VOL. L.VIII. XO. 17,994.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918.
TRICE FIVE CENTS.
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FUND CAMPAIGNS
MAY BE POOLED
NATIONS OF PACIFIC
IN TRADE COMBINE
HONS HARD PRESSED
BY ALLIED FORGES
FOCH HELD MASTER
OF WAR SITUATION
TO WE
OVERHEAD EXPENSE REDUC
TION" OBJECT IX VIEW.
FIRST STEPS TO BE TAKEN' AT
SEATTLE TONIGHT.
PRESSURE OX FRENCH IS RE
LIEVED BY BRITISH TROOPS.
ACQ
ALLIED SUCCESSES
ELECTRIFY CAPITAL
Washington Thinks Big
Events Pending.
FOCH
TRAP ABOUT
FUMD 2 flES
Ot! FOE
Bodies Forced Back Far
ther by Allied Blows.
SALIENT GROWS NARROWER
More Villages Captured and
Troops Push On Beyond
IManteuil Stream.
BRITISH REGISTER GAINS
With French, British Drive
Forward 2 Miles Salient
- Only 21 Miles Wide.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 25. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Up to the present 70
German divisions have been identi
fied in the present fighting zone, and
a-the battle, therefore, may be regarded
as the biggest since the beginning of
the war.
The prisoners taken number over
25,000 and more than 500 cannon and
thousands of machine guns have been
' captured.
PARIS, July 25. Franco-American
troops today made an advance of
nearly two miles at certain points on
1 the Aisne-Marne front, notablv in the
Dormans regions, says the War Of
fice announcement tonight. Addi
tional gains are recorded, showing
that the progress of the allies in this
salient is steadily going on.
The text of the statement says:
"On the Ourcq front the fighting to
day met with the same success as on
preceding days.
"North of the river we occupied
Oulchy la Ville. South of the river
Franco-American troops made .an ad
vance of three kilometers at certain
points, notably in the region of Dor
mans despite stern resistance.
"Southeast of Armentieres we oc
cupy hill 141 -and have crossed the
Nanteuil stream. Further south we
captured the " village of Coincy and
the greater part of Tournelle wood.
We extended our progress in the for
est of Fere as far as the general line
of Beauvardes-le-Charmel.
Gains Are Continuing.
J' "Our advance continued under fa-
J, vorable conditions in the Ris forest
bhu norm oi uormans.
"Southwest of Rheims the enemy
continued his violent attacks against
our positions between Vrigny and St.
Euphraise and succeeded in gaining
a foothold on Hill 240. Our troops
toon reconquered this height, taking
about 100 prisoners."
LONDON, July 25. An advance of
two miles toward Fismes has been
made by British and French troops
operating in the region just west of
Rheims and the towns of Gueux and
Mery Premecy have been reached,
according to. information received
here today from the battle front.
Salient Is Narrower.
The gain is of vital importance,
since it greatly narrows the salient
created by the Germans in their drive
in May.
By this latest advance on the east
ern edge of the salient, it is no longer
proper to speak of the pocket as run
ning from Soissons to Rheims, for the
newest gain of the allied troops has
swung the eastern edge of the pocket
eight miles to the west. Mery Pre
mecy now marks the eastern rim of
the salient.
; The mouth of the pocket is now
only 21 miles wide and the whole dis
trict between the two sides is under
the range of entente allied guns.
French Continue Attacks.
The town of Gueux lies to the south
f the River Vesle and is about five
miles directly west of Rheims., Mery
Premecy is a short distance north of
the Fismes-Pargny Railroad and is
about 10 miles southeast of Fismes,
which is in the center of the line run
ning between Soissons and Rheims.
The French are continuing their at
tacks between the River Ourcq and
the River Marne. They have ad
vanced for a distance of a mile, cap
turing the southern part of Fere
forest and they now occupy a farm on
the main road from Fere-en-Tardenois
to Jaulgonne. The town of Fere-en-
Tardenois is now within three miles
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Elimination of Competition Among
Tl. M. C. A. and Other Organ
izations Also Sought.
WASHINGTON, July 25. Plans under
which all organizations seeking by
popular subscription funds for provid
ing recreation and amusement for sol
diers would unite to carry on a com
bined campaign are under consideration
by the War Department.
The object is to reduce overhead ex
penses and elimination of competition
among the eix separate organizations
carrying on work among the soldiers.
The plan provides that Government
recognized organizations, pooling their
campaigns, would receive the same pro
portions that their budgets bear to the
whole amount to e raised.
