THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 191S. HEW ALLIED DRIVE IS EXPECTED SOON FRENCH HU HUNS L OUT OF R1BEG0UR Flanders Sector Picked as Likely ' i Scene of Blow. Miles of Noyon, Point' of Strategic Value. safety because Great Britain and France had attacked Archangel without a dec laration of war. Poole Warns Tchltehertsu "Mr. Poole said that he wa without knowledge of what had taken place in the north, but warned Tchitcherln that the peoples of the allied nations could not be intimidated and that the initi ation of a system of reprisals by the soviet government could only result in individual members of the government I Or OlSe - SOiSSOnS th loss by the Bolshevik cause of Advance Made to Within Six wnaiever respect It might now have In the minds of the civilized world. A fourth message from Mr. Poole, aated August 6. said that the author! ties forcibly entered the Consulates. General of France and England on the afternoon of the fifth and arrested the Consuls-General and their staffs. REAL OFFENSIVE AWAITED GERMAN STAND DESPERATE mBir nuns were released mrougn me untiring good offices of the Swedish Consul-General. Mr. Poole said that a guard remained around both Consulates lions to Be Driven Even Beyond Old I and would not permit British or French old Positions at Plemont Give Ref. , nationals 10 approach. -Mr. Poole pointed out that these acts were committed immediately following the solemn assurance given by Tchit cherln that all persons having dlplo matte or consular character would be respected. C. S. Consulate Closed. "Feeling that there were no assur- I ances that the American Consulate- General would not be violated at any on the southern end of the Picardy moment, ne destroyed His cooes ana i . t j j , , records. This and the general eitua- battle line, IS reported today to be tion made it impossible to carry on his progressing steadily toward Noyon. the Swedish Consul-General to take The desperate German defense of the over the protection of American Inter- n,,lnB.Pnv arl n raiiser! delav ests and at the same time to request I " facilities of the Soviet government for 1 jn the storming of the Noyon position the immediate departure of the Atneri- I .... .... - j,- to pointing out that the Germans have can diplomatic and consular staff. The Wnicn. IS now said 10 De impending, now been forced back until they are allied Consuls were doing likewise T?,iKt npSratelv. .ithi. so miles of Paris at any "All steps were nemg taken lor tne - ' I RAAiiritv ftf nrivatA American citizens 1 mi -e r T TJ.....1 point. The head of the Army nas pre- i V i- I lne army ox ueueiai uamuuiuu. vlously laid stress on tha fact, however. Pool6 added that departure would which IS holding the line just to.tne mat tne greatest Drobablv be by war of Petrogrrad andUrfh nf tfiA TTrnnrh nnsitinnn. is meet w .k.i rrv.w i mil tarv wnv 1 m. In .... , . , " I '-' - x having wrested the initiative from the At tho ln8tance of the Swedish Con- mg most desperate resistance along enemy. . I sul-GeneraL the German embassy had its whole front. The Germans seem Hindenburg Line; 1,250,000 V. S. Troops In First Army Under Pershing. uge; Machine Guns Opposed to Allies' Rifles; Lassigny's Fall Is Reported. WASHINGTON. Aug. 14. A new drive against the German positions, either In Flanders or between the Olse and Solssons, Is expected by many Army officers here as a result of the slowing unr of the advance in the Picardy theater. Outlining the situation at his mid week conference today. General March chief of staff, confined his statements (Continued From First Pare.) In the Picardy salient the lines have j d recommended to the German . rpfnin thp Chaulnes w reached the general position of the gOTern'ment the issuance of the neces- determined to retain the Cfiaulnes sary safe conduct. I neignis ai an costs. now front in 1916 before the Hindenburg withdrawal. The salient has been trimmed away on a front of SS miles to a maximum depth of 15 miles, the chief of staff said, and the line on the Aisne- Marne front has remained stationary, The opinion prevailed among other officers that the present struggle around Roye and Lassigny would soon termi nate In the capture of those points, to be followed by the taking of royon, Pershing Has 