TIIE MORNING OltEGONIAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918.
DRAFT AGE LIMIT
STANDS UNCHANGED
Way Cleared for Passage of
12 Billion Army Bill by '
I Senate Action.
McC UMBER LEADS DEBATE
Xorlh Iakotan Criticises Congress
l'or "Abdicating Its Duties", to
executive Departments
of Administration.
(Continued From First Page.)
MAP SHOWING WHERE BRITISH AND FRENCH DROVE INTO THE
GERMAN LINE.
eachuselts to make the maximum age
Compulsory Training Fails.
S3 years instead of 40.
Proposals by Senator Brandegee of
Connecticut to reduce the minimum age
to 18 years also was defeated, and by
Senator New of Indiana to make mili
tary training of youth between 20 and
lil compulsory.
Speaking for the Fall amendment.
Senator Cummins, Vf Iowa, said it was
unexplainable why War Department of
ficials should offer any opposition to
the proposal.
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
advocated extending the draft so as to
include all men between 18 and 45 years
of age and declared for an Army of
C000.U00 immediately.
Chamberlain Opposes Extension.
Chairman Chamberlain, of the mili
tary committee, said emphatically that
the latter proposal was impracticable.
"We're not able now to clothe, arm,
train and otherwise equip 5,000,000
men," said Mr. Chamberlain. He ex
plained that, although favoring per
sonally immediate extension of the
draft ages, he was accepting the state
ments of Secretary Baker and General
March, chief of staff, that i". was de
sirable to postpone legislation because
of problems of housing, training, arm
ing, clothing and transportation.
Senator McCumber said concrete
chips would solve the tonnage prob
lem, but' that before great production
of these ships can begin "an everlasting
conspiracy against them" must be
overcome.
Allied Lohhji Heavy.
The Shipping Board, he said, will
not take the responsibility ot build
ing concrete vessels unless directed to
do so by Congress and the House com
mittee leaves the matter to the board's
discretion.
Allied losses -exceeded 200,000 a
month, the number of American troops
ent to France, Senator McCumber de
clared. "Between March 21. the day the Ger
man drive began against the British, to
June 21, the day when the German drive
against the French and Italians ended,
the allies lost in prisoners alone 225,000
men," he continued. "All of these came
from the fighting units. Other losses
of our allies were about equal to those
of the enemy.
"This Is not surprising, because of
the enemy's superior artillery, deadlier
gases and overwhelming numbers. Our
failure to do better will prolong the
war and increase its horrors. We can
do more."
Duties -Declared Abdicated.
Senator McCumber took Congress to
task for "abdicating its duties" and
leaving the executive departments to
direct everything. Congress, he said,
has not once asked itself how large
an Army will be necessary to win this
war or what tonnage will be required
to support the Army, but instead it has
devoted its time to passing bills recom
mended by the Administration.
Admitting that the Secretary of War
3s a good lawyer, Senator McCumber
asked it he has had any more military
training than members of the military
committee to warrant his judgment be
ing more acceptable than theirs.
The allies, including the United
States, are "tardy inefficient follow
ers" of Germany in the development
and use of big guns and other modern
war appliances. Senator McCumber de
clared, and any budget providing for
Jess than an Army of 5,000,000 men is
"playing with war and not conducting
war."
Line Broken, Says Senator.
Asserting that Secretary Baker and
the press of the country seemed to be
the only ones who had the opinion
come time ago that the allied line on
the western front could not be broken,
the Senator said. Germany broke the
line and forced it back in one place 36
miles in three days and despite reports
of great allied reserves in France ready
to stem Hun onslaughts, there never
has been any considerable number of
reserves.
"The reserve force lies in the soldiery
of the United States," he declared. "We
might as well recognize that now."
Submarine losses as computed by the
Kavy Department, were cited by Sena
tor McCumber as another evidence of
"our habit of minimizing our disasters
end magnifying our successes."
He mentioned that he recently called
nttention of the Senate to an Amster
dam cable saying the Germans claim
the sinkings for May totaled 614,000
tjross tons.
Question of Sinkings Raised.