These budget requirements for the
next year were announced as follows:
Y. M. C. A.. $100,000,000; T. W. C. A.,
$15,000,000; Knights of Columbus, $5,
000.000; Jewish Welfare Board. $3,000,
000; American Library Association,
$3,500,000; War Camp Community Serv
ice, $15,000,000. Total. $187,000,000.
PLAGUES SWEEP GERMANY
Influenza, Typhus and Malaria Re
ported Epidemic.
WASHINGTON, July 25. Other epi
demics are. sweeping'" Germany in ad
dition to influenza, according to a. dis
patch from Switzerland.
Typhus is said to have appeared in
epidemic form at Berlin and malaria
is reported in the grand duchy of
Baden.
It is reported the influenza epidemic
has made serious ravages. The head
physicians of the Bavarian" army are
said to have reported that the health
of the troops has been undermined by
the epidemic.
FURTHER HEARING LIKELY
Striking Paper Slill Slen Must Pirst
Return to Work.
WASHINGTON. July 25. The con
troversy between the International Pa
per Company and 4000 employes in pa
per mills in New York, New Hampshire
and Maine was referred today by the
War Labor Board to a section com
posed of C. A. Crocker and T. M. Guer
in. It was recommended that the sec
tion interpret the recent award of the
board, disagreement over the applica
tion of which led to the strike.
Authority also was arlven the section
to reopen the case and hold further
hearings, if that is deemed necessary,
but no rehearing will be granted until
the men now on strike return to work.
BOTTLED LIQUOR BARRED
Order Effective August 1 in Chicago
and Cook County.
CHICAGO, "-ly 2E. Every dealer in
intoxicating liquor in Chicago and Cook
County will stop the sale of bottled
goods over the bar on August 1, it was
announced today.
Liquor must either be sold in glasses
over the bar or it must be delivered
to the residences of customers by mes
sengers of the sellers. Saloons of every
class as well ab drug stores are af
fected. This action was taken as the result
of an appeal by Government officials
to stop the sale of liquor to soldiers
and sailors.
SLAYDEN OUT OF RACE
President Kills Off Democrat Who
Has Been 22 Years in Congress.
SAN -ANTONIO, Tex.. July 25.
James L. Slayden. for the last 22 years
Representative in Congress for the
Fourteenth District, and candidate for
re-nomination In the primaries Satur
day next, has withdrawn from the race
following publication yesterday after
noon of a telegram from President Wil
son which said:
"The Administration as between can
didates equally loyal never takes part
but in the light of Mr. Slayden's record
no one can claim he has given support
to the Administration."
MORE ARMY CORPS IS PLAN
Training in Every Colcge In C S.
May Be Made Reality.
WASHINGTON. July 25. Plans for
establishing student Army training
corps in every college in the United
States having a male enrollment of 100
or more were discussed today at a con
ference between officials of the War
Department and a group of college
presidents.
President McLaurin. of the Massa
chusetts School of Technology, has
been appointed by Secretary Baker to
organize the training scheme and to
appoint regional advisers.
PAPER MUST BE SAVED
War Industries Board Will Start
Campaign of Education.
WASHINGTON. July 25 A general
publicity campaign will be launched
shortly by the War Industries Board to
educate the public to the importance of
conservation of paper of all kinds.
War conditions, it was stated, demand
a radical change In the habits of con
sumers, as the Government's needs for
chemicals and other materials made it
necessary to prevent as much waste as
possible. .
DECISIVE VICTORY RUMORED
Enemy Yields Ground Along a
Sixty-Mile Front.
GERMAN RESERVES LARGE
Array Officers Still See Possibility of
Escape of Crown Prince's Armies
From "Death Trap Set by
Generalissimo Fetch.
WASHINGTON, July 25. With Amer
ican, French and British forces press
ing the enemy hard on all sides of the
Aisne-Marne battle front, the air of
Washington was electrified tonight
with a feeling of expectancy, as of
great events impending.
Rumors of decisive victory ' ran
through official circles like wildfire.
Untraceable reports were current that
the army of the German Crown Prince
had been- trapped and even that the
Crown Prince himself had been cap
tured.
Official reports gave no foundation
on which the feeling of suppressed ex
citement could be based.
Baker Confirms Advances.
The latest dispatches," said Secre
tary Baker, "show continued advances
in several places by French, British and
American troops. They are not ex
tensive, but are important and show
that the battle is continuing with great
vigor."
Earlier in the day a press dispatch
told of rumors in London that the Brit
ish west of Rheims had scored a de
cided success and advanced toward
Fismes, the German rail base midway
between Soissons and Rheims.
