.. wsi T-ra? v:t if. "ao t1 V,' v.tV.' r i . - " iw'vai -pr- f't Y,;r 'evening pbBLio ledger Philadelphia, Thursday, 'August i, ioi8 J J' -O T 1 1' lAk. C',., - K. 'VI 4 - f". I1 " r, . . 0Y MAY BREAK WITH UKRAINIA SPECIAL CABLE DISPATCHES FROM WARRING NATIONi w t i rfJ COMING rFLANR 'if ' aw ."' .0wttive West of to Ig'Believccl VX.WTj .- Imminent . )Y FOR BLOW i w&A to Evening Public Ledger fjlli evtfotf York Timet Co. sS't Paris, Auk. 1. to, opinion 'here the stand r armies of "the. Crown Trlnce rj thttklna; In their positions itliof Solssons will probably 4i!ik'twip6raf y nature. Bar-.liJtA'ii.A..- ' -. PuMltervenuon qi an enrray krknVati iAtairt nart ftf fVho SftSntv' which It is believed kMhy! ease merely be or a kcter, although nernnps on t scale," It, Is persistently felt tn. enemy s real plan is to Cat yeast to the lino of the liperhaps to the Aisne. i thief Htuer Is more probable. ais'ofue the Alsne reallv means . jr German line on the Chcmln WtaLwhlch la rirobablv the best IvfeVposltion In the whole of ns'France. it must not be for iihat1 the Chemln-des-Dames i J held by the Germans for ryears and would be a per. I ,afe' position to wait In until 'have' 'Had time 'to readjust the l.whlch have been so thoroughly oy ueneral Koch's handling of itttation .set no bv their drive fthe-'Alsne-Marne salient. i- German counter-attacks and lent Intention to hold on for r.belng to the positions south' f. Solssons, as disclosed by yes- rafternoon's communique, are I here as having for their basis aaltv of rrlvlnrr timn tn tlio ! VonJBoehm's army to extricate fglhmf th southeast depths of UMn tne Tarnenols country. SesUiVfest Area Evacuated tor 'the enemy has more or less illur'evacuated his troons from (thweat area .of the salient, al- '.at a tremendous cost In men '.material under pressure of the wa-attacks from the armies of rV.'Stfld Be Gouttp. whosn mir- I ilfftnfriVA 'flrfct ftu-nlff fhom tn IAnrer. It now remains for the rince's retreating armies, by stand in the hilly country (of -Solssons, to Blve an op- Cr ..,.. .v.- iu n.muiaw .Ins the German counter.at- ratthe Allied nnslHnnn nt St attand Kere-en-Tardpnnln. nnrl rly.J(SeririBe. which Indicate itreat "certainly has not yet la Mint where stabilization of At -Mm been reached. The fact .chanted hands repeatedly oW;!esperate the enemy's poal- i.-.iBfr sputneajt corner or tne . tftllli.'U "and how much valuable ha has at stake there. i -i4-Z t- Kcmalna Obscure tfwjtuatloh. however, south M..nkrtalna admittedly ob- )it:-J,;iitld by many people rajwoapseiDie that tne uer- , Do,uuute plan or retreat. HHMoTtMat, as Foch now has ftJ tfcfnlttafti., thv iwlll atMitauice wherever possible? 'faIII.ii -i .i 1 t i" . .-....1.. at..' L' .aa". 6on,f as' ithe oDDortunlty fcMtJiWery roundwhere thex i uieici worst aeieac since tne L It VaUK NEW TRADE ROUTES IN EAST CAPTIVATE GERMANS SCALE Of MUCS MtLeOADt a&tL. t-TURKEYBREAITNEAR . . . . . i Hr 5. jJcN -ST i lr NORTHERN SHOiES HOMOAR'Spsr'r -Jr jzJ v Jl ""!'U. t A JMSi!!&gZ&tJ(? S AiTiWKMaJMW - OIL vi c&0JXg& X WF l yUSG) TO CLEAR PtOPO TRC6rZ0ND kaXs oloia V4WK ' r g v ML. The direct mails to the Persian (Julf and the Suez Canal having been closed by the Britith successes in Meso potamia unil Palestine, the Germans arc scekiiiR a new route, sajs Major General Maurice in his accompanying article, by wa of the Black and Caspian Seas. The ahoo map eliow how, by controlling the valley of the Don, the Germans could bring torn from the Ukraine down to the Black Sea and thence by way of the Danube into Germany. Aiding them in their ambitious scheme are the Turk, who have been seeking to clear the southern shores of the Black Sea and open the road to Baku. By ronlrolling the lower waters of the Volga, the Teutons would also lwe access to the northern shores of the Caspian MUST OVERCOME GERMANY'S AIMS OF CONQUEST IN THE EAST Extension of Kaiser's Power There Would Defeat