Rt >e's r !? With f rench, British and Canadian Troop Seems Hours jfe HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M . ®bc otar- Bn&cpensent . • ' ' j LXXXVII— No. 181 12 PAGES B Toents pv HARRISBURG, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1918. ""sewspal* Kll *N S VIVItIIISVII,%"■ S HOME EDITION NATION HAS SENT 1,450,000 TROOPS AWAY FOR WAR Eighty Divisions to Be in France by July Next, March Says 18TH BOYS IN FLANDERS 28th Division Held American Center During Crossing of the Ourcq Washington, Aug. 17.—More than 1,450,000 Yankees embark ed from the United States, Gen eral March, chief of staff, said to-day. This includes men sent to Italy and Siberia, as well as. tcv France. General March was talking to newspaper correspondents in his semiweekly conference He said official reports through the Spanish embasy give 110 evidence that American prisoners in Germany are singled out for mistreatment as has been reported. Very detailed reports including the daily menus are received and show the question of the treatment of prisoners has largely been standardized. Further Withdrawal Probable Discussing the battle situation in France, the chief-of-staff drew atten tion to the fact that the Germans now have voluntarily surrendered . portions of their lines at four dif ferent places. He placed no construc tion of his own on this, hut it was taken as an indication of an expected further withdrawal by the enemy. In a general way, the lines generally are stabilized on a front closely fol lowing 1916-1917 positions in Picardy and along the Aisne-Vesle line to the south. Speaking of the American pro- gram. General March said it is pro * posed to put eighty divisions into France by June 30, 1919, if it is pos sible to do so as shown in the Senate Military Committee report on the manpower bill. General McCain Rewarded General March announced thut j """Major General Henry B. McCain, ad-| jutant general, as reward for effi-1 < ient work in that office, had been assigned to command the Twelfth di-j \ Ision now being organized at Camp i Devens, Mass. Brigadier General Peter C. Harris will he made acting adjutant general. He has been responsible for a great reduction in paper work in the de partment. including the abolishment of the old muster rolls which tended "to cut away unnecessary red tape. Coming Home For Host Announcement was made that Ma jor General George B. Duncan, one of the first American officers to win the French war cross for distinguish ed gallantry in action, was being sent home for a rest. General March.said the case was typical' and showed the tremendous strain under which both officers and men work at the front. He indicated that a number of cases similar to that of General Duncan would follow. •JHtli Division in Center Answering a question, General March said the losses of the 110 th Kegiment, (Pennsylvania troops), of the 28th Division probably were pro portionate to the heavy fighting in which that division had been engag ed. He gave no figures but pointed out that the 28th Division had held the American center during the crossing of the Ourcq and again was in line along the Vesle where further sharp fighting had occurred. French Applaud Yankee Valor On the Vesle front, where the American troops are in line, only ar tillery fire and raids have been re ported, General March said. He read a French divisional order paying high tribute to the valor and ef ficiency of the Second artillery brig ade of the Second American division, which aided the Twelth French In fantry in two days' of fierce fighting at Chateau Thierry. 18th Division in Flanders As to the location of other divi sions, General March said the 18th Division (Pennsylvania and Virginia troops), was training with the Brit ish in Flanders; that the 88th (North Dakota, Minnesota, lowa and Illi nois troops), was in process of em barkation, and that the 82d (Ala bama, Georgia and Tennessee troops) was in line north of Toul where it arrived early in July. Reports do not show that the 82d Division, he said, has yet been engaged. IN TWO WEEKS WAR STAMPS GO UP ONE CENT a AST $5.00 Is Value in 1923 THE WEATHER Far Hiirrlnhgrg and vicinity! Kulr to-night and Sunday; not much chnngr In temperature. For* Knntern Pennsylvania! Fair and continued cool to-night and Sunday* light, northeast winds. The Susqnehnnnn river nnd all Its trlbntarles will probnbly con tinue to fall slowly. A stage of about 3A feet Is Indlcnted for Hnrrlsburg Sunday morning. Temperature! 