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VOL. XVI. NO. 5
CITY EDITION
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1918.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
AMEIIGAMS
REPEL
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Pas
ATLANTIC
Forty-five Persons Believed o
Have Lost Their Lives in Sink
ing of Steamer Lakemoor,
Vice Admiral Sims Reports.
Five Officers and 12 Members of
Crew Have Been Landed on
Coast of England; Ship Was
on Her First Trip to Europe.
WASHINGTON, 'April 20 Forty-five
persons are believed ?
.to have lost their lives when the
American ttteamer Lakemoor was ;
sunk by a German submarine.
Five officers and 10 members of
the crew have boen landed at an ;
English port. Vice Admiral Sims
reports.
The official statement reads :
"The navy department haa been in
formed . that the . United States, ship
Lakemoor sr stmir by an ,nemjr aub
marine about midnight April II, 19H,
tn European water. Full details haVi
not yet been received from Vice Ad
miral Buns, . 1
"Out t a total of' 10' off (err and 62
members of the crew, five officers and
, 12 of the crew have been reported as
survivor. Thee have been landed at
Au Knfcl ton port. ., ; -
"The Lakf mooK ss rareo carrier
, taken ever by the United States ship
' Pjnc board and assigned to the ac
count of the navy In June, 1917. She
was 4.rino tona displacement, buDt In
this country for a foreign firm and
later taken over by the shipping board.
She was a new ship.
'The Lakemoor sailed from an 'At
lantic port for a European port in the
latter part of March and was on her
first trip abroad."
- The following officers and men are
mlHstng !
LI KUTENA NT . LEWIS TV. 'OFFUTT.
131 Twenty-second avenue, San Fran
cisco. LIECTENANT THOMAS A. KIRK,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
ENSIGN SOTIRRES LIZIKOE, Island
ThaHftoM. Greece.
. ASSISTANT PAYMASTER CLAUD
B. KRIEBEL. Landsdale. Pa.
LIEUTENANT COM MANDER
(Concluded on F( Two. Column Four),
Klamath County
Sheep Man Is Shot
tiiumain fails, or., April ZO. Owen
,T. Melvendree, , a wealthy and promi
nent sheep man or the firm of Tryon
t McKendee of this city, was shot
and killed about noon today on the
J. E. Paddock ranch, 13 miles north'of
Bonansa and 40 miles east of here. The
coroner's Jury, of which United States
Commissioner J. O. Hamaker of Bonanza
iaa foreman, returned a verdict ; of
death by run shot Mound Inflicted by
Paddock and Wm. Itolbrook. two other
prominent heep men ot Eastern Klam
ath county, Paddock and Holbrook are
now In c ustody f Deputy SherHt Grif
fith, and are being brought to this city.
Russia May Soon Be
Back in Illy Ranks
! Net .York. April 30: Russia, terrmo-
t rarlly put of the ranks of fighters for
- "freedom and democracy," is beginning
; tfa reassert herself and y, noon come
back (Into the ranks. A. A. Boubllkov
former commissalre of 'the duma and
mlnlater of communication in Russia,
declared here today.
5 "Speaking as a Russian cltisen and in
the1 name of a country which has had
8.000.000 casualties In the war againat
Prussiahlsm. I can assure you that Rus
sia. at heart is still with you," Boubllkov
declared. ,
ROLL OF HONOR
; Wanhuicten. April 20. C P.) The war
department announced 29 eaaualtie today, in
rhuiing two deatha - in action, two of wound,
three of diaa. two wounded severely and 18
wonnded .llahtly. on missing in action.
The Uxt follow : - ...
1 Killed In Action - ,
(COOK FABIAN KUI.E8ZA.
. JI-RIVATU HE.NET W. LEACH.
. Died of Wound
iMKtiTENAVT HERBKRT 8. RICHET.
1'KlVATt; 1'ETKll P. UeAElXLE.
i : DM of Dtsaa '
PRIVATE ' MARTIN KRIIKfJEH. ';
I rUIVATK KIX4AR R. Mt UBEU
. PRIVATE MAX Xti RtN. ,
-'. , - Wounded Severely
' Prirate Theodora At.' Fawlak and CharU B.
