3;:-'';" 5V .1. PORTLIANdV '"OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING,- , SEPTEMBER - 'p? 1N8T;IXTEn'1IAQE& ' H1; V;X;"f PWCfi-jT.OCENT, r'voL. xvii. no: 99 vf : ' " TAROt.flVB OKNT ' .. - - ':, . ITS ALL TRUE" jlVS )'J& 1 1 D) ft t V I $A I i 2 Lives Lost in Fire at County at Victims Are John Rheinberger and Man Known as Rudolph;, ffelFeved Inmate Set fire. 1 Cubs Are Shut Out by Ruth, Who Allows But Six Hits; Vaughn Touched for Five, Two of Which, With Pass, Win. Contest Pitchers' Battle, Both Hurlers Putting Up Master ful Game, Backed by Errorless Support on Both Sides. TJIK BOX SCORE Hooper, rf . . . . Rhsan. 2b , Htnwk. ct. . . . ; Whitomtn. If. . . MclnnU. lb. . M Heott. M V Thou. Sk. . , . Huth p '. ToUk . , . . BOSTON AR. 4 , 2 S , 4 S 4 S S a iii " CHICAGO AB. Tr vk, ,t HivileekKi, Mr. ....... . Mno, It. y-TUktrt, ef , fcltrkl, lb fikkt 8t., . ; - ttrak' KtlliUr, o , . . . . , Vtmrtia. , ; Mccb , : I S II. ft 0 0 ft ft ft H 1 1 0 0 2 2 S 1 10 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 PO. A. '. 4 0 0 a o o 0 a l o i 8 57 a 0 H. PO. A. E. a i a 1 . -ft --'ft 1 0 so ? 5 1 0 T 2 ft 8 4 00 00 lUUsboro, Sept. 6lTwo of nine In mates of th Washlngrton county poor (arm at Newton station, one mils and, a half from HillsAoro, were burned to Acath in a fire that destroyed the home between 3 and 4 o'clock this mornins: The victim, are-John Rheinberger. 80, and a man whose first name was Ru dolph, and whose last name has not been determined because the records of the institution were destroyed with the building-. Besides the nine inmates, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gardner, in charge of the building-Si were In the building whan the fire broke out. The first intimation of the-fire was when the roof fell in. ,It is believed that the fin was' started by an inmate who has been in the "habit of building , a . fire on he floor in his room - and ; from whom- matches have been taken on a number of occasions. The county had $2750 insurance on the building, 1750 on the contents, and be sides Superintendent Gardner had $700 insurance on his furniture and belong IngS. Every grand Jury for the last 20 years has reported the county poor farm buildings ' In dangerous condition and though every year for many years an appropriation for a new building has been put in the budget, the budget meet ing has voted It down. County Judge Dofsey B. Reasoner has been a leader in the fight for a tiew building and has repeatedly made effort to put through an' appropriation for the Improvement, s The survivors of ,the fire are in tem porary quarters -at the Tualatin hotel. m mm m-.. i Forces vance twe Capt red by, th Bri tish Miles tit FtcLnd Advance m 17 - mi Erne Mites ers; 63 U1I .83 ' 87 14 I VVItliblyi-'Mlll, Prisoners Captured by British in Four Days "Number 16,000, More Than 100 Guns Taken; Americans Aid in Pursuit. LONDON, Sept. 5, 3:2i p. m. American and British troops are still closely -following the 'Oenpan withdrawal in the Lys salient in Flanders, It was learned here this afternoon. The enemy has' lost enormous material of every description. Americans Flee From Russia Is Messages Confirm Earlier Report of Attack on British Consulate and Killing Attache. T6UU , BttUd (or Pick In ninth.. IUn for Deal in ninth. , BCOBE BT I.N.VIXGS doiUHl . . 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Chlc.fo 00000000 O 0 SUUUABT -i SMliflcc hits Mclnnta, Heltochar, gtnink; Htruck out By Ruth, 4; hj Vuhn, 8. Ham Mr baits Off Buth. 1; off VMghnt 8. Hit by pitcher By , Ruth (FUck). Left oni'kaan Bnaton. '8; Chieaco, 8, Cmplwi O'Day St (lat, HUdebrmnd at first: Klein at second;; Owens at third baas. Time, 1 :63. Attendsirc. 2B.0OO. ' By Luther A. Huston , . 