8 a. m., . River Stngei 3.0 feet above low water mark. Highest temperature, M. I.oweat temperature, (11. Mean temperature, 72. Normal temperature, 72- SLASHED THROAT TO ESCAPE ARMY; IS UNDER ARREST Ernest K. Burtnett,* Harris burger, Held by Military Authorities URGED TO COME HOME Youth Stayed Quietly in Bed For Hours After Wound ing Himself Krnest Kimball Burtnett, 315 Ham ilton street, was taken into custody by military authorities this morning and will be returned to Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., where he is said to have deserted following his discharge from the hospital in which he under went treatment for a razor slash across his throat, which he inflicted himself. Sergeant Wilkinson, of Camp Lee, took charge of the man this morning. He was arrested at his home, where Sergeant Wilkinson said his mother offered a bribe of {IOO to allow her boy to remain. The young man is 33 years old. He had been in Camp.Lee only 11 days when he cut his throat, officials said. His dislike of the military life, and fear of overseas duty, is said to have been the cause. He deserted following his release from the base hospital. Sergeant Wilkinson said that if he hud not deserted lie would have received liis discharge from the army. Traded Safety lt.i/or Burtnett was employed on govern ment work at Marsh Run until June, when he was sent to Camp Lee by City Board No. 3. He admitted at tlie "police station to-day he traded his safety razor for a straight one belonging to a fellow soldier, and cut his throat shortly after midnight and laid in bed without medical help until reveille at 5 o'clock in the morning. Ho was sent to the hospi tal and discharged August 5. He then deserted and came to this city. At his home he said he had been abused and maltreated at camp. Sergeant Wilkinson said, but at the police station following his arrest he admitted he had not been mis treated. It was said letters from his mother urging him to come home at any cost prompted his move. "God has sent my boy home to me," I is said to have been written by his I mother after she learned of his com ing. His father is employed by the Har-| Yishurg Pipe and Pipe-Bending Com pany. v Ten Pennsylvanians in the Overseas Casualties; One Killed in Action! Washington, Aug. 17.—The army I casualty list to-day contained 90 I names, divided as follows: Killed in I action, 17: died of wounds, 1; died of I accidents and other causes, 2; wound ed severely, 31; wounded, degree un determined, 20; missing in action, 19. Serfceant Brewster C. Schoch, of Selinsgrove, Pa., is reported killed In! action. Ten Pennsylvanians are j named as follows: Dleil of Accidents nml Other Causes Private Andrew Hess, McKees' 1 Rocks. I Wounded Severely l.ieutenant Dudley K. Bell, Bristol. ! Private Samuel Barn hart, Curtin. Private Samuel Humphrey, Logania. ' Private J. R. Hoik. Reaver Falls. Missing in Action Private Harry Atlas, Philadelphia. ! Private George W. Corr.v, Philadel- ' phia. Private Leslie H,."Crabtree, Phila- ; delphia. I Private Angelo D'Alessandre, ■ Philadelphia. | Private* Nelson Boyer. Trevorton. j Spain Notifies Germany , She Will Make Reprisals For Future U-Boat Losses By Associated Press London, Aug. 17*—Spain has notl ■ tied Germany of her intention to compensated herself for future out | rages against Spanish shipping by | confiscating a corresponding amount of tonnage from German shipping I that has found refuge in Spanish ; ports, says a dispatch to the Times ' fiom Santander. There are about I ninety German steamers voluntarily i interned in Spain. | _ | Burning Rubbage in New Penn-Harris Causes Alarm An alarm was turned in from box 4, Third and Market streets, at 5.48 this morning, by a member of the Allison Hill fire department, who saw a blaze on the fifth floor of the Penn-Harris hotel. Fire Chief Kindler said a bunch of rubbish on the fifth floor too big to he sent down the shute to the ground, was laid on the fireproof floor by workmen and burned, giving the aspect of a fire in the building. The alarm was tapped off at 5.58 when the cause was discovered. It is the second alarm of fire at the Penn-Harris. Last winter steam fnom the street where a pipe be neath the pavement heated the wet asphalt was the cause for an alarm. French Cruiser Sunk; 13 of Crew Missing By Associated Press Purls, Aug. 17.--The old French cruiser Dupetit Thouars has been sunk by a German submarine, it is officially announced to-day. Thir teen of the crew are missing. Amer ican destroyers rescued the remain der. The Dupetit Thouars was co-oper utfng with United States naval forces in protecting Atlantic navigation. i LIEUT. DOWDELL TELLS HOW U. S. REGULARS SMASHED PRUSSIANS HMHHHHL IjHgL m - Sa || * Large picture is that of Lieutenant Marcus Dowdell, Harrisburg officer, who picked the photograph (small) of young German officer up on the battlefield of France where Company of the Thirty-eighth United Mates ißsf Hegulars almost wiped out a battulion of the Prussian Mjm:S Guards, capturing fifty-six machine guns. The little diary WNmE** (small etching) and the Identification case (large etch ' ::| ' v jnß ) bearing the Prussian coat of arms. This case is made of shoddy, showing the straits to which the Ger mans are put for material. Oases captured early in the war were of leather. . ..