E5C5 r; THEtAfMER '1 J ' FINAL , Washington, Aug, 20. Fair, and con tinued fool tonight; Wednesday, fair and slithtly wanner: igit winds. Ttall'KBATURK AT EACH HOt'B. I I D10ll 12 1 2 S 4 5 I 81 66 I 70 71 I 7fi I 78 I 77 I 79 I 80 I 80 I THE EVENING TELEGRAPH VOL. IV. NO. 290 ruWIiT.lP.l tiallv Ei.rf.t Sunday. Sutmcrlptlon rrlce! C n Tear by Mall. Copyright. 1018. by the Publlo Ledger Company. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918 Entered a Second-Clan Matter at the rotprrici at Philadelphia. Pa. Under the Act of March 8. 1871). PRICE TWO CENTS SffliH icuening puDltc mbatx ? P- and ? r m r ii r -" 1 Kv 14 FROM HERE DIE IN ACTION; FIFTEEN HURT Nine Previously Reported Fallen in Casualty List ONE CAMDEN SOLDIER AMONG SLAIN HEROES Four Corporals Make Supreme ' Sacrifice in Defense of Country OTHERS ARE PRIVATES : Official List Says Lieutenant Bullitt Is Dead, But Fain , ily Still Hopes' Philadelphia Soldiers in Today's Death List ' Corporal Elmer If. Stevenson, 1938 S. Woodstock street. Corporal William F. Taylor, 329 Wendover street, Manayunlt. Corporal John It. Welsh, 2346 S. Lambert street. Private .lames F. Hutchinson, 1540 N. Lambert street. Private .lames F. Kealey, 1112 S. Twenty-third street. Private Clarlf 3tetvart, 6363 Theo dore avenue. Corporal Thomas Murray, 2705 Tasker street. Private Antonio Camerota, 1517 East Passyunk avenue. Private Frank Fletcher, 913 South Orianna street. Private Arnao Carlo, 1741 South Ninth street. s Private Bernard F. Fauean, 869 North Sixty-third street. Private John J. Duffy, 3811 Aspen Btrcet. Private Ernest II. Kaufman, C522 Gessner street. Private John P. Mooney, 2406 Federal street. August SO, 1918. ''(The full' lint of casualties announced today by the War Department la printed on page 5.) Fourteen more Philadelphia soldiers have been killed In action In France. In addition to these fourteen,, today's official casualty list contains the names of nine other Phlladelphlans whoso deaths have already been reported to their families and published In the news papers. They are: Lieutenant Itlcliard S. Hiillitl, Torres dale. Lieutenant Thomas V. Maey, 2039 Ontario street. Sergeant Edmund Knight, 138 North Sixty-second street. Sergeant Frederick Knight, 138 North Sixty-second street. . Private John P. Mooney, 2408 Federal street. . rrlTate Walter If. Dialler, 2168 North Sixteenth street. Private John J. McPolln, 2715 Federal street. , Corporal Oeorge W. Lalrri, 1233 South forty-sixth street. , Private John Turco, E32 Catherine street. Today's list also records fifteen of this city's soldiers severely wounded in action." One Is' In the Canadian army. One Camden man is reported killed, as Is a Bucks County soldier. Two Phll adelphlans are reported missing in action and three others are prisoners of war. The total casualties reported today number 275, of which 145 were In the mornlnc; list and 130 In the afternoon report. - The list of wounded, missing and pris oners follows: WOCNDEU SEVKRKI.Y Llentenant William F.i Meyere, 4916 Keyser street. Corporal David Stlner. 156 Commerce street. Private Richard D. Jackeon, 3529 Ise mlnger street. Private John J. llakey. 526 North Fifty-fourth street. ' PrlVate B. II. Walker, Canadian army, 1948 East Harold street. ' Private Charles Amato, 1121 Carpen ter street. nrivate William II. Reamer, 503 Vodges street. PrlTate Manuel J. Green, 1521 South Bamberry street Private Joieph Haekett, 2235 South Sixty-fourth, street. Private Patrick J. Mcl.nuglilln, 345! B street. private Angelo Malandra, 819 Wilder street, ' Private's. II. Trumpheller, lbO Noble street. Private Nathan Sperling, 5174 Park side .avenue. Private William. J. Trout, 2712 Ridge avenue. Private Thomas A. Coakley, 1249 South Hanson street. MISSINO IN ACTION Private James, J. Ileney, 3737 Market street Private George It. Conner. 