Later reports confirmed this to the
extent of a stride forward by British
and French forces on a three-mile front
Just west of Rheims, throwing the
enemy back a mile and a half. Prob
ably It was this that started reports
of a Sweeping victory.
German Positions Weakening;.
Still later came news of decided gains
by Franco-American troops around
Fere-en-Tardenois and north of Dor-
mans on the Marne. It was evident
that the southern and southwestern an
gle of the German positions were yield
ing to the pressure against them.
News also came of important ad
vances along the Ourcq front.
The outstanding fact tonight ap
peared to be that the enemy's front
was being forced back all along the
60-mile battle line. Of the gains re
corded, the Franco-British drive prob
ably has the greatest possibilities, for
it means that the eastern jaw of Gen
eral Foch's gigantic trap is closing in.
Other reports show that the Ger
man high command had massed re
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VEXOUH
Cementing of Friendly Relations
Will Be Main Purpose ' of
New Organization.
SEATTLE, Wash, July -r 25. First
steps in a movement for the formation
of a Pacific International Chamber of
Commerce will be taken hers Friday
evening at a meeting of the Foreign
Trade Club of Seattle.
W. B. Henderson, representative of
ths Department of Commerce's bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce in
Seattle, is at the head of the movement.
Plans for the project include repre
sentation in the, proposed chamber by
commercial organizations of all Pacific
Coast states, Japan, China, Straits Set
tlements, Siberia, the west coast of
Latin America and Australia, and its
main purpose the cementing of friendly
relations between all nations on the
Pacific.
TIMES PUBLISHER IS SUED
Los Angeles ' Paper Defendant In
$100,000 Damage Suit.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. Suit for
$100,000 damages was filed here today
in the Superior Court against the
Times-Mirror Company, publisher of
the Los Angeles Times, by Theodore
Roche, one of the advisers of Mayor
James. Rolph. of San Francisco, in his
campaign for the Gubernatorial nom
ination. The suit alleges that certain state
ments appearing in the Times of July 23
and relating to Roche were untrue and
damaging.
SCHWAB IS ENTHUSIASTIC
Output of 10,000,000 Ship Tons a
Year Predicted.
PHILADELPHIA. July 25. Charles
M. Schwab. Director-General of Ship
building, home here today from his in
spection tour of Western shipyards,
predicted an output of 10.000,000 ship
tons a year.
In order to foster shipbuilding in this
country, Mr. Schwab said, he will im
mediately take measures to cut off
shipments of steel to foreign countries.
KING DECORATES AMERICAN
Lieutenant - Commander Carpenter
Wins Distinguished Service Order.
LONDON, July 25. Lieutenant-Commander
A- C. Carpenter, of the Amer
ican destroyer Fanning, reoelved the
Distinguished Service Order from King
George at a private investiture at Buck.
Ingham Palace today.
The Fanning, in the Lieutenant-Commander's
charge, has been prominent
in anti-submarine operations.
EMPEY LOSES COMMISSION
Newly Made Captain Is Honorably
Discharged From Army.
WASHINGTON. July 25. Arthur Guy
Empey, author and soldier recently
commissioned a 'Captain in the Na
tional Army, was honorably discharged
by today's orders. No reason was
stated.
THE DECLINING MORALE OF THE GERMAN
9
HA X.'Cr TQ
Fresh Gains Are Made
North of Marne.
FRENCH ADVANCE POSITIONS
Enemy Losses in Great Push
Total 200,000.
AMERICANS "GET" 50,000
Crown Prince's Generals Are Driv
ing Men Mercilessly to Save
Enlrapped Armies Yan
kees Keen-Spirited.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE' AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 25.
(By the Associated Press.) With
the sides of the Soissons-Rheims. sack
coming steadily closer together, the
German Crown Prince's Generals are
driving their men mercilessly in an
effort to hold them off long enough
to extricate the armies threatened at
the bottom,, north of the Marne.
The American and French troops are
never far behind the netreating forces,
and the vicious rearguard actions are
not sufficiently resistant to enable
the Germans Mo proceed in the orderly
manner planned.
At Dormans and east of Chateau
Thierry, the Germans counter-attacked,
taking the position, but were promptly
driven out. They occupied Treloup,
west of Dormans. and have held it.
French Advance Poaltloaa.
Minor advances have been made by
the allies in the woods in that part
of the sector, while further to the
east, south ci Rheims. there wers ad
ditional allied successes.
