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ee eee a ms ee ee a Re Me ee ee of Monchy-le-Preux, Monday, British troops captured more than prisoners, the newspapers here say. On a front of six miles south of the Scarpe the British advanced to a miximum depth of two and a half miles. Important gains were made around Bapaume and Croisilles, the centres of enemy resistance between the Ancre and the Scarpe. No Germans remain in Bapaume, says the correspondent of Le Matin on the British front. He adds that patrols have penetrated the ruins which mark the former enemy advanced concentration centre. The newspapers do hot believe that the Germans will be able hold out in Roye much longer despite the enormous sacrifices they have made in attmpts to hold that town. Since Aug. 8 British troops have taken £0,000 prisoners, with 609 officers. more than 7@0 cannon, thousands of machine guns and untold quantities of war supplies. The compined Allied armies have captured more than 100,000 Germans. 2,000 — os BRITISH ADVANCE MAY LEAD ENEMY TO ABANDON PERONNE German Gun Fire Near Monchy Caught Some of Own Men, Prisoners of British. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug Marching into a toWn near the Somme to-day, the United Press correspondent saw group of prisoners headed by a battalion commander who was attired in @ smartly combed moustache and beard. He smiled and, stepping through the organized parade, elected himself grand marshal, The others, both 27 OS SE-96 950406 55956.655406 J HINDENBURG LINE BATTLES | Comparing the resalts achieved on the British an® French fronts in the Somme area with those of the first battle of the Somme a Lon- don military expert points out that in four months, from duly 1 to Oct, 31, 1916, the British won forty-four square miles of land. Jn four days, between Aug. 21 and Aug. 25, the British won 116 square miles, * with casualties amounting to only 23,000, In other words, between two and three times as much ground has been taken at Infinitely smaller cost. reno 6 ee ee ee bb oroboon 0960009066 officers and men, were well built and sturdy, radiating good nature M4 Stn ToR For the purpose of meeting the anticipated attack along the Scarpe, 3 HIN DEN BORG the Germans withdrew some distance behind their advanced lines. The @ ['@m sews pee, 4 Canadians and Scotch didn’t even hesitate at the outposts, but smashed right through into the main body of Germans, and after a stiff fight ¢ took Monchy-le-Preux, advancing slightly beyond \% About this time the German artillery, which had been withdrawn be yond Monchy, let loose against Orange and Ohape! Hills, figuring they would catch the attackers there. But they catight some of their own men who were en route to the rear as prisoners. The Canadians guns were brought forward rapidly and soon were replying to the Germans. The British are carrying their whole line forward, and abandonment of Peronne is considered a near possibility, although the Germans doubt less will seek to hold the Brit ®h temporarily short of that ity, utilizing the high ground west of it. This ground contains little preparation in the nature of trenches and wire, the rmans having always either to go forward and pas ward across it, without holding |t $o——__——— LATEST OFFICIAL REPORTS , BRITISH. LONDON, Aug. 27.—The text of the War Office statement to-day reads “Severe fighting took place on the field of the old Somme Battle be tween Maricourt and Bapaume, and also north of the latter town yester- day afternoon and evening. The enemy counter-attacked repeatedly in strength, incurring great losses from the fire of our troops, but being un- to arrest our progress. “English and Welsh troops pushed through Montauban and advanced |" along the crest of the ridge, capturing high wood and reaching Longueval, In the latter village we were heavily counter-attacked and forced back | toward Bazentin-le-Grand and High Wood. On this line we broke the enemy's «flack, and, again advancing, established ourselves well to the east of High Wood. “Early in the night a second Por rat cOunter-attack was driven off by riffe fire before the Germans reached our position “North of High Wood the enemy twice counter-attacked in the neigh- borhood of Gegny and Thilloy, pressing back our advanced troops some 400 or 500 yards. There his infantry was stopped and driven back, | “At Bapaume the New Zealanders after flerce fighting established themselves in the northern outskirts of the town. “Further north English troops progressed toward we had hard fighting about Croisilles. | “On the right of the battlefront the Australians continued their ad-| vance astride the Somme and made substantial progress toward Dom- pierre and to the east of Suzanne. “On the left of the battlefront the Canadians yesterday captured the ridge to the east of Wancourt and established themselves to the east of expected Beugnatre, We) Guemappe. | orth of the River Scarpe Scottish troops renewed their attack last | night and they have made substantial progress toward Plouvain. { ‘Prisoners taken since the morning of Aug. 21 exceed 21,000." | FRENCH. PARIS, Aug. 27.