of the front.” AMERICAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Gen. Pershings’ communique for Sunday Aside from the usual artillery activity along the Vesle, the day paaed quietly in the sector occupied by our troops. Section A—There is nothing of importance to report on sections Section B—There ts nothing to report In this ection. northward the but | of Btinehem, British hav is still in German hands, thence east to the Germans hold; Framerville, whic Lihons, which the Hallu Station, held by HOW BRITISH TANKS WENT INTO BATTLE, Squadrons Through the Infantry Sup- ported by Haig’s Cavalry. AMSTPRDAM, Aug. 12.—Present- jing @ picture of the Anglo-French | plan of attack between the Ancre and |the Avre, the German semi-ofticial | agency, in a dis new! says: “Under protection of a short but extremely intense bombardment the ntente Armies tried to cut lanes | through the German infantry and ar- tillery lines by tank squadrons. Then to be rushed through the infantry of the offensive a highroad between | Peronne and Roye. | “Paiiure of this plan was due in the trench garrisons, which at many {points held their positions until sur- rounded on all sides, In the hurri- cane of fire all telegraph and tele- phone communications broke down. nh the Germans; Parvillers, L'Echelle 6 % and Armancourt, both of the lat-|S!snal rockets were invisible in th ter still being German, and thence | thick fog and while the gunners con- through ‘Tilloloy Park and near | tinued to put, down a barrage fire b Canny-sur-Matz to MArouil-La- motte, Sar on Mrs. Park Avenue, a Section peared before the money she had Col., iven to AlieChakner n, Beet Sagar | Roth, Steel B ces. Brook, Kap, Tran. Runs’ Bros’... 5 & Superior. . iy (MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS. KILL SELVES WITH GAS: Mrs. John A. Perry Leaves Note Admitting Suicide Pact, Follow- ing Dispute Over Money. MALDEN, Mass, Aug. 12.—Mri John A. Perry and her three daughters, ranging in age from nine to sixteen, were found dead in a gas filled rouin at their home he esterday, A note near the bodies indicated, ac- cording to the police, there had been a family dispute over money, and the mother and her daughters agreed to end thelr lives. Mr. Perry had been prominent as al member of the Socialist Party. Tho| police say his daughters were left sev-/| eral thousand dollars by the will of his sister, who died recently. , — Victims of Some Virulent Polson, Doctor Says, When policemen from the Coney Isl- and station to-day broke into the one- story house at No, 177% West Sixth Street, occupied by Christopher Metcalf and his family, they found Mrs, Blanche | Metcalf lying on the bed and her hus- | DISAPPEARED ON BIRTHDAY. Peter Berg French officer coolly walked up and down the road in plain view against the chalk-white dust, waving them on Complained of Heat When He Left Home, Meanwhile, tho British were ap-| Peter Rerg, filty-one years old, of | Proaching Damery Wood, The tanks |No. 325 Kerrigan Avenue, West Ho ‘were now, close up and our barrage |boken, N. J., has been missing fre am | was lengthened, falling in the wood Diaitad not eylday, whe n he bm | itself. Then, as though from a signal, | f° neat, Tt wane nts birthday and @ vast mass of Germans ran out of jhe t that he the north end of the wood toward ahs Ue @ copse to the eastward. The gun- | n ikieciia were era never had a finer target, the en-|q light gray Ault tan waiters and white | emy running in campact buncies,| socks. He welshs 190 pounds. earrying machine guns and machine He Fro gun parts. All enemy machine gun ae Sram Stefansna OTTAWA, Aug. 12. A tel fire stopped and all but the heaviest | ociveq here today from _ artiliery ceased. |Stefansson, Arctic explorer, announces a From Albert to south of Montdidicr |that one of his lieutenants, 8 ere > there are many little battles inside | *0", { the head of an exploration ithe big one, but they are timed to tit |Piy'y: nas penetrated to a. point 175 4m with each other, while whippets, | This t. Mf correct, Stefanason into a compact whole. |reached by previou plorers. It would | also indicate, the te ram adda, that Indications are that the German nang its biggest (egnanland is not located at the’ point (ives by previous maps, band under the bed, both barely alive and unconscious, The body of their he Christopher Jr. aged eight, was ly- ing across the foot of the bed; the boy (had been dead two or three days, | Dr A, Lavine of the Coney Island papital, who removed the father and mother to that institution, said that both were suffering from some