'?"' -'s "Tv-i'-tVKte'iSa'J Sf-u 'IJJIW Euentraj public merger final THE WEATHER SaS Washington, Aug. 10. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, moderate temper ature; northeast Kindt. Tr.MiT.n vmitK at r.xrn unrn I 9 110 f 11 12 I II 2 I 3 4 B Tl I 72 I 72 I 72 I 72 I 72 I 72 I 72 I 72 72 ' THE EVENING TELEGRAPH Entered ta bond Clae- Matter nt the I'ostofflre at 1'hlUdelBhla. P. Under the Act of March 3. 1879. PRICE TWO CENTS VOL. IV. NO. 282 rubllahtd Dally Except Sunday. Subscription rrlre! JO a Tear bj Mall. Copyright, 101b, by the Public Leilctr Company, PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918 m ALLIES SWEEP ON IN SOMME DRIVE; FOE RETREATS; MONTDIDIER FALLS; AMERICANS RUSH INTO FIGHT v J-"1 fV! kw. Ltf 3 MORE KILLED, 2 WOUNDED ON city hero roll! Fourteen Philadclphians , Reported as Missing in Latest List ! FAMILIES STILL HOPE Cling to Thought Men Not Ac- counted for Mav Still Be Alive I Philadelphia Soldiers on Today's Death List Corporal Jacques A. Ktechter. ttfi East Mount Airy avenue. l'rlvntp Francis II. Corliin. mu rine rorps, formerly of 1813 South Fourth street. Sergeant Hobert Holt. Jr., 520 Baltimore avenue, t'llfton Heights. Aufiust 10. .' Toda.v's Ut ' fnunil on pane 4. rnmialtlpa may be Three more Phlladelphlans hae given their lives for their country; two have been wounded, and fourteen are missing according to day's casualty list. Nearly all were former members of the First Regiment. Pennsylvania Na tion Ouaid, who were later transferred to the 100th or 110th Regiments of Infantry. National Army. Today's list Includes R41 names and anions these are men from Penn sylvania, from nearby New Jersey and ftom Delaware, Today's wounded follow: WOUNDED Torpors) Vincent Cnssldy, (listed as 2854 Warnock stiect, but there is no such address ) Prlrate Samuel Solomon, 611 South iNlntlisrcet. M1SSINO IN ACTION Corporal Paul V. J. Dwyer, 940 Da- 'kota street. Corporal Karl C Ileale, 1528 Fair mount avenue rrUnte Jonepli Walsh street. Private Frank .1. IIBldrlcU, 2122 fj. falabretie, 1937 South Hicks street. Prlrate C.netnno III Salvo, 1.113 South Hicks street. Private Frederick Philip street. Private William F !. Cardner, 2032 McDrlde. 136 Mc- Kean street. Serfeant Adolpli Srhlaio worth street Aerfe-ant 4olin 4. I.upu. 1412 KIN 405 North Sixth street. Corporal Klrlinril A. I. on, 4573 Boone street. Manayunk , Private Frank KHey lloelim, 4945 Utatn si reei. Prlvat Oarar V Ilnrn, 915 Locust street. Private Tony Coppelo, 427 East Rlt tenhouse street, Oermantown. Private Joaepli I h.tona, 640 Fernon street. CARUAI.TIKH FIIOM NKAKIIY Corporal William I'ennlnKlun, 900 Pcnn street, Camden, Bassed. Private William I'. Ilarrett, Bristol, mlsilni". -' Private Franel A. Cole-, Westpoint Montuomery f'ounty. I'.i.. mlsslnir Sketches of Herons , . ....... fc-ll.t l-llla (n Corporal Jaeque. A. Meclter killed n action on July 16, enlisted In the old First Regiment, Pennsylvania National Ruard, the day Congress declared war on Germany. He was not quite eighteen years old, but was big and strong for his age and, as his parents gave their consent, he was accepted His older vbVother, Walter Flechter. was first lieutenant of Company K and young Flechter was assigned to that company. Later the First Regiment was combined with other units and re chrlstened the 109th Infantry, National jArmy and after a course of training at tJTCamp Hancock sailed for France on it May 2, of this year The parents of the youthful corporal, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Flechter, live at 429 East Mount Airy avenue. The father was born In France, as were the parents of Mrs Flechter. The whole family