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ig ¥ ‘TRE BYBNING WORLD, WEDERED Peronne, on both sides of the Ailette, in the region of Sissons “pnd along the Vesle. At no point is a reverse reported, yi In an effort to cover their retreat before the British, the Germans fhave dammed the Scarpe River and flooded the country over a con- siderable area, according to a despatch from the British front to the Daily Mail. \ Franco-American troops have crosted the Vesle River at bevera| fpolnts east of Soissons and are also at the western outskirts of Coucy- te-Chateau and Juvencourt. French forces have reached the suburbs _ of Clamecy and Braye, south of the Ailette. E Field Marshal ‘Haig announced that in their push beyond the Dyo- \ court-Queant (Wotan line), British troops have reached the line of the _ Canal du Nord. North of the Arras-Cambrai Road they have occupied _ the town of Ecourt St. Quentin. Haig reported that north of Peronne the advance has carried the British through the Vaux Woods, above | ‘Moislans. Press despatches from the front say the British have secured a bold om the west bank of the Canal du Nord by taking Rumaucourt, tu the orth of Sains-Lez-Marquion. Further south, along the canal they are reported to have captured Inchy-en-Artois, Demicourt, to the east of | Doignies, and Hermies, three miles northeast of Bertincourt. From Her- "miles southward, the British line is indicated as running to the west of a mile and a half cast of Bertincourt. Near the Somme the British, the advices state, have crossed the * canal at Haut Allaines, slightly more than two miles north of Perunne. [The Canal do Nord extends northward from Noyon, through Peronne and east of the Wotan line north of that city. The points reached by the British indicate an important advance since yesterday. Below Peronne French troops crossed the Canal several days ago, and to-day’s report shows that they are still pushing ahead in that region. Along this canal there was hot fighting during Gen. Byng’s first ad- vance toward Cambrai last fall.) Continuing their advance in Flanders, the British are approaching Neuve Chapelle and Laventie. In the same region they have gained possession of Sailly-sur-Lallys and Nieppe. Midway between Nieppe and Sailly, in the Lys Salient, the British have captured the village of Croix-du-Bac. It is said that the Germans have used ninety-seven divisions since Aug. 8. FRANCO-AMERICANS CROSS THE VESLE AT SEVERAL POINTS; REACH COUCY-LE-CHATEAU the 125,000 PRISONERS SINGE JULY 18,15 LATEST STESTAMTE Germans ‘to Piet Fight Hard to { Save Cambrai and Douai— Fall of Lens Certain. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIBS IN FRANCE, Sept. 4 (United Press).— | | Everywhere on the front now being battered by the British the Ger- mans are seeking cover behind the Hindenburg line. Notwithstanding the fact that the line itself is seri- ously broken, the enemy high com- mand Is sacrificing thousands of its, Precious manpower units in an effort | to defend it- ‘ ‘This bids fair to be @ greater week than last, which has been descr! sed | as the greatest week of the war. Prisoners of Monday and Tuemlay| bring the estimated total since July} 18, when the counter-offensive start- ed, close to 126,000. Only the Ger-| mans’ own figures on their dead and wounded will be able to tell the real story of thelr losses. The number of) Germans killed is ‘unquestionably | enormous. i Between Haig’s advance guard and the important cities of Cambrai and Douat little in the way of fortifica- tens remains, and if von Below checks the Allies before they reach the gates of the two towns he must sacrifice a considerable number of | bis fast dwindling reserves. Lens is| being more and more pinched by Gon. | Horne’s British Fifth Army, and may give way at any time. Apparently Hindenburg and Laden- dorff have been caught napping again. They little dreamed that the Allies would tackle the strongest de- fenses on the western front without long and hard preparation, but just southward of the acene of this latest victory, Gen. Byng last fall sent an army of tanks crashing their way through a@ similar make of earth- PBSRORESIISISOROOERSRERESERERIORROTOOOD : a OOOES ITE 2D IDS 290029008 0D DEDRISRSTODD GAREERRRTIN | French Troops Also Gain South of 0960660004, Gulia os ME aiasoemaanattictaaen eee PPLODIOS VO VPDOOHIOGG 09406 “ AY, 8 yout yc PPPPPERARDROOS Soneree <B-2 3-2 #-3-5-O99-9S2-29-9-999S-0006: 2D dD £O-OH29-0-0- DHTPHHG OO 3 : $ Me ewe 3 g Ailette River and Progress East of Canal du Nord. PARIS, Sept. 4.