virulent polson Which had caused the death of the son | HUSBAND'S US RE TO PLEASE the Chicago Journal.) There was a husband who gave real consideration to his wife's birthday, and on th ning of that day he brought home an Interesting little parcel, care- fully wrapped in white string, which he | handed to his wife. ‘Oh, you darling!" said. she, {you didn't forget my birthday, did you? Sh te WIFE, | “Then after all, opened the little parcel with in- then sh © a kind of groa st, grea: @ thi ehur OM. rs!” she said, sme said her husband, it knew they ¥ d please you, ike me to use your hairpins, id your" Credit Men, Treasurer J. in three to ai away. ‘And my H. rd Aug. 16, Anna Held Improving. Miss Anna Held, whose condition was believed to have been hopeless follow- Ing a recent relapse, Is reported to-day to be again on the road to recovery. He ‘oh. Stanley GREDIT MEN WOULD | REVISE WAR TAXES Urge Changes on Congress, Includ- ing Collection stalments, Tkecommendations for a more equit- able distribution of the burdens war taxation have been made to Con- by a special committee repri senting the National Association The committee tains that the operation of the present income and excess profits tax laws is inequitable. The recommendations, which were ; made public here to-day by Secretary- ‘Tregoe of the credit men, urge that the taxes be collected instalments so as not to drain the resources of the country. They would have one-third of tax paid June 15, a third July 15 and A flat individual income tax not to exceed $5 is urged to apply to indi- viduals whose income equals or ex- ceeds $800. The personal exemption would not be altered. would be in addition to tases now or hereafter levied and would preferably | © be collected at the source, | pi pbnadidad rR SN'TON. "N i lorence A. Hoff, sixty-five, a widow who formerly resided in Brooklyn, N Y., was struck and killed by an au yesterday board a trolley car Liberty Street, the chauffeur, was held without ball, pending investigation, ae ALWAYS GO" (From the Houston Post.) y father uss in In- of Vater Twn It 4 nain= aoa | ab. doen II 4% the | 1 The flat tax}| Watashi This statement was made by Dr, Bdward| Wanwh fA M. Overton, her physician, who declared | Wi nap 8" yp her remarkable spirit and vitality w & i grercpming her anaemic — condition Arenand tp ought on by pneumonia and other | Wyn Orerand Ci complication: Maal ag Lie EME Widow Killed by Aute white on! connor Rar arch, quarterly divide ‘Aug. 12.—Mrs, | 14 to stock while “about to on ihalskl of N andant Ol) Har quarterly Sept. 14 to stock SOMETHING, White Motor Jquarterly dividen 1 to keep me from | Sept. 80 to stock running away from school by promising ne something if 1 wouldn't run father used to get the same never did| result by promising thing if I did run away,” Computating, ing Company-— to give my some- dora vashington, to be in to the French Government them to use it to b ——— CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. | With net changes from previous usual extra Report shows balance equal to 8 X, compared with $6.69 earned in - #ix monthe of 11 and Chambronne, where it joins the line on the Oise DRAKE SECTION FUNDS. Swann Recommends M te French Governm William A. who with her husband toured the coun- try raising funds for the defunct Drake Sanitaire Island, which District Att forced to disband ten days ago. t. down barrage fire to impede the Gavin of No. 304|bringing up of Knglish reserves. In noted golf champion | other batteries the last surviving of- ficers kept ‘up machine gun fire for hours, even succeeding in fighting of Bayside, Long tae way through to the German ney Bweon - eihe lish and French began thé District Attorney to. day and offered the suggestion that the raised either be re the French Amba: y ambulu 1 4 4 1 WALL STREET “Gossip. Regular ayable Sep! npany of dividend ot $3 of recom Aug. 1 Company Loft fla of record Sept, 16 abulating and Record- six months per share for ey Me Sent ap- Kansas— of $8 a share both payabie Regular hare payable fore them they suddenly found tan upon their flank and rear, Whose ma- chine gun fire their ranks, "Quick as lightning, gun after gun would be slewed around and would blaze into the tanks at short range, while other guns would continue to let ine ond day’s offensive with tank at- 8, but, weakened by the losses 0: | the previous day, they did not display the same vigor. turned to the original contributors or “Only in the afternoon were the | h new committee, to be | English, with the help of fresh troops, f prigin planned—ambulances | able