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nia Ar SUR ancl sana can OL ETO BE slightly, while east of Vibagult south of Meteren, patrols: estat. | estab. lished a new line. There was no infantry fighting during the night on the British sectov of the Picardy battlefront. The German artillery was active Along the Vesle, where French and American troops are stationed, the Germans made vain raids, The French wok prisoners in a raid in Champagne. —————— FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCE IN THE VALLEY OF THE OISE; TRYING TO FLANK GERMANS Depressions Between the Hills Flooded by the Enemy With Mustard Gas, Making Progress Slow—Foch Keeps Them Guessing. PARIS, Aug. 14.—Tuesday’s fighting put the French more then a mile north of Cambronne, close to Attiche and Carmoy Farms, which are two big machine gun nests. The French left, advancing on Lassigny, met with vigorous re- sistance north of St. Claude farm and north of Mareuil-Lamotte, They succeeded in fighting their way through the woods and moved their line; 800 yards northeast of Gury. FRENCH PRESS ON BEYOND GURY. North of Gury they reached the southern edge of Loges Wood and also penetrated the park belonging to the chateau of Plessier de Roye. They also reached Belval, between Plessier de Roye and Thiescourt. The enemy still holds the greater part of Thiescourt Wood and the | formidable plateau of Plemont. Reports from the front say Gen. Humbert, following the successful! advance of his right wing in the Oise valley, 1s now striking northward in that region, almost at a right angle to the main battlefront in what! appears to be a flanking movement. This operation is now fully under way, the French infiltrating the ravines between the tiny hillk—few ct which are more than 150 feet high and which give the section its name of “Little Switzerland.” The advance is careful, because of the great quantities of mustard gas with which the Germans flooded the depres-| sions and their abandoned trenches, but it is steady. | Rots The Germans are trying, by small raids, for prisoners and persistent air reconnaisance, to find out where Marshal Foch’s next punci will land. | But Foch is keeping them up in the air by exerting strong pressure at vital point: MACHINE GUNS NUMEROUS AS SOLDIERS. A Reuter despatch to the Associated Press says the Germans are combatting the French in the Lassigny area generally with machine guns which are as numerous as soldiers, The valleys and woods whici the French must traverse are being flooded with mustard gas. The German tactics indicate that the main enemy force is retiring upon a defensive line not tar distant. In comparison with the quick advance of the first four days, the battle in Picardy now may seem to be stagnant, but the French have -Tushed nearer to the Chaulnes-Roye-Lassigny-Noyon line to which the Germans are clinging desperately. It took the Allies a fortnight to get the Germans from the Marne to the Vesle. The ground between the Avre and the Oise is much more difficult than north of the Marne, being a labyrinth of small wooded hills in and out of which the troops have to worm themselves, surrounding and re- ducing each summit separately and successively, Consequently every cinch of ground requires not only great determination in overcoming but experienced skill, men include mechanics from _ the > entral aviation shops at Adlersdorf, near Berlin, and miners from Aix-la- |Chapelle, Some garrisons, it is | stated, have furnished from 400 to E Commission Submits Report Tend- ing to Accuse Humber, Former Captured ‘cae Shows Drastic Measures to Keen Paris Journal Owner, Up Fighting Strength. PARIS, Aug. 14 CHavas).—A Govern- ment commission hi nt to the MIN- i 2 yay [tary Governor of Paris a report ten: WITH THE H ARMY IN ing to charge Charles Humbert, a Sena: FRANCE, Tuesday, Aug. 13 (by As-|tor and the former owner of the Pans séclated Prems).