* ALDERMAN GIVES NO DECISION IN MURNANE CASE Major Gray to Protect Offi cers With Detachments of Military Police Detachments of military police hereafter will accompany govern-: ment officers to Harrisburg when prisoners ore being brought to the county jail <o 'protect them from as sault, Major William B. Gray, com mandant of the Middletown Ord nance Depot announced to-day when Alderman Hilton "took under ad visement" the charges of assault and battery brought by a Middle town officer against John Murnane, a city detective. Alderman Hilton declined to ren der a decision in the case after hearing evidence submitted by both sides over the course of two hours. It was shown that Murnane struck the Middletown officer with a black jack when the former was taking several men to the county jail while Murnane claimed it was a case of "mistaken identity." It was alleged at the time (he [Continued on Page 10.] Need Not Submit Registrars' Names ; State Draft Headquarters to-day is : sued notice to local hoards that it will i not he necessary to send lists of reg i istruts for the registration of August 24 to state headquarters for approval. "The selection of these registrars is left to the judgment of local hoards." says the notice. The questionnaires for the next registration will he sent out Monday. It is believed hero that I the registration on August 21 will he ' approximately one-fourth of that on j June 5. ] The returns of local hoards on the ! number of men remaining in Class 1 j for general military service after Camp Lee calls are filled, show a total i of 21,940 white and colored, divided as follows: White, 1917 class 1,940, 1918 class 17,450, total 19,396; colored, 1917 | I class 749, 1918 class 1,795, total 2,544. New Week Is to Bring ! Temperature Below Normal! By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 17.—Weather j predictions for the week beginning Monday, issued by the weather bu- I reau to-day are: j North and Middle Atlantic States: I Fair with temperatures normal or' slightly belo<v, first of week. Show-1 ers about Wednesday and rising tern-1 perature. Temperatures slightly be low hormal. [ l PRESIDENT SAVES LIFE OF MAN WHO DESERTED IN THIS CITY Private Herman Ladenson Has Sentence Commuted to Fif teen Years at Hard Labor After Court-Martial's Decree Private Herman Ladenson, ot Camp Meade, found guilty of deser tion and disobeying an order of an officer, was sentenced to death by a court-martial, but President Wilson has commuted the sentence to fifteen years at hard labor. Ladenson de serted the service at Harrisburg, March 24, and was apprehended on April 26, at Philadelphia. The sen tence read: "To be shot to death by musketry," and General Joseph A. Gaston, camp commander, approved it in his capacity of reviewing au thority. The first charge against Ladenson referred to desertion and that President disapproved of. The Presi dent'-* order in full follows: Stopped Drive in Its Tracks, Capture 54 Machine Guns and Mow Germans Down by the Hundreds; Ditches Are Piled Full of Dead MEN ABE IN HIGH SPIRITS OVER SUCCESS How G, of the 28th United States Infantry, Regulars,] smashed up the 17th Battalion of thel famous Prussian Guards, admittedly .Ihe best troops in the German army, and stopped the German drive at j Mezy and halted the drive for Paris in that direction, is told in a graphic ly written letter from Lieutenant Marcus P. Dowdell, who has been as signed to that company after a period in the hospital, to take the place of an officer lost in battle. Lieutenant Dowdell is a son of Ralph W. Dowdell, of Harrisburg, local manager of the Burroughs Add ing Machine Company, with offices in the Telegraph building, and until he went to college at Swarthmore, was himself a salesman for his father's company, with headquarters in Harrisburg, where he is well known. With his letter he sends back home the picture of a boyish German of ficer picked up on the battlefield, to gether with the officer's ' Te cal endar and dairy and the pouch in which he carried them. This pouch is made of pressed shoddy, from which the clothing of the German soldiers is now being made due to scarcity of wool and cotton in that country. It is poor stuff and could be easily pulled apart. Story of the Battle Lieutenant Dowdell's letter fol-l lows: "We are back in rest camp after taking part in the counterdrivo against the Huns. At present 1 am writing from the edge of a trench! leading into my dugout in a patch of woods near Alezy, where Company G, assisted by the remainder of the] Second Battalion of the Thirty eighth stopped the drive in its tracks. I This morning I went over the bat j tie ground a half mile ahead of this position and saw how the battle raged from the piles of dead which , still lay there ten days after the bat-i | tie. This grounVl has been