Is Intensely patriotic, a daughter, Miss Clara M. Flechter, being a Red Cross nurse and Is now In France with a Boston unit. The father Is engaged irt war work at the Mldvale Steel plant; another son. Frederick, thirty-two years old. Is employed at a Government arsenal In Watertown. N. V.. while' still another brother, John, Is also In the employ of the Government Lett School tor War Corporal Ffechter was graduated from grammar school and was attending a business college when war Anally came with Germany. His brother came home from the armory that day and an. nounced that Congress had taken action and young Jacques Insisted on getting In the game. In the last letter received from hhn Corporal Flechter told In vivid terms of the fighting near Belleau Wood, "Uncle. Sam Is sure giving the Dutch hell," he wrote. "They are getting a dose of their own medicine and they don't like It. They are only too willing to throw up the sponge and surrender whtn we get close to them. Most o their machine gunners are chained to their guns. Their officers stand right back of them and blow their brains out if they try to get loose." Just a few days before he was killed r Corporal Flechter volunteered to lead a " tfiacnino gijn r,'u,u' -. VM,.I II, Corbln, of the rriT" .-.- ,f , CeatJaaat lTanr. Column five iSIS march asserts Forh's Drive Gets Germans Going and Will Keep Them Going TIME FOR BIG EFFORT Rainbow Boys Cross Oijreq. Meet Six Foe Divisions, Gain 16 Kilometers Washington, Aug 10 The Franco-British, drive In Pleat dv jhns put the enemy again In a bad po-! sltlon, similar to the pocket which ! closed upon him on the Alsne-Mnrne front. Oeneral Mnirh .said today In his I weekly ronfeieuee with newspaper cor. , respondents. The whole hattlellne fiom Rhelms to Flanders is being stialghtenod out and the time has come for the gieatest ef. foit Goncinl March sild Marshal Foch Is following the sound I military principle of hitting without relaxation, said the General. "When you pet the enemv gojng, keep him ! going." ' Keep Iln'rnn Riinnlnr Any siiRRestlon that the end 'of the war is at hand should be discouraged, the chlef-of-staff said, but the. ilme has come to keep the enemy running nnu to nit mm haul. Thp gre.i't advantage to thp AIIIp's is that they have taken the offensive and can kt-ei Tnl hem,eiverlnS' 'nH,ea" f "' '1 .,.,,..,,,. . . (AlthoiiRh the British War Office has announced It. P.eneial March had no1 Dfflclal Information that American Hoops: are part.clpatln, in the drive In Pacardy. which already ha. enabled the Allied forces to bring the enemy's 'main line I . ,.,. .... , 0. vu....u...cai.i.n unoer nunnre Hie cnier of start read a confidential I 10Un, we hae lepulsed no fewer than report showing that the' British had ', five attacks on our positions north taken In the first days of the drive more of the live.. '"'"""."'fJSS1 . , , . In their nntuie, but stronulv pushed, prisoners than they could handle, and ApparP1,tly thev are breaking down also had captured all enemy artillery under our excellent machine-Run work, in their Immediate front. The leportl our artillery Is keeping up a never added that a Oennan general and hls'ceaslnR flic on the German positions M.ifT had been captured. between the Aisne and the Vesle. ,, ... ... I Tjist nlcht the sky was lighted briRht- Stlll (ialn Ve.le ( "v the constantly repeated flashes Turning to the situation on the Vesle, of tjle blvc American Kiin The f!er Cleneral March said French and Amerl- I - also busv with artlllerv tan Hoops had been "nibbling" along that I line, but had made no attempt as yet to I ad.uice uti the slopes north of the liver. where the Geiman lines of chief