—The anxiety of the| Journal, with communication with the enemy. A bill will be introduced at the opening of the Senate on Sept. 17 their reserves appears to be con-| providing for the suspension of flamentary immunity. firmed by a document signed by Gen, YOR nbs Fi * When the case of Rolo Pasha was be- Uudendorff, a copy of which W&S8/ ror the French courts # Was shown captured among other papers during |that there had be ome relations be - nm him = and Charles: umbert. the recent fighting, Among them was the purchase of an ‘The state of our resources in men| interest in the Paris Journal by the RE Germans concerning the depletion of : , Levantine financier, M. Humbert was and the economic situation in the In-|iiter accused of commerce With ‘the terior,” sayy the document, “obliged enemy and it was alleged that he had Oe ene walt ta chs aguihie recelved German money from America. It was said that bank deposits ¢o his All the men of the arm tvige edit were found in this country and | The document prescribes the destis | an Inquiry wae started in New York City, He was later ordered by the nation for the men of this service | courts of Paria to. return $600,000 | jemen employed in rear, and adds rancs to Bolo } Parha i “The high command desires above iy ce everything to restore the infantry re | FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK: perves.” Prisoners belonging to forty-nine 44) SOLDIE different garrisons in Germany give confirmation of the existence of this man-power crisis, showing that the], -s ah garrisons had been largely depleted by |Djemnah Was on Way to Alex: calls from che front 1 tnum-| rants aa | s of others have been gathered up andra With) Troops When from the reat, Torpedoed by U Boat. According to such prisoners these PARIS, Aug. 14.—Four hundred and forty-two men are missing a8 @ result of the torpedoing of the French steam- | er Djemnah in the Mediterranean the nt of July 15-16, while bound from iizerta to Alexandria with troops, ac- cording to an official announcement | to-day. Four days later the French steamer Australian also was torpedoed in the Mediterranean, British Destroyer Sank by U Boat jo Mediterranean, ! LONDON, Aug. 14.--A_ British torpedo boat destroyer was sunk by an enemy submarine in the Mca iterranean on Aug. 6, Seven of the The passengers who were taken from Jthe Norwegian liner whieh arrived at an Atlantic port Monday and removed to the Norwegian Hisp Brooklyn, suffering from pneumon by ah int GERMANS ORDER FINNISH ARMY —— TO FIGHT ALLIES | | Washington Hears Forces Are! | Told to Proceed to Murmansk } | Coast in Two Weeks. a | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—A report | from Stockholm reaching the Blate | Department to-day from sources con- | | sidered reliable says the German Gov- Jernment has addressed an ultimatum |to the Finnish Government, requiring | that the Finnish army prepare to | march against the Entente forces on | the Murmansk coast within two wocks. Another Stockholm despatch says the Russian sailors are declaring they will fight the German Government rather than give up thelr ships or wil) blow up the Russian navy rather |than have it fall into the hands of the Germans. This report is based on [information obtained on Aug. 11. It | 4s stated the Bolshevik leaders Lenine nd Totzky have been seen in Kron- stadt by Russian sailors, It # also reported that the Ger- man Ambassador to Russia and the |German Consul at Petrograd are in | Hoelsingfors on their way to Berlin. Previously it has been reported that the German Ambassador had moved | to Pskov. A despatch from Archangel says | the diplomatic corps of the Entente nations are living aboard warships {in the harbor owing to lack of ac- commodations and the crowded con | ditions of Archange! AMSTERDAM, Aug. 144A battic 1s raging between Czecho-Slovak and ik forces along the Middle Volga, especially around Simbirsk, Jaccording to despatches received from Germany to-day. The Sov.et Army is eaid to number 150,000, LONDON, Aug. 14.—The British Government has issued a declaration formally recognizing the Szecho-Slov- aks as an Allied nation and the three Crecho-Slovak Armies as an Allied force regularly waging warfare against the Central Powers. The text of the declaration follows: “Since the beginning of the war the Czecho-Slovak Nation has re- sisted the common enemy by every means in its power. “The Czecho-Slovaks have conati- tuteé a considerable army, figtting on three different battlefields and at- arrest the Germanic invasion, In consideration of its efforts to achieve independence, Great Britain regards the Czecho-Slovaks as an Allied na- t.on and recognizes the unity of the three Czecho-Slovak armies as an regular warfare against Austria-Hun- gary and Germany. “Great Britain also