This statement, he eaiil. led Senator
Beckham, of Kentucky, to get a state
ment from the Navy Department which
Khowed the actual losses from May 1
to 2S. inclusive, were 233,639 gross tons,
and the estimate for the entire month
was 258,671 tons.
Two days after Senator Beckham ob
tained the statement. Senator McCum
ber said, the British Admiralty re
ported the May losses for the British
alone were 224,735 gross tons, and that
losses of other countries from all
causes were 130,959, making the total
losses of May 355,694 gross tons.
He said computation of American
shipbuilding in deadweight tons is mis
leading, since losses are figured in
gross tons.
Exemptions of neutrals from the
draft evoked a brief controversy.
Chairman Chamberlain presented an
amendment, which he said the State
Department desired enacted, providing
for exemption of neutral citizens. He
eald the present provision of the draft
law conflicts with treaties between the
United States, Spain, Switzerland, Nor
way, Denmark and Sweden, and that
exemption from American draft of their
citizens was regarded by the State De
partment as of "pressing" importance.
The Senate, however, adopted the
Hitchcock substitution.
W. 8. S. BCI THE LIMIT
PENSACOLA, Fla., June 28. John G.
Zeller. a machinist, stationed at the
local aviation field, was drowned today
when the airplane he was flying fell
into Fensacola Bay.
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In TVorth Arrow Shown Point Where British Troops Launched Drive on 3V&-Mile
Front, While Jn South Arrow Indicates Approximate Location of Sector of
French Advance on 4V4-MIIe Front. Heavy Black Line Shows Approximate
Location of Battle Front, and Dotted Line Shows Battle Front Before Her
mans Launched Drive March 21. Shaded Portions Indicate Gains of Allies.
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HUNS HURLED BACK
British and French Troops
Gain on 8-Mile Front.
PRISONERS EXCEED 1400
English Forces Advance Between
Bailleull and Bcthnne in Sur
prise Attack and Frcncli Make
Gain Close to Soissoiis.
("Continued From Firt Page.)
Nieppe forest in places, with the re
sult that the British felt a lack of
elbow room for operations. It was
in order to acquire more leeway that
today's assault was projected.
All Objectives Reached.
The objectives settled upon lay
along the winding little stream known
as Platebecque, which bowed out
toward the east in a semi-circle back
of the German lines. Prussians and
Saxons were holding this zone with
a series of strong machine gun posts
linked up with barbed wire.
The first stages of the drive were
comparatively easy. In fact all the
final objectives were reached without
much difficulty.
At two strongly fortified farms
near the center of the line the enemy
fought stubbornly, but was unable to
stand out long against the furious
onslaughts of the British, who at
tacked them from all directions.
The losses among the storming in
fantry for the entire engagement were
light, due largely to the fact that the
show was over before the enemy was
able to organize.
Australians Capture Boches.
As a special feature of the pro
gramme Australian troops on the left
carried out an attack of their own,
adding nearly half a hundred pris
oners to the bag.
The morale of the prisoners was
not high. These men and others cap
tured recently expected to get ahead
much faster.
The men have professed to believe
that the United States was not going
to be able to render much assistance
to the allies. The helplessness of the
United States is being preached as
sudiously to the troops by the Ger
man high command and this propa
ganda undoubtedly has been having
its effect among the mn in the
trenches.
With the German officers naturally
it is different, for they have no de
lusions on the subject.
During the Spring the low-lying
ground here had been little better
than a morass. The warm weather
of recent days dried it cut enough to
make it feasible for infantry oper
ations. Bombardment Is Short.
The British pushed off at 6 o'clock
this morning after a chort, sharp
bombardment, just as th3 white mists
were beginning to arise along the
numerous streams which thread their
tortuous - way about this region.
Statements by prisoners show that
the enemy had not the slightest ex
pectation of the British taking the
initiative at this point. The Germans
felt so secure that they were devot
ing most of their time to i campaign
against the epidemic known locally as
the Flanders grippe, which has sent
many of them to hospitals.
The British were over the top and
at the enemy before the latter realized
their danger. Machine-gun posts
were stormed and cleared out with
hand grenades and bayonets. Where
the Germans were holding a stretch
of trench, the attacking troops pushed
up with rapid-firers and swept the
ditches with an intense fire that an
nihilated the defenders.