reslst j auce aie supposed to stand. The Importance of the Allied advance on Chaulnes, a junction on the only rail way line the enemy has oer which to withdraw from the depths of his Plcnrdy Continued on I'aff Tvto, Column Six PICK NINE REAR ADMIRALS u. S. Naval Board Selects Cap tains for Advancement By the Anociated Presi Waahlnclon. Aug. 10. The naval Hermans '-'" " ,",""" ' th" .' cin board of selection today reeoinniended ilnt! the Bie.U salient between the lcln to Secretary Daniels for promotion to itv of Amiens, and Soissons. the permanent rank of lear admiral1 Captains Albeit P. Nlblack, John A Jloogewerff, Mai bury .lohiiHton, ISdwIn A. Anderson, Thomas W. Klnkaid, Wil liam S. Smith, Charles V. Dson, Clai ence S. Williams and .lohn I). McDonald Wauls Leg Saved so He Can Co to War .Muhniio) Clt. Pa., Aug 10- Willi his left leg hanging by n slued, the re- Sill OI UPIIIK IH" UU 11 U) A 11ICUI UU 1 1 , r ;n'ti'e McTurk mllea 'todayi ,,eroy nrnwn. eighteen years old, of lilraict llle, told the surgeon at the Fountain Springs State Hospital, not to amputate the member, as he wants to go to war when the new draft Is In effect HARPER DRIVES HOME FIRST ALIEN TALLY Senators Get Jump in Secontl Clash When Ainsmith Scores on Perry ROBERT W. MAXWELL , Millie Park, Aug. 10. Harry Harper helped the Senators get the Jump on the Mackmen in the second skirmish of the twin bill here this after noon, when his single In the fifth fol lowed AInsmtth's double, scoring the big catcher. Alnsmlth's extra base smash was the first safety off Peiry in five In nings. The Mackmen reached Harper for three hits In six frames, but were un able to bunch them with men on the bases FIKST INNIVO Gardner threw out Shottcn Dykes tluew out both Foster and Judge. No runs, no hits, no errors Acosta filed to Shotton. Shanks threw out Kopp. Walker lined to Shotton No tuns, no hits, no errors. SECOND INNINO Milan lined to Dugan. Schuite walked'. Ducan fumbled Shapks's grounder. V Schuite going to third. I,avan hit Into a QUUOie Play. lynra lu .B.. , u.u..,D. No runs, no hits, one error Shanks threw out Bums Gardner beat out a slow toller to Shanks, Perkins fouled to Foster Gardner stole second. Continued on l'iie Twelie, Column Mi idinii nn.i i.a hnir,. nf Hmt Attiletlea Wakhlnilon and l'hllllei-llrookljrn tamti on pas twelve, ENEMY LOSS ENORMOUS BEFORE IN PICARDY OFFENSIVE KEEP INITIATIVE, POLICY OF F0CH Allies Have Men and Guns Ready to Strike Ter i rific Blow '' AMERICANS PUSH AHEAD By EDWIN I.. JAMES Special Cable In livening Public Ledger CoflUllnht I1M. hy Xrtc Yotk Time. O. Willi Hie American Army, Auk; 10 While the Fiench and British are' hitting, the boehe to the west the Amei leans and French nie keeping; up un I denting pie-sure along the Vesle Rlvei. This pi ensure is of such a na till c that the flown Pi Ince feats to I weaken his line there lest the Allied forces bieak Ihiough. I Beating off all countei -attacks, the Americans have gotten consldeiahle forces established across the Vesle between Basoiehes and Fismes, push their line noith of the Soissons KTol"he,,wr'ViWr, they are also pushing ahead slowly, but suieiy. and ,0'thp "K,,t "' lmv'H tl,ey ,"ll- lishhiB a MioiiK bildKehead across the , i',.PI. The Allied position along the Vesle Is becomins hourly slionger and moie .fTna"" I ' hac'k't 'the Aisne should that be necessary, The progress of the Americans Is nnt heluir made without stienuous op- OBitron Tn the last twentyfomU '. t. on the luck areas as well as ,, . front lines As yet few of their i.i.r iins are in iicumi. ' '"" ,!.