Kmitoon. , T j- ..
Mliin In Action '
' Lieu tenant Bernard J. GallasHer.
News Index
SECTION ONE 30 PAGES .
, American nnimr Tonlod
Houm rum Hue Naval Bill
anMrlcan RaaM Hun
Jltn Patttlen Filing Dlay4
Woman A I tent Mutt IJjelrter
IwiMf Wth AfrT
Dr. g. J. Labs RMurn From Franee
Franco .....
. Huns' Coloaal Orlo It Halted
Spood Wotosary In Natlon'i Loan Drte
8,000,000 Sutholt of Wheat for Bel-
s.
4.
B.
6.
7.
Adjournment of Conero In Doubt
Hunt In Month't Drive Fall to Win
W. 8. 8. Salet Soar
Evor Town In Orooon Kicoodt Loan
Quota
Mr. JoMph Satan It Dead
Portland Ball Mild 8uopl 8mall
Farmort Need More Htla Than Usual
Boyt "Otor Thoro" Send Oroatlnf
Mitt Mary lom It Commendod
Public Doot Not Control Library Board
rnd nf Laulivllla Honored
Mtep Oogt Shut Up, It Proposal
8. Editorial
8. Brief Information
Town Toplci
Lad of 8 Wint Estay Oontett
10. Druoalst Fined for Violatlnf Dry Law
War Activities Concern Idaho People
firlfflth Esplalnt Depreciation Fund
Third Oregon Ambulance Fund Revived
Local Capital Finances New Foundry
11. Lieut. MacQuarrla Would Fleht Aoaln
Americans Have Fastest Fhinf Qunt
Physicians Careless of Returns
12. Farm Survey Indicates Laroer Acreage
Two Sunday School Conventions Planned
18. Youne Officers Await Commission
14. Free f areata collectlen Urtjed
U. of O. Reference Librarian Quit ,
Portland Fir Loss Reduced
Women Loan Worker to Meet
Viellantes Uphold All Laws
18. Public' Money I Watted
240 to Be Trained at O. A. C.
Benton Bans Russelllte Lecture
18. Mill Get More Cars for Lumber
17. War Conference Set for Nit Month
18- 80 Members in Fifth Ordnance Class
Additional Newt of the Northwest
18. Oregon Men With the Colors
20. Vannlgans Wallop Regular
Farrell-KIng Battle Is Awaited
21. Shipyard League to Buy Bonds
Woodburn Oun Club Protest Upheld
22. Indoor Track Meet 8et for Friday
Oregon Co-eds to Play Tennis Hare
28. Real Estate and Building New
24-28. Want Ads
8. Market and Finance
80. Marine
SECTION TWO 20 PAGES
age
1.
2.
3.
4.
B.
The Rape of Louvaln By Brand Wh It
lock West Front Drive Analyzed By Frank
H. Simondt
Th Correspondent and the Censor By
William o. Shepherd
The Realm of Music
The Book Corner
Photoplay New
Chatter of Screen and . Etas
In Vaudeville
In Btageland
The Week In Society -r
8-7.
' 8.
' 8.:
10,
11.
12,
18-18,
18.
20.
Fraternal
' Woman' Club Affairs "
For the Needle Woman
Bet PhysloaHy Pit, Sayt Beneraf Scott
The War In Pictorial Ravlew
Automobile and . Oood. fteade .
In th Public Sahools .
Beauty Chat By Lillian Huuell
Fashion Mint By frlm. Qui Vive
The Story Lady By Qeorgen Faulkner
SECTION THREE
Comhs 4 PAGES
two Are Injured
In
:
F. Jones and Martin
Mrs. R.
Brown Victims of the
Two Accidents.