1.250.0OO Mrm. In the course of his discussion Gen eral March said that General Pershing now has 1,250,000 American troops or ganised In the first Army corps. Pre sumably the Americans on the British left flank in Picardy. identified by the chief of staff as the lSlst Infantry of . WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN 14. French forces Bolshevik Invitation Declined. A fifth report said that Mr. Poole had received from Norman Armour. FRANCE, Aug, secretary oi ma American enjuaasy, i ... - , , t , rn,' rt whom Mr. Francis left behind at Voiog- fighting for the key positions of Thies- da when he went to Archangel, a tele- court massif ridsre and the St. Claude SX&STXSZl" Ecouvillen farms are progressing had called to see him. and apparently slowly. JNortn 01 Uury, wnere tne representatives of other embassies, on Hermans are installed in the old the evening of August 1. , . , . , "The emissary said that he had been rencn irencnes oi uiey nave instructed to ask the diplomats to go pained no cround. The enemy here in iu in uauun, Ks 11113 ouvioia v cj o ujiauic i , , . i , j - , n ,4 to answer for their safety in Vologda. lucy moineai, lumura iucv, icu, After expressing their thanks for made fortified DOSltlons. tne solicitude mown, Mr. Armour ana his colleagues referred the agent of the Soviet to their express Instructions in Foe Picking Up His Munitions. As the enemy retreats he is picking the 33d (Illinois National Guard) di- vision, are among those still brigaded from theJp Amb&BBdorB to reraatn minded by IkaJoJ-Gen.ral George VJnI TJaial low-moving material and is i. - ... a h, r:.n.r.i PrhiT. tionals, and pointed out the lmpossibil- , - Ity of going to Moscow under any pre text whatever. "The American Minister to Sweden has reported to the Secretary of State It is assumed that General Pershing has taken over his own staff as the staff of the First Field Army. In that case. Major-General James W. McAn drew Is the chief of staff both of the Army and of the American Expedition ary Forces. It appeared possible to some officers that the organization of the first Amer ican Army might be followed by an all American attack at some point on the line which it holds beyond Verdun, where there has been no recent fighting. accumulating an increasing number of guns and quantities of munitions. The French, in advancing, have tended to that he had been informed by the outstrip their artillery and there are ?WthT sV.dTsh0.urGenerai at "mo ! tanks to assist the infanry. cow took temporary charge of Ameri- The i Tench, are advancing against can as well as English and Japanese the line, which is thinlv held, but A Stockholm disnatch eavs th R,,.. and are fighting in the atmosphere of The primary purpose of the two slan sailors are declaring thev will mustard iras. Yet thev have wrested 1 U...k.l T.1 U f r, r I .. . . I O uiuws .uM - i iiKDL in merman government nthpr , , -. . , . ...1..11 been realised. Both in the Alsne- th. hv. Uo-their shins or win hi7- aominani posiuons on me oaniexieia Marne batUe and again In Picardy the up tno Russian navy rather than have from the enemy. attacks were aerensive measures to , faU ito th hands of the r.prm.n. I m.. - : t.i I JHK UCI 1 , 1 1 w ai K 1 1 1 1 ICIUUllb. i J V. U n 1 . k . .. ; lr 1 T 1 ' free Paris from the menace of the two I wedges the enemy had driven In that lne and Trotxky, have been seen in I about a mile southeast of Lassigny, Kronstadt by Russian sailors. to which they retired, following a new It is also reported in the Stockholm! j , . t-. , r 1 tt advices that the German Ambassador toauvam;e lue freual- UCUCIal iiuu1- Russia and the German Consul at Pet- bert's army moved forward two miles rograd are on their way to Berlin. Pre-1 L- . rnj , , , . . . . . , 1 VCOVAUav IU1U bVUn. t.u Win viuuaij- ifc u&s ueen reporiea mat tne I " i., , . , , . , - , . German Ambassador had moved tollarm, wnicn mattes xne noia 01 me Pakov. French on the Kouthern nart of the Amsterdam. Aug. H. In a note to Thiescourt plateau secure. Old Positions Ready. At Plemont the Germans found po- dlrectlon. The value of the drives in this respect was pointed out by Gen eral March today.