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——— ) H BOAT SINKS STEAMER OFF F IRE ISLA “If It Happens In It’s In The Evening World’’ ALLIES GAIN ON 25: MILE ul TORPEDO SINKS STEAMER 60 MILES. FROM N NARROWS lissile Dived t Under Turned Around and Struck Fatal Blow. Ship, | 1! BOAT SUNK, IS REPORT. | 3 British Armed Merchantman, Arriving To-Day, AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. |4 13.—A British armed merchant- man on arriving to-day reports a | fight with a submarine yesterday | off the North Atlantic coast and | claims to have sunk the U boat. i Details of the battle were not made public. ! Torpedoed without warning off) © Fire Island at 8.15 A. M, ye an steamship & 1 of 3 ns and un na y the United State n was the closest to New York victim German frightfulnes: The stricken steamer wa within sixty of the Narrows wher tor | and ed into hi where, on July 19, the San Diego d 4 floating mine laid by a German submarine From Capt. George Ha vrew of thirty who we and the a naval patrol vessel i in the sh eaned to-day the story o nost daring incursion of t sea commané waters. Th with no ours afloat nde possessions (Continued on Secon! Page.) TAX ON OCCUPATIONS $10 A YEAR; PROFESSIONS 100 War Industries, Farmers, and Ministers Exempted in Revenue Bill WASHINGTON, of $10 a ye except the Aug: profession, war in trades, farmers, teachers and minist were written into the $8,000,000,000 revenue bill to-day by the House Ways and Means Committee, A similar tax! was placed upon any busine paid for leased wires in the per mende as to apply bill, Tt y only to DING FooD Claims | $ Victory in Fight Yesterday. |? Teachers], Stecsholm, aati f STOCKHOLM, Aug, 13.—The Finnish t t *! Landtag has voted, 58 to 44, to estab n New York {* Cirewlation Books Open to Alt.” | Copyright, 1918) by The Press Ps e New Yark World Crew of Torpedoed Norwegian S. Ss. Sommerstad, Picked Up by Patrol Boat After Rowing 10 Hours Photographed by an Evening World Photographer. * SPRN AND GERMAKY. REPORTED NEAR BREAK MAN POWER Bl lL Seon HEAT FOR SENATE GENERAL WHOM KAISER DECORATED DISGRAGED FOR DEFEAT ON MARNE Unrest in Alphons Followed Sink bv UB Von Mudra, Who Was One of the LONDON, Au ( Commanders at Verdin, arfd i y 1 ARIS, Aug, 13 (Havas}.-G »)Work or Fight) Amendment Papin Dc aca aoa Agreed On—Free Education | began on duly 15, have been for All Uniden et. Aften War, || fiaesd On tne retires iat, apcord Tee ave b ir v h WASHING IN, Au The Be J P ‘ 16, He alit ne In th fren- WASHINGTON, Ang. 1.—Reports {ty Hy ge ; : 2 ore anu er mnie te sents reeset wi BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK [tration ot the" mea BY GERMAN SUBMARINE FINNISH LAKDTAG VOTES ie ohne TO ESTABLISH MONARCHY 0%. ‘sony King Will Be Elec ed in September, Says Despatch From and, a Helsing to-day. A king a monarchy in Fink he Mayor, y at th i es 1 w i rve a y Ww 1 b 4 1 wh pppoe : ‘ Reed tid pern 1 6 ‘ 1 t w ft rap iV nen \ 1 4 soldier hteer an Advice, ele _|op aallon aball not lisqualified for Samira ha cia to ‘'4aMy position under the Governinent! the humi @cbn “Muir & Con 61 Bway,—adve. because she is a married woman, declined to 59 per cen 4 i _NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, .|Germans are evacuating their trenches in the bead of the Oise WEATHER—Fair and warmer. EDITION [“Cireutation Books Open to All. »| Mh hh “TWO. CENTS, A dal 14 PAGES ri. PERONNE BRIDGE SMASHED; GERMAN SUPPLIES CUT OFR nny Lassigny, Roye and Ribecoart All) ‘CHANGES IN THE BATTLE LINE Likely to Be Flanked, and the| Capture of Lassigny Especially Is Hourly Expected—More Than 650 Guns Taken So Far. | Entire Line, From Chaulnes South-, ward to Oise Under Attack of| French and British,and Germans. Are Forced Out of Bend of River, East of Ribecourt. LONDON, Aug. 13.