recognizes the right of the Czecho-Slovak National Council the supreme organ of Crecho-Slovak national interests and the present trustee of the future Czecho-Slovak Government to exer- Jeise supreme authority over this | Allied and belligerent army. The German newspapers show much perturbation over the situation in Russia. According to the Frankfort Zeitung, M, Joffe, Russian Ambassador to Ger- many, haa left Berlin for Moscow to obtain the ratification of a treaty, supplementing the — Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which ‘had been ifftialled _THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1918. ed |Map Showing Retreat of Germans Toward the Old Hindenburg Line |@ quick sight the depth bomb was ‘carried to a point forty miles off Fire| the LATEST OFFICIAL REPORTS BRITISH 4,—Following is the statement issued to-da by the British War Office: “The hostile artillery was active during the night on the battle | ciearn There was no infantry action, “At mid-day yesterday local hostile attacks in the Dickebusch} During the night the enemy artillery has shown | considerable activity in this neighborhood and also against our positions north west of Kemmel. “We secured prisoners last night in a successful raid in the borhood of Ay “In the Vieux-Berquin sector our patrols have forward and have |dut they declared to-day their belief sector were repulsed, continued to push succeeded in establishing a line east of the village. A number of prisoners and machine guns were captured in the course cf Our line has been advanced slightly east of Meteren.” FRENCH text of to-day’s War Office statement this operation. PARIS, Aug. reads as follows: “Between the Avre and the Oise there was_act the enemy artillery, Conchy-les-Pots, “On the front of the Vesle German raids were without results. “Prisoners were taken by the French during an incursion into the | German lines in the region of Mesnil-les-Hurlus, ever, ywhiere else.” |at 5.10 o'clock when the vessel was | east and a little north of the mouth ity by our own and notably in the sectors of Roye-sur-Matz and }Oakland, Cal, less than a year ago tempting in Russia and Siberia to AUSTRIAN RULER 6 GOES TO GERMAN HEADQUARTERS 10 CONSULT WITH KAISER Allied and belligerent army waging] Will Discuss “All Pending Ques ays Amsterdam Report, Quoting Frankfort Zeitung. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 14. 2OR CHARLBS of Aus- tria, with Baron Burias, Austro - Hungarian CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. | deafening roar the whole stern of the/a French patent granted to Consian the Austrian Ambassador at Ber- lin, and Count von Wedel, German Ambassador pending questions, LIGHTER “CAPTAIN JAILED. Aug. 10. oe WAR STAMP KIDDIES. Twelve Thousand Attend Meetiog im Madison Square Garden. Between 10,000 and 12,000 school chil- dren crowded into Madison Square Gar, den this afternoon to attend the last educational meeting of the War & asdressed by Melvin Albert and Abra- ham Unger, boys, and Adelaide Kilfeber, who made four-minute competitive speeches. judges to-morrow afternoon. Addresses were also made by Joseph Chappel and consign Erlan . LEAVES WIDOWED MOTHER. vate T. J. mn Volunteered at Begtaning of War, Private Thomas J. Gorman, nineteen years old, who was killed in the fight- ing of July 31 with the American Ex- peditionary Forces and whose death Was reported in to-day's casualty lists, aves a widowed mother, Mrs, Delia man of No, 311 East 25th Street, who is employed at the Tubercular ie in Bellevue Hospital iy Gorman Went overseas with the 165th Infantry, but was later trans- ferred Wo the 105th. He was among th firat to ‘ssued row n the call for EIGHT HAVE E PNEUMONIA. senger on Nerwemian laneel Dies tn Hospital, One Dr. Baratolle, In patients in the hospital destroyer's comploment were lost. The Admiralty nade this announces ment to-day, é Pa Jensime Olsen of Flint, Mich, died goon after Teaching the hospital. Muwintrate In imposing a sentence of in the Workhouse, a y418 West birth, as captain of @ lighter by the Southern Pacific to-day in Jefferson Market Polic the longshoreme avings | Sig Stamp campaign, ‘The youngsters have |to be trusted, been an appreciable factor in the sellipg | patriotic ot war stamps and they were adjured | supplies to 1 to continue their efforts, They were | papers. was charged