so fierce | ly fought over that neither side could bury any dead until yesterday when 1 | most of the Americans were buried.! j Details were finishing that thisi I morning, while Hun prisoners were putting away the astonishing piles of their brelhren. . Demi Tell tlic Title "The piles of dead tell the story, j There is no shadow of a doubt but | that one company demoralized the I whole German drive and wiped out | the Seventeenth Battalion of the; I Prussian Guard. The sectors to right l I and lift of this little band were! i comparatively free of dead, but i on the G Company sector they were idled up indescribably. A number of ditches ranged across the river end of the battlefield and these wcro [Continued on Page 10.] "In the foregoing case of Private Herman Ladenson, Twenty-third Company, One Hundred and Fifty fourth Depot Brigade, the finding of guilty of charge two and its speciflca cation is disapproved. The finding of guilty of charge two and its spefica tion is approved. The sentence is confirmed and commuted to dishon orable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, due or to be come due, and conflnemeni at hard labor for fifteen years. The execu tion of that portion of tht sentence adjudging dishonorable discharge Is suspended until the soldier's release from confinement. As thus com muted the sentence will be carried into execution. "WOODROW WIJLSQN." WAVE OF PETTY LAWLESSNESS IS SWEEPING CITY Drunkenness Gives police Much Trouble; 83 Ar rested in Week Police records for the past week indicate that petty lawlessness is in creasing at an alarming rate in Har risburg. Sixteen arrests were made by po lice last night. It was only an ex ample of the disorderliness that is increasing nightly on the streets, and in some of the more or less troublesome neighborhoods of the city. Seventy-three arrests have been made this week alone. This does not set a record for the local department for the number of arrests, but it is the greatest number arrested any one week without any big raids being made, and when no holidays oc curred. Much Drunkenness Most of the arrests are for drunk enness and disorderly conduct. Fines ranging front $lO to $25 and jail sen tences ranging from five to thirty days, are in most cases imposed. Nu merous arrests are for lighting on the streets, many for drunkenness, while a large proportion of the men and most of the women arrested were for more serious charges. Cow den and North Seventh streets, as usual, figure largely in the reports. Police officials this morning de clared the presence here of large forces of laborers who work one or two days and spehd their money for drink and "celebrations" are in most cases responsible for the disorderli ness. Marsh Run is the principal res ervoir of the disorderly characters, police say. Middletown and the mu- I nitions plants in the city also con- I tribute a large part of the rough element. Four women were dVnong those ar rested last night. Emma Hender son was arrested at her house, 510 Strawberry street, on a serious charge. Agnes Thomas was arrest ed at Cumberland and Monroe streets because she was too drunk to take charge of police say. Maud Baker was arrested on the charge of hanging around the streets in the vicinity of Broad and Cowden streets until 2 and 3 o'clock every morning. Marie Thomas was arrested on a serious charge. She was arrested at the notorious No. 18 Cowden street. Nine men were arrested on dis orderly charges. They are: E. R. Beshore and D. W. Slosser on the charge of fighting on the streets; John Williamson, on a disorderly charge; Albert Thomas and Samuel Lawrence on the charge of fighting at 1121 North Seventh street; H. B. Mills for dtsorderliness on the streets; William Fiynn and James J'ones for disorderly conduct with Marie .Flynn. American Killed in French Battle Plane Pnrbi, Aug. 17.—Sergeant William MoKerness, of Wallingford, Conn., at tached to the Lafayette escadrille, was killed In a fight with eight en emy airplanes on Thursday, according to the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune. The sergeant was flying with a French pilot and their machine was accompanied by two French air planes. Eight German machines ap peared and the French airplanes boldly attacked them. They kept up the unequal fight until the machine in which McKetpess was flying crash ed to the ground In flames. The bodies of McKerness and the French pilot wore picked up within the French lines. CANARD AS TO TRANSPORT New York, Aug. 17.—A rumor was in circulation here yesterday that a transport, one of the great liners formerly owned by a German company, had been torpedoed. In vestigation showed that the rumor was utterly false. NEW HINDENBURG LINE BEING PREPARED FOR ANOTHER HUN RETREA T Germans Expected to | Retire From Whole Salient Dominated By the Allies ROYE VIRTUALLY IN FOCH'S GRASP By Associated Press Paris, Auf,. 