—Striking on the twenty-five- mile front in Picardy, from Chaulnes southward to the! a hab Warjoy Sorel Billemont | BALBER PERONNE laRove eMargny Oise, French and British troops to-day scored impertant | successes, | An Associated Press despatch says the French have gained control of the entire Massif of Lassigny. .This gives errr " Arrows point to positions under heaviest attacks in today’s advance BF command of the town of Lassigny and the valley of Divette, Bealiion as well as the entire district to the north. The Germans made a stiff fight for one corner of the Massif, one of ite FRANCO- AMERICANS DRIVE highest humps on the hills, but the French finally: drove! GERMANS BACK OVER VESLE, AFTER RETIRING TO SOUTH BANK / | | | | | | them out. In the new drive forward Lassigny, Roye and Ribecourt may all be flanked. The fall of Lassigny especially is expected hourly. This may force the Germans to retreat to the Somme canal line— Give Way Under the Early Pressure, but Imme- | diately Counter Attack and Restore } Their Former Positions. LONDON, Aug. at Fismette, on the north bank jan additional retirement of five to ten miles all along the front — | according to information received here this afternoon. | BRIDGE AT PERONNE SMASHED, 13.—Heavy local fighting is reported in progress ot the Vesle, where the Franco-Americga } The Allies here were attacked by the enemy } ind forced to retire to the south bank The Somme bridge at Peronne has been smashed, cutting of the enemy’s supplies from that direction and hindering the retreat. | forces are holding the line | | The number of guns captured by the Allies in the Picardy of the river. | sector has now reached 650. Of these 400 were taken by the | British in their drive along the northern sector of the front. | ROYE PRESSED CLOSELY BY FRENCH. | The French launched their attack to-day on the southern part Lasiigey: aod Vittually palibe arent Dethe Sisee avenibowine Oat of the front and made progress from the Oise to near Roye. The PERONNE RU ‘ET ON FIRE. = French pressure he 7 A Under French p The enemy sstroying The ruins of have been observed by Allied launched, Allies « An immediate counter-attack was of the and according to the old. positions n the north bank of tite latest reports the river have been reste British made gains north of Roye. villages in his rear Peronne are reported to be burning. Fires River west of Bailly and the French are occupying them. | airmen at various point (Bailly 1s a village situated on the east bank of the Oise, about @ f Bi ) mile and three-quarters east of Ribecourt. It is near the southern end The Germans ha en removing enormous quantities of of Ourscamp Forest, a wooded section which 1 t strategic value | War material from Per eight hours and enemy in that part of the bat 1, The battle line crosses the Olse at about | troops are crossing the Somme. bout Peronne are reported to be this point and swings southeastward to the Aisne in the neighborhood | crowded with German transports attempting to get this material back of Soissons.) toa safer spot i ion of Des Loges uth of Roye, the French this afternoon Huge ammunition dur i-sur-Matz and Orvilliers were line. The French hold all the high ground here,| abandoned by the vy in have been captured intact by } Germans in Roye trom the south and commanding the the Frenc x =F ciak ide iladingalt of WH British troops have gained additional ground north of Roye and on} the north bank he Somme, says the official statement from Field | The Assoviat Pre 1 i WCuati it Re be expected Marshal Haig to-da vithin a da for the tow i wera The aban The Germans delivered a local attack near Fourquescourt, on had fonment of F the Germa Id also make Chaulnes difficult) line between Roye and Chaulnes, It was rep: 1 }) id P Marne is counted upon to repea German attacks last night on the British rositions in the Merris seek } if yay in Flanders were also repulsed. | . slagoloe Apter W auDtGre by ihe Branch ant Since the beginning of Allied counter-offensive on July 18 the \ Allies have taken more than 70,000 prisoners and more than 1,000 gunsy jthe Echo de Paris states to-day. In addition, it estimates, more thin 10,000 machine guns have been captured from the enemy, them north of the St. Claude Farm \L'Econvillon is about three and one-half miles southeast of further ground has been gained by 4 ait i ; — eo li Sy