Eldridge has his first citizenship M captain of a lighter, that of the torpedoing of a hospi lizabeth Manyard and Han- | submarine as " r nah ‘Salbach, who were to be in the|trate comptition, will be heard by — the | could years. CAN'T TAKE TROLLEY LINES. ower, Wilson Tells ann Mayor, WASHINGTON, Aug. ldridge spoke i} |which was right against them or they has no power to take trolley systems and lighting companies. ‘This statement was on son's authority a& letter from $ advised that the matter was WALL STREET GOSSIP, Bulgar King tn Tears in His Ger~ man Exile. to $5.62 a sh of Bulgaria, who is at Nauheim, fre- quently {8 seen in tears, and appears greatly depressed, rman mental Paseo Mining Company, ex- 25 cents a share regular quarterly tra dividend Berlin by order of the Kalner. N.Y. COTTON EXCHANGE. Falls to Death Fro! y Strauss, twenty-five dast 105th Street this morning was instantly killed earl by falling from the second-story window names of five of the seven killed aboard the tanker have been determin ‘They are: ! ' cond Assistant Engineer 8. 1. ’ Johnaon of New York, Third Assis- tant Engineer J, Krame no addres: Francis De Louge, messboy, no ads dress; Cade: “William Stillman of | No. 215 Commonwealth Avenue, Shei- | jton, Conn, and Cac ibberly of No, 44 Sc j nu L by (Continued From First Page) | ""® one Branch, sc muna wasn awary oo GOVERNMENT WARNING \transport, who had been waiting | AGAINST UNDUE ALARM; |this development, fired a depth bomb t Chester from a mortar on the rear gun super- TAKING ALL PRECAUTIONS | structure | | The round canister of T N T] jdropped and exploded in the path of | | Will Not Be Diverted ‘Frew Protect: | |the torpedo and the double shock as} ing Transports by German Ef- |the latter was detonated shook the | b [ship through its whole length | forts at Frightfulness. A few minutes thereafter the re-} WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—As sub- jlentless German pursuer unleashed a marine operations off the Atlantic second torpedo, Once more the mor- | coast r was brought into play, and after grow more daring, conviction Germany's sole object is to draw lumped down near th er rocke 4 Piurnes the water rocket) America’s attention of death, This torpedo also was ¢x- ploded, During the running fight, which! away from the ,to Kurope. But indications to-day are that the Government will not permit crafty U boat commanders to} Island Light before the submarine! qivert our sea fighters to a chase abandoned the pursuit, a mysterious! after spectacular raiders. vessel played an inexplicable part in| Nevertheless, increased precautions the affair. The vessel, outward bound.| sre being taken to apprehend the twice passed between the submarine’ under-sea raiders which ate now ap- ind the British boat, so officers of the latter asserted tot-day, thereby ef-| atiantic coast. Whilé the nature of fectuaily sereening tho war craft! these precautions cannot be discussed, from the fire of the British craft. navas officers are convinced that they Tho officers of the transport could! wit) goon show results, ‘The American not make out the flag with sufficient people are cautioned not to become to determine her nationality, !ynduly alarmed at the attempts at frightfulness which Germany is mak- ing. the intruding boat was either in fact a neutral or masquerading as such. During the entire time the battie was in progress the transport sent continual S O S wireless cails for} ‘help. No response was received from! the ship, was still unexplained to-day them, nor at any time did a naval} | Officials scouted the theory of wireless patrol vessel, large numbers of which | control. are supposed to be playing sentrics | i ee queer antics, passing under the v and then turning around and striking “slong ste sproaces © Se" BERMANS MAY HAVE TORPEDO naval wean aout station a nsse| THAT CAN BE CONTROLLED, ane nian dere wen no sign of a “vlane) SAYS JOHN HAYS HAMMOND ‘The torpedoing of the American tanker Frederick R. Kellogg occurred | Must Be of Recent Discovery, He Adds, Because at Battle of of Barnegat River. Jutland Only One Hit. The Kellogg, which was built in] GLOUCESTER, Mass, Aus. 14— John Hays Hammond jr., wireless ex and was owned by the Pan-Amert-| pert, said in an interview to-day he {can Petroloum and Transportation| would not be surprised to learn that The