—The War Office statement to-day reads “South of the Avre French troops accentuated their progress this morning in the region of St. Mard, after having repulsed a number of enemy counter-atta We have taken more these combats. Of these thirty-six afe officers, commanders. “Between the Oise and the Aisne German counter-attacks west of| Chavigny broke down last evening. ‘Thirty prisoners remained in our | hands, In the region east of Bagneux we have advanced our line about | 1,200 metres. “During the night there were lively artillery duels between the Ailette and the Aisn than 1,100 prisoners during two of whom are battalion AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The communique covering yesterday | activities of the American forces in France, as issued by Gen. Pershing, | follow: \ “Section A—In a local action west of Fismes our troops gained ground and captured prisoners, In Alsace a hostile raid was repulsed with losses.” AUSTRIAN, latest statement of the VIENNA, Aug. 27.—The Austrian War Office read “Fieri was recaptured Sunday after sanguinary street and house-to house fighting. Later we captured Berat and shortly afterward the Italians were driven from the dominating heights of Speragi and Senja The Italian losses in men and material were heavy. On the Devoli we further consolidated our successei GERMAN. BERLIN (via London), Monday, Aug. 26. German General lieadquarters reads “The British attacks have extended to north of the Carpe “On hoth sides of Bapaume and north of the Somme there vigorous engagements. Enemy attacks in the main have failed. places counter-attacks still are in progress. temporarily lost, have been recaptured, “Between the Somme and the ( upper The official statement from have been Longueval and Montauban, apart from locel engagements north of the Avre, the day has been quieter, Partial engagements oceurre) north of the Aisne.” AUSTRO-GERMAN LEADERS 2.22, ey mms » declared FOR FIERGER WARFARE 13" 0000 sos all fronts, land nd agroed ROME, Aug. 27.—The recent Ausiro- Mt ne a ' ads to German conference at Uieneral tesa. ‘he A! quarters decided that peace efforts 1 We will make » the dea ‘ statement | official et eredite We high nar + pe Perieh to a conqu useleas unless the Central Powers vc Rnowledss Sctcat, accomits to 2 will At some | i=] MONTOIDER NNDEN BORG ISIN PPO EDD OOO GERMAN BATTALION MUTINIES;+ EVERY TENTH MAN SHOT DO\..4 mously to Go to the Front When Ordered. A MSTERDAM, Aug. 27.—There are persistent rumors from a graaf, that a German battalion, on being ordered to the front, unanimously refused to go, Whereupon every tenth man was shot, The others then gave up thein resistance. PARIS, Aug. Stories of*hand-to-hand fighting between Ger- man officers and their men, of officers slain by mutinous privates and privates sh6t down by officers because they hesitate to obey orders to One German officer shot down @ private with an automatic pistol when the man did not instantly obey a command, officers report. In another instance the French officers #ay they saw Germans shooting One instance typical of what the French have to guard against is that of a German corporal taken prisoner, who begged for consideration and promised to lead the French fo the easy capture of a body of Ger- the ground, jcering at them, He was bayonetted and the French at- tacked and captured the position. GERMANS SENT FROM RUSSIA DESERT the Associated Press).—German soldiers released from captivity in Russia have begun to arrive on the western front, it has been learned from prisoners captured in recent battles. Ukraine were sent to a reserve division, Eighteen deserted before the detachment got out of Germany, while three were killed in jumping from a railroad train, The others reached their destination in a re- men returned from Russia make the poorest kind of reinforcements. They are not only ill-humored, it is declared, but resent all discipline. Selb essarheesctes Bacio Soldiers Reported to Have Refused Unani- German source, says the frontier correspondent of the Tele- GERMANS SHOOT OwN ‘OFFICERS , advance, are coming from the battle front held by the French Armies, down officers, while other officers made no effort to interfere mans. He led them in front of a hidden machine gun and dropped to WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sunday, Aug (By One hundred of these men who returned to Germany through the fractory mood, All the prisoners from this division agree that the 700 GERMANS ARE CAPTURED in Marne Salient— Tank Manned by Americans. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. of the 16 (Correspond- ence Associated Presa)—The capture of 700 Germans is the exploit attributed to Pierre Cellier, aged twenty-three, a corporal in tank Among the prisoners were a colonel and other Two field picces also the Legion of Honor, a but a commissioned officer the French corps, fourteen officer: were taken vy has been awarded Cross of the reward rarely given to any one Cellier was in command of a tank manned by fifteen Americans nthe recent fighting in the Marne salient. A shell struck the tank and rendered it useless, The men then advanced on toot, Cellier discov- ered the Germans ambushed in a cave, He kept guard at the entrance for an hour, When a German appeared with a white flag. Behind the first one came the rest of the 700, one by one, The Germans threw down their arms before Cellier and marched to the rear at his direc uon, BY FRENCH TANK CORPORAL Awarded Cross of anion of Honor for the Feat |i PA EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST s, BRITISH HAVE TAKEN 50,000 PRISONERS SINCE AUGUST 8 (x) 840,000 GERMANS USED ON FRONT BETWEEN AISNE AND SCARPE SINCE AUG, 8 ! Twenty my Divisions So Far Identified Opposite Byng’s Army. LONDON, Aug 27 INCE Aug. 8 the Germans | have used 70 divisions (ap- proximately 840,000 men) on the west front between the Scarpe and the Aisne, according to a de- Spatch recelved from the British front to-day. WITH THE BRITISH ARMINS IN FRANCE, Aug. 27.—The fight ing below Bapaume ix unusually violent in places, ‘The Germans threw the §8ith Division into Longueval last night, counter-at tacking and driving back the Brit ish just after the latter had seized the town. ‘This makes mo twenty divisions (probably men) identified opporite Byng’s army so far BRITISH RAID AUSTRIAN POSITIONS WEST OF ASIAGD | Italy Announces Enemy’s Offensive | | in Albania Is Complete Failure, ROME, Aug. 2 —Enemy positions West of Asiago have been raided by British troops, who in hand to hand) truggie overcame the garrisons in the! my posts, The British took 270 pris- oners, according to an official statement | issued by the War Office to-day. | The Austrian offensive in has failed, after enemy heavy the Wa announced to-day Aug. 24 Ou Albania suffer ort’ the Iallan feat on the ¢ failed the stateme transferred meni region, having stopped superio: enemy, returne the h to | i} Jturbed dui pared de ng pre via LONDON, Monday, 6.—-In Albania Austrian troops | have recaputred Berat and the town of Fierl, near the mouth of-the Se:meni, says the official statement from Austro- Hungarian headquarters to-day. ‘The Italians lost heavily in men and mate- rial DETECTIVES ARE ACCUSED DF GRAFTING ON CRIMINALS Prosecutor Acts on Charge Pi, | pockets Were Released on Payment of Money. investigat detectives Attorney Zz z Aug } In an certain n of charges tha have sought graf District Lewis of Brooklyn to- had police captain and thre ves before him, It is said that least one New York detective and | Brooklyn detective are involved. “Is. foundation f, mor Attorney Le sked there any District ong foundat mak decline! to further comm From other sources it was | that the method of gra/t was to appre- | hend old-time pickpockets who were at liberty and take them while In a crowd, charging them with jostling. Fafore a complaint was lodged in the police court, it is alleged, the kpockets would be} | approached and told that if they vw a| {certain lawyer and paid him $4,000 the} matter would be So arranged that they would get thelr freedom. If they did | not pay the money the charge would be pressed. learned —>____- KING GREETS COL. PERKINS. | | Medal Won by New Yorker, Given to Red Cross Chief. | PPALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Aug. 27.—Col. Robert P. rkins, Amer- \iean Hed Croas Commissioner for Italy, who has just returned from America, | was received by King Victor Emmanuel to-day. Gen. Diaz, the Italian Com- mander-in-Chief, was also present. The King took the opportunity to hand to Col, Perkins the Medal for Valor conferred upon Lieut. Edwerd ieKey of New York City, a Red Cross worker, who was killed’ in the Plave fighting on July 18 oe VILLA BANDITS KILL 100. Sixty-five Also Wounded in Wreeking ofa PASO, Tex caused the MeKey, Sint gs. 37.