- beL-iiii to use gas in large quantities Kverv day briw new ' 'ovedes of Oermnn infernal roucmnn "-" "-" to terroiize the Americans Save in . ii . .i...iitni. I vei-v few instanee.s uinp l"J,ni r-nntilvaiices have done little or no I A glance at the map will show the 'significance of the continuance of the Fiench-Americnn pressure against the I .Vesle line, while the French and Brit- lihh are pusning aura i"-- ' ' new pusli goes ir eiiuunn, " I Allied pressure from Soissons and niieims lemalns stiong enougli tho "' l...a ,11(11,.. ,11.. In l.nlil. It is too euny ..u " i"-' tlons nut It s reiuiii-'i uii wnat happened to the Chateau-Thierry allent was that Foch hit suddenly on the west side while keeping up piessuie on the east side and on the Before yesterday Hindenhurg hail twenty to twenty-live divisions of fresh shock' tioops, which bolstered up the h'latements about a coming attack on the Liritlsh. Perhaps It Is not too much to expect that the new move of Marshal Foch will attend effectively to the Geimans' boasted effort against the Biitrsh front. Without looking for too much now t fiom the new effoit. It Is gratifying I to Amei leans to see the convincing evidence that the Allies aie keeping the Initiative. That Is a policy which Is not to be changed. The develop ments now show that Foch has the man-power and military resources not 1 only to strike, but also to strike J quickly. ,Nor does that measure what he can do. The next two months will ' be months of gieat things. HALTS KEYMEN'S WALKOUT Telegraphers' Union Head Di rects Delay Pending Conference By the United Press Wellington, Aug. 10. President S. J. Konenkamp, of the telegraphers' union, late today, after a prolonged conference with wlie administration officials, tele graphed the local union chiefs at St Louis. Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans and other affected points, to defer action on the threatened walk outs, pending the outcome of Important conferences next week here between labor leaders and Government officials. Captured Long-Range Gun Turned on German Base Ixuulon. Aug 10. (By I. N. S.). Ham is being bombarded with a heavy German cannon, which was taken from the enemy. It is a 380 millimeter piece. So far 300 guns have been cap tured from the Geimans. Ham Is appioxlmately elghteeen and a quarter miles from the pres ent lighting line. It Is one ot the. large German supply bases. ALLIED ADVANCE 24,000 Prisoners. 400 Guns, Immense Stores Captured Allied Casualties Less than . Quarter of Germans Taken TEUTON ARMIES NOW FACE DISASTER AS DEFEAT GROWS Pershing Joins British in Seizing JMorlan- eourt Many Towns Lost as Kaiser's Line Is Deeply Pierced B) the Awminted Pre London. Ahr. 10. The advance of th Allied armies on the Picardy battle front continues forcefully. Nowhere, according to disnatches. have the Germans yet been able to organize for any severe counter-stroke. i The Runs captured by the Allies are now nearly .00 in number. p The Allied casualties, including all the killed, wounded and missing, are less than 6000, or numDer ot prisoners counted. casualties have been tremendously heavy . J By th London, Aug. 10. The important city of Montdidier, which was approKi mately at the apex of the German salient south of the Somme, has been captured by the Allies. The enemy seems to be retreating today all along the battleline, in Picardy; especially in the center, where he is being I heavily attacked by the British, says, a late dispatch from the ! British army headquarters in France. j The capture of Faverolles by the French has cut off the Montdidier forces of General von Hutier, a field dispatch says. The number of prisoners taken from the Germans in the fighting in Picardy has increased, to 24,000, today's War Office statement