night was calm | company, with offices at No. 120!Germany had perfected a torpedo Broadway, was bound trom Tampico| which can be controlled from a dis- to Boston, via New York and the|tance, He was speaking of the sink- Long Island Sound route, with @/ ing of the steamer Sommerstad, which, cargo of oil. Capt. C, H. White and| according to the captain, Was do- a crew of forty-one manned her. _| stroyed by a torpedo that after pass- The lookout had scen no signs of|ing the vessel circled with uncanny a submarine, nor was there any vis-| accuracy and struck amidships. ible trace of a torpedo when, with a] Mr, Hammond said that a year ago tanker was lifted high in the air.|tin Polysu showed a mechanism that The torpedo, striking on the port|caused a torpedo to describe circles side a little abaft of 'midships, blew | when it had passed the spot where a off the Kellogg's stern and sent the| submarine commander had estimated ship to the bottom in less than four|the target to be. This patent, how- minutes. ever, was controlled by a mechanical “We lowered away the only two) device and not from a distance, boats left,” a member of the crew told] “Such a torpedo,” said Mr, Ham. an Evening World reporter, “and|mond, “is a step between the ordi- were picking up some of the boys|nary torpedo and the wirelessly con- who'd jumped when we saw the sub-| trolled torpedo, which we have solved, marine come to the surface about 300|1 should not be surprised to learn yards away. It stayed on the top a|that a torpedo of this type has been minute and then éived. perfected hy the Germans, “Sam Johnson, second assistant en-| “Although it is not generally gineer, the third assistant whom we| known, hundreds of rman torpe- |called Jim and two water tenders, | does were fired at British shipsin the|lyn, who was who were the only ones in the engine] battle of Jutland, Only one of these | room, were killed. Three of the crew|found its mark, slightly dam: who ran to the fo'es'le to get some|the Marlborough. Had ¢ ng ship went down; seven dead, all told.” | British fleet would have been in daue “Steward Clyde had the narrowest |eF, of being wiped out. Tho tuot squeak of all. He was in his state room and barely had time to run up| applied to Cake at that time.” on deck and jump as the ship went fume, "We didn't see him jump and] STEAM TRAWLER AWLER ESCAPES Wie up after Te hed iyromsrabost 100 U BOAT OFF GAPE COD. yards away from where the ship went under, Torpedo Misses Vessel by a Nar- “Tt was less than four minutes from ; Rents the ioe the torpede wit ue until tuo| ow Margine-Ship Gels Away last of the masts slipped under. J and Warns Other Craft. didn't know a ship could get it so] aN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 14.—A hard or go so quick, Nobody saved|Gorman submarine, sighted off the anything except what he had on, tip of Cape Cod early last night, fired “We never saw anything of the], torpedo at the steam trawler Wal- seven men in the fireroom. Either| rus, which missed by a narrow mar- |they were killed by the explosion, drowned with the inrush of water.” When Capt. White and the sur- vivors were landed to-day at 9.40 o'dlock Naval Intelligence officers immediately boarded the rescue ship and, barring all others from ggming aboard, examined the officers and crew for two hours Bofore they permitted the men to leave the ship they were warned against saying anything about the torpedoing. At the office of the Pan-Amertcan Petroleum and ‘Transportation Com- pany, owners of the Frederick R. Kel- loge, at No. 120 Broadway, it was said to-day that the Navy Department had | advised against giving any information | upon the sinking of the ship. It was learned from other sour that the crew of the oil tanker are the first to profit by @ new ruling incor- porated in signing articles. Following Ydemands of the Seamen's Union it was written in their articles that in case N To- SOLATE COVERED ASSORT Meee ktcure these little classi deuefodaners, egmorived of re caning diveraity, of tasty, hi oak “ot 0 oe Mrltye RPECIAL FOR TODA ASSORTED CH ING TAPFIE ood, old-time — sum- mertime —Joys—Delic~ fous and chewy, This assortment presents fully # dozey popular fruit, spice and mint flavors, euch —_ piece wrapped in sanitary Stores: of the house, It is believed she went to ‘Two seagnen and another passenger died