6731 Regent f. CASI7ALTIEH PROM NRARKV .ij, niMis fiS Prirata Walter J. Kirk, 1838 Fillmore p street, uamaen, Kinea. .' Corporal Walter F. Simmons. Hatfield. ft . killed; V., Alfred Hlgglni, Media, Va killed. private unariee w. metier, I'aulsboro, N. J., wounded, Corporal Jamea O'Connor, West Chester, killed In action. Private Alfred Butter, Norristown, killed In action. $ j PBISONEBS OF WAR 8 lieutenant Kdward llllieroth, 4900 1 Cedar avenue. ft Sergeant Mitchell A. Harretl, 4941 Fanlah'street, s 1 , 't " t l.'aJ ..! 'UeinPNMfV outrage uur, mluuin ixv U.RAIDER SUNK BY STEAMSHIP, , NAVY REPORTS! Captain Rammed Submarine Off Virginia Coast Stove in Port Sitlc By the Associated Press Wnliln-ton, Aug. 20. The Navy Department announced to day that the captain of an American steamship had reported that his vessel rauimcd and probably sunk a submarine about 9:30 p. m. on August 17 near Winter Quarter Shoal, on tho northern Virginia .coas. The captain stated the submarine was struck on her port bow, bringing her alongside. The submarine crew hailed In strong German accents, saying ' they were friends, the captain said, but he replied they were no friends of his. He kept on his course, he said. The steamship Is now In port, with a badly damaged bow and a quantity of water In her hold. The captain thinks he sank the subma rine. , In making the announcement the de partment did not name the ship. Be cause of the American skipper's circum stantial report and the tangible evidence furnished by the damaged bow, the story Is given credence not accorded most of the accounts of submarine destructions reaching 'he navy. ASK REVOCATION OF B. & L, RULING Home- Buying Associa tions Take Case to At- torney General DECISION WITHIN WEEK I . . Brown Maintains That Law Blocks Purchase of War Securities Attorney General Francis Sliunk Brown told attorneys representing build Ing and loan associations at a conference this afternoon In his ofllce, Chestnut street above Broad, that ho would de termlne finally within a week whether the legislative act of 1917 permits build Ing and loan associations to buy Liberty Bonds. The Attorney General has already ruled 1 that they do not possess thla right, and during this afternoon's confer ence Intimated very pointedly that he would not change his opinion. Bought Bonds Worth 15.000.000 During the last Liberty Loan cam paign the Philadelphia associations sub", scribed to approximately $5,000,000, but If the Attorney General adheres to his ruling none of the associations can sub scribe to the next loan. Morton Michael Brown, secretary of the Philadelphia Association of Building and Loan Associations, and other officers of the organization pleaded with the State's attorney to reverse himself,' but not a single argument presented by them seemed to Influence him. Wants llome-buyern Protected "For patriotic reasons," said the At torney Oeneral, "I would be willing to permit the associations to invest money In Liberty Bonds, but under the laws of Pennsylvania they are not entitled to do so. It Is true that the enabling act of 1917 permits- the directors of corpor ations to Invest a certain amount of sur plus moneyB in Liberty bonds, but that act does not apply to building and loan associations. That Is my opinion. It was reached after careful thought and study, for my only purpose i to protect the associations. "The purchasing of Liberty Bonds would be an opening wedge of a system that would permit the directors of build ing and loan associations' to buy other kinds of securities, and that would defeat the primary objects of such organiza tions. Such a system might lead to ruin, and we cannot afford to hazard the mon ey of home-buyers." . , "Vou are taking a narrow and very technical view of the law," said Attorney Joseph H. Sundhelm, who appeared for the building and loan associations. Then followed a long discussion con- cerning tne legal interpretation of what the Legislature considered as the surplus funds of n corporation. Attorney Sund helm voiced, the opinions of the associa tion men when he said that the surplus funds of a building and loan association were all moneys received except the dues paid by members. "We 'contend," said Attorney