Two automobile accidents, both serious
and on the east side of the river, and in j
each of which one person was badly
hurt, took place Saturday night. One
apparently was caused by darkness, :
While the other is blamed by the police
Mishaps
Saturday
Evening
to John Barleycorn or some of his ilk.'" 7''' ot iia ma
As the result of the latter, three arrests , TJ'.tt , .,.,. A
mH An appropriation of $350,000 to pro
were maae. -. v.i i , .. ,
, Mrs. R. F. Jones, who, with her hus- ;
i . . . ' .
i?ZJLZSnlt?ln'',
George Hammond, Mr. Hammond drlv-
ing was injured internally when the ,
machine struck the rear end of an Irv-
ington street car, coming along Muitno-
mah street as the automobile was going ,
along Bast Seventh street. The ma- ;
chine careened . into the gutter, struck!
and broke a hydrant, all the occupants j
being thrown out, though only Mrs. !
Jones was hurt. Christian Stertz was j
fatally injured April 9 at the same;
place whe,n his motorcycle collided with
a streetcar.
Martin Brower. who is at the Imman
uel hospital, is the victim of the other
accident. A machine bearing a Cali
fornia license struck Brower, who was
on a, motorcycle, at. Columbia boulevard
and Peninsula avenue. " The cycle was
demolished and the automobile, after
continuing its wild dash about a block,
slammed into a telegraph pole, break
ing both the pole and machine in two.
James B. Schrincher, driver ot the auto,
is in jail under $500 bonds, charged with
driving a car while intoxicated. He is
22 years old. Fred Orth, 833 Leonard
street, and RovMassey, his companions,
are held under $100 bonds each. None of
the trio was much hurt. Brower has a
broken ankle and injured head.
Shipyard Employes
To Have Free Trains
Seattle. April 20. (I. N. S-V-Free
t ta Y BAVVlaA tA O TtA Tl-' Ca 41afa BihtfW
yarda will be furnished for shipyard
employes beginning Monday morning. J.
J. McCullough, joint terminal superln-
tendent, announced this evening that all
arrangements for th service, which was
ordered by Director General McAdoo,
have been : completed. . . .
Keels Are Laid for
Five Destroyers
Boston. April 20. (L N. S.) At
Squantum today, the $9,000,000 ship-
building plant, which has gone up sine
th first week in October, they laid the
keels of five ' torpedo- boat destroyers.
each 311 feet Jong. : ; 1
USE
MAIM! mil I
Mil l DILL
IS PASSED
BY HOUSE
.Measure Providing Nearly Billion
and Half Dollars Framed to
Develop Largest Submarine
Destroyer Force in the World.
Unanimous Action Taken in Rec
ord Time; All Appropriations
Made Immediately Available to ,
Prevent Delay in the Program.
WASHINGTON, April 20. (U.
P.) Framed to develop the
largest submarine destroyer force
in the world, the big naval appro
priation bill, carrying approxi
mately f 1,500,000,000, was unani
mously passed, by the house late
today. -
It is one of the largest naval
appropriation bills in the nation's
history and was passed in the
, record time of nine hours.' - By-
special provision all ' of the ap-
JWtfprJaltens are- maJ 4mndKv U
ately available so that none of
the navy work will be delayed. : .
Just what the destroyer program will
not revealed by specific approprla
tions. but part of it is carried in the
1100,000,000 fund to be expended under
the direction of the president A large
share of the fund wilt bo expended on
Henry Ford's "Eagle" destroyer-chasers.
Only minor points of the bill met with
any opposition, and very little criticism
of the navy occurred during the debate.
Naval aviation under the appropria
tion will receive $188,000,000 double the
amount orlclnally planned.
utner nigh lights of the bill are:
i Increasing the enlisted strength of the
hLLi 3,0T
Increasing the marine corns from
I 30,000 to 75,500. so that more marines
! can be rushed to France in response to
a tiP.Tiie"er?i p?rhln
s-BvauiiawiuciiL kjl a icmporary nos
pitals to cost $10T295,OpO. Both army
and nft w min will i...m1 fr i . k
hospitals, it is planned.