Efforts for Real Peace Allies' Hope in Achievements of Czccho-Slavs in Siberia and ' Southeastern Russia By MAJOR GENERAL F. B. MAURI CE Former Director of Military Operations of the British Armies ffCkargeA With Not Keep- fv b1 Tfc iWgxronuer rromises MSJ4saian newspaper Mir has be- f-JWWarej-jfle Bulgarian populace aK(WithXTUrkey. atlonVfrom Sofia today credited .wJOiaaylng that "Turkey would vinmtler promises." unofficially reported from on Tuesday mornintr th.if d (S Bulgaria had already .turns aa a result of a quarrel ooaltlon of Balkan iprrUnrv ; 4f the situation Is that Turkey initial uuisaria eive up some rrklah territory annexed by her a fla!Xn .wars. i i 'I FEARS RUMANIA Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger CovvriDht. 1918, by S'ew York Timet Co. London, Aus. 1 The vail which for a lone time has shrouded the near Cast is being gradu ally lifted, and what we have been allowed to see is full of encourage ment. The dramatic story of tlio operations of the Czccho-Slovak forces In Siberia and In boutheast Eu ropean Russia, the nppearanco of Al lied troops on the Murman coast and the resistance of the Armenians around Baku, together with repoits of the steady decline In power of tho Bolshe-, viki and tho troubles of Germans In tho Ukrnlne. a'l show that tho treaty of Brest-Litovsk is likely before long to be of no greater valuo than the other treaties to which Germany has put her name. Tlio news which wo have received affects areas so vast in extent and possessing such limited communica tions that wo must not expect, even though tho Allies are ready and will ing nt last to - aid to the nntl Bolshevlk forces, that the develop ments can be very rapid. The Mur man coast, which Is nt present the only way into Russia from the west open to tho Allies, Is mainly of Im portance to us because so long as wo hold jt We-can prevent the removal nr ik munition nnd supplies of all .kinds which the Allies had sent fhoro. for the use oi Russian muutaim; denv its ice-free ports to enemy sub marines. Finland Under German Influence So long as German influence is para mount In southern Finland, and it Is likely that it will remain paramount, until Germany has been defeated or is well on the wav to defeat, it Is not very probable that anytliing we can effect thcro will Influence very mate .i.ii., iv.o ottimllnn in Russia proper. "" " -".-"..- jtm-..,llf r.r , nor, consmering inc uuik-uih:.-, ,. ... country, Is It likely that Germany will expend much energy In this direc tion w,hen once she finds we arc. ready to oppose her. The Murman enterprise Is in Its essence a side show and should for that reason engago a minimum ot force neoessarv. The main axis of German effort in the st'of'rn'sf nf war does not run northeast nioas, but southeast, as It has from the be ginning of the war. Tt Is verv im probable that Germany entered the war with any ideas of territorial ng war ""'' . ,,,.rn Europe he- ?ondb suVhre tincatton of the and access to the northern shores of the Caspian. At the same time sho has urged the Turks forward along the southern coast of the Black Sea to BaturO, and Is cer tain to try to patch up an agreement with the Armenians, as she has done with tho Georgians, so that she may get to Baku, obtain complete control of the Caspian and mako herself dominant In Persia If the German Government can lay tho foundation of an eastern policy on these broad lines, and It Is trying very hard to do so, it will then be able to Uren before the German peoplo an en ticing program at a time when tho In crease In the American forces In the west eastern program she will come out of the war relatively stronger than she entered It, and she will remain as great a menace to Europe as eer, and this Is one of tho main reasons why wo cannot afford a patched-up peace. It behooes uf. therefore, to convince our Allies that It Is not In our Inter est alone that the eastern