Sund helm, "that we have the right to take any amount of- money above the amount that is necessary to meet our obliga tions and Invest It In Liberty Bonds. In fact, all such money Is what we consider Continued on Tage Two. Column Seven TELLS OF SINKING U-BOAT British Tanker Destroyed Subma rine"1 Off Nantucket John Crosby, who Is' suffering from shock lu the University Hospital, told this afternoon of 'a fight between a British tanker and large submarine off Nantucket. The tanker sunk the submarine after a sharp fight Crosby, who Is chief mate of the tanker, said he was on the bridge o'f the tanker at 3 o'clock on Friday af ternoon, when he saw a white streak through the water. It was a torpedo, and missed the goal by several feet. Quick slanals were idven and soon the Icrew of the tanker was on deck. The course of the ship was swerved and she opened fire. More than two dozen shots were fired. Crosby said the twenty sixth shot scored a hit. The submarine keeled over and turned on Its side. Then It drifted away. Crosby said he did not wait to see whether the U-boat sank or not. "We Bped away' as fast as we could," said Crosby, "but we heard nothing more from the U-boat, and concluded that she had gone under for keeps. "The men aboard the tanker bore up well during the fight and enjoyed every minute of it. They are a game lot, and we. If we ever encounter another sub marine, will give Just as good account of themselves." U. S. Troops Welcomed in England London, Aug. 20. Another contingent of American troops has arrived at an KtTdlsli port. It was announced today, Tuey'were cordially received. HUNDREDS DIE IN PETROGRAD FOOD RIOTING Hungry Mobs .Battle With Lettish Troops in Streets of City RUSSIAN METROPOLIS FOODLESS FOR 2 DAYS "Down WitliGcrmans! Down the Kremlin!" War Cry of Starving MARTIAL LAW RULING! Another Regiment of Ameri can Troops Landed at Vladivostok By the Associated Press London, Aug. 20. 1 Hundreds of persons were killed n ml wounded In a, veritable battle between Lettish guards and rioters during food disorders In Petrograd, according to nn Amsterdam dispatch 'to the Ex change Telegraph Company. The dispatch, which quotes Petro grad advices by way of Berlin, says that after the city had been without food for two days a procession of workmen marched through the streets shouting, "Down with the Hermans! Down the Kremlin!" Tho battle, between rioters and the Lettish guards occurred before the Smolny Institute. Martial law was proclaimed in Petrograd the same eve. nlng. It Is officially reported from Vologda, says the correspondent at Moscow of the Rhelnlsche Westfaellsche Zeltung, of Essen, that the Allied troops In the Archangel sector of northwestern Rus sia have withdrawn outside the range of the Bolshevik artillery. Soviet troops are reported to have blown up the Baikal tunnel of the trans-Siberian railway. Heavy fighting has been In progress on the Ussurl front, says Router's cor respondent at Vladivostok, and Czecho-Slovak outposts have been forced to retire. A contingent of-Japanesa marines, the correspondent' adds; -has landed at Nlcolalevsk, on the Amoy. MORE U '.S. TROOPS AT VLADIVOSTOK Vladivostok (delayed) Aug. 16. A second transport carrying Amer ican troops arrived at Vladivostok to. dav. The transport bearing tho first contingent of American soldiers entered the harbor yesterday after noon after a voyage of seven and a half days from Manila. A third troopship was expected to arrive this evening. 