—Announcement tnat Allied detachments have crossed the Vesle River at several points and that the French and Ameri- cans are in the western outskirts of Coucy-le-Chateau and Juvecourt was made by the War Office in its communique to-day, The general Franco- _ American advance in the Noyon-Soissons region continués. South of the Ailette the French drove further east from Leuilly and attained the suburbs of Clamecy and Braye. French troops yesterday and last night continued to push back the Germans to the east of the Canal du Nord ana between the Ailette and the Aisne. They took the Chapitre Wood, northeast of Chevilly, and approached the town of Crisolles, three miles north of Noyon, works, tunnels, pill boxes and barbed wire the size of a man’s little finger, — WILSON SAVES TEN RIOTERS. for Houston Die. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—-Death sen- tences of ten negro soldiers who partici- Pated in the riot at Houston, Tex. Aug. 23, 1917, have been commuted to Hfe im- prisonment by President Wilson, In six other cases the resident af- firmed the death sentences because the condemned men had been found guilty of having deliberately and with great cruelty murdered civiilans, pte Hh en al CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. With net changes from previous clove, LOVALTY OF DRAFTEES SHOWN IN THE SEARCH FOR SLACKERS IN CITY (Continued from First Page.) draft age, but arresting fewer than 100, for almost every man approached was able to show a card or a birth certificate indicating that he was above or below the draft age. Those agents, including sailors, scidiers and members of the American Protective League, was augmented to-day. More police reserves, more women with mo- tor cars, and more military police joined the hunting army. Radical changes in the methods of the hunters were instituted to-day at the command of Division Superinten- dent De Woody of the Department of Justice, who frankly says that the big campaign was not handied quite as well yesterday as it might ha been, The new orders call for the ex clse of more discretion by the work- ers scattered through the city. There ig a double purpose in this. In the first place it means less congestion at the armories, and in the second place less annoyance to honest men going about their business in the city, It does not mean, however, that any man will escape when there is real cause to suspect him. Mr. De Woody in issuing the new orders told his helpers that hundreds cf men had been picked up yesterday who should not have been even chal- longed. In the 28d Regiment Armory in Brooklyn about 500 men who had been taken there yesterday were still there to-day, awaiting answers to messages sent home. They still in- sisted that their cards would arrive, but in the meanwhile they slept and took their meals under guard. In the hallways a number of women and other relatives of the confined men waited all night. Mrs, M. Schi- rente, No, 233 Elizabeth Stre Net On the Aisne the town of Bucy-le-Long was penetrated, Prisoners iis.cnatmery, ey Bt nt ae Srriatee were sant to the Bolles sae ¥ + ions, where 'y were examine v to the number of 1,500 were taken. , ie hae a HY + %| members of the American Protective ; Between Ypres and Rheims, with Gen. Mangin menacing the St. Go-| Am. Hide & ue 4 g ; | bain forest and the Chemin-des-Dames, with Gens. Humbert and Debeney | tm Sita zg ag +1% <n ere Sie BOUT. | advancing on St. Quentin and the Franco-Americans on the Vesle, with Am Sir ke et ine a cr in peedepad eda ee Lae ss | ___ Rawlinson’ before Peronne, Gen, Byng before Lens and Gen, Plummer | Aneynds siaing we oh + |The trick of sending out for lunch | __ before Armentieres, the enemy feels the soil of France slipping from| Adis!’ &W.1 104 iy Stel eete vere eres cea seer ae 5 Balu . : + under his feet. Pesiktoen “ya? EE Ra r i ot Justice followed the lunch boys, Commentators point out that in the present offensive continuity has | sive fn ‘ran. BH Be } 14 | who led straight to the suspected intail : ji nae my rene $ ones. been maintained lasting forty-six days without a break, and that not since | Gyite | & “sinach me 2% Be g einisveomSeve Toa Sima Ada: the beginning of the war has such an extended series of hammerblows | (amma Tumk "avd ee wR <}4 | who nad come Bast to sell their been directed, throwing the adversary into complete dismay. The enemy iH Phy My & = Rl altaita, were caught at the Pennsyl- is unable to reorganize his forces to make a stand arresting the onward Hy ae Sk $ vania Station. They lacked cards, A a wh Oh GR — R] put after close questioning, having march of the Allies. Se Ss Be _ GERMANS QUITTING FLANDERS RIDGES. HE Bx B= 18] permitted to catch the next train, ; WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN PRANCE, Sept. 4 (United H> HR US’ + 4] They sald they couldn't understand 4 Fi Hi ; ti “a “ly — y| New York at all—couldn’'t even be- _ Press).