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®bc otar* Independent /
LXXXVII— No. 175
MONTDIDIER FALLS 10 FRENCH;
VON HUTIER'S ARMY IN ROUT
24,000 Prisoners Taken By Allies in
VON HUTIER
WITH ARMY GIVES UP
CO VETEDMONTDIDIER
AMERICANS SCORE
SUCCESS B
SOMME AND ANCRE
German General Leaves Much Material in Retreat; Hun
Rear Guards Fight Desperately; Enemy Position
Along the Montdidier-Roye Road Precarious; Beaten
Forces Make Over 25-Mile Line to Noyon; Move
Probably Signals First Marked Consequence of
Franco-British Offensive
ADVANCE STILL IN PROGRESS IN PICARDY
London, Aug. 10 (4.41 p. m.). —The advance of
the allied armies on the Picardv battlefront continued
to-day, according to the latest dispatches reaching
London late to-dav.
Nowhere, it appears, have the Germans yet been
able to organize for any severe counter stroke.
By Associated Press
lyjOX 1 DIDIER, the apex of the German salient in
Picardv, has fallen. The French, attacking to the
south of the town early this morning, smashed through
the enemy's lines and encircled the village, cutting off
the enemy's retrfe#.
Between Montdidier and the Oise the French have
taken the offensive over a sixteen-mile front and have
swept the Germans back out of the western side of the
salient they drove into the French lines in the terrific!
•battles of early June.
British Advance Unchecked
To the northward, the British advance still is un
checked, Chaulnes, the German base south of the Somme,
is in hoi'rly peril of being captured. The British have
reached the village of Lihons, less than two miles away,J
and have the railway junction south of Chaulnes underj
their artillery fire.
farther north, the Germans are resisting des
perately, but the village of Morlancourt has been taken.
American troops are operating in this sector and had a
hand in the taking of this savagely-defended position.
London reports that the fighting has spread to the
northward and that a battle is being fought south of
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GERMAN DIVISIONAL
AMONG PRISONERS
With tlic British Army in Frame.
Aug. 10. 10.40 A. M.—The enemv
seems to be retreating to-day all
along the battle line in Picardy, es
pecially in the center, where he iB
being heavily attacked bv the Brit
ish.
In their advance the Brtish have
captured •Warvillers, Vrely. Folies
Rosieres and Vajjvillers.
In the course of the fighting a
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BATTLE SPREADS TO THE SOUTH
OF ARRAS; ALLIES TAKE HUNS
London, Aug. 10.—The >
Picardy battle is spreading
to the south of Arras, the
Pall Mall Gazette says this (
afternoon. Heavy fighting
BRITISH FLYERS
65 GERMAN P
London, Friday. Aug. 9.—Slxty
flve German airplanes were destroy
ed by British aviators or driven
down out of control In the fighting
of August 8 when the allied often-.
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German divisional headquarters und
its staff were captured.
British tanks have been seen well
to the east of Meharicourt. Streams!
of German transports are still gom?
eastward. Two new German divi
sions have been engaged ijy the ad
vancing Allies. Information re
ceived from prisoners indicates that
the fighting may soon become heav
ier.
occurred this morning in
the> battle area with the al
lies making satisfactory
| progress and taking large
numbers of prisoners.
| elve in Picardy ope Vied. to-night's of
! ficlal statement on aviation opera
j tions shows. Fifty British machines
are missing, the British losses being
J due chiefly to fire from tho ground.
SINGI.B COPY
2 CENTS
TIME IN WAR IS
AT HAND TO KEEP
GERMANS ON RUN,
GEN. MARCH SAYS
Greatest Advantage to Allies
I Is to Be Able to Keep Ger
mans Guessing, He Tells
Correspondents at Weekly
Conference; War Not Over
PRESSURE OX CHAULNES
DIFFICULT FOR TEUTONS
Rainbow Division East of
Rheims After Training in
Lorraine; 29th Division Is
in Alsaco; 27th Division
With Rritish in Flanders
By Associated Press
j Washington, Aug. 10.—The Fran
co-British drive in Picardy has
put the enemy again in a had posi
tion similar to the pocket which
closed upon him on the Aisne-Marne
front, General March said to-day in
his weekly conference with newspa-
I per correspondents.
The whole battle line from
I Rheims to Flanders is being straight
( ened out and the time has come for
I the greatest effort, he said.
"Keep Him Going," Focli Says
Marshal Foch is following the
j sound military principle of hitting
l wilhout relaxation, said the general.
| "When you get the enemy going,
j keep him going."