1 By the Associated Press I'eliin, Aug. 20. The movement of Japanese troop-! from Chang Chun, on the Mukden-Harblri railroad, to the Manchuria-Siberian front, has been further delayed. This delay Is due to the demand made by the Japanese that they guard and virtually control the operations of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The Chinese officials, sup. ported by the Entente Allied represen tatives in Pekln, have declined to con sent to the taking over of the railroad by Japan. TEUTON WOMEN FIGHTING Americans Capture Several Oper ating Machine Gun? Boston, Aug. 20. (By I. N. S.). "Our men' took several German women who were captured while operating ma chine guns," 'says Private William II. Nutting, of the 101st Infantry, In a letter received from him today. The letter was written from a hos pital, where Nutting was recovering from a gas attack. PERSHING'S AIDE INJURED Major Baker and a Lieutenant in Automobile Accident Carcassonne, France, Aug. 20. Major Baker, of General Pershing's staff, and a lieutenant accompanying him. were thrown 'from an automobile lno a ditch alongside the road between Alzonne and Montollen, In the Department of Aude, yesterday, after colliding with an ox Both officers were seriously Injured. AERIAL RAID ON NANCY German Bombs Kill Six Civiliuns and Wound Score By the Associated Press Paris Aug. 20. A German aerial bom. bardment of Nancy, In Lorraine, was carried out, the War office announces, six of the civilian population were killed and a score Irjured, the state ment aaas. ALWAYS AHEAD! The FIRST Dispatch from a Staff Correspondent representing an American newspaper at Murmansk, Russia, was that from Arthur Copping, published in yesterday's -Euefung public le&ger Kaiser Had Monster Guns ' Ready for Siege of Paris By the. United Press Paris, Aug. 20. The Germans, when they started their last of fensive operation, were prepared for the slego of Paris from a range of twenty-five miles, the Petit Pa rlslen declared today. A number of sixty-foot guns, fir ing shells weighing three quarters of a ton each, were ready on rail way trucks to be pushed forward behind the advancing armies, the newspaper said. LABOR OPPOSES WORK-OR-FIGHT i Amendment to Man-Power. b:ii t n av i. Bill Insults Workers, Says Morrison "MEANS CONSCRIPTION" Federation Official Tells House : Committee It Is Aimed at Strikers By the United Press Washington, Aug. 20. The Thomas work-or-flght amendment to the man power bill Is an Insult to labor, Frank Morrison, Fecretary of the American Federation of Labor, rharged before the House Military Affairs Committee. We do not protest against men going Into tho army to fight, hut we do protest against putting this weapon In the hands of unfair employers to brand the workers ns slackers," Morrison said. Morrison declared the amendment was nothing less than labor conscrlpt'on, and that It would be mandatory on t?ie Pres ident tor enforce It to prevent strikes, citing the opinion of several attorneys who differed with Secretary of War Baker on this score. "Senator Thomas, the author or this amendment, admits It Is aimed at strik ers," Morrison said. Hints at Secret Influence "The Government Is not exorcised over the Industrial situation, but some one Is, and he Is hidden In the dark," Morrison continued. "Is the Cblorado Fuel Company and the Steel Trust behind this legislation?' "The men who urge this amendment urge It as a punishment, but the men know they would be better, off In the trenches than they are overworked and underpaid In the steel mllR "Organized labor has kent faith and does n-n want the odium nf ln05erlsm cast upon It. Drag out tho Influences benlnd labor conscription and you'll find the most proflflc profiteers In the na tion." Morrison denied Senator Thoma"'? eharge that war v..ik had beei held up by strikes, and Senator Rped's ste'ement that miners wre laying off two and three days a wea.f, Introdu?lng state ments from the fuel administration to show that fuuc- miners haJ productd more coal this yfar than Us', Morrison emphin'zed throughout his statement the charge that employers had asiteu ciererre.i ciassiucatlon for em ployes and were now trying to hold military service . over them to prevent agitation for better wages. Would Nol Stop Kducatlin Dr. C R. Mann, chairman of the edu cational advisory board of tho- War De partment, told thfl commltee thnt draft ing men below Iwerlty-one would not wipe out education lu the country, be cause It Is planned" to put these young men through an Intensive course of In struction before and after