0M1SKBY PARK, CHICAGO, Sept. 5. (1. N. SO A pass ,tq. ftave Shean followed by hits by iNvTiltetnah and Melnnls spelled 'defeat, t or Big Jim 'Vaughn, of the Chicago Cubs, in the open ing game of the world's series with the Boston Red Sox - here this afternoon. The final score was: Boston, 1; Chicago, 0. It was a pitchers' battle m which both Ruth and Vaughn pitched masterful ball and were accorded errorless sup- Assistant Secretary of Labor to . Make Public Address in The Auditorium Tonight (Continued on Pits Tour. Column Two)' FINEO S50 FOR CONDUCTING DANCE Montrose M flingler-Pays Heav- Tor lestmg Law at mver- sidei Park Club. Any: lndltlduai business man or set of business men or organisation 'of bos-: iness men who attempts lni any. .way to interfere with the peaceful organisa tion' of laboring men or to .discriminate against the members of a .labor organi sation, even in an open shop, is flying in the face of the, war work policy, not only oi trie department or labor ana the Tart commission but of the administra tion Itself. xtus is the gist or the message brought by Louis F. Post, assistant sec retary o labor, who Is In Portland to day and "who . will speak at , The Auditorium- this evening -at 8 o'clock on the policy of the department of labor as related to wartime ' conditions and labor questions. Will Speak Tonight tendon. Sept. 5. 11:31 a. m. :(t Tt.' S.)p1oegsteert. on then, Flanders front. . has been cap , tureel by the British, the war of- " flee; announced today T - In; the past four days the Brit ish have captured 16.000 prison ers -afad inore , than 100 guns. Hill No. 63, Southwest of Me- sines, ns Deen iaKcn oy me British. In the "Ploegsteert 100 German pris oners: and many machine guns were captured. " ' The Germans attempted to hold up the British advance toward the Messines ridge, but all of their , counter attacks were repulsed. .- The, fighting north of the Lys river on Wednesday was very bitter, the British concentrating strong pressure against the German . positions In the center of the Franco-Belgian frontier. . The capture of Ploegsteert shows that the Germans are being driven from Mes sines ridge, which they occupied tn their April drive. " . ' , i Ploegsteert is only three, miles north of Armentieres and is about eight miles south of Ypres. It is on the Warneton? Armentieres road. -r The German counter assaults in the .Messines ridge sector centered about wytachaete, which rests upon the con- 11 I I f Mr. Post, accompanied by his secre tary, Hugh Reed, reached Portland this) tested strip of high ground morning' from ' Seattle. He "spoke at The Germans were quickly hurled the Pregresslve Business Men's noon- I back when they tried to stem the British day luncheon at the- Benson at noon onrush. ana win address tne general public South or iseuve onapeue as far as at The Auditorium' tonight. He will j Givenchy (on the Flanders front) the spend Friday visiting friends, with, fed- British have regained the old lines held eral .department officials ' and viewing by them prior to April 9, some of the industrial plants in Port- J (The taking of Ploegsteert shows the land, -seeing the eights of the city and British have advanced more than a mile vicinity and wul leave in the evening f between Armentieres and Ypres. Ploeg for Ban Francisco. I gteert village and wood" have been the Mr. Post Is one of those interviewees ,, London, Sept. i-iV. PJ Boris Lit vinoff, Bolshevlkl envoy to Great Brit sis, has beea imprisoned with hit staff at Brlxtos. This is probably retaliation fbr tne BolsbTik raid ob tie British em bassy In Petrograd. --..Washington, Sept. 6. -CL N. S.) Americans are fleeing Russia. The state department today , received word from' the American consuls at HeLslng fori and Stockholm to this effect. According to the report from the latter place, 40 officers and members of the American consular . forces in Russia. 40 T. M. C Ai workers, ZS em- ployes of the Petrograd baanch of the National City 'bank, two1 Red Cross of ficials' and 15 other' Americans are en route from Petrograd. via .the Russo- Finnlsh frontier, on a special train. The, Helslnxrfors message says that they .already , have-, reached Finland. which they are crossing in a special train., and that they, arm Jue at Hapa-randa- s,bout , rgeptamber . - 4. (, There have been ; renewed ' wholesale u arrests of . .British ; subjects ; In :Tt"cra am ? lAmHcail4 uonoui'-eneTa.: ros; ts reported having . returned to- PetrograA to-assisti. lus eolieaguasj axera, - The - messages confirm th earner ra porta ' of "the attack on , the - British em bassy , In- Petrograd, in which--. Captain Francis Cromie, British naval attache, was 'killed. Accompanying' the- Americans who are fleeing Russia are Italian and Brit ish MnrAaentativea. " " The Eeneral Russian, situation.. oftU claisnsay, is hourly becoming more acute. .' The Bolshevik! -governnMat, fn again 'rousing- their subjects 1h Petro grad and Moscow, has added to the frictlonf jjUp to the present, time Amer icans haynot been molested. General Kornlloff Reported Killed rnnonhairen. Sent. 5. (I. N. S.I 3en- eral Kornlloff. the Russian army officer, K.. wn killed bv- a shell, at Yekatar- inodar. the Helsingf ors correspondent ft th Tniitikn learns. Yekatartnodar Its k iAnitai of the Kuban territory. The Politiken 8 corresponaeni oaya inai .rM of his information was rmtl army: officer. - 5 - V X . 