—Evidences are piling up that the Germans are retiring from ee z, it age, ain ts . Wytschaete and Messines Ridges. oa h ae a” ay ott The West 30th Street Police Sta- r X ea 3 the A ‘ re 946 pri i 1g) abl gh which takes in the area between 14th Bs Byng’s army on the Arras front 1,946 prisoners and twenty-two Bed Bee Bu ~ 40] ana 424 Streets and Fifth Avenue and _ field guns in the twenty-four hours ending last night. Ot ‘As -- a) the North River. Five hundred were Y Many Germans were killed northwest of Equancourt (between i Ey aes 3 taken in this district in the rush hour and Cambrai) when ‘ordes i . wg 10% 1%% — % | this morning, mostly from the Penn- Peronne ) were seen retiring from a ridge. 83 8S By t's |syivania Station, Only about thirty British batteries fired into them with open sights. eh es % of these were eent over to the armory A Early to-day 720 more prisoners had been vounted. A further 2d- we RS B= ty los: Sitsnae, SxeimSeIGe TRE SER _ vance southward of the Lys, in Flanders, netted 160 prisoners, six guus } iy | “Pep Young, centre fielder of the and two Howitzers. * = } Gtanta, who is only twenty years old, “ee tid hall a seven times as he - ee . ne 2 | was challenge: 8 to board a train for San An- | over fiece. ‘They are now at Pine ty 3 Pings rie PRS ARE TRADES a Following is the legal wording of | § Et 8 him to the police station, where he ,Cure!'s conspiracy charges against % | got a card permitting him to leave, | Wagner and Samuels Fs 4, | As he boarded his train he said It was H i PR siete heen ier ri! harder to leave New York than to ‘ and wiek- a Cdly, in divers waya, aad with in. ue | win the pennant. tention to injure “the | plaintitt ye | S|CHARLIE HERZOG, VETERAN erein and to ° re 10 BE \J § CITIZEN 1 om oantenenio neteation ‘ay ly — y| BALL PLAYER, 18 STOPPED, WU. rtlum of his sald ‘wife Hee H84 = 8] Chartie Herzog, the veteran ball ‘uary, 1917, to st Mo 1918, and to supplant the hye AN BAN & player, looked good to the seekers of (Continued from First Page.) herein in the affections of his wife MG RYT hlarmy material, but be found his n- pe the inainos ¢ and unlawful Pe Be ‘ surance papers showing his age to be had caused them to take some action. | Afertion® 0 mer Samuels, who Bea\no0, " thirty-three. pO} y and continu ly, th - - This was to order her accompanist! intention to supmlant. plaintitt DIVIDENDS DECLARED. The proudest of the prisoners was ‘out of the house. The result was that] herein as aforesaid, made love to @ man who, when his age was chal- Madame said: ‘Verv well; if we can't| plaitiff's wife, addressing her by ay, 2! lienged, produced a photograph of five rehearse here we will go to the city| endearing and affectionate terms, {send | sons wearing Uncle Sam's khaki, and rehearse.’ Het ine ee a 1 Sex: i¢| Some Japanese attaches of the “There is no love affair between Mr, 1 Ber 18 | Consulate were picked up. Two young Samuels and Mme. Galli-Curci.” information and vt 1 Sept 13 men from Switzerland, twins, were “The charges contained in the 1 hax been con- bao 2 pt 1 Sie | held until their mothers proved that ‘ Papers served on me are grossly un-| URUCwsY since ome i tee 2 ising. 1s 0 8 | their age was twenty and that they true, Mme, Galli-Curcj has not ‘been! Of New York and in bing Wie |had boen trying to Join the American eeeapnowsly since one, date jn the! Catskill Mountains, New York | navy. | is ‘Samuels’ either in| state, took place Most of the rogistered men took a ‘ork or at Pine Hillis, When Ma- ter d came to New York Mrs, Freder- etter ordered out of dd been lesson from the first day, but a sur-) Brooklyn, was permitted to sit on a satisfied the examiners, they were) chair in the armory all night beside her sleeping husband. This afte! noon the bride of one of the detain: |men fainted at the armory door after waiting hours. ‘There were about 2,000 in the armory this afternoon. Many hun- dreds were released after examina- tion, TROOPS FROM U.S, WITH GEN. GRAVES, AT VLADIVOSTOK (Continued from First Page.) from the 102d Infantry, Gen, March said, was seventy-four, of that num- ber twenty-seven having been sent |vack during August. The regiment is composed largely of Connecticut troops, and reports have been in cir- jeulation that its fosses had necessi- tated virtually the withdrawal of the regiment and complete reorganiza- tion. Taking up the Gen, March said military situation, the object