Any suggestion that the end of the
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CHARLES H. WALTZ
ON WOUNDED LIST
FROM WAR FRONT
Penbrook Soldier on Casualty
Record; Degree of Injuries
Undetermined
jff
jm
CHARLES H. WALTZ
Charles H. Waltz, of Penbrook,
named in to-day'a casualty lists 4a
being: wounded In France "to a de
gree undetermined," is aged 20 years
and Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. K.
Waltz, Penbrook. He entered the
service March 28, 1917, and sailed
for France in August.
When Wa"ltz enlisted he was sent
to Fort Siocum, N. Y,, where he was
identified with Company L>, 9th In
fantry. Afterward he was sent to
San Antonio and later to Syracuse.
He was formerly employed at the
Hex garage as a machinist.
HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1918.
There Goes Another of Your Puncture-Proof Tires, Bill
'WILL SEND 1918
REGISTRANTS IN
NEXT MOVEMENT
Local Draft Boards Say 1917
Class Will Not Meet Au
gust 26 Quotas
During the five-day movement of
10.000 draftees to Camp Lee, Peters
burg, Va„ beginning August 26, Har
risburg and Dauphin county will send
its first regular quota of 1918 draft
registrants to camp, according to the
officials of the three city and three i
county draft boards this morning |
The quota for the six boards is 156 '
men. It is thought that more than I
m' k P°" ihly ha,f of the draftees
will be of the 1918 class. '
The boards did not receive notice
of their quota*) this morning. They
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CLKARING HOUSE KEPORTS
By Associated Press ,
X™ Yor |s' Aug 10.—The actual
condition of Clearing House banks
and trust companies for the week
shows that they hold $40,839,380 re
exc?ss of legal requirements.
This is a decrease of $14,392,810
from last week.
GERMAN ARMY W NEVER
MAKE ANOTHER OFFENSIVE
THE Ke-v York Times" military
expert, who has not failed once
in his forecasts of the war, to
day says: ,
"The Germans are yet far from
being beaten. But it is beginning to
appear that as an offensive power
they have finished for all time. No
one can be positive as to Just what
plans the German General Staff may
have had for this year. There was
much blustering and swashbuckling
and fanfare as to the grandiose pur
poses of their great offensives. Thev
were going to be In Paris by April 1,
and somewhere else by another arbl
r?iT y and a * another place at
still another date. How much of
BAKER PROPOSES
SELF-ACTING RULE
TO GOVERN DRAFT
I
[Wants Automatic Regulation
| That Will Permanently Fix
Status of Each Man
Washington, Aug. 10.—The Wai
Department has a plan in considera
tion to provide for Jhe Government
to do the selecting under the next
draft act, rather than leaving it to j
I the registrant. This was disclosed!
after he had appeared before the i
j Senate Military Committee to urge
immediate passage of the bill ex
pending the age limits from 18 to j
4 5 years.
Mr. Baker proposes to lay down a
set of question which the registrants
would answer, and then provide
rules for classification. He regards
this as a more equitable system be
cause many men hesitate for patri
otic reasons to claim exemption that
is rightly theirs.
"I am inclined to think,* sat,
Secretary Baker, "that the marriage
relation will In itself constitute de
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this was part of their plan and how
much was a German boast no on>>
can be certain. But what is certain
Is that, no matter what plans they
may have had for this year, they
have been completely smashed.
"It is practically certain now that,
except as an absolutely defensive!
measure, Germany will never launch
another great attack. The privilege!
of planning has been taken from her
Tt rests entirely with General Foch.
It Is for him to plan what he will
do next, for him to launch the Kieat
offensives. It is for the Germans to
try to toT> them. This,-and only
this, will be the German role until
the German army surrenders or is
destroyed."
SOVIETS ARREST
!j BRITISH CONSUL
AND STAFF MEN
Bolshevik Embassy in London
Is Placed Under Super
vision of Police
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 10.—In reprisal for
the arrest at Moscow of Robert H. B.
Lockhart, British consular agent at
Moscow, and other British officials,
I by the Bolshevikl, M. LitvinofT, the
, Bolshevik emissary in London, has
; been placed under police supervision
j the Daily Mail states.
London, Aug. 10—Robert H. B.
| Lockhart. acting consul general in
l Moscow, and six Britishers attached
to his staff and several French diplo.
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German Destroyer Sunk
Off Zeebrugge; British
Flyers Shell Sweepers
i
• By Associated Press *
' London. Aug. 10.—A German de-!
stroyer was sunk eight miles off!