announces. American troops delivered an attack in the ancle between gjg am, the A , , , , American and British troops flAlllli L-,., 4-u c? .. ,i -uuil ucuveni uie ouiiuut' unu DIGGING IN CELLAR FOR LOST BABIES Police Find Small Bones and ChildrenFs Life Policies inmn " w MOUNDS FOUND Thirty Insuiarite policies and the photographs of three negro babies In caskets were found this afternoon In a MrBoes,,,,1JlMr;.:ere;p,oK,eRi, bei,nK made- The avH teenth street nuir I.Vrternl Tho ll. a OKe tWPlVe-mile DTOirrBsS folWai'H suspect there "bain f.mn" as conducted Detectives also found more than a hundred pictures of babies and older children, most of ilieni white. Two small bones hne hen un earthed In the eellai Whether these aie nuiuan uones, the police have not de- termlned Two mounds of fie-h earth In cellar, one bidden b rubbish and other by an old bariel. aroused the sus plclons of the deteclhes and will be' dug up. Onl,. a few of the insuiance policies were on the lives of i hildren, most of i them being on adult members of Mis. Blackstone's fiiinlli Mrs. niackstone and her dautrhter. I Mrs. Georgette Thompson, are being .fnhSr and"'o? ft. charge that the Jiad conducted a coin - bination "baby farm" and disorderly house at the Fifteenth stieet address. Mrs Thompson was arrested as she was trying io reiui ii me in iiiiHiii soils ff Mra Lniils Klnir. 2?7 Nnrlh Plrih ureet, who had offered the children for adoption Mis Thompson posed as Mis. May Brown, of 1414 Loniliard street At Ihe time she took the children away Bhe said she was acting as agent for Mrs ' Helen Schaeffei. a wealthy widow of Gloucebler I lt Oave No Addreta She left no address with Mis King I and the latter, becoming alarmed, re , potted the affair to the police. Th. nnltinrlfltxt eventttnllv rnnn.l ,,.. ' Mrs. SchaelTer and Mrs. Thompson. The 1 latter said she had taken the children I l to the home of hei mother. Mrs. Black- ' stone Mrs Blackstone, however.. 'feared police Interference and made hei . return the joungsters to Mrs. King. When detectives descended on the Blackstone home they found six children ..rfm'UdorZde.nri,rop:r care. They weie taken In charge by the cwltv '" Pr",eCt ChU,ren from Mrs." Schaeffer was found at una Se- Continued an l'ai Two. Column tJevea not more than one-fourth of the. On the other hand, the German iMOCl'nfeu' Veil achJevd considble success. captured the town of Morlnn- i. a uiu rtiicre. French Hurl Attack French troops attacked at 4 o'clock this morninR on the line be tween Montdidier and the River Oise on a front of approximately sixteen miles. By 9 o'clock this morning Mont- dkliep had been surrounded. Only a small number of Germans with mn- I chine guns was then inside the town. Infoimntion received in London Ishoitly before 2 o'clock this after-. noon was that the French line was 1 still ndvnncinp; on- both sides of I Montdidier. I On the British front, sulendid was an infantry advance, with the' ' cavalry, tanks and armored cars well j ahead of the infantry and ptessing the letreating enemy. I The new attacks by the French ),o..o nvin,l0,l tU. e battleline some tn j sixteen miles further, to the south the east in the Montdidier area. In this movement the French scoied an advance of four miles in six hours. The Fiench forces captuied Le Tronquoy and Le Fretoy. Canadian nnd Austialian forces captured Bou- I choir, Meharicouit and Lihons The I "er have e"tereJ Rainescourt and 1 Proyart. . rm... i n. - , lne Intest neNS from the French . was that they had captured the t f Saulchov and low,,s "' 'Jul-"0 n"0 Davehes- court. (Saulchoy is about five miles northeast of Montdidier.) The advices from the French around