of the Canadian drive across the old Queant- Drocourt switchline was Cambral, which was now within seven and one-half miles of the Brit- vance, according to official ad- In this action east of Arras, Gen. March said, the British had crossed ithe so-called Hindenburg line on an leight-mile front, He added that the maximum ad- |vance of the Hritish since the drive jstarted in Picardy and extended northward was fourteen miles, In the sector north of Soissons prisingly large number still pleaded they had forgotten to carry their a draft cards. Bop, ii ‘The force of Department of Juatioe y, the wife of a Chicago| home of the plaintiff herein. u soe who had been visiting} Curci ana his brother left the st ly 16, came with her, pas rte Siro apartment ne rentenpey end constantly J Secesestssess! French and American troops are ad- vancing mteadily against a r‘iffening resistance, the latest official advices we the War Department show, TAN ARAN oom 20 Awe BY ica Padly ee Sha 125, 000 PRIS ONERS REPORTED TAKEN BY ALLIES SINCE JULY Y 18 ALLIES’ GAINS TO-DAY CROWN PRINCE ADMITS ALLIES Declares. Americans Don't Know What They Fight for—Not a ‘Fire Eater.” AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4.—The Ger- man Idea of victory as defined by the German Crown Prince in an inter- view published in the Budapest Az Est is an intention “to hold our own and not let ourselves be vanquished.” The Crown Prince is quoted as say- ing that this was clear to him the moment England entered the war. The Crown Prince denied that he was a “fire-eater” and continued: “If Germany had wanted war we should not have chosen this mo- ment. No moment could have been) more unfavorable for Germany.” In reply to the question as to how! he thought the ond of the war would come, he replied: they are not equal to the winning of their colossal stake and that they cannot win as much as they are bound to lose.” + In discussing the present operations on the western front, the Crown Prince said: drawal on our front at several places | is often wrongly interpreted in some circles. Some of our people are too accustomed to a continuous advance, and when a battle occurs wherein the enemy attacks and we have to defend outselves the situation is not always correotly understood. “In judging the situation, both, military and political, we must never for get one thing—that we are waging a war of defence. The war is one of annihilation only for the enemy, not for us. We want to annihilate none of our enemies. We mean, however, to hold our own.” Regarding the American forces in France, the Crown Prince sald: “T've ‘found that the majority don't know what they are fighting for, but we feel, of course, the effect of the entry of the Americans, They have! sent over very much material and are now sending very much human material:" “The enemy assault doubtless will continue for some time,” the Crown! fighting on the western front, our enemies must themselves see that | they will not be able to attain their) aim, “Our troops are fighting splendidly, does not crush us.” Discussing the fighting qualities of Germany’s enemies, ho said: “The French fight brilliantly and are bleeding to death, They do not hesitate at any sacrifice. With the English the individual man is very good and tenacious, but the leader- ship is deficient, “Among the Americans I've found that the majority do not know what they aro fighting for, I asked an American prisoner what they were fighting for and he answered: ‘For Alsace,’ and to the question: ‘Where is Alsace” ho replied: ‘It's a big lake,’ ” : "We speak openly of victory,” the Crown Prince said- “The word ‘vic- tory’ must not be understood to mean. that we want to annihilate the enemy, but only that we mean to 1 and I always emphasized it.” When the interviewer remarked ered abroad as a “fire-eater” he an- swered: “T am aware of these accusations. I don’t meed to say that not « word of them is true.” Reverting to the question of what nation wanted the war, he declared that “it was clear that England would take advantage of the opportunity.” “Belgium, after all, was only a pre- text,” he continued, “England in- was unbearable. I repeat our aim, therefore, can only be to safeguard oursely CANADIAN CHAPLAIN CAPTURES 47 GERMANS WITH CANE AS WEAPON Enemy Soldiers Come Out and Surrendered as He Was Poking Stick Into Dugout. ITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 4 (United Press).