they a"re in the army. Several members of the commtUte pointed out that since boys of eighteen would be tho lat to be drafted, they would In all probability makt lip the eighteen divisions which nrn f be In Mils country on . une 30 next yoir LAWYER ACCUSED BY WITNESS Court Tells District Attorney of Alleged Suppression Attempt Henry White, negro, 1326 South Thlr. ty-fourth street, testifying today against two men accused of robbing him. told Judge Rogers, in Quarter Sessions Court, that the attorney for the defense, Charles T. Jacks, tried to dissuade him from appearing In the case. White said Jacks offered to make good the amount stolen and to pay White's expenses If he would leave the city. Judge Rogers, after sentencing the defendants, Harry Craig and Alfred Thomas, negroes, to five years In the County Prison, said to Jacks: "The law provides a term of Imprison. jrient for dissuading or attempting to dissuade witnesses from testifying. I will have a certified record of the tes timony taken In this case submitted to the District Attorney for necessary ac tion. I shall not hold you under ball, as I have a right to, silting as a commit, ting magistrate, but will leave -action to the District Attorney's office," Jacks did not reply. PROBE CAMMMNTRACTS Senate Committee Inquires Into Complaints of Favoritism By the United Press Washington, Aug. 20. An investiga tion of complaints that favoritism has been shown In awarding contracts for cantonment construction was begun to day, by members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Charges have reached certain Senators that a few large contractors.among them the Sparrett-Thompson Company and tha George A. Fuller Company, have received a large proportion of army construction work. FOCH'S GAIN BIG MENACE TO F0ETS LINE Smash East of the Oise Brings Enveloping of Noyon Near DOZEN SQUARE MILES TAKEN FROM ENEMY May Result in Sweeping Around Heights of Chemin- Hcs-Dames ALLIES GAIN VANTAGE Advance Above Aisne Would Permit Rear Attacks Vesle Positions on SrW7 Cable to Evening Public Ledger ronw-inht. ;. bn the Xrir York Timet Co. Paris, Aug. 20. The French advance In the ancle of the Olse and the Alsno proved bril liantly successful and -resulted In a dozen square miles of invaded .terri tory being wrested from the enemy's .trip, together with 1700 prisoners. This was io question of ground iieing voluntnilly evacuated by the Germans and automnllcnllv occupied by the French. The latter attacked along a front of nearlv ten mllps Inner. between Carlepont. wliich lies four and I Uusslan Population, a half miles south of Noyon, In tho!" angle between Ourscamn Wood, and I Carlepont Wood on the west, and the village of Fontenoy, six miles west of Solssons, on the east. The significance of the two-mile ad vaneo which was made all alons: tha ' fine beconvs evident when It Is realized ' that at the Carlepont end of tho at- 1 tack the advnnce which has been made ! brings ni.preclab- nearer the envelop, mont of Noyon. What Is much more I Important, it Is a great protecting i ) bastion to Mount Renaud from the ' eastern side of the Olse, and will enable I .the enfilading fire of their heavy guns . the enemy forces which are stubborn- j ly defending Noyon, in front of the new positions at Rlbecourt. At the other end of the line the ' Lndvance east of Solssons Jias been Im mensely Improved by the capture of , tho plateau of Nouvron, immediately ' north of Fontenoy. Fontenoj', which I is on the bank of the Aisne, was the extreme left of tho line from which 1 Foch started his magnlftciently suc cessful counter-offensive In July. May Turn Cliemin-des-Dames Tho simple rcctlflactlon of the front I ja,.ih,i i ih Mmmnninii. ,.,m.n.. ' , ... ,. I lu ue it ucuucu Biri lun.oiu iui.uiu securing the great plateau above Pom- j mlers, from which tho heights of the Chemln-des-Dames may ultimately be j turned. ' With the Nouvron heights in Allled-j hands, the position of the Get mans In ' clinging to the hills north of the river In front of Solssons