17.—The Germans are i preparing to evacuate the Roye-Las- I Mgny-Noyon salient, says the Echo j Be Paris. 11 is indicated, the paper adds, that German pioneers and lab- j borers are at work behind the Ger nrtn front l nes on a new Hinden huig line. The German position in Roye is serious Not only are the allies a mile and or e-quarter west of the. town but tr-e roads leading out of it tow; rd l'cronne, Nesle and Noyon i aie under the fire of allied guns. London, Aug. 17.—'In Picardy Brit- | lsl troops have made additional pro- | gress, says Eield Marshal Haig in his oflicial statement to-day. The British lines have been pushed east ward north cr the Amiens-Roye road, and north of the Ancre. British troops have gained more ground in the neighborhood of Vieux tleiquin, at. the apex of the Eys sa lient, say- the official statement from Field Marshal Haig to-day. Paris. Aug. 17.—1n the region truth of Roye French troops have made more progress in the I-oßcs v.ood ani. have reached the outskirts of the wood on the east says the War Office statement to-day. There was heavy artillery fighting west of Roye during the night. Northwest of Ribecourt the French have repulsed two strong German attacks. Roye, the central bastian of the German defense line from Peronne to Noyon, which has withstood allied thrusts for nearly a week, is men aced seriously by advancing French. British and Canadian troops and Its fall would appear to be a probability of the next few hours. With the town in allied hands the southern end of the German line at I least undoubtedly would have to re tire, although the northern end through Chaulnes to Peronne also would be affected. The allies now are but a scant one and one-quarter miles west of the town, while tbey ire pressing eastward in the north and in the south. Win on 9-Milc Front Along a front of nearly nine miles north and south of the Avre. which Hows through Roye. the allies have pushed hack the enemy in stubborn lighting. The most notable advance was made on a front of three rniles in the center by French and Cana dian troops who are now fighting on a line through Goyencourt, St. Mard les-Triot and Laucourt. St. Mard is west of Roye and they are no villages in the intervening mile and a quar ter. 1 French troops on the south have forced their way almost through the Loges wood which borders the Roye- Lassisny road on the west. The wood is five miles directly south- of Roye and it would appear that a further advance might enable the French to outflank both Roye and Lassigny and force the Germans to readjust their lines eastward toward Noyon and probably beyond. North of Goyen court British forces, after having re pulsed an enemy attack on Darnery in which 250 prisoners were captur ed, are pushing eastward with French units toward Fransart and Fresnoy-Les-Roye. Berlin Says Little Artillery activity continues on the remaining sectors of the main battle front between the Ancre and the Gise. The British on the northern end and the French on the southern maintain their newly gained positions ahd the enemy has shown no dispo- I sition to attack. Berlin reports officially that allied attacks on both sides of the Avre on Friday failed. The German war of fice has nothing further to say of the i withdrawals in the Lys salient and along the Ancre. Admission of the loss of Attiche farm, southwest of Noyon, to the French is made, but it is said six French attacks against Lassigny on Thursday were repulsed. American and French troops along the Vesle have undergone an attack in which the Germans used gas, ar tillery and bombing aviators. This attack followed an incursion by American aviators who heavily bombed German bridges over the Aisne and discovered enemy artillery and machine gun nests. Three Ger man airplanes were brought down by American airmen Thursday. British and French airmen on the same day put thirty-two enemy machines out of action, while Berlin reports the de struction of twenty-four allied air planes. Italy, Stunds Firm Italian troops in the Tonale re gion, northwest of Lake Garda, and along the southern Piave have with stood Austrian attacks against their new positions on these sectors. Other wise the situation is unchanged in; Northern Italy. Spain, which recently sent another! note to Germany protesting against | the destruction of Spanish merchant-! men by submarines, is reported to! hgve notified Berlin that hereafter | the Spanish government will make i up losses sustained through U-boats by seizing German shipping in Span, ish harbors. German vessels to the number of ninety have found refuge in Spanish territorial waters. ALSACE CHATEAUS SOLD TO GERMANS By Associated Press Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 17. Under forced conditions and at nominal prices, the Germans are selling many beautiful French chateaus and homes in Alsace. Prince William of Hohensol lern has just bought the chateau of Tharon de Hussiere, near Mul hausen. The German Crown Prince al ready has bought two places at ridiculously low prices and is said to be negotiating for another. WAR PROFITEERS GRAB MOST FROM FOOD AND DRESS Treasury Analysis Lays Bare Gains From 100 to 8,000 Per Cent. By Associated Press Washington, Aug. 17.