~ Among the incidents reported fol- lowing the Canadian attack on the Drocourt-Queants line was the capture of 47 men and one officer by a Canadian chaplain The chaplain was poking about in captured positions with his walk- ing stick as his only weapon, He poked it Into a dugout, and was surprised to see a Corman craw! out, surrendering. The chaplain called some soldiers, and by the time they arrived the dugout had yielded up 46 more Germans. SUPERIOR FORCE “Through the enemy perceiving that! “The enemy attacks and the with-/ Prince sald with reference to the| “but | and | attribute to their courage that | such colossal superiority in strength) hold our own and not let ourselves | Gurrency, be vanquished, The moment England | entered the war that was clear to me ‘ that the Crown Prince was consid- |j tervened because German competition | (iy “We are fighting for our existerre. | \ “WE ARE ON THE LAST LAP, CLOSE TO THE WINNING POST,” SAYS A FRENCH WAR CHIEF “Hour Seems Close at Hand When the Superb Efforts of Allies Will Begin to Bear Fruit.” ONDON, Sept. 4 (via Montreal).—Paris papers to-day print the following semi-official statement: “The hour seems close at hand when the superb efforts of the Allies will begin to bear fruit,” one of our great chiefs said yes- | terday. “We are on the last lap and close to the winning post.” LATEST OFFICIAL REPORTS — BRITISH. LONDON, Sept. 4.—Following is the text of to-day’s War Office | | Statement: “On the battlefront minor actions are reported in different localities, We have reached the east side of the Vaux Woods, north of Mcislans, |and have advanced slightly at other points. “Generally our troops have reached the line of the Canal du Nord | 4nd north of the Arras-Cambrai Road have occupied Ecourt St. Quentin, “In the Lys sector further progress was made by us yesterday and last night both south and north of the river. Our troops are approaching Neuve Chapelle and Laventie, and have gained possession of Sail!y-sur- | Lallys, Nieppe and Le Romarin.” | FRENCH. PARIS, Sept. 4.—The text of to-day’s French War Office statement reads as follows: “Yesterday during the day and night the French continued to press back the enemy east of the Canal Du Nord and between the Ailette and the Aisne. j “French troops captured the Chapitre Wood, northeast of Chevilly, and further south French elements advanced, pursuing the enemy, and are | @pproaching Crisolles. “North of the Ailette the French carried their lines to the western ' outskirts of Coucy-le-Chateau and Juvencourt. To the south the French Progressed east of Leuilly and reached the outskirts of Clamercy and Braye and penetrated Bucy-le-Long. The number of prisoners taken in that region exceeds 1,500. ‘ “On the Vesle front French elements crossed that river at several points.” as} ' | | AMERICAN, \ WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Gen. Pershing’s communique for | Tuesday was as follows: “Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, Sept. 3.—Section A—Aside from successful patrol encounters along the Vesle and a hos- | tile raid in Lorraine, which was repulsed, there is nothing to report.” ITALIAN, ROME, Sept. 4.—“Northward af the head of the Noce Valley an enemy | attack from the eastward of our positions southward of Mount Mantelio was arrested on the crest between Mount Mantello and Smatteo Point,” the | Italtan War Office announced today. “The enemy occupied two observa: ton posts,’ ! GERMAN. i BERLIN, Sepi. 4 svia London).—British troops operating the Lys salient yesterday worked their way forward as far as the line of Wulver- ghem, Nieppe, Bac-St. Maur, Laventre and Richebourg-St. Vaast, accord- ing to the statement issued to-day by the German General Staff. On both sides of Noyon French troops carried out strong attacks which were especially directed against the high ground between Campagne and Bussy. Between the Ailette and Aisne Rivers the French, in co-operation with Americans and Italians, launched renewed attacks after the st ongest fire preparation, They were repulsed in many instances after bitter hand- to-hand fighting. BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, BELMONT PARK, N. ¥., Sept, 4—The entries for to-mor- Nery? are as talons! Be oa Ta 107 Fat 6: Niet ‘Sticke, 123, gue DIED. TAIM—Suddenly, Sept. 2, 1918. ROB- ERT TADD, at his residence, 1 Oxden ave., corner 170th at. Funeral services Thureday morning 10° o'clock. QOONNELI.——On Sept. 8, DENNIS. be- loved son ef Anthony O'Connell, native ef Nohizal, County Cork, Iretand, Funeral from the residence of his ale Mra. Mary Conroy. Ne. 2581 8th on Thursday. Sept. 5, at 9.30 A. M. ‘Thence to St. Aloysius Church, 1324 st. near Tth a¥.. where = mass wil be offered for the repose of hig soul. Im. terment Catvary. 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