1, 1 , .The deatn oi uenerai a.onurou,ui hAon reoorted a number of times, lie has been variously mentioned In -news dispatches from Russia as executed, as sassinated ana Kuiea in acuon. Assembly ft-- Meet'.Sibon , Archangel. Sept 6. (U. HPJ Thro- vinion&l rovernment or nortnern kus- .io annnnoed today. that a. Russias con stituent assembly win meet, in Arcnangei shortly, -i - ' " " Archsnael since its occupation by the allies is the rallying place ror anti-uoi shevikt Russians. From the above dis patch it appears that a Russian, gov ernment In opposition to tnat oi tne Bolshevlkl Is about to be launched un der protection of the all ffes. 1 ll French Forces Carry Lines North of ? Guiscard and to Border of Berjancourt; Two Violent Counter Attacks Are-Repulsed. -i t Evacuation of Alh French' TerrU tory Likely to i Result ;From Britri ish Blow' in Sensee Valley, m ni 1IILLEB nnffi till ily Montrose M. RIngler, manager of Riv ... erslde park at Milwaukle. was fined 1250 by City Recorder Matthews at Mil waukle this morning on his plea of ..guilty to charges of operating a dance , hall without aj permit. , ' " - ; The pavilion at Riverside park in the " ante-prohibiUon da;4 was used as a roadhouse known as the Friars' club Charging that many people who made . the old Friars' club notorious were still " frequenting the place after RIngler ac ; -quired contrail the city council passed ' an ordinance requiring permits for od- , erattonrr The council refused RIngler a - permit and closed the place last May. On advice of his attorneys, who de clared the council had exceeded Its charter rights in passing such an ordl V nance, RIngler arranged with the MH maukie volunteer fire department with Hie 'approval, i he said. of the tmayor. to give two dances, on on Sunday, and , one Lajjbr day. During the Sunday fes- VvltleaVi ity marshal' arrested RIngler and closed Up me ban. taking him be fore Recorder Matthews, who released turn ont 1250 ball. ' - - 7 .t RepresentaUng the City of Milwaukle '. af the hearing was John McCourt. mem- ber of .the Fosdick commission. United , : Sutee Attoraey Bert E. Haney being , uso present.'! )-. ' ' Rlngters plea of guilty was on two Counts, one charging failure to obtain . a permit for his baiL and another, fall j. ur to " have; a , permit for the dance "jrtven tn It. :Tbe fine was $100 for one and "$lf0 for the other. A tentative , stenca- of 19 days - In jail was mis f' tended on the plea of RIngler counsel. who - believes In - the old Injunction, "ssk ana it enau oe given unto you. Having been an editor most . of his working life he knows something about the interviewing game himself and he takes the unhappy newspaper man through a course of cross examination scene of some, ol the- bitterest fighting of the entire war. Thousands died in bat tles around : Ptoegsteert during the late 1914 And the 1915 campaigns, and there was Stubborn struggling there last year. Ploegsteert is known to the British sol diers: everywhere as PJugstreet.") , (Concluded on. Pace. Twelve. Column Two) . ROLL OF HONOR In tho lt f casualties bcknr thm arw n. eluded tho names of the following rah from th i'aciitc nenoweat: KILLKD IN SOTtON PRIVATE JOStPH ARBKR. neanst nda. Uoo, Li. u. i nnsn, re cu. wash. DUD OF WOUNDS . t ItftlVATg CLMCR St.' OOLt, neanat rate ties. Mr. Ltlnaa Oclc. 3988 . Usrtin- trct Spokane, Wash. tlVERUV WOUNDIO rlvate John r. tekart. nearest wlstinn. Mrs. Mary 1 Eckert. 1310 Main street, Boisa, tdano. Privste Oewttantlne Ctoehhem. nearest rela ticn, Joan Eiacsaom. messa. Wash. Waahinton. Sept. 8. The Hut of casualties in the United States service made public today iCtmsatod 188 names, of which S an members W WW UUMUW - . AU .1, UJTIUCU follows: ARMY KiUed tn action , 4R kllvinc in action , ,. 