to renew the attack. On the | Pre neh Government, t eo tire front from Morlancourt to thi This surgestic not favored by | 4” Phaapend the District. Attorney and he recom-|Avre waves advanced, headed onc mended the money which is now on| more by strong tank divisions. Air- deposit with the Bankers Trust Com-| men flow overhead, attempting to pany, Fifth Avenue and 424 Street, and}emother the German ranks with a the Denver National Bank of Deny. hail of machine gun bullets.” patches Ny SAVED BY ENGINE’S TOOT. aplane Guided to Beach Through Foe by Whistle, A tooting locomotive running along the New Jersey coast brought a large seaplane ashore in safety at Sea Bright t 7 o'clock last night after the pilot had been lost in dense fog for thr TOLD BY GERMANS Rushed Forward) teh to Berlin, | | the cavalry, supported by tanks, was | lines in order to reach on the first day | first place to the heroic resistance of | laid terrible havoc in | | British FIRST U. s FIELD ARMY ORGANIZED IN FRANCE, PERSHING AT ITS HEAD Composed of Five Corps and Will Operate in the Campaign Above the Marne, IT! THE AMBRICAN ARMY [IN FRANCE, Sun- day, Ang. 11 (Associated | Press).—Organization of the first American Field Army of five corps has been completed. The army will be commanded by Gen. Persh- ing, and, it ig understood, will operate in the area north of the Marne from which the Germans | have beef driven. The creation of the First Army brings a great American force under American command, but under the orders of the General- 1ssimo, Marshal Foch. The size of the army has not been announced beyond the indl- | cation that 4t contains five corps, | commanded by Major Gens, Lig- gett, Bullard, Bundy, Reed and Wright. Bach corps ts composed | of several divisions, with each division including 30,000 troops of all arms, while the corps, in ad- dition, will have its complement of wuxiliary troops, supply troops, air squadrons, tanks and ‘heavy FIRST SERIOUS DEFEAT OF THE WAR, COMMENT eo Ui BERLIN NEWSPAPER Concedes Gravity of Kaiser’s Re- | Pulse by Allies Between Somme | and Avre Rivers. THE HAGUS, Aug. 12.—"Bvents | between the Somme and the 'Avre | constitute the first serious de- | feat of the war,” says the Deutsche Zeitung of Be | day LENINE Hs FLED FROM MOSCOW: TROTZKY ALSO GONE Bolshevik Government Premier and Assistant Reported to Be at Kronstadt. LONDON, Aug. 12.—Premier Le- nine and his assistant, Leon Trotaky, of the Bolshevik Russian Govern- ment, have fled to Kronstadt, the Naval base near Petrograd, according to a despatch sent out by the semi- official Wolff Bureau of Berlin and printed In Zurich newspapers, says a Havas report from Paris. An Amsterdam despatch says the Bolshevik Government will shortly leave Moscow for Kronstadt, accord- ing to the Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, nd that Lenine and War Minister Trotzky have already reached there. Owing to conditions in Moscow, the German Embassy will remove tm- mediately to Pskoff, a Berlin despatch reports. Pskoff is on the border of Livonia, one of the Baltic provinces which have been largely Germanized. It is 400 miles northwest of Moscow and ; 160 miles southwest of Petrograd. Reports received in London Sun- that the Bolshevik leaders in- tended to flee to Germany londs col to the German report that they al- ready have gone to Kronstadt. Copen- hagen despatches Sunday said that the anti-Bolshevik movement tn Russia was growing rapidly and that the Bolshevik government virtually had gone to picces. These reports were taken from Russian newspapers, Lenine and Trotzky have been in power sinco the overthrow of the Kerensky Cabinet last November. |'They negotiated the Brest-Litovek ‘SIX FRESH DIVISIONS ARE THROWN IN BY FOE |Six Others Withdrawn After Pun- ishment -—— Chaulnes-Roye Line Threatened. By Joseph W. Grigg. | (Staff Correspondent of The World Officially Credited to the | British Army.) ON THE BRITISH FRONT .IN | RRANCE, Aug. 12.