LONDON, June 28. British troops
in attack today against the Germans
have advanced their line over a front
of nearly three and a half miles to
an average depth of ue.-.rly a mile
east of the Nieppe forest, which lies
between Bailleul and Bethune, ac
cording to the British official commu
nication issued this evening.
Australians Make Gain.
West of Merris Australian troop3
also' captured enemy positions. On
both sectors prisoners and machine
guns were taken.
Considerable artillery activity de
veloped last night on both sides in
the region southeast of Gommecourt,
southwest of Arras.
British patrols inflicted casualties
upon the Germans in clashes in this
area.
The communication tonight follows
'This morning English troops carried
out a successful operation on a front
of about three and a half miles east of
the Nieppe forest. Our line on this
front has been advanced to an average
depth of nearly a mile and more than
300 prisoners and 22 machine guns have
been captured.
"All of our objectives were gained
including the hamlets of L'Epihette
verterue and La Becque.
Germans Are Surprised.
"The enemy was taken by surprise
and our casualties are light.
"At the same hour Australian troops
attacked and captured certain hostile
posts west of Merris, together with 43
prisoners and six machine guns.
"On the remainder of the British front
the situation is unchanged-."
BERLIN, via London. June 28. The
Germans are bueily engaged in attempts
to repulse vigorous attacks by the allied
armies north of the Lys and couth of
the Aisne rivers, says the German of
ficial communication issued this . even
ing.
The communication follows:
"North of Lys and south of the Aisne
we are fighting to repulse vigorous
enemy partial attacks."
(By the Associated Press.)
The British troops in Flanders and
the French forces further south appar
ently have anticipated the proposed
German drive toward the Knglish Chan
nel ports or Paris, and struck first.
Although slight details of the maneu
vers thus far have been revealed, the
allied troops caught the enemy un
awares at important points and took
terrain which would have been of con
siderable value as the starting points
of enemy attacks. A comparatively
large number of prisoners and machine
guns were left by the Germans.
The attack of the British was de
livered about midway between Haze
brouck and Bethune on a front of
nearly three and a half miles.
Altogether, the attack was produc
tive of an average gain of ground to a
depth of nearly a mile, and included
the taking of several small hamlets.
It is probable the Germans in a pro
posed offensive in this region had set
their hearts on the capture of St. Omar
and the railway line running thence to
Calais and Dunkirk.
The stroke of the French troops was
over a still greater front four and a
half miles and they penetrated enemy
positions at some points a mile and a
quarter. The evident intention was
further to block the gateway to Paris
through' the Villers-Cotterets Tegion.
IT 0 1 SHIPSUI
British Steamer Atlantian Tor
pedoed by Enemy.
FATE OF CREW UNKNOWN
Twenty-Four Survivors of Transport
Swinsk Reach Shelburnc, X.
S. Two Boatloads Still
Unaccounted For.
A GULP PORT, June 28. Private ad-
vices have been received here that the
British steamship Atlantian has been
torpedoed and sunk. There were no
casualties, the report says. No data or
place of the disaster is given.
The ship was laden with munitions.
The Atlantian carried a crew f 6
officers and men and sailed for Europe
on May 28 on the last trip from this
port. The Atlantian was a ship of 9399
tons gross register.
SHELBURNE, N. S.. June 28. Twenty-four"
members of the crew of the
troop ship Dwlnsk. under charter to
the American Government, which was
torpedoed without warning by a Ger
man submarine, June 18, reached here
today aboard a Gloucester fishing
schooner.
The men, exhausted by exposure and
lack nf frtrwl u- a r a n 4 i .. . i
morning of June 26. after being adrift
uajs. ana wnn only a day pro
visions in stock.
Philip Larballestler, of Liverpool,
boatswain's mate, in charge of the life
boat, said the presence of the U-boat
was not known until a torpedo struck
the port quarter of the ship.
"We all got away safely." Larballes
tler said, "but some of our boats had a
narrow escape. as the submarine
shelled the Dwlnsk while we were row
ing away."