Zeebrugge yesterday, probably by ai
British mine, according to an official |
statement Issued by the Admiralty
to-day.
Enemy mine sweeper* operating
off Zeebrugge were heavily bombard- j
ed by the. British aircraft, the state-1
ment added.
MAKE THIS
A RED LETTER ONE I
By War Stamp Buying I
Tonight !
£3TThink of Jan. 1, 1923 j
I THE WEATHER - ]
Itnd v|clnlt?i
Partly cloudy to-ilght nnrt
bundayi moderate temperature.
ONLY EVENING ASSOCIATED HItESS
NEWSPAI'iCII IN HA Kill SHU KG
AMERICANS ARE
WITH HAI
IN GREAT DRIVE
Yankees Help British Capture Important
Positions in Attack Between the Ancre
and the Somme; Engaged in Mas
sive Conflict in the Amiens-
Somme District
By Associated Press •
With the British Army in France, Aug. 10. Ameri
can troops have been thrown into the fighting in the
great battle on the Amiens-Somme district. They suc
ceeded in overcoming stiff resistance and helped the
British capture important positions in an attack launched
yesterday between the Ancre and the Somme.
The American machine gunners
and infantry went into battle with
their traditional enthusiasm. They
met the Germans and defeated them
here just as they did along the
Marne. At places stiff resistance de
veloped, but all along the line the
Americans, British and French
smashed through the harassed
I enemy who was trying to hold up
their advance.
;!> . 1 a
i f , RIvTANS UNABLE TO COUNTER ATTACK 8
| | ion.—Eleven German divisions have been not only |j
[ st* iin the fighting of the past three days, but so | |
crushed that the German higher command has j
jl, unable to make any c'ounter-aftacks anywhere. The ||
|| crtnan communications have been so disorganized I
j|J| at thus far only two divisions of reserves have been 8
ill ntified, and these new troops have "not. been able to ||
| | take any impression on Jhe advancing allies. No fur- I
||| r news from the, American forces on the northern
| -ik of the fighting front has reached London since |||
|||| on, when accounts of their successes in the Morlan- j |
|j| irt region were at hand. There is every indication, j ;
g. l vever, that they arc pushing ahead steadily according
j; the allied plan. II
|||i Harrisburg.—Mayor Keister. this afternoon, received 1
||| reply from Ambassador Jusserand, French ambassador |[
IE Washington, who speaking for the French government j [
I||; nks the residents of Harrisbutg for the telegram o$ it
i t sympathy sent on Bastile Day, July 14. a
j | LALANCE-GROSJEAN MEN GET INCREASE 1
Haftiiburg.—A general ten per cent increase in wages k
j ; ' s been granted by the LaLance and Grosjean Mfg. Co., I
j|| the employes of that corporation's Harrisburg plant 8
s $ rctive August 1,:. This affect about 250 employes, |
1 is the second ten per cent advance this year. The
| Hot Mills of this company which had been idle since
| t Wednesday on'account of the extreme heat resurn-
I ed operations at midnight last night.
I COLLINS TO JOIN MARINES
Cleveland, Ohio.—Eddie Collins, second baseman for | ;
> Chicago Americans, will play his last game this sea
nat Boston Thursday, leaving that night for Phila- i(.
tlphfa where he will join the marines, he announced
■ day. | 9
"ENCH TAKE SAUtCHY AND DAVENESCOURT L
London.—The latest news from the French, was that
| 1! y captured the towns of Saulchy and Davenescourt.
|)e . Derate fighting has taken place at Chipilly, on the
orth side of the U
MARRIAGE LICENSES
. Cfcnrlea Lnnicleta. Camp Hill, and Lairn Jeanette Brenl
holt, HurrlKhurxi William Henry IMrrt'r. Mechanlcaburir. and
sr°" ■ Nhu '''' Knoliu I larrnw Weaver anil Ida Mohn,
HnrrlMburai AiiKuxtim SrrhrlK* Harrldbur*. and Thelma Mae Baix-
I'rn?? . 'd Hel*ht| Frank A Inn Xonemuker, Wormleyabitrif,
| and Ethel Martha !*.*. HarrUburt.
HOME EDITION
Chipilly Spur, north of the
Somme, was captured by the Amer
icans and British troops at 6 o'clock
last night. The attack began at 5
o'clock when the allies moved for
ward between the Ancre and the
Somme. They were supported ti -
tan ks and were preceded by heavy
barrage fire. The enemy was driven
toward Bray, northeast of Chipilly.