More Shipballdlng Flaaaed
Enlargement of all the navy yards to
prvae greater shlpttuilding facilities,
t Enlargement of the Great Lakes naval
Jalnn,n! rt.t ,n t0 !uch n Mtnt tnat
otT ' f " Hv ' ,t lo . tJn,Ma
estates or men dying in the service.
tablishment of big marine corps
at San Dlego . CQ8 ,16oo.00o!
Enlarge the naval base at Hampton
Roads by an appropriation of $2,500,000.
pollowine are the Imnrwpm.ht. .nH
enlargements the house authorised at the
various navy Tarda
Norfolk, Va.r $3,485,000, Including the
completion of a giant' drydock.
Charleston S. C, $1,160,000. most of
which is for another big dock.
Paget Sound Get $4M.m
1 Mare Island, Cal., . $1,235,000.
Philadelphia. $2,025,000.
New York, $885,000.
Boston. $600,000.
Portsmouth. N. H., $490,000.
Puget Sound. Wash. $400,000
New .Orleans, $350,000
The larger appropriations were :
For marine corps. $342,934,000. '
Ordnance and smokeless powder, $26,
695.000 Kew batteries. $348,309,000. '
Ammunition foe ships, $39,259,000. '
Reserve ordnance. $50,000,000.
In addition, an appropriation of $125,
000,000 for torpedo boat destroyers and
other devices to fight the . submarine
was mad. :'
Mrs. Mooney, Called
Away, Will Not Talk
Owing . to a sudden decision of the
court at San Francisco, ordering her
appearance - there Monday morning to
face trial. Mrs.. Rena B. Mooney, who
j wa? 8chduldJ to "i5 l P Audl-
wlJ?" x.ul apar.
The masa mee t in, however, will be
hld- w- D ' Pa "f80", oC S
Cisco, representing the Mooney ease de-
5ivo uu,luJ' ln case.
Ir. C H. Chapman of Portland and
Edward Towner, of 'Oregon City will
also speak. Otto Hart wig, chairman of
the Oregon State Federation ot Labor,
will preside. 1 . .
- JlL J '.uri?.
after being acquitted three weeks ago
and was to, have appeared . in court to.
f am Mother Cham on Maw It Th
decision of th court for her appearance
Monday made It necessary to cancel her
i speaking tour - through v'th Pacific
j Korthwest. '. " i ' ."! - i
I s .Th meetins- in The 'Auditorium th
afternoonr" wlll-onven at S;30 o'clock.1
LEADERS OF ALLIED FORCES IN WEST
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH, comrnan der-in-chief of the allied command on the west
front, and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Ha ig, commander of the British forces. Their im
mediate problem is to halt and turn the H un, who during the past month at terrific cost, has
made considerable territorial gain in the west.
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PETITION FILING
DELAYED PENDING
INQUIRY BY
Fact That .Names of Sponsors
for Jitney Regulation -Initiate
Measure Are Lacking Makes
Thorn llloo-nl e View. f
i
Filing of th Initiative petition cir
culated by the Portland, Railway, UgUt
& Power company for the purpose of
"regulating ' jitney buses" has been
postponed by City Auditor Funk until
City Attorney LaRoche has given an
opinion as to the validity of the peti
tions filed without , the nan) of the
sponsors.
City Attorney LaRoche will review
the law on Monday morning and an
nounced Saturday night that- if the
law required the names of 'the spon
sors on the initiative petitions, all pe
titions filed in th auditor's office with
out such names will be declared Invalid
and will not be filed.
In this event, the petitions which do
bear the names of the sponsors will con
tain insufficient names to place the
proposed measure on the ballot, accord
ing to City Attorney LaRoche. ,
lVonti DUeoversf Ilw
The , flaw In the petitions waa dis
covered by Mrs. Clara Fender. 82 Bast
Fifty-fifth street, who had gone to the
city auditor's offlc Saturday morning
to demand that her name be removed
from the ' streetcar company's petition.
- Upon looking through? th petition lu
the auditor's office waiting to be filed.