86 Wottndod sevessly -. 1. 7S Died of disease 4 Wounded, decree undetermined. Is thed of wounds..,, , , B tried of accident and other csuws. ....... 6 ; ( MARINE CORPS -Killed is action. pied of wounds teceiTed In action . . . j 1 Wourtled in action laeTerely) ..... 1 Wounded in action (tUshtly) ............ J -. Total....' ' ; Ust 18, ; SectioB 2 ARMT UST; - KILLED IN ACTION , MKUTEXANT CHARLES ALLEN HAM MOND, Port Huron. Mich. Huns Retreat on 188 Mile Line London, Sept. 5. 11 :0T A. M.) (I. N. S.) The Germans are falling back oyer a front of 188 miles before the blows of the allied armies in lYance, accord ing to a .News Agency dispatch from the battlefront today. The Germans are falling back in five different sectors of the battlefront, de stroying their depots as they retreat. These retirements are being carried out to ithei regions of the Lys, Scarpa, somme, Auette ana yesie rivers. (Co&cluded - JPs Six. Coiuma One) General March and the General i Staff 'l The war department has asked and has been granted permission -to reprint the articles written by William Atherton Da Pay whtch ; are now" running in THE SUN ' DAY, JOURNAL. i ' This official v recognition of ; . Mr. Du Puys articles i$ farther ; evidence? of their unusual merit Jand timeliness. I - Next Sunday be will relate an. i intenriew with General P.eyton - C March, chief of staff of the! -. United . States army, about the-: work of fhe general staff. NEXT SUNDAY PARIS, Sept 5 (5 p. m.) l. N. S.) hauny . hu been evacuated by the Germans. ' 3iaunyVls tfn the-Oise river, south of the St. Quentin-La fere sector. It is about five - miles from the battlefront as it stood before the Germans began their first offensive in Plcardy , on March. 2i) - v - . ' fc 14 A j h x u t m, ... . -; rat V, - Partvapt- 6---CNi?on-) N. Vuriker progress over s.f wide, root and the ' yepulsa , ef two violent, eountar - at tacks werer reported by the Preach' war office .today.' . , " , s . ''. East o! "the CanaVDu Nord the French maintained, their contact with the Ger mans, pushing onward. Progress., was made in the direction of the Alsne liver alsov . Tha Canal de la Somme has been crossed by the French. ; French, forces have passed Hombleux. Esmery-Hallon and Flavy-le , Meldeux, carrying their lines to the north .pf ouiscara ana to tne ooraer- or ueian court (about five miles south. of Ham). Clamecy. Braye and Missy-Sur-Alsne have.-been captured. : American - forces are now holding cretes height, dominating the Alsne rrvw. the communique said. The Vesle river has been crossed at new points? by. French troops. German, counter' attacks were 1 delivered in the sectors of Mont res Combes and east of- LeuUly . (north -.or the Alsne), .but were without result. . m The text of the communlaua followa: Turtng the night the French main- tained their contacttwith, the" enemy rearguards, making fresh progress east of the Canal Du Nord and tn the direc tion of the Afnne .river. "In the sector of Nesle the Canal De Ls Somme has been 'crossed between Voyenhes and Offoy ton' the eastern side tOoacladed oa Pace . Twelre. Comma . Four) Outrages In Other Places Washington.' Sept. 5. (U. P.-While Bolshevlkl at- Petrograd were kiUiatf Brltlsh Embassy , Attache Cromie, ar resting the British embassy staff ana sacking the embassy . there, - "simultane ous" arrests were occurring in Moe- Redmond Man Killed On Way Home From u; 0. Training Camp British Relegates Cheer Rom pers' Declaration Labor Should Uphold Democracy. t . l uerpy. uaigianui sepv. 9.-i. rt. o.