the Way over. ae Sate ek Reh tte ea Cee ames lieliniapeil a unchanged to up the window for and in leaning out of Joss of the ship through some a of |the encmy eveyy man shoyjd be th Fifth Ave. |some distanc jand started full | weather was very thick and the Cap- &rows among paval officials that) ILLINOIS SOLDIERS transports and supply ships en route | arently operating all along tho! The mystery of the Sommerstad sink-| St of the First Fie ing, In which the torpedo performed | tat case Major Gen. James W. Mc- | Andrew is the Chief of Staff both of n 20 per|Aug. 21 when arrai of their duds were caught when the}cent of these found their mark tbe) that the torpedoes went wide shows |rapher for many y that wireless corftrol had not been jof Liberty Bonds. When his _% ‘ics, PENNY A POUND PROFIT ey Day is the Last Day of Our Mid- Week Special BUITER ©) Brooklyn, For exact locations see phone directory, gin, ayton Morrissey of the Fisherman reported on arrival here to-day Because of the fox ¢ Morrissey aid he was able to escape and warned other craft of the d The Walrus was on her way to the fishing grounds and was about seven miles northeast #6f Highland Light, Capt. Morrissey said, when the con | ning tower of the submarine was seen away, The U boat ed, and a few min- quickly subme utes later he saw the wake of a tor- pedo. Capt. Morrissey turned about eed for port. The tain reported that he heard severai | steamers in the vicinity blowing their | fog horns. Schooner On ‘Time, Reported Sank, Safe In Port. UCKESTER, Mass, Aug. 14 Owners of the fishing schooner On Time, previously reported sunk by a German submarine, said te the vessel was safe in an Atlantic CAPTURE 193 MEN, T GUNS AT CHIPILLY —_— (Continued From First Page) ceed without delay, he added, and eventually Gen, Pershing will take command of all the armies, leaving command of each to a general officer whom he may select It is assumed that Gen, Pershing has taken over his own staff as the 1 Army. In |the Army and of the American Ex- | peditionary Forces Gen. March was asked as to the {truth of reports that the American |forces north of the Marne lacked quate air service. Gen. Pershing’s ches made no mention of any desi | such condition, he replied, and added that a specific report as to the opera- tion of airplanes in action and the conditions in that regard had been asked of the American commander, which will be made public when re- ceived Gen. March said no American troops had yet landed in Siberia, He did not have available figures on the total embarkation for France to-day. secteaainnass\Shistablae DIES AFTER KILLING SON, Succumbs to Gas, but 1 WHIT Recover, Mrs. Blanche Metcalf, who was found unconscious, together with her husband and their eight-year-old son, who was dead, at their home, 1775 West Sixth Street, Coney Island, on Monday died early to-day at Coney Island Hos- pital. Christopher Metcalf will recover from the e the gas fumes with which his wife planned to end the lives of all three. The police were directed to the house by neighbors who saw no signa of Ife about the place for two days, following a violent quarrel between Christopher and his wife, The boy 1 two days, and that his pi nly rendered unconseic the fact that gas was quarter meter Which aui oft. as due to d by a ally shut ——— HELD FOR DISLOYALTY. Prints of Iron ¢ ‘ound in Pho- tographer'x Room, Harle A, Sanborn, thirty-seven years old, of No. 119 McDougal , Brook arrest st night charged with violation of the Espionage Act, was held {n $5,000 bail for hearing ned before United States Commissioner MeGoldrick in Brooklyn to-day. Sanborn protested his loyalty, said he had been a photog- and was holder rooms were searched the police say that neg- atives and prints of an iron cross were found, insgribed “Don't buy Liberty Bonds, I hereby award to all American citizens who ean |afford to and do not buy Liberty Bonds the right to wear this honorable in signia in proof of their loyalty and de- yotion to me. Kaiser Wilhelm. ars Sanborn claimed he found the nega- tive and had developed it for his own amusement, DIED. MINTYRE.—On Tuesday, Aug, 13, 1018 PATRICK M'INTYRE, native of Parisi of Annugh, County Sligo, Ireland, Funeral from his brother'a residence Thomas McIntyre, 31 3d av,, on Thurs day, Aug. 15.10 A. M AMS—Your last opportun= e of melting sucur in Newarks