must speedily be- come difficult, and their retreat to ward the Chemln-des-Dames may be 1 anticipated. The further capture by , the French of the Important plateau ' west of Neampoel gives them a very j valuable view and places In their hands excellent supporting points for future operations. I The advance Is extremely valuable . because of the favorable Influence It I must have not only on the operations ! against Roye, Lassigny and Noyon, ' but especially on the efforts against ' tho Crown Prince's troops, still re-, slstlng on tho Vesle front. Every foot , the Allies continue to advance on the line whence the attack started means grater possibility of being able to at-, tack the German positions on the Vesle from their rear. The advance, I therefore, brought much nearer the ! probability that the Germans on the I Vesle will soon have to choose between continuing their retreat to the . Continued on Pare Tno. (nlimii Seen SNIPERS BUSY IN FISMETTE American Sharpshooters Pick Off German Gunners By the United Press Willi the American Armies In France Aug, 20. Continuous sniping is In progress in Fismette, which Is held partly by the Germans and partly by the Americans The bodies cut loose with fhelr um. chine guns at the slightest movement in the American positions, while our sharp shooters pick off the hoche gunners. There Is considerable artillery fight ing at Intervals, but there ara no in fantry operations of tmpoitance. DUTCH WITHOUT CABINET Nolens Dodges Task of Picking Ministry for Netherlands By the Associated Press The llarue, Aug. 20 It was an nounced here today that Deputy Nolens, leader of the Catholic Party, has re quested Queen Wllhelinlna to relieve him of the duty of forming a ministry In succession to the. cabinet headed by Premier Cort Van Der I.tnden, which resigned last month. The Queen yesterday received at the palace Deputy De Savornln Lohman, to obtain his views on the question of form Ing a new Government, HAPPY DAYS! ".Fair and continued cool tonight. Wednesday fair and sllghtlv warmer. Variable south winds, soft and ilglit. Becoming south," As In a former 'Screed, this gives a promise frus Ma viet We don't care. Do you FRENCH PUSH GERMAN LINE BACK TO 4-MILE DEPTH ON 15-MILE OISE-AISNE FRONT SITUATION IN RUSSIA ISmash Teuton De- AT ITS TURNING POINT1 fe,lses in Blow n . Vltnl cnrri Allies Have Many Delicate Problems to Solve in Cam paign to Free People From Grip of Germany By HAROJ.D Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copurlaht. 191S. bv the New York Times Co. I London, Aug. 20. The critical moment has arrived In tho transformation of Russia. The Bolshevik power Is breaking up and the I Allied troops have entered Russia by ' three gateways that still remain, In the north. In the Caucasus and In Si beria. It Is characteristic of the anomalies of tho situation that whereas In the north the Bolshevik are fighting tho Allies and describing them In their military bulletins as "the enemy," lu the south British troops have come to the rescue of other Bolshevik!, who, with American volunteers, are defend ing Baku against a Turkish force. So far the Allied operations In Rus sia are in the initial stage. The dif ficult work of preparation has been successfully sui mounted, the enter prise Is launched, Its nlms are pro claimed and the troops are already In contact with different sections of the That the Allied FRFNCH CAPTTTRED 2800 PRT"0TFRS TOJtfXY LONDON', Aug. 20. The French Tenth Army, commanded 1j General Mangin, today captured 2800 Germans between 7 o'clock this morning and 3 p. in., nccording to the latest reports reaching London from the battle front. REPATRIATED GERMANS VIOLATE PAROLE WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Germnn officers formerly in terned in Switzerland and repatriated have been sent on military duty to the Ukraine in violation of the agreement of Berne, nccording to an official dispatch today from France. 