Mrs. Fender found, that some failed to
bear the names rf th persons or or-
ga-hixatloris which Initiated the measure!
Mrs. ; Fender f immediately told City
Attorney LaRoche, who Investigated
and ordered the final filing .of the pe
titions " postponed until he bad r; been
abl to review the- law. ;
Upon count, Mrs, Fender ' found . that
105 petitions did not bear the names of
-(Coticladed on Page Two, CoIuibb Three).
CITSf
" a V o. A
pr. E; J. IHe, Home :
From FrMce, Tells;
Of German
Portland Physician Says 300,000
; 'Repatries Were Terribly
Mistreated. ;
Fifteen hundred men and women more
than 60 years old and children less than
13 herded on. two unspeakabl trains
daily, until 300.000 had been' returned to
France this waa the way Germany
snipped the. "repatries. not capable
of profitably performing labor, out of
the country. " ' "- .
They were th unvlrll of France,
among those who were caught In the
first German advance that devastated
landa and robbed residents of their all.
This is the story Dr. E. J. Labbe. Port
land physician, who was with the Ameri
can Red Cross at Evtan. near the Swiss
border, told on his arrival in Portland
Saturday night.
Seated In his home, he described ap
palling conditions brought about by the
Hun. war program that left luxurious
homes mere rubbish heap. -'
Those who were of no us for toil
literally were packed In catU cars for
their. Journey across the border. They
were fed but once a day during , th
three-day trip, then only on a thin soup.
Water waa given them but one a day.
All Sedate to Poverty -
Malnutrition waa suffered acutely by
iCoocluded on Pas Two, Column Twol
Schwab Loses No
Time; GetstBusy
Philadelphia. . April 20. U. P.V It
took, Charles M. Schwab, new director
general of the Emergency Fleet corpora
tion. Just 10 minutes to pick his office
here today. In that time he Inspected
and commandeered nine of th 10 floors
of. the Goraery-Schwarts building. Broad
and Cherry streets, lees thana" mile
from. Admiral Bowles J office.
Cruelty
WOMEN ALIENS TO
BE COMPELLED TO
REGISTER1 IN 0. S.
Female Enemy Aliens Must Leave
National Capital by May 5;
Date for Registration Will Be
Announced Within Few Days.
Waahington. April 20. (U. P.) Pres
ident Wilson tonight issued a proclama
tion calling for th registration of all
female enemy aliena. of Auatro-Hun
gar tan or German birth.
Alt women of the nationalities In
th District ot Columbia who have been
residents In the district will be given
until May to leave. Female transients
her will be given until April 22.
Detalla a to when and where female
enemy aliens may register will be mad
public in the course of a few daya by
Attorney-General Gregory.
The administrative machlnerv to be
used by th government In this work
will be th same as now employed for
th registration of mat enemy aliens
ponce departments of cities, and post
masters in smaller communities. -
Th operation of th regulations cro-
hibiung enemy aliens from entering pro
hibited areas without permit will not
apply to German women until a date to
be fixed by th attorney-general. The
object of this, says a statement made
by the attorney-general'a of fee. is so
that arrangements- may be mad by
women to apply for permits and a care
ful investigation may be mad befor
th Issuance or permits.
- Any German women In any nrohiblted
areas, after tb time set (or their de
parture win be subject - to ' arrest and
Internment. , ? r . ..
,; -.Women Work-t Gas Work
London April 20. L N. S. Women
are making London's ga. Three out of
four retort1' houses of the Sooth Metro
politan Gas .company - a- being, run
entirely by. women labor. - Even th su
pervisors are; woumo. . ' j-
1 . .
Old Sol Breezes
InToiraSaturday
And Pushes Heat
Up to 82 Degrees
First Touch of .Hot Weather
Catches Pedestrians Unawares;
One Man Overcome by Heat.
Summer paid Its firat real call on
Fortlaml Saturday.