- . ( Real Offensive Come. Officers here, therefore, anticipate a complete change In the character of the fighting in the next phase of the battle, with Foch's armies assuming the offensive in the fullest sense of the word and strikinar to force tha enemv back In such manner that he cannot I American Consul Poole protesting ll himself of his old Hindenburg against the British and French military line defenses. I action, Tchitcherln said: T. nlaln a anma hmmwvMwm I 1 DCSe .DeODJe. VhO did TlOt declare that the Flanders front might see thewr against us, act like barbarians to- Sltions all ready to receive them and next blaze kindled with a double drive wr" e. represent me op- were aDje to offer str0ng resistance. or isritisn xorces to pincn out tne I " " . . . t. salient there as It has been pinched I invaders, uur retaliation against xiic cucui wi iu:u""" uu""6 out at the Marne and again In Picardy. "0"e wno noot tne members of our fighting early in June and their Old Discussing the work or the zstli uu. ui ln- .u,- i ..uu- . . cHn .-m-4 ,iti. r.i.i nn,n,i.in x- 1.( tar acts against renresentatlves of these e. v tuiuuf vuisja sasusn, wuuaa aasss - I - Guardsmen. In the Aisne-Marne salient, Kovernments. wire entanglements General March said the only report I Policy Teward C. S. Defined. The battle for the Thiescourt area. npo Its casualties received was that "While we take this attitude toward i. i n , i c a x i j w wis, -a m i.. . iiu w c v ei. . la uiii v a aniaii uai o ui uic i men ui uunug xuur tne official representatives of Great ". ' . i . . , hours on July 30 In the advance to I Britain and France, we take Into con- operation in progress, and develop- the Vesle. Islderatlon vour own urcpnt r,nii,t hp- I ;n Afkan rto P IItia mQ . . - . ... . i luqo wo renra you as tne reDresenu. -. . - . - , ... said, participated in the advance across tives of a Nation which, to use vour moony tne situation Dei ore tne Dattie the Ourcq July ZS, when the attack I own words, will undertake, nnthlnir 1 1" rponened here. bbooi in ucrua iurut inn against the Soviets If we retaliate with tv. Ormana have had one advan. enemy back to the Vesle. Thlit)iwu Lrl.,1,M, .,,, .in.t th. ine Viermans nave naa one aavan flanked on one side by the 42d (Rain- warlike measures directed against us. tage. They have been falling back Reeuhfr" Divlsio osTtio' inh. . ls J".?"r.8U-a"fe ?'." Up ir supplies, while the French line was between Sergy and Roncheres. concentration camps. We regard these have been obliged to bring theirs up Mckname "Sinny" Frtmtd On. I nationals as civilian prisoners. We I over a difficult country, Th fYi i.f nf mttt tnnV An.iilni, a I Sinnlv these nrecAuttanarv meaeiiPAa I frown upon the name "Sammy" for I only against the members of the Kllle Against Machine UUIU American t roont Ko American anMiitr I Dronertv classes, who ara our on. I in France approves the use of that ponents. I So far, General Humbert's troops name, he said, nor do either the French "No such measures are taken against I vn vat fn, Awi nf rnnstsTtt -fiif. r, - RrttiK nn.pir.n wKv klv -, w I a,i ..l,,..l 1 1 1 .V. . 1, l I " " men like tne Americans should be these same countries, who happen to Ei xuuy uu ui muvu . u uccu tagged with such a nickname. The be here. The. working classes of the spent in gas-infested Sectors.' During mii Aiueunn wuoii woria are our rrienos. i ,, .1 . 1 , n , . comrades "Tanks." I - ail tnis Ilgntmg it was tne macnine General March said no American I . App' non. acainst the rifle, the Germans troops had landed In Siberia as yet. He "ecI"17 at tbls moment, we say - .rv,0of ,-0 did not have available figures on the tn,s to tne countries whose armies pro- having comparatively few infantry total embarkation for France, which ceed with open violence against us. and ment in the front line, but being ne wm maae puonc on Saturday. "UL l" l"Vr rBo oo r,1.i.:fr,riv mmU,A -onth mar-hi-nB miT. 110 tne nomes 01 tne poor.' I r" "As you stated to us that vonr na- virtuallv one for each man. and all AMAZINIS HldTUnT MADE ?.oeL not Purpose to destroy the ambush?d. (Contimied From First Pure.) I not tell ns plainly what Great Britain I Besides holding the two important stated that they could not see In this wants with us. Is Great Britain's aim crests of St. Claude farm and Ecou- attitude anything but confirmation of " destroy tne most popular govern- -,, !, tv..i, , -tv,;, mn .wl. 1.1..'