NEW YORK. June 28. The landing
of 24 survivors from the steamship
Iwinsk at Shelburne, N. S., today, def
initely accounts for all but two boat
loads of the crew.
The Dwlnsk was a troop ship return
ing to the United States. She had do
soldiers aboard..
-W. 8. B.BVV THE LIMIT
B0LSHEVIKISAID TO FALL
(Continued Frem First Psre. )
freeing and arming Germans taken
prisonen by the Russians in the early
part of the war. the German invaders
have proceeded to carry out system
atically and with Teutonic thorough
ness their system of stripping the
cc".ry of everything valuable, as was
done in Belgium and Northern Trance.
LONDON. June 28. According to un
confirmed reports today the Bolshevik
government in Moscow has been over
thrown, says a dispatch to the Ex
change Telegraph Company from Co
penhagen. Leaders .Said to Have Fled.
Nikolai Lenine. the Premier, and
Leon Trotxky, the Minister of War
are said to have fled to the Murrain
Coast.
Moscow, the Copenhagen report
adds, has been captured by General
Kornlloff, supported by German troops.
Advices from the same sources as
sert that Grand Duke Nicholas has
been proclaimed Emperor.
The Copenhagen newspapers, the
agency dispatch adds, give prominence
to a Berlin dispatch quoting the Tages
Zeitung of that city saying it had re
ceived a message from its Petrograd
correspondent reading as follows:
"It is believed here that the Bol
shevik government will be soon over
thrown and that Kerenky is the man
of the future in Russia."
Kaledlnes Said te Have Helped.'
General Kaledines is said to have co
operated with General Kornlloff in
the capture of Moscow.
The advices declare that the sup
porters of Grand Duke Nicholas have
overthrown the Soviets throughout the
Siberian provinces of Irkutsk, Blag
ovieschtchensk and Khabarovsk.
The defeat of the Bolsheviki is said
to have been made possible by the vic
tories of the Czecho-Slovak forces and
the treachery of the Red Guard. Sev
eral detachments of the Red Guard
are said to have murdered their offi
cers and then surrendered.
Sources of News German.
The Exchange Telegraph Company
publishes its message containing the
reports of the Bolshevik overthrow
and the accompanying details "with
reserve." and points out that the in
formation emanates mainly from Ger
man sources and should be received
with caution.
LONDON. June 28. "Kerensky comes
with the strongest credentials, first as
the former leader of Russian Social
ism who has learned by bitter experi
ence the rocks and shoals that be
strew its course, and second, as the
authorized spokesman of the Socialist
and non-Socialist parties of Russia."
says the former Times correspondent
in Petrograd. who is now in London.
He continues'
Arms and Snpalies Be Sonant.
"Kerensky has wisely resolved to
confine himself to propagating the
lessons of Russian revolution among
the allies. His mission is intended as
an appeal to the allies for aid in the
only form it can take arms and sup
plies to enable his countrymen to drive
out the Germans and rejoin the fight
against the enemies of freedom.
"He Insists first of all that all the
allies take a hand in this task. Russia,
he says, does not want to choose be
tween Germany and any other country.
She wants to be free but cannot achieve
freedom under the Bolsheviki."
WASHINGTON. June 28. Plans of
the American Government for aiding
Russia in rehabilitating herself, which
became known today, revealed that the
first step contemplated is Informal as
sistance through American business and
Industrial leaders and disposed of
widely-published reports that a diplo
matic or political mission would be the
means of carrying out President Wil
son's promise to stand back of Russia.
The personnel of a group of men who
will carry expert advice and material
aid is being discussed.
Ample police protection is expected,
but show of military force will be
avoided. Officials were reluctant to
discuss this phase of the situation,
realizing that Germany would seize
upon it as a means of distorting the in
tentions of 'the United States.
For that reason it is likely that full
details of the assistance to be prof
fered will not be disclosed until after
the Germans learn of them by finding
the plans actually in effect.
United States Consuls in Russia will
give active assistance in the work of
reconstruction and to this extent only
will the aid have an official aspect.
Today's news dispatches made no
change In the plans already formulated.
Internal disturbances were thought to
accentuate the need of injecting a
steadying influence into the situation
and officials said they proposed to go
ahead on the lines laid down.
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