1 , DELAWARE REPUBLICANS NOMINATE BALL " 'DOVEK, Del., Aug. 20 The Republican State convention today nominated Dr. L. Heislcr Ball for United States Senator. BASEBALL SCORES PHILLIES.. 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 ST. LOUIS.. 0000000 Jacobs-Adams; Packard-Gonzales. CLEVLAND, A. L... 10113020 0-8 13 2 BOSTON, A. L 11002000 0-172 Bagby-O'Neill; Ruth-Mayer. NEW YORK, N.L... 00020000 PITTSB'GH.N.L.... 03200041 Steel-Rariden; Mayer-Schmidt. BROOKLYN, N.L... 10000100 CIN'NATI.N.L 00000001 - Grimes-Archer; Ring-Wingo. BOSTON, N.L 3 0 0 0 2 0 CHICAGO, N.L 0 0 10 0 3 U.S.TR00PSSEE ! VICTORY IN YEAR! September, 1919. Expected M....K t?:.. 1 nf I HI mill IV L' mill uritui of Foe , -.r, 1 FRAlNLlli I IS PATIENT lly EDWIN L. JAMES Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger Copw'uI.i ' ''- ",r Vr" y"''c """" f'- With the American Army lu France, Aug. '!' Because the army sets in letters from home every day the query, "When will the war be over?" 1 will try to give the army's answer. It seems to be the consensus of the best-Informed army circles that .the war will be over next year. While speculation differs as to the exact time, I have often heard the month of September mentioned as the time when the Germans will probably have had enough. No one seriously expects a decision Uils year. General March has stated his belief that an American force (of 4 000.000 men under one commander-in-chief) can penetrate the German line when and where It pleass. That Is prfectly true, but to make such a penetration on a large sector In end ing the war we must have many times the troops that It would take to make the Initial hole, to widen It and to deepen It and to make It secure enough to bring a decision. Now the German effective strength Is being worn down by constantly re peated 'Allied,-attacks all along the Coatlnued on Tate Two. Coluaia Tanr WILLIAMS force has been welcomed In the north Is beyond question. The population of Archangel only submitted to Bol shevik rule when It was forced on them by nn armed expedition In Jan uary and have since endured the voke most unwillingly. I-nolied In England The great malorltv of the Inhabi tants of the thickly wooded northern governments are sturdy. Independent peasants. There are few large land owners and little Industry, apart from saw milling. The class struggle has been hardly felt In this region, and ' there has been little sympathy for the Soviet doctrine and for months past the population has been looking to England for relief. As long ngo as last December, when , I was traveling to Kiev in a carriage 1 full of soldiers, who were discussing wan some amusement the declaration of Ukrainian Independence, I heard a soldier from Archangel put the view prevailing among his people .in one sentence. "Well," he said, "If" Russia Contlnned on fage Two, Column Six GERMAN CREDITS VICTORIES TO U.S. j General v. on Laenert At tributes Recent Allied Suc- CeSSeS tO f ei'Shing S lrOOpSj . - m RTP FACTOR TN R TT7 175 ... ... By the Associated Prest Ainoterriam, Aug rrotessiouai so'eners liKe uenerals von l.lebeit and Von Blume. unlike so many other German war critics, do not seek to belittle the significance of the ap- , pearauce of Hie American army on the; west from. General on l.lebert, who was former German commandant at Lodz and who now Is military critic of the Taegllche Rundschau of Berlin, tells the public that the American army has actually be come a big factor and the debarkations In France are proceeding regularly. Gen eral von Llebert laments the "moral per version" which brought the Americans to the front and says: "The French and British owe their lecent successes to their transatlantic ally, without whom ihetr offensive would have been doomed to disappointment." General von Blume, who Is on the re tired list, writes an article concerning the Americans which appears In the nhelntsche Westfaeltscbe Zeltung of Essen, He frankly admits that "we have to recognlie that the Americans, all In all, have done very smart work and It would be a, very serious thing If the German army command had to face