Gaily Old Sol smiled from the heaven
while buda opened wider and pave
ments radiated heat that made those
cautious onea caught in winter under-;
wear wish longingly for laat summer's
now reposing in the bureau drawer at;
home. j
One man waa overcome. R. I Ken
dall, 1044 Grand avenue, waa passing
the corner of Third and Morrison streets
in the afternoon, wnen he suddenly
fainted. He fell face downward on the
pavement and several teeui were
knocked out.
The maximum temperature waa iz.
according to Meteorologist Wells. The
lowest of the smaller nours oi me morn
ing was 54.
"Zowie. it's hot." said mailmen, po
licemen, deliverymen, reportera and oth
ers, who wholly unseasoned, legged it
over pavements and aoagea muwwno
bllea driven with gusto by drivers wax
ing joyous over the weather.
JUid visions ot me summer wiorei
The first "gentlemen's straw- maae its
appearance.
It waa an honest-to-gosn straw na
and betppped . the cranlom of a well
dressed Portlander.
Clerks and tellers of the Ldd
Til ton bank were atartled shortly after
the opening hour in the morning when
lta bold wearer Jauntily entered.
Laat season's perhaps, but It brought
arreettna-s from the new,
III bet yun oucaeo. ey, no xair
chawhV beef!"
Irrepressible youth heard the call of
tha-of, .swtmmmv Hole"- ana began
season which -wH! , end with their litha
bodies as brown as gravy. ,
The kids made merry In waters
around th pontoons south- of th Haw
thorne brldg'iid aloughs south ot
th Coast ShlpbOllidng company.
Flannel-trousers again saw th light
and tennU player got th kinks out ot
then - shoulder- and" legs on various
courts. .
Saturday evening -downtown streets
were crowded with overcoatless men and 1 Then th Americana, wlthx3at-Tti-wtth
woman who looked warm enough j forcementa, drove back.th enemy after'
In gossamer clothing they adopted early I an all day fight w hich waa marked by
In March;
Crowds that have been growing larger
for weeks in th Park blocka mad a
perceptible jump In number.
And In th meantime th owner of
every automobile In town was either thelr plLn curmd M prisoners. Fur
out on th open road or getting his car thermore. the German casualties wer
in anap ior toaay. ureal crowas on
tb highways
looked for.
in all directions ar
Story Girls Confined
Long Time Is Denied
C.l.m ri- inril 20 Mra Martant
L. Mann, auperlntendent of th Bute
Industrial School for Girls, brands as
entirely false a statement that girls com
mitted to' the school are put on bread
eeka to "break
and water for three w
their spirit."
"It is very rarely we have to put an
unruly girl on bread and water as
mean of punishment, and then for not
more than a day at a time." saia Mrs.
Mann. "Sometimes it is only for on
meal." a
Th statement was alleged to have
been mad when C. C. Thomason a class V, against th French -troops ad
In aoclology from James John high Jojnlnf th. p,rt of th terrain held by
school of rortland visited state instltu. ( Americana. ,
. , j, , .v .
Mra Mann not only denies that such
treatment is accorded girls at the schoo.
but she also denies that any of the
thing in her presence that would give
grounds for such an allegation.
Hood River Lad in.
Front Trench Line
Hood River. Or.; April 20. Ellis
Morse of this city has been occupying
an observation post In th first - son
i,h r..v.n--
forcea accordlnr to a . letter . lust re -
ceived by hla mother, Mrs. Phoebe
ja urac -
Young Mors is a intmbtr of , tlw
signal corps. H tells of his postlV,- k.,,1. v3
being so cleverly camouflaged that when
ow uau w rranu
n eiperwuceu ui irawi ouiicuiiy
i s , a aA siesi I
ln locatlna; his elation again. H also
tells of visiting th headquarters of
General Pershlng
North Bend Yard
" Damaged by Fire
- North Bend, April 20. Fir this after
noon, which started In 'the boiler plant
of Kruse A Banks shipyard, where five
government ships ar tinder construction.
did damage not exceeding $2000. Sparks
from the furnace reaching a pile of
oakum debris from the ships is sup-
posed to have been the cause. No one
was injured. Destruction of halt a roof,
Interior damage to walls and possible
damage to blow- pipes Is the extent
th loss. , Robert Banks of th firm ex
poet to hav the plant tn operation
Monday. Part of the borings drilling
and hoisting equipment la aXfsiXM.