—Despite the rush- | ing up of German divisions to halt tho advance, there has been fur- ther progress along the line to-day, and the Chaulnes-Roye line {s now threatened by Fieid Marshal Haig's troops and the French | In the first three days of the battle hours, The machine left_a Long Istand fly- ing station about 2 P. M. for patrol [duty and was soon lost in a heavy | fog. Finally Pilot B. R. Thomas de- ascended to the water and using his| compass steered west along the sur- face. Five hundred yards off shore he aught the locomotive whistie | which guided him to the beach, | GETS DEGREE OF EE OF P.L.O.C. With It Veronte In Awasda ale 20 Day Lenve. “You are without doubt the prize iar of the country,” said Magistrate Me- han in the Morrisania Court yester- y when he sentenced Paul Veronte,| thirty-two, no home, to thirty days on kwell'& Island for intoxication, When Veronte was brought before the giveness, declaring he was « hard work. | ing man and had never before appeared ina court.of justice. He was making an impression when it suddenly occurred to the Magistrate that the prisoner had made the same plea to him before and was discharged, $600; nix pp), 20 to fal a4 (mp.) sor), 12 to 1. Shady, 112 5 to third 1 chase, Cherubino, Light, Trump, Clean ¢ Pastoral Wain, | Thirtee Drum- mon, Clermont, Senator Crow and Milkmaid also ran tie RACE TRACK, SARATOGA, N.Y, Aug. 12.—The entries for to-morrow's races are as VIRST in 12: Le Mans in Drragnat urge (imi).). 150: Kivi tone 2) im Happy Valley Keeney fon fi n Rwift & Co.'s pales of beef In New York City for the week ending Saturday, Aug (O° averaged ss‘ followal Domestic. beet, 18.85 cents per pound.—Advi, |men) into the ALLIED ADVANCE STOPS = gan a long plea for for-| seventeen enemy divisions (238,900 men) were identified, tive being from the reserv T learn thrown d to-lay that thy enemy has six fresh divisions ($4,000 fight and removed ‘six others because of loss in prisoners and | casualties, He hag been using busses | to try to rush up fresh troops, having | brought one division trom Boissons | | that way yesterday. Another division came from the Arras sector and still another fri Ile ————___— THE SHELLING OF PARIS: | Positions rAd toate ( Monster Cannon En- | ‘dangered by the French on Noyon Front. PARIS, Aug. 12.—The long range cannon with which the Germans have intermittently bombarded Paris for more than four months past, have | now been silent for two days, This fact may bo explained by the Allied advance toward Noyon and Guiscard, six and one-half miles north of Noyon, whence the recent firing is said to have | been proceeding, as these 1 now endangered by the F ward push. ae Poincare Visits Fron PARIS, President Poin- care has visited ns. Debeney and Humbert at army headquarters and congratulated them on their su cesses, and also visited the liberat region, Premier Cl panied by Minister also has been at of army heac CHOCOLATE COVERED | ANsORTED wb “WEDNESDAY, BUTTER BRITTLE: Lichous slabs od old fashion PEANUT Big. of that rack= ly, old feetio n cons merously spangled with fresh roast ginio VOUND ores: Brooklyn, | that | increased from 7,500 to 300,000 and jcouncils of Mensheviki | self-styled Jot Czecho-Slovs peace, AMSTERDAM, Aug, 12.—The post- tion of the Soviet Government in Russia is considered very serious by the Moscow correspondent of the platt of Be He announces the Czecho-Slovak forces have ure being reinforced by Serbians, Cossacks and counter-revolutionists. COPENHAGEN, Aug, 12. — Soviet forces been overthrown and and Soc! wblished in, Kagan and Olschinsky, according to reports received here to- The Bolshevik ader was killed, In the Rfesan and have Revolutionaries e: Novgorod districts. the Bolsheviki |were defeated with great losses, THE HAGUE, Aug. 12.-—-Japanese advance troops are in touch with the Czecho-Slovaks, says a Moscow de- |spatch to the Weser Zeitung of Bremen. The Czech troops at Vladivostok, who have been in touch with the Jap. anese for some time. are separated from their comrades in Western 8i- {beria, who hold the trans-Sibertan Railroad west of Irkutsk. If this de- | spatch is meant to refer to the Czecho-Slovaks in Western Siberia tt 1s undoubtedly incorrect, as no ad- vance by the Alli¥d forces from Viadivostok has been reported. VLADIVOSTOK, Monday, Aug. 6f (Associated — Pre jen. Horvath,” “head o i the new all-Rus- sian Government,” declares that nothing less han 150,000 Allied troops will be required to prevent Germany from obtaining control of the food re+ sources of Siberia and Mongolia, Gen. Horvath declares that a large body ks are in desperate straits at Irkutsk, being surrounded by Bolsheviki and Magyar troops and without chance for immediate relief, A QUESTION OF CREDIT (From the Washington Star.) “Do you think the world owes you af living?” “Yes, But the world's like a bank, You've got to go to some trouble to get! yourself identified as the person to! whom the living is due," LANISS.—MRS. BRIDGET, native of Cree and Kiirush, County Clare, Ireland, Burial Wednesday from her late reat- 157 West 108th at. dence _tost, FOUND AND REWARDS, _ white poodle dog, yellow ‘ar. 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