an American fighting .army of millions." Vital Sector IMPERIL ENEMY ARMY TO EAST Foe's Positions on Aisne Endangered as Magnin Continues Plunge GERMANS MAY RETIRE TO CHEMIN-DES-DAMES Humbert's Troops Push Down Lassigny Slopes and Threaten Noyon BRITISH PIIRmiF RfirFIirC oulllon UttSUfc BULlikb Rupprecht's Troops Fall Back Three to Four Miles in Lvs Salient By the Associated Press Willi the British Armies In France. Aug. 20. Field MnrMinl Hate's forces contin ued to advance throughout the day in the Mervllle sector of the Lys salient. They are closely following Hie retiring Germans, who, this after noon, seem to have gone back to an extreme depth of between three and four miles and are still showing no inclination to come to a halt. Es-, pecially to the south of this sector the Germans have left behind them nu merous lines of retarding wire entan glements. fly the Associated Press raris, iug. zo. ; mk The French Tenth nvmv nHar-b.A ,' $'$ again this morning on a front otiM fifteen miles between the Oise aneVSl the. Aisne and reached a maximuniS depth of two miles, according to tjsA disrintch from tho hntHofrnnf J "! Good progress has been made W everywhere on the entire front of aK ' lack, which extends from Tracy-Le-Vale to Courtil on the Aisne, three miles west of Soissons. Before 9 o'clock this morning the' French captured 500 Germans. The j advance on this front since Saturday is now more than four miles at its greatest depth. The advance of the French troops endangers the whole (Jerman posi tion in the Soissons region and on the River Aisne. It is possible that the Germans now will withdraw to the Chemin des Dames, giving up their salient extending to the Vesle River. German Retreat Probable The blow, which Is a continuation of j the attack on Sunday night northwest, of Solssons, strikes heavily one pt the most vital sectors of the western fiont A wedge has been driven lnt,0 yjra! ...-- .. lt.. X-i. !.. .1... fl.iV. IjUI me enemy nut-. ..u. uuiy uio lu c mans along thp Aisne placed In peril. but the enemy forces at Noyon, .and nn immediate retreat seems the only possible course. ' As a forerunner of the new attack, the French last night captured Vas sens, northwest of Morsaln and ten miles northwest of Soissons, according to today's War Office statement. Allies Envelop Roye North of Roye the French hav taken the Bracquemont and Fendu. Woods and have occupied the greater part of Beuvralgnes, soutnwest or . .ai JIUIC U...-V ....(, .w ... -i..w ... Roye, according to advices. Ifjalso is Hcifll reported that they have made progress '' - .V.& .niithiinst rt Unnvrnlpniks Tfnv cia is virtually enveloped on three sides. jj TJe p,.encri are doing- wen in their i gradual advance down the wooded , ua.. rf T ncQlcriiv ATnlf Thev hnvn Wi55 .,,. '"'"' ' ----.-- Hp-u ! reached a point nve mnes iromxMoyon. -v This is a very dlftlcuit country, Dur af J the French are successfully pushing' ahead toward Noyon from both the. north and the south. , The ine runs close to Lassigny, ' which, reports say, has virtually ben j taken and Is untenable. The attack of the French yesterday j between tne .muiz hd'i um wise w on a front of twelve miles, and, at though the Germans offered -a stu&AS born resistance, the French made an"; -j -i . - .n.. "H uuvitnL-e Ul uuuuv a. imic. 'jVd The present line between the OiMt'Iw and the Aisne follows: From Traoy-rjjV T ol'ol (n T A.Vniii-.Q .V.rra tn T414a-,?.. talne and to Blerancourt, two and.VM half miles . north of Morsaln. From-,'' there It runs south to Osly-Qourttl an4 reaches the Aisne at Courtil. ". Une Through Lassigny '$' At 6 o'clock last evening the batti line west of the Olse ran as folio La Fravlm farm, which Is north of Fresnleres; Arbevde-Canny; western outskirts of Lassigny;' Rue des Boucandes, the southern skirts of Orval; Le Hamel, tf tia t-.'3M ' dsi! Mi "Wl .-' ".-y xp'ji, o. "i-n. r- '" fr v M.-'.L&st&T f- ' S ..-1l. :' k v , 'to-, tn .& -K3 .V .,?:.. ;TjtTAi SiiiMJI :& 34
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