II. S. FORGE
mm
Fill YET
Drives 1200 German Shock
Troops Back After Temporary,
Retreat When Assault Is First ;
Made by the Enemy.
Battle Occurs Little to Right of
Scene of Last Week's Two
Day Engagement; Still Pro
gressing at Nightfall.
By Bert Ford '
WITH THE AMEIUliVX AJlMY.v
IN FRANCE, April tO. (I.,
N. S.) Twelve hundred German
"shoyk troops" attacked theAmer
fcah infantry northwest of Toul .
early this morning in the same
sector where the two day battle
was fought last week.
Ttie result again was an Amcrl- ..
can victory.
. There , were more troop t en
gaged In this battle between. the. -Aoiertcan
and the Germans liian
had previously been JLhe case.
In th beginning, owning to the su
perior numbers of th enemy, th Amari-
fe back a kilometer, tb Germans
taking th devastated village of Belch p-
rey and th Bols tflu Kemtore and th .
I Bols du Jury. - .
I exceptional artillery fir and some aerial
I activity.
I T Oernaa .Flaaaa Dawned
The American. eantured . thre
I rimi.ii. ii t n.m.nr tr
tvir than those suffered on our aid.
Two German airplanes wcr downed
by th American gunfire.
The engagement was still progress
ing at nightfall tonight. Th fact that ,
no American prisoners had been taken
by the enemy, despite th early ad
vene of th Germans, Indicate a con
tinuation of th success of th Ameri
can troops.
l ne vunDlluy is low, dux in Amen-
I Aa AKMawtlMH 1 aw as s aran ff'ViA 4skS
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and our aviators ar busy.
Tonight there waa atlll some doubt
ax to whether th two boche airplanes
which had been forced down ware com-
P"0 tol th lr our wB.a,r
men using macnin guns or dj avna
machine guns. , . "
v. , v .t . " -
In every respect this la th largest
engagmnt. in which - the American.
troop have participated to date. . -
Today's battle began with a heavy ,
bombardment on a. barrage of shells and
gaa, Tn attacx waa expecia io a
Instead ot th general expectation.
tnrJ wa.VPS of trained shock, troop of
tfe0 .enemy ,wept ,ain.t th American
,mefc That was at o'clock this morn-.
Hard on- th bombardment, which had -
lasted an hour, th enemy swept on .
three points simultaneously and vicious-
ly drove out the American outpost.
The first lines fell back as a military
precaution, th idea being to draw out
the strength of the enemy In this man- '
ner. . . "
The Germans gained approximately .
on kilometer of ground embracing
Seicheprey village, which contained only
j demolished buildings long ago vacatad
I hv th French civilians. - y
1 The wtither was cold and benumbed
th hands of th soldiers In their us of
un grwnavoeai mna riiiww, uut iiue iki
I mia . . . . v. . . - -
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hMtT grmy cloada whoM u ot dimness
I nf thai battieflarUl vu accentuated bv
I th smoke of battle. -s-
I Th fight occurred a IRtle to th right
I of last week's two-day battl and th
unit engaged today acquitted Itself,
with th earn gallantry that marked the
action that defeated the previous Ger
man - thrusts.. The commander of the :
men who fought last .week's action. Fri
day, with teara tn his eyes, eulogised
the bravery ot bis men as the, column
was drawn up In a road.
The battle was dramatic in Its shefl-
ling, but even at Its height the Amerlcaa.
I motorcycle courier and ambulance
were busy. The American Infantry re,
ceived magnificent support from their
own artillery and machine gun batteries,
- Once in the open the enemy met a
savage counter attack carried out by an
I Inferior number of American Infantry.
of I The Americans at the word of their
- 1 commanders, turned ' on the foe and
f then slowly but surely the American
I drove back the Germans along a sajle
- I front.