Montdidier stated that they weie meeting no severe lesistance and that the Germans undoubtedly ueie trying hard to escape from the nasty .salient. In their advance the British have captured Warvillers, Vrely, Folies, Rosjerea and Vouvillers ,' , , ' In he course of the fighting a Geiman divisional headquarters and .,.. ,. , ts staff were captured. Enemy counter-attacks in the MoHancourt sector, which followed the Anglo-American success, were beaten off in intensive fighting. Canadian cavalry, which is op- I Continued oo i'att Iwa. Calnma Thra "CONTINUE," SAYS BRITISH PREMIER lly the I nited l'rei Newport, Kiik Aug 10 I'icmler l,loil fiorasf spi'iiklug al a lunch, eon In the town linll hete toda. announced that i lie Miles, In the -Marne and Somme drives have captuied between .Mi.fiiin .mil OO.nim piisnneri and between ."00 and fiOO cannon. "News continue dltinotl.v goon fii the Allies" the I'lemlcr said "The gientest factor In the-e uei p"p has 1" en ihe combined com mand, hut It Is not over .vet. We must inntinup our steadv blows ATHLETICS nb r h o a e WFIfTO ah r li a Ai'tista, rf 4 0 0 3 0 0 licltcn, If. . .1 0 0 1 C 0 Kopp. If 4 0 0 0 0 0 rosier. .11) .. 3 0 13 10 Walker, cf 10 111') .ludcc 11) . 3 0 0 15 0 2 Hums. Ih 3 0 0 12 0 I Milan, cf . . 3 1 1 1 G Gardner. .'Hi. . . 4 0 2 2 'J 0 Scliullc. rf . . 2 0 1 C Perkins, c t 1 13 4 0 Miank-. 21).. 2 0 0 1 10 C Dykes, 21) 2 1 1 3 f, c Lav an, ss. . 4 0 1 0 J ", Dilgan, ss...., .) j o 3 3 1 Ain-mitli. r . I 1 13- I'crrj.p 10 0 0 2 0 Harper, i 3 0 10 10 Totals 33 3 7 27 17 2 BASEBALL 1 c r 0 0 0 WASI1T0N ATI! (Is).. 0 0 Jolin'-n Ainmltli; Watson-McAvoy; umpires. Connolly-Nallin. MrASH'TON. ATII(2g).. Haipei-Ainbinitli, Pcny-l'cikins;' umpiu'b, Nnlliu-Couuolly. PHILLIES.. 0 00 0 0000 0022 liKLN (lu). 0 0 0 2 OcscliBCi'-A'lanis; Giimcs-Whent. PHILLIES.. 0 0 C 3 C 0 0 BKLN (2 0 - 2 0 0 C 0 0 0 Ficndcrgai-t-Adams; Coombb-Ittillcr. BOSTON. X.I 0 0 0 0 0 0 X.Y..N. L. (M k.) . 0 0 0 0 10 Rudolph-Wilson; Toney-McCaity. BOSTON. X.I 3 0 0 0 0 0 N. Y X. L. CM K.) .000300 Nclif-Hcmy; Pcirittt-Rariden. CHICAGO, X. L 1110000 0 PTS..X. L. (Kt.).. 0000023 0 Tylei-KiUcRr; Cooper-Shaw. CHICAGO. : I'TS.. X. L. C . i. ST. LOUIS, X.L CIXCIXXAT1, N. L. 2 9 0 ( 0 0 Ameis-Gonz'ileb; Hing-Winso. CHICAGO. A. L.. 0 0 1 C'LF,LL'.D, A. L. .010 NEW lOHK.A.I... .0000 BOS.. A. L. (M r..) 0 0 0 1 Mogridge-Waltctt.; Busli-Agnew. XLW YORK, A. L... BOS., A. L. (2d g.) . Caldwell-Waltris, DETROIT, A. I ST. LOUIS, A. L.... J 1 0 0 0 0 Dlnysi-Schaug. HARLAN NEW YORK SIIII .. SI N SIIII' 10 0 HOG ISLAND 0 4 1 Ogdon-Hnitlino; Gcrwr-Loaa. CUSTACCOUXT'G. S.&.C STATE COLLEGE MAN'S ACTS UNDER PROBE STATE COLLEGE, Pn Aug-, 10. -Prof. RDichnrcI Erncsti, head of the department of Industrial nnd fine arts, at the Penn sylvania State College, is being investigated by the Fcdeial De partment of Justice. He is charged with disseminating pro German i-entiment and with the expression of unpatiiotic ic maiks to public school teacheis attending tHe summer session. ADDITIONAL RACING RESULTS Fourth Saratoga race, 1 mile, 1 furlong- Westy Hogan, 127, Kumnier, 18 to 5, 7 to 5, 7 to 10, won; Midway, 103, Saude, even, 1 to 2, second; Bondage, 10t, Rodriguez, 4 to 1, third. Tlme', 1.53 3-5. , j TuLils 20 2 5 2C 17 0 SCORES r c r 0 C 0 0 G C C 0Q0100C1-25C 0GCC0 1C 8-872 C 0 2 X i C C 3 2 3 1 fl 0 0 0 0 0 X 1- 1 J- 2 j. 