barrier to German progress Is essential, but that If Germany Is to be really defeated and to cease to bo a menace to the peace of the world In future. It Is of vital importance that she should not bo al lowed what she has In tho east as a means of extending her power in that direction. Germany entered Belgium and through has forced the German generals to oban- Belgium northern Franco In violation of don the Initiative there and thrown them every principle of Justice and right, and on the defensive. ' our answer to Von Hertllng must bo We may expect the next year to see , that we can recognize no pawns which the Germans endeavoring to avoid bat- I havo been secured by fraud and rapine, tie in the west by gradually falling l But to make this answer effective we back before the Allied armies across a I must back It by action In the east, where country which has been completely and the almost miraculous Czecho-Slovak scientifically devastated, to strongly pre- army has glen us an opportunity which pared lines as they did In the spring we cannot afford to throw away, of 1317. This will be another pawn In i Such a policy need not reopen tho old thd came ot Bargaining 10 set uiung- . ana proimess wruiiKie tnvci uio cum side of Belgium; nnd we may expect Von Hertllng to Inquire of France how long she Is prepared to allow her north ern provinces to be laid to waste v in Order to support Great Britain's east ern ambitions. This would be a very Winning and tbproughly German device, which, to be defeated, must be met In time. If Germany Is allowed to realize her flBids It was to tho East that sue , tRemovinc Troops to the K' Western Front .-Aug. 1. In well-informed Itu- nrciea in fans ik is earn me uer a command has asked tho com of.tbe German troops stationed nuv-ana in tne tiussian ais- hjsany aivisions can De re raent to the western front. itarshal von Mackensen. the nmmanderln Kumanla. accord- 'dlapatch to the Havas Agency ivrepuea mat it wuuin oe un aove any trooDS. owing to the : condition ot tne iiumaman peo- Hapatcn aaas mat von macKen rlrected the Rumanian Govern- lng to uprisings, to proclaim a ; siege throughout the country. ITS tf. S. IS IN FIGHT trkrt!' M.-tiaeeril Adds, However, IN urn- N$rfeMr Is Exaggerated- fS'lfctha Associated Press a, Aua;. I. -ueuirnani uenerai ttn.'rTeytag-Lrfjringnoven. cniei sjDDlementary German general i -M-article in the Mannheim voaeiaras 'mat me imervenuon jaited- States may now be con tact.-cut mat tne Americans klned and therefore must be tweerr the 'British and French. i.:ays also that the num- i "Americans la exaggerated by 'iJ tf- ii,n)i fnr exnansion Tureky was brought Into the war to believers In "rd(ratnuKrenafC,a f"w thou IZi iXnt oopsannd n col- news of Tannenberg. "C ......., rMlnn.r Opened Way nnr success in Mesopotamia and Pal - T 5.vinff closed the direct roads to tln" "Vf and to the Suez Canal. n -- ", - n seek a way IWCH ,ww .- - - Germany has merely to """" " " ;a on to Odessa he,Ue1rnno?d Sr.". now trying to Blm "",- nf the whole of the vauey get possession of tne wn of the uorw i -..tlnir corn down Ger" nnd the collapse or Russia has around, and tne cw i opened such a ay to her. NORWAY WALLOWING IN WAR-WON WEALTH Most Expensive Country in World Except Austria, Says Statistician erner nnd the westerner, for we Allies havo It within our power to employ In the cast forces which cannot bo made available for the west, and the occasion .for developing that power to the full has come now that Russia Is beginning to understand what a German peace means, nnd that an agreement has at length been reached on the vexed question or Intervention in eastern Siberia. BRITISH FRONT HAS A RATHER QUIET DAY Intermittent Gunfire on Both Sides, but No Infantry Action Is Reported AMERICANS FIND 2 BIG GUN STANDS Located fhiring Advance of Troops in the Region Near Fere IMMENSE STRUCTURES ny EDWIN