-r-INLabor would be unworthy of democ racy if it would (ail to uphold the cham pions of die) cause now. American labor would not prolong the war I a yninute longer than necessary, but we - are un willing to shorten it an hour If it should mean that militarism, would be contin ued with a new war in a decade. That is the American labor splrlC : 5 This statement by Samuel Rompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was heartily cheered today in. the labor congress, now in session ner. Gompers also declared that his aynv pathy waa witl the ""real' heart of Ire land." In this connection he paid -tribute to the British government for giv ing home rule to fhe Boeri of South Africa. . . , - - There 'is more talk -of freedom- In Germany," he continued, "but less there aetnairy . than m -. any nation - in tne The ' Dalles, Sept. 5. Returning from Eugene,, where he had been attending the training camp at the university of Oregon, ,W. E. Durand, 27. assistant cashier of the Bank of Redmond, lost control of, his automobile this morning on ''Brewery grade." east" of town, and plunged to the rock 15 feet below; dy ing almost Instantly. His head was crushed. He ' leaves a wife and two ehildreiuv. ...... .... '. . tty Women Spies "Arrested in Eaid New York. Sept. B.I. N. S.) Wsr- rahta wera issued today for five per sons ; living' in 1 the metropolitan district as tho result . of information obtained from Mrs. Margaret VoorbJes. arrested with ; 40 other women spy suspects in a raid last nlghf, Mrs.- Voorhies was taken in Custody in her handsome apartment at West 111th street. She Is .young, pretty and wore an expensive costume when she appeared at the dis trict attorneys office Tor examination. She Was born In. Germany. . By WllUam PhUly filmmt , , Paris. Sept lU. "FO The German general staff is today facing the possi bflity of a vast new withdrawal which would entail giving 'up practically the remainder of Franco under the Teutonic heel. , ; , ' ; It is practically certain that the plans of Hindenburg and Ludendorff must un dergo Important revisions; owing to the British' blow in the Sensee valley, which, as I cable, has brought the allies to with in seven miles of Canabrat and within six miles of Douai, or leas than the dis tance from tho Battery to the 'Central park lake in New York, while important railway communications between Douai and GambraL as well as the highways snd communication -generally between these two cities, are themselves genera iy qonunatou. -. -.Xere- Berincea rreaasie TTsless the Germans can stop the ad- vsrs?exf General Horn tho whoko sys- eanro tho Hindenburg defenses tausU Mnmbis and beyond uus tnero apears Xba Bothla'g until the Ilna 4s- reached runnlns; jsm-xytauport on ute jseigian scoast, , past .- LlUe and Mons, - (rem there -to- Mesieros V and -..-. CharieviMe. through the valley t - th Mepso nd Joinrog up wica ine om ant mtrnrw 'Such a retreat would open tne eyes of even Jthe German borne folk to such an extent that the higher command wm not dare to face It unless forced to do so W allied Jblows. -The Germans will, unmistakably sacrifice additional legion before they begin sucn a crawi. They nay yet be forced -to - sate them selves by . retreating from the Hinden burg line : as they did of old. Haps Hope to Get Initiative There' la reason to - believe that the Germans hope to snatch the .initiative from tho allies before the end 01 tne season's campaign by rapidly withdraw ing the bulk of their armies to the Hindenburg line, leaving their picked troops , and ' a screen of - machine guns and Heavy, artillery to prevent the rapid advance ol the alilea. -, fi It ts argued -that they might have surzwienc - aivision . resivu vj reserye for; uso asstorm troops., these, to attack at 1 the precise 1 moment when, the" allies come into contact with the HiBdenWrglinei when the Germans might believe them disorganised. V ;Teeh . Spoiled Germaa Plaai ' But instead of stopping when; they reached the Hindenburg defenses, Foch sent the British tearing through, com pletely smashing any plans the Germans had. . i Whatever 'fresh reserves they were saving for of tensive purposes were sent to' fill, the breach in the line. . ; With, the reported evacuation 'of Lens of air save nests of machine- guns arid with the, great possibilities opened up with , the threat against Cambrel and Douai the focus, of interest is en this Dart of the line. However, to the north. in Flanders, the British are at the doors of AnstentUres, tn which region the Ger mans are continuing to retreat, while around Soissons and in the vtctnlty of Noyon the French troops are ceaselessly biting Into the enemy's names, malting further withdrawals thereabouts im minent. ' American Cavalry Has Also Crossed the Vesle and Is Operating Towards the Aisne; Germans Nearly Back to Line Occupied Before Drive in May Began FRIS, Sept. 5.