The Americans have occupied Cour
poll, on the road to Fere-en-Tardenois.
and the French positions have been ad
vanced until Oulchy le Chateau is dom
inated by the guns.
Nearer Soissons the Germans failed
to hold alt their positions, notwith
standing reinforcements and their
desperate need.
It is announced unofficially tonight
that the enemy losses are more than
200,000, of which 60.000 were Inflicted
by the Americans. The prisoners alone
number over 20.000 and the losses in
dead and wounded are appalling.
More Armored Cars Caed.
The French used more armored cars
than usual and cavalry or mounted pa
trols were effectively employed in
clearing the forests and maintaining
contact.
Toward Soissons there has been in
creased artillery work and bitterer and
steadier fighting. The French and
American soldiers disregarded caution
almost entirely yesterday, advancing
their lines in open order and taking
what came without bothering to hunt
down machine-gun nests. This brought
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STOMACH.
T
Great Time Is In Store for Armies
of England," Says Paris
Journal's Correspondent.
PARIS, July 25. The Journal's cor
respondent at the front telegraphs to
day as follows:
"Foch is master of the situation and
If the British troops are not attacking,
in order to relieve the pressure on the
French, it is in accordance with the
commander-in-chiefs orders.
"The last has not yet been heard of
the German reserves and the possibili
ties along the Flanders coast. The
three years I have passed among our
allies enable me to know how they are
straining at the leash, awaiting the
order to advance. Let us be patient.
A great time is in store for the armies
of the British Empire."
VILLA BOUND FOR BORDER
Mexican Bandit Would Trade Loot
for American Ammunition.
EL. PASO. July 25. Francisco Villa
is again moving in the direction of the
American border at OJinaga with a
herd of 500 mules and 250 bars of sil
ver which he expects to exchange for
ammunition, according to confirmed re
ports from Chihuahua City received
here late today.
Sunday Villa with 400 men raided
Jimenez, robbed two passenger trains
and killed a number of guards. Un
usual activity is reported from OJinatra
and federal reinforcements and muni
tions are being rushed there from.
Juarez.
WOMAN IN SEDITION NET
Vendor of Russellite Book Convict
ed at Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, July 25. Mrs. J.
Emma Martin, accused by the Govern
ment of selling copies of "The Fin
ished Mystery." was found guilty today
by a Jury in the United States District
Court of violating provisions of the
espionage act. The Jury recommended
leniency. Sentence will be- Imposed
next Wednesday.
Mrs. Martin sold, it was testified.
147 copies of "The Finished Mystery,"
which was published by followers of
the late "Pastor" Russell and which
the Government contended contained
seditious and rVnsonablaitterances.
SIMBIRSK JS CAPTURED
Cieclio - Slovaks Take Important
Town 00 Miles East of Moscow.
AMSTERDAM. July 25. Csecho-Slo-vak
troops have captured the impor
tant town of Simbirsk, about 600 miles
east of Moscow, according to an official
telegram from Moscow, received by
way of Berlin.
The Russian Soviet troops put up a
desperate resistance.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
T EST E It DAY'S Maximum temperature. 89
degrees; minimum. oV degrees.
TODAY'S Cloudy; senile northwesterly
winds.
War.
Alllea rain two more mi lea. Page 1.
Foch closing Jaws of trap on Germans,
rage X. '
Official casualty list. Page 2.
Hun tales of hugs United States losses de
nied. Page 2.
French General points out menace to Hun
armies. Page S.
Allies agree on plsn for armed Intervention
In Russia. Page 4.
National capital stirred by news of allied
advances. Page 1.
German srmy hard pressed by allied troops.
Page 1.
Foch is declared msster of war altuatlon.
Page 1.
Franco-Americans make two-mile gain.
Page 2.
Hun amssh looms south of Soissons.
Page 15.
Foreign.
Woman spy accuses French Deputy CeccaldL
Page 4.
Kslver guilty of Lusltanla ainklng. Bays
American dentist. Page 3.
Bolshevik said -to threaten war on allies.
Page 7.
Baron von Ilussarek new Austrian premier
Page 2.
Light sought on cause of munitions dispute.
Page a.
Homes! ie.
Vlereck admits receiving glOO.noo from Ger
many to spread propaganda. Pago 5.
8ugsi ration cut to tno pounds monthly.
Page 6.
U. 8. submarine shelled by mistake. Page ft.
Four million tons sleel needed yearly for
shipbuilding. Page 7.
Pooling of war fund campaigns proposed.
Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Chamber of Commerce of Natlona of Pacific
Is planned. Page 1.
Albany College is given a year's respite.
Page 8.
'porta.
Rain aaaln baits tennis plsy. Page 14.
Mabel Trunk wins free-for-all trot at To
ledo. Page 14.
Duke Kahanamoku will awim in Xew York
Pago 14.
Bob McAllister ready. Psge 14.
Commercial and 1arine,
Hide hnylng Is placed on new basla by
Government order. Page 19.
Corn breaks sharply at Chicago as result
of war news. Pace 13.
Kiernan Kern yard to continue wood ship
output. Page lf.
Oregon and California to remain In same
steam-vessel Inspection district. Page la.
Portland and Vicinity.
Men rheer and sing as they go to wsr.
Psge .
Employer reorganize as Industrial Associa
tion of Oregon. Psge 12.
Grocers protest sgalnst one-delivery sys
tem. Psge 1.
Big contingent of Multnomah County drsfted
men leave for ramp. Page 9.
Estimated fund for Belgian babies raised
yesterdsy more than lio.ono. Page 4,
Lilnntnn transportation problem dlacusaed by
City Council. Page 13.
Eighteen draft men summoned tfr entraln
ment rail to appear. Page 12.
Will G. MacRao home from battle lone.
Paga 8.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page la.
500,000 Boches Menaced
by Pincer Movement.
EXIT OF SALIENT SMALLER
Germans Rush in Reinforce
ments in Effort to Block
Entente Allied Strategy.
COUNTER ATTACK STARTED
Enemy Troops Ordered to End
Advance at All Costs, but
Efforts Fail So Far.
(By the Associated Press.)
General Foch has taken a leaf out
of the book of German military strat
egy and ordained the use by the al
lied armies of the pincer system of
offensive in the Soissons-Rheims sal
ient. Both jaws of the pincers are moving
smoothly with the pivot along the
Marne working in unison, and the
process of attempting to capture
many of the nearly half a million Ger
mans in the big pocket is well on the
way to what at present seems like
possible success.
Enemy Fights Hard.
The Germans, however, evidently
do not intend to permit themselves to
be entrapped without fighting. Hav
ing thrown thousands of reinforce
ments into the already congested sal
ient, they have started a counter-attack
of great violence all along the
semi-circular front from the Ourcq
River to the region immediately south
west of Rheims, and their men are
said to have orders to stem the allied
tide of advance at all costs.
Nevertheless, at last accounts the
Americans, French, British and Ital
ian troops, themselves well reinforced
to meet the new turn in affairs, were
steadily pressing forward at nearly
all points on the battle line to Rheims,
while east of the cathedral city a Pol
ish contingent the first of the Poles
to enter the combat, is declared to
have carried out successfully an en
terprise against the enemy in which
more than . 200 Germans were made
prisoners.
Advances Are Steady.
The western jaw of the pincer con
tinues to move eastward on both
sides of the Ourcq River, and the
Franco-American troops are virtually
knocking at the gates of Fere-en-Tardenois,
the important railway
junction and storehouse for Ger
many's war supplies. Further south
to the Marne new advances, in keep
ing with those in the north, have
been attained.
At the pivot of the pincer, north of
the Marne, midway between Chateau
Thierry and Rheims, the French have
extended their line northward in the
forest of Fere, in the Ris forest and
north of Dormans, while the eastern
jaw of the pincer, under the pressure
of the British, has noticeably moved
forward in a northwesterly direction
for about a mile and a half over the
three-mile front to Me,ry-Fremecy
and Gueux, the last-named village five
miles west of Rheims and a scant
mile and a half from the Rheims-Fis-mes
road. At Mery-Fremecy the al
lied line now stands about ten and a
half miles southeast of Fismes, which
is the central station on the railway
running between Soissons and
Rheims.
Shells Rained on Boche.
For a week and a day the allied
troops have hammered against the
Soissons-Rheims salieut until its
width across between the cities has
been narrowed to about 21 miles from
an original width of 37 miles, while
the triangular salient has been weld
ed into a semi-circular cul de sac.
Over the entire pocket the allied ar
tillery continues to rain shells from all
sides and airmen are keeping up their
intensive bombing of troop formations
and military works.
As yet, notwithstanding the inroads
of the allied troops, there has been no
sign of an impending, retreat on the
part of the Germans and if he elects
to stand and fight it out, and the al
lied gains continue with the same suc
cess as heretofore, it seem- that, with
the daily narrowing of the neck of the
pocket the enemy necessarily will lose
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