L. JAMES Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copurioht. IBIS, bu Xew York Times Co, With Hie American Army, Aug. 1, In their ndvance In the region of Fere-en-Tardenols the Americans have mo upon locations of two of the big cannon with which the Germans hac been shelling Paris. I went to see one' of these emplacements Tuesday up In the Bols du Chatelet, near Brecy. It lay near the highway from Brecy to Epleds, In a neck of woods a hundred yards off the railroad running south from Fere-en-Tardenols. The whole business looked more like a Pittsburgh steel mill than anything else. From the railroad ran a switch, which branched Into three lines running Into tho woods. One of these branches ran straight Into a pit about forty feet across and fifteen feet deep, while the others ran to either side. Filling the pit was a steel 'cylinder of complicated construction, thlrty-ono feet across and about twenty feet high. Atop this great drum was a rotary gun carriage, moved by masslo machinery and mox(ng on ball bearings, cach(ball being ten Inches In diameter. Tho drum was made of armor plate steel, an Inch and one-half In thickness, and In sections, to each of which was at tached big hooks for a derrick lift. The whole thing was In sections, which were bolted together by bolts one inch In diameter. The structure was beautiful In Its magnificence. It dwarfed the big gest dreadnought gun turret ever con structed. An artillery expert measur ing It told me the drum foundation weighed 1100 tons, and tho gun car riage between 200 and 250 tons. The Germans had gotten the gun bar rel away. No estimate was made of the weight of this. The projectile used was 16.2 inches In diameter and weighed 1G0O pounds. The maximum range Is not known, but guns of this typo shoot up districts Rt ranges of thirty and forty miles. The only Inscription on It was, "Frledkrupp, Magdeburg." The Germans had taken many bolts out of the gun carriage, but had not been able to get this away. Four spits showed whero an effort had been made to destroy It, but little damage had been done. Nearby1 was a large machine shop with many tools to keep the gun In order. On every side of the gun were dugouts thirty feet deep. It Is not known whether the weapon was fired by gunners deep under ground. There were three marks on tho founda tion where American shells struck, but did practically no damage. The techni cal details of this emplacement of the world's grcatcsttypo of gun which nro being prepared, will doubtless bo Impor tant. Incidentally the great and massive undertaking of placing the gun where Its site was found, shows that the Ger mans had tho Intention to stay a long tlmo In tho Solssons-Rhelms sector. ADMITS GERMANS WERE OUTWITTED Foch Knew Their Plans, hut Hid His Own, Says Cologne Correspondent TEUTON DRIVE FAILURE WIN BRIDGING MATERIAL Cross Booty Shows Foe Planned to Marne in Strength By the Associated Press tendon, Aug. 1. The booty captured by tho French In following up the Ger man reticat from pie Marne Included a large amount ot bridging material, which the Germans had collected just north of the Marne. It Is pointed nut that the intention of the Oermans to effect the passage of the rlter In great strength nnd drive In the dllectlon of Paris Is thus indicated. Allies Ahead in Reserves By the United Press tendon, Aug. 1. For the flrst time this j car the Allies' fresh reserves are now stronger numerically than those of tho Gorman?, although the German armies as a whole aie still stronger In numbers, It was learned today. By GEORGE RENWICK Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copyright, 101S, bv New York Times Co. Amsterdam, Aug. 1. Dr. George Wegener, of the ColOgn Gazette, ono of tho bebt German war cot respondents, has much to Bay that Is interesting In ono of tho longest and most .completo messages which have yet nppearcd in tho German press from tho front. Ho begins by admitting that ub