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 'J 0 0 i 5 0- 1 ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 n 0 0 0- JO U. S. TROOPS aiuton run IN PICARDY Help British Forces Storm and Capture Important Positi ons KNTER SOMME BATTLE WITH ENTHUSIASM ()rrrnm Stiff Rcsistancp and Drive Germans Pack To ward Bray JUST LIKE MARNE FIGHT Advance Supported hy Tanks. Bridge Near Peronne Re ported Broken Bv the A'soriatnd PreM Willi the MrllKI, Arm, !,, Aut 10. Amerlean troops have heen thrown Into the flghling In the gieat battle In Ih. A n.1 I. - . ""' -'omme district Thej suc ceeded In overcoming a Miff resistance and helprt tb- nrltlsh stnrr., nn ' lure Impnrlnni positions In nn mt.i. launched vesterdny between the Ancre and the Somme - Chlpllly Spin norih nf the Somme was captured bv the n,e,loan and Brit Ish troops nt li o'clock last night The attack began at 5 o'clock when the Al lies moved forward between the Ancre and the Somm.. They were supported bv tanks nnd w,.- preceded hv a heavy barrage fire The enemy vva. driven toward Bra v. noitheast of Chlpllly (The British War Ofr.ce announced todav that the Americans assisted the Ilnglish In the angle between the Somme nd the Ancre The combined forces captured all objectives Including Jfor. Inncomt. and shattered counter-attacks. Ihe statement savs ) A morion ii vim rreilomlnales The Amerfenn i3i,i.,a . . , Infantry went Inlo battle with their tra- dliional enihusiasm They met the Ger- mans and defeated them here, just as- they did upon entering the battle along the Marne At places stiff resistance developed, but all along the line the, I Americans, Bi Itish and French smashed , thiough the harassed enemv who was I trying to hold up theli advance The entrance of the Americans as on the Marne was marked by vlctorj. j BrltMi Links have ben een well to I the eaM nf Mehnricourt Streams of ! Geiman tianspoit.s are still going east- ward Tn nt (irrman divisions have 1 heen engagid bv Um advancing Allies. Information lecived from in isoners in dicates thai thf fighting may soon be I come heavier j Hi-cause the Allie gamed all their I object iv es. ii - possible the enemy does j not know w-heie he was beaten by the HiiliMi and Fienih li Is therefore. In. ' advisable lo disclose all the points whers i the Allies aie npeiaiing It may ha j ald howv,i that the British Infan- liv and tanks leached ih points they Intended to aliain and lodav ihev are holding cou-ul ddtdl lines along the fiont J Mnnj Iomii. ruptured The llied turces have . aptured I main imvns a laig, iiuanili.v of ma in lal and a complete German divisional headquarteis and staff This headouar- ! ters was captured at Lihon The num. J ber nf prl-nneis Is close to 25 000 North of the Somme the Allies, after taking Chlplllv Spur, have gone on, driv ing the enemv before them Numerous tanks and whippets assisted the nd- ' vancing Infantry to smother the enemy's resistance Farther south the Fiench advanced rapldl.v and increased their number of prisoners ns they pushed their line for- naid Last night British alrnlanes dropped large uuantltles of bombs In areas behind the German line. Knemy'a I'lmltliin Serluim The Germans are now well back toward the Somme. south of Peronne, With this stream at their back and the Allied guns and niiplanes pouring shells Into the crossing over the Somme, the nnaitlnn nf Ihp ..lipltiv Is .ep nil. It is teporied that the bridge over the Somme near Peronne has been brok en. This fact, wiien laKen In conjunc tion with the congested condition of the German transport service, will cause - " .. .. . i Continued on lge Two. Column tSettd WEATHEK WHYS aenerallu cloudy. Unsettled, somewhat dottdv. Thus tonight anil Hunday. (Tl the M'enther Man who speaks.) Temo'rature incidental To northeast bi cezes gentle Menus moderation one day ' In a teeel; of heated jreakt. iV - (A ! I .i M 1 "4 tl 1 n I w il tl I' I I i? '- 'T v A ' Vn ti . V. "ifmZSX
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