(I. N. S.') American and French : forces have-reached the Aisne river at several points, . it was learned by the" International News Service this afternoons r ' , t , s rlTie Germans are nowsiiearlv back to the line thev oc- : rdi'ied:brt Before "they began fheir. : s.f he advance; t)y "the f tanccrHerican forces " f rorn the v . Vesle river to -the Aisne is a distance of about five rrmes. AH of this progress ha$ been made since Wednesday. " : American cavalry has 'crossed the Vesle river and is " operating towards the Aisne. ' By Fred S. Ferfuon WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Sept, 5. (U. P.) The main Geniian . forces have, retreated icros : the Aisne. The American artillery, supporting the pursuit, is over the Vesle.; .Bridging material is beingj rushed forward to be used in crossing the Aisne and the' Oise-Ame canal beyond it, if the enemy withdrawal continues to the CheminTJes Dames.' - American patrols are filtering down the draws on the slope of the plateau north of the Vesle. This plateau is entirelyMn ;jthe 1 American -sector. -There is some German shelling of this terrain : and bitter resistance i& being made by machine- gun companies in S the ravines on the northern' sloDe. ' - -Fires continue at various' points, where the enemy' is destroy -ing.his stores.. . .. .. ,. . ' ' ' ' ; The pressure, nprth,,ofT Soissons,, where American and. French brces are moving eastward in their flanking movement, was steadily .maintained today,": v . - ' American artillery - participated with the French in sweeping plateaus over which the Germans aye retreating. ' '-r - -. ' , PrisoHers "taken Since H Augrl Number 11 0,000z Capt. Watkins Gives iTurilling War -Talk Captain S. G. Watkins of the Eight eenth infantry, Juat, back from the front, where he was a member ef the . first American contingent in France, gave an llluminatlhg talk before ' the Pro rresstve Business Men's club' at lunch eon at the Benson hotel today. Ho has boon 'detailed as instructional officer In American cantonments. He described thriUlngly many- of the batUee in which Standifer Construction Corpora tion Appeals for Aid From Pro fessional Men, Too. An anneal to business and professional men sot Portland to work in the ship yards was -issued today oy tne u. m Standifer CoostrocUon corporation through' the Chamber of Commerce. The letter of appeal, sent by H. T;. Shaver, employment agent of tho company, says GOO men will 00 neeaeo una numm uo 600 more next month, in tne new siee vrd to keen- UD with the program. By this plan, -the men would go to work at Ian p. m. and work until U a. nu. and would bs enabled to get sleep enough, to get 4own to their, offices at S or 10 ocloclt next morning. la. Seattle the, nian has worked well, tt.ls said by the United States employment bureau. whirh ;4adorses . tho movement oi -io Standifer; company here. r Men are needed tn the wood yards of IOO, 11 IS SSKI. By Earle C Beeves London.. Sept. (I. N. S.) (J:25 p. m.) Since August 1 the British, French nd Americans have : captured ' 110,000 German prisoners. Forty thousand of these were taken by tho Americans and French, the bal ance by the British. The chief feature of the flrhtinir has been the extraordinary small losses of the allies. This Is mostly due to the exhaustion of the Germana 't The German command is keeping (he situation fairly .well in hand, but wins' unable to continue indefinitely without sustaining grave losses. ,. By Hcsry G. Wale With the American Army on the Aisne-Veale Battlefront, Sept. 4 ( p.m.) (Li N. S.) An American doughboy's falling 'into the Vesle river tipped , oft to the American troops the fact that the Germans had fallen back towards , the Alsne, giving .up their positions on the northern bank of the Vesle. Y When the splash of the falling Amer ican was not-answered by a burst of machinegUB fi rev: tho troops Immediately realised that the Germans had retreated. The doughboy was a member of an American patrol that was: crossing 'a footbridge. -OOnstruete4 out of a tree trunk, when his foot slipped and he took a phge into the battle-famous stream. Iastead of the splash drawing German maehtnegun fire there - was- a dead silence on the northern bank. The doughboy - swam ashore ' and his comrades quickly -Infiltrated