tho factor of sur- prlso was lacking In the German of fensivo tho attuck did not progress as was expected. He says: "When tho German command saw that, it immediately stopped the nd vanco so as to avoid sacrifices which would not havo been consistent with what might' have boon achieved. At this vital moment the enemy began his offensive nt another point. On that day I was on the cr-' front of the wedgo when tho first news of the enemy's offensive came. Unquestion ably, tho first and not very definite news created a very uneasy feeling, as the attuck was to some extent In the roar of our positions. Tho Wooded country on their front of attack gave our enemies the best onnortunltles to assemble masses of artillery nnd other npccsarlcs of nttack. together with their storm troops, nnd to keep them concealed. , ... "These preparations were hidden . wi,' oven from the most careful aerial ."' starvation Tho enemy has brought tho art of camouflage to tho very hlgh-Al est development. In that, he wasjrt matorlaHyJielpod by the fact, that h:Z possessed greater supplies of material JK nnd 'of labor. In. this respect, aa liS,' so mnnv' others, matters arc imjchtL more difficult." ' jt m Vv I ' J :1 m ".8 Man Shops c v.o Hill m Until a fellow is eighteen his- mother does most of his buying for him. After he is twenty-four, his wife does. Except for those six years,' the best way to sell most things for a man is to sell his women folks. And the best way to do that is to ad- vertisc in The Delineator The Mdqazfne In One1 Million Homes Start today to buy War Savings Stamps An excellent investment and a patriotic duty ' &SS35 '?'. "Jo- ss?. ,rv s Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Ch'rIMImnfa, Aug. 1. A Swedish statistician announces that Norway Is now the most expensive coun try In the world except, perhaps, Austria. Fifteen crowns go to the pound, and I calculate that the purchasing power of a crown Is now reduced to four pence. I was asked eleven shillings for twenty cigarettes of an unknown brand. I pay over fifty shillings a day for my modest room. Woodchoppers of the In terior earn as much as 12 a week. A flower woman In a market made nearly 7000 In the course of a month. Every body Is so rich that none could be found to sweep the iitreets last winter. I heard of c pageboy at the Grand Hotel who gathered a fortune from mes sages which he carried. A clerk went to the hotel to confirm a big deal by Herr Pedersen, but no such name ap peared on the visitors' list Then a page ran up and said, "I am Pedersen." Now he owns many ships. Indeed, there has scarcely been a clerk or typist or draper's assistant who has failed to become rich. The booms are now over, but there Is bo much money about that any one can earn It galore. Young men display their wealth by using thousand-crown notes as ash trays and watching them burn. the easiest means to the buck o and thence by the but mainiy De- " . . rfrmnrw. Danube "." a base from which to tVorthe'lower waters ot the Volga tESS ZITA ASSAILED va;.:f' ion Campaign of Ger- 4lM. Origin lv ijy i. - o.j. ine t KmDresa Zlta. of Aus- ' Private letters received ttay,eay that It is gen- ini me campaign is because the Empress r'to, German control of tipi havo been clrcu. &t attacking the Private Brnpr . It was said. 'LEFT SECRETLY -4lf'lr. a)Klng Mfk :vw myariouaijr I whb -uerman .'was accoaa- By H. W. NEVINSON Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Cnpyrinht, 19tB. bv yew York Thnev Co. With tho Hrltlsli Army in l'ranrr, Aug. 1. Little, activity was reported on tho British front yesterday. Tho enemy shelled part of the lino near Merrls re covered bv tho Australians Tuesday, but made no further attack during the night. He also put down "a heavy barrage on the line between Reninghelst and Locre be fore dawn yesterday morning, but his infantry did not advance. 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