—War prott teers in 1917 were most numerous in business devoted to food produc tion and distribution, cotton and woolen manufacturing and dealing, coal mining, iron, copper, aluminum and other metal production and oil production and distribution, accord ing to a treasury analysis of income tax returns. In addition, thousands of small concerns in a great variety of industrial and commercial classifi cations made profits ranging from 100 to 3,000 per cent, above their normal profits for pre-war years, which even then were considered high. Detaileu information on the ex tent of war-profiteering has been giv [Continued on Page .] NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT PROTESTS Copenhagen—The Norwegian government has sent a protest fo Berlin as a consequence of the sinking of the Norwegian freighter Sommerstad off the American coast cn' August 13, according to the Norges Siofarstidende of Christiania. PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY FIRED AT BY ASSASSIN Montevideo—An attempt wa3 made to assassinate Presi dent Viera, of Uruguay, on Tuesday afternoon during rioting. The President was standing on a balcony when fired at and the bullet missed him by a narrow margin. AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE .TO BE KING OF POLAND The Hague—Archduke Karl Stephen probably will be named king of Poland, Germany approving Austria's sug gestion that an Austrian archduke be niade the Polish ruler. ' GERMANS SEIZE KRONSTADT, NAVAL POFT Pat i—Reports arc in circulation in Finland that the Germans have seized the Russian naval port of Kronstadt, according to a Stockholm dispatch to La Matin. * SOVIETS BOMBARD KAZAN Amsterdam—l£azan, an important city in the Volga region, has been surrounded and is being bombarded by Soviet troops, according to a telegram received from Moscow byway of Berlin. Bolshevik troops, advancing \ 4 toward Onega Bay, ha e occupied Kirilov, east of Petrograd. TWO VESSELS LAUNCHED TODAY Philadelphia—Two more vessels were launched in the Delaware River to-day, the Buhisan a 3,500-ton wooden ship, which dipped into the water at the Traymore Ship building Corporation at Cornwell's, Pa., and the tanker E. L. Doheny, 3rd, which made its plunge at the New York, Shipbuilding Company's yard, Camden, N. J. WOMAN COLLAPSES IN COURT New York—Sentenced to a year and three months im-, prisonmen for attempting to sell defective bags to the government, Miss ißabell Fcdcr collapsed in the Federal * Court in Brooklyn to-day. , MARRIAGE LICENSES I.ouln H. Strnu I Urnce SI. Herahfclil, 'lnlt Imorr, Md. Kn|ter Kraft ami Katie Shoaenuir. stffHiini William H. I.ux ami Haannh M. I.eho, Knhnut t Kilnnril 11. I'crkliiM. Heyttavllle. >ll.. anil Ilonoro U. Wnlah, Brooklyn. N. V.i Harry C. Holnry, Hummtliilvnn. anil Mather K. l.umllH, Hiillierfortl llelKhtM ,lnhn l.eaher nml l.ottle J. OauKler. Vorthiiiiilirrland i l.evl W. Flatter nnd ICliniilieth A. Aclien- Inieh, Hunimelatonn. Allied Airmen Drop Tons of Bombs On Enemy Works in Daily Raids AIR FIGHTING WORST OF WAR By Associated Press London, Friday, Aug. 16.—Meas ured by the number of machines en gaged, the intensity of the lighting and the magnitude of the losses in flicted on the enemy, the fighting in the air during the past week was the most formidable of the war. Some of the most severe conflicts occurred on August 8 in the sector between Albert and the Amiens-Roye road where the German air forces were increased considerably soon after the opening of the allied offensive. The air fighting resulted ill the destruction of 48 enemy ma chines, while 17 others were driven down out of control. Fifty British machines did not return. During the six succeeding days 185 enemy airplanes were destroyed and 89 driven down out of control, mak ing a total of 339 German machines for the week compared to 123 Brit ish airplanes missing. In the same period British bomb ing squadrons continually attacked enemy airdromes, railways and other military objectives, dropping more than 640,000 pounds of bombs and causing great damage. Dow flying scout machines raked the enemy 'a congested roads of retreat with ma'- j chine gun lire, inflicting many casu alties. A notable feature of the aerial operations was the virtually continu ous night and day bombing of the enemy bridges over the Somme. This greatly hampered the supply and re inforceme. of the German troops. The week's work also included a number of destructive raids into Germany.
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