--Vill death of 100 and the Bi wounding of rs when they wrecked a Nationa Iway train nea Tepelnuanes, Mexico, according to offi from jto- tial reports Chihuahua not content w CENSORSHIP ORDER | known | orders was to prevent the information saapea bieetogebannetabiane mab eaeadeetieiame 191 SENATORS ATTAC AIRCRAFT REPORT Republicans Say Aim Was to Keep Information From Americans as Foe Knows It. WASHINGTON, Aug censorship orders Warring from trans- mission abroad certain features of the report of the Senate Military recent Sub-Committeo on aircraft production in the Senate in- were attacked to-day by They declared for the report to the Allies and the enemy | Republicans, ation already 18 n and charged that the purpose of the going to the American people, Senator Weeks of Massachusetts proposed an investigation by the Sen- recent statement that “politics is ad- Journed” and criticised the President (or recent published letters in bppo- | sition to the candidacy of certain) members of jhe House and the Sen- ate. niles GERMAN SOLDIERS PLAN CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT One pracntca Taken by British} Declares Baden Wants to Be | Independent — Republic. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY “IN WRANCE, Monday, Aug. 26 (by the Associated Press).—The idea of a@ change of form in the Government of in Germany seems to oceupy @ place the thoughts of many German soldie! Judging from remarks made by prison-| One of those who expressed hopes | of a change was a soldier from Baden. | He sald he and his comrades hnd had | more war than they wanted and hoped! ers, With net changas from previous Low Allis-Chalmers E ‘Aum, Agr, Oueaiica! Aw! Can. Am, Hale '&” Lon: dm. Laxcamaire Am: Sam, T Anaconda Baldwin Balt, & Chic, : Cuba Cane ugar Ser Comp Serious |have been searching since last Satur | Campion | Compa | got the gun in order to get arrested.” | ‘BOLSHEVIK! TROOPS BURN VILLAGES NEAR MOSCOW “Clashes O Occur Between FRENCH CAPTURE Aug. 2 counter-revolutionary broken out near Moscow, according to @ despatch dated Sunday, received via Berlin to-day. A to support the counter-revolution reached at many labor meetings, the despatch sald. | Cl.:hes resulted between workmen at Bolshevik troops, to @ number where counter-revolutionists refuge. ‘The supreme land has be Cecis Taken by Patrol Boat in Medi- terranean After His Submia- rine Torpedoed Steamers \ was the latter setting fire of villages near Moscow | taken —Lieut PARIS, Aug. Schwieger, the man who sank the Lusitania, has French patrol had my command in Gissolved by Pr Bvinhutvud, the Kreuz-Zeltung of in says, and General Wilkman be-n appointed to comnfiind the Fir Army. The ng@ does not Colonel Thesleff, the Comma: thief of the sea and land forces. STOCKHOLM, Aug, 2 40,000 payrsants is fighting combined torce of Germans near Skvira, according thel ur newpaper, Pravda. ‘The railway strike in Ukraine continues, Russian bow geolse, returnng from Kieff, report that a8 soon ax German soldiers leave any been captured by a boat in the Mediterranean, according to La A large submarine of which he was second in command had Just torpedoed a British steamer be- | tween Malta and Sicily. ‘The German was waiting to see the vessel sink, when Journal, An army of gainst a and Ukrai-| emerged rol boats sank the crew of seventy-five only one officer and four men weré rescued by the patrol boats While being taken to Toulon the off- two French from the f of und nians to boat ate Printing Committee to determine | district the workmen desert the fac-|C@r @PPeared ill at ease. When be ve “ jtories and peasants organize resistance, | ought no one was looking he tried te whether the Congressional Record, in|" J aoianaiL, Tuesday, Aug. 90 (As.|thtow some papers overboard, but a which the aircraft report was printed, | sociated Prees).—Nicholas Tchhalkov.| sailor sclzed his arm, Me refused to falls under the censorship. jeky, President of the Provistonal Gov-|answer questions, but an examination Reading orders given Boston news-| ernment here, has made this statement: | of the papers explained his uneasines: paper publishers by Customs officials, | ‘America’s policy exactly meets our] La Journal asks if the man who Prohibiting transrission abroad of) wishes. We want to bring about a new! committed “the most vile, the mos accounts of the aircraft report in the | {isan front and reorganize the coun-| barbarous and the most cowardly act papers, letters or “otherwise,” Sena-|jorm a stream of troops behind which|in the annals of war” is merely to be tor Weeks denounced the action as! We Can work out our own salvation sent to a prigon camp. “most drastic and ill-advised sai Taare ie Senator Lodge said the purpose o DRUNKEN GERMAN FLYER oh Thom Toulon leat Fe the’ censorship orders was to influ Gay Scion. Sesciied the sInNing Be ence publishers against publication 0 OPENS FIRE ON BUTGH | taueat iy, patcor: bests nanan tae the report in this eduntry the mate of the submarine attempt “The only people in the world, » commit suicide when brought o+ Senator Lod who do not know] Inlerned After Landing Ho] atid) Soe eee we eae i) gdh as about the aircraft situation is the and Turning Machine Gun Boned to ba jared that the lost American people. It 1s well known to mets U_ boat had t oed the Lusitania ur allies and to the enemy.” on Civilians. The German Admiralty, according Senator Poindexter sugg 7 LONDON, Aug. 27 (British Admiral Me tisd thatetiantcmahenine he report was censored because Wireless).