. Hi,ti. h. mint tha world has ever seen. niitinlT I1""" J uo of a state of war. Tchitcherln said I the councils of the poor and the peas-1 01 Monoutner, anotner fllgn plateau, that he would give a reply within three ants 7 Is her aim a counter revolu- wh5rh commands a considerable extent "ya- . . j i. . j i On the night of August 2 a reply I m view or the acts referred to by A giuuim w mc huiiu aim cuai. rss received from Tchitcherln. It I me, i roust assume mat mat is true. I p,...,i, nminoir ni... v.n.v ...... ,... . .. . - ---- ------ - - , i from mcouvmon tne jcrench have a OI.C9 Cg WWIO UCUinil LIUeCU UUUrg I &v v-coLawAAOu vug " " 1 j c I J 1 ai.UJ jn in a meeting at which an agent of the! the world, namely, the noted Czarisra allies could be present only owing to Or does she contemplate seizing any special courtesy on the part of the I specific town or territory she can soviet government, publlo explanation 1 name? could not be given about non-public I "Remembering your kindness, I hope utterances. I you will help us to elucidate these British Bombardment AUesred. problems. "As to the .members of the military missions icuiicaeria laiu mat utuu ynllltlllA n I In ri Onnrnr"rlu "eo"e w.c t.u, uhm -tions had been begun with the Ger-I inHlliliiU UHiVlr UnUCHCUIto the west and south, has been cap- good view of the Dlvette Valley, where the Germans appear to be trying to establish a position with the aid of their old earthworks which were con structed In 1914. LONDON, Aug. 14. The town of Las signy. on the southern part of the Pic ardy battlefront, for which the French have been struggling over the hills Coarse to Be Taught at Washington TT. man authorities to procure safe pas sage from Petrograd to Stockholm for Non-commissioned Officers mean uliivsi foBv uiivubu aivub angel being Impossible, because Brit ish cruisers had already begun the bombardment of the Islands covering Archangel. I SEATTLE, Aug. 14. A fourth train- A third report from Consul-General I tng camp for non-commissioned offi- Poole refers to the arrests of British cerV course will be held at the Unl- standard reports. and French citizens at Moscow. On th ..- w..hi.in, . .. .t.i- . a c m w. . I versity or Washington campus August were fighting their . afternoon of August there was a. con- K-f..h, c i ... r.-j I . j ... tured by them, the Pall Mall Gazette today says It understands. Fall Not Confirmed. The reported capture took place this morning. The news of the fall of the town has not been officially confirmed. There was terrific fighting today on top of the Lassigny ridge, the Evening The French there way stubbornly K.w.n TrKKrh.rln .m K. I " i,UUUIlLCll I 1.LII naiM m.u i "CIO UUSU' Consols-General of Janan. Sweden and tonight. Ing solldly down the far side of the h. i-iti ... with tha I -1 no camps are indorsed oy tne state elevation, ma reports declare. "7 m . l,.n., Fl.f... .- K I fti. nwmanm nr... ..Irl . 1.- .I -i-i,.(rh sn-rit rnT-rnniMt I w111 embrace men vlthin the proposed up the fiercest sort of resistance, and solemn assurances that allied persons "tended draft ages of 18 to 45 years, the fighting. It was Indicated, might having diplomatic or unofficial charac ter would not be molested. "Second Tchitcherln stated that the allied military missions would not be I illowed to depart, as had already been I , m nromlsed. I "are, Jver- "Thlrd That civil persona arrested were hostages for the lives of Soviet members in territory occupied by the allies. I SPRINGFIELD, III, Aug. 14. Barnev "Tchitcherln said that these persona I Oldfleld crashed Into a fence In an at-I west of Lassigny, were civil prisoners arrested. In accord- tempt to lower the mile track record at I the old trench position, where wire en ance with the practices of war. for in-1 the state fair today His car turned I tanglements still remain. The enemy ternmenu -Tie aoaea mat do responsi- over ana oursi inio names. lis seeking to unite parts or the old bility could be assumed for their future I Oldfleld's hair was singed. I French line with some of his own for- OLDFIELD'S HAIR SINGED tarns and Bursts Into Flames. last a day or two before the bill was finally cleared of the enemy. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE. Aug. 14. (By the Associat ed Press.) The entire region about Lassigny Is cut by spurs . and ridges which facilitate defensive operations. Germans in Old Trenches. At Canny-sur-Matx. two miles north- the Germans are In Start today to buy War Savings Stamps An excellent investment and a patriotic duty iljl " ! MSg6ngt M r pl ' lS " No master record shall fca. considered as -5 Sjl $ir v jr satisfactory and complete- and perfect until it gg IHlflg s j has been approved not onl7l)7 aa autherited J IBjfl 1 i ! 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Worn out from fatigue and suffering from hunger, two escaped British prisoners staggered Into the American lines north of the Vesle today. They had escaped from a German pen after having b.en cap tured in the Marne fighting, and it took them seven days and nights to work their way to Fismette. On the last lap of their journey the Britishers ran through a German bar rage. They said that the ration given prisoners was three-quarters - of a pound of potato bread, a pint of thin vegetable soup and "coffee" made of hawthorn berries. The allowance of a German soldier was the same, only In somewhat greater quantity, occasion ally supplemented by horse meat. It is a common practice of the Ger mans, the escaped men added, to beat their prisoners with clubs and the butts of rifles. Wounded prisoners, they said, were sent to hospitals only when they were unable to walk, and then re' ceived little attention. SCARE HITS hUD German Press Awakening Gravity of Reverse. to DEFEATISM GETS REBUKE AIXIED PLANES WATCHING FOE Enemy Movements Closely Observed on Picardy Front. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, Aug. 15. (Router's, via Montreal.) Good weather continued on the Picardy bat tle front, enabling the airplanes to ob serve enemy movements. The allies know exactly whence he Is bringing his reinforcements and guns and where he is concentrating them. Raids on the northern front are prob ably intended to remind the British of the possibility of a German offensive elsewhere. ' An American chemist's examination of the great wall of China has re vealed that the bricks are so wet thai they can be crumbled with the fingers. and that -the structure Is in danger of disintegration. .. .. Once-Derided American Army Now Admitted to Be Giving More Trouble Than Was Expected. AMSTERDAM. Aug. 14. While Tues day's Berlin newspapers regard the Anglo-French main thrust as parried, the journals in the Rhine country dis cuss the situation in a much graver tone. The newspapers deem it neces sary editorially to brace up the nerves of the people of the Rheinish provinces. The Cologne Volks Zeitung appears to Interpret popular apprehensions when it speaks of "another impending ruthless Anglo-French attempt ta break through the German northwest ern front," and says that Germany fol lows the terrible struggle with bated breath. In the next column it inveighs against defeatism, which is "rearing its head In Cologne, Dusseldorf and else where." even in Essen, where the peo ple may be heard grumbling: "Another defeat for us we shall lose the war We have nothing to eat, no clothes, no shoes; we shall starve and be utterly ruined." As a cure for this state of mind the Volks Zeitung administers an antidote in the shape of a raging article about the enemy "wanting to murder, rob and enslave German men, women and children." The Weser Zeitung, of Bremen, with Ill-concealed pessimism, regretfully ad mits that the once-derided American Army is giving much more trouble than was anticipated. ' GENEVA, Aug. 14. Twenty divisions of troops were demanded of Germany's allies by General Ludendorn during the retreat from the Marne, according to the Democrat, which received the news from German sources. Austria-Hungary refused, but after General Luden dorff had made threats Vienna sent two divisions to the western front. LONDON. Aug. 14. Turmoil in Bo hemia has resulted in the execution of 74 Czech soldiers and wholesale arrests in many raids, newspapers of Munich and Dresden say. according to an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Zurich. The Hungarian garrisons have been re inforced and arms are being confiscated. 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