—A German airman | vas Rilled Mehen os U boat. ‘he com gave the truth regarding exaggerated | C4dgend, Holland, last week and i nded struck a mine in the Nort statements made by the Committeo | @ately opened fire with his machir Lo patch said that his on Public Information. Senators Pen. |€% The civilian population har h occurred in September, 1917 ida An Srandegeo joined in the sought shelter. Investigation proved | —————- tose and Brandeg: the airman was very drunk. He was| Rebels Defeat China's Troops criticisms, jinterned | PEKING. Aug. (Associated Press). - | Rebel forces ha’ ained successes Rodenberg Criticine HUNT. DAYLIGHT BANDITS |against the Government troops nea ters Opposin, Jo | * Amoy cording to repoi's vehing WASHINGTON, Aug. —Speak- Peking from South China. ‘The ive Rodenberg of Iinois, Republi- | Sie SS dangerous position an, challenged President Wilso; Police Seek Man in Soldier's Uni- form and Another for Robbing Messenger. it became known to-day, alls. Beddi The Standard of Quah The police, day for two men who held up Gregory | 15 years old, of No. 500 West d Street, at 168th Street and Am-! rdam Avenue, and at the point of @ revolver forced him to hand over a leather wallet containing $1,536.09 Campion had drawn the money from the Metropolitan Bank, 56th Street and Fifth Avenue, for the Chalmers Sales of No. 453 West 167th where he ts employed as Don't open your mouth or you wi be shot dead, Hand the money over to this soldier,” said the robber with the a mes revolver, the messenger told the police The “Hall” trade mark on Bedding | He said a man in a@ soldier's uniform | of all kinds is a stamp of quali took the mone: Hall's Box Springs and Pure Horse GERMAN SEEKS ARREST, _ Hair Mattresses last a lifetime and are never old because of the workmanship. behind ey naterials and 85 years of success is ery piece of bedding we sell nnct Find Job, So volver—Held for je Gets He aming| that as soon as war was over Baden 1 a German and I've got 4 gun. At your dealers or call at our uptown Mee a ee a ee ee oer eee eT” ccobal, 19 |More Ve meke exanythinig inueddlngs lore Alsatians have been captured by| The speaker was Emil Goe ® the British. One of them said he had| years old, no address, who approached| FRANK A. HALL & SONS refused for three years to enter the |Special Policeman Thompson at the | Manulacturers of Beds and-Bedding man Army. He was finally ¢:agged| Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge 25 Wi iy by force and since then has been | this morning. Thompson took him vo | lest 45th St. mostly in the frent lines |the Court of Special Sessions, where = > ——— he was remanded until Friday for ex- amjnatlon | CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS ‘I haven't been able to get a fob! Jand. the’ Federal authorities wouldit | |intern me," Goebel explained, "so fective oe eauemendl vorvelain Captain at 22, Slain in Action, | Capt. John Carver Adams of Gaithers- burg, Md., killed in action with the 30th | Infantry northeast of Chateau-Thierry on July 25, was a brother of Assistant Naval Constructor Richard R. Adams of the Brookivn Navy Yard. He was | twenty-two years old, one of the young est captains in the service, ot Westtirg ‘he tua YORRHEA vow ‘farewell Luncheon to Vassar Untts, Vassar College alumnae to-day gave LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, BIL IB SDLP OPAL. Fa ET Tuesday morning, Ava shout (ey con the train to; steep canyon, death sia soldiers xu he tr The wre kare fire women and child Germany Recompenses Granadon's Kin, PARIS, Aug. 27.—Germany has awarded to the family of Enrique Gra- nados, the Spanish composer, who per- ished with his wife in the alnking of steamer Sussex in 1916, of 660,000 pesetas, the Tem.* in the matter t Madrid a Wilson Walks and W WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—President | Wilson yesterday walked to the War and Navy Buildings from White House and visited Secretary | Baker, with whom he remained in con- ference for more than half an hour, Th President seemed in the best of spirits 40d Was whistling as he returned to the bite House, | the | nity despateh | | docume | signed says a The have to Ales. the | Hewaing fi Heviver’ Wavijas Reuthern aitway Hout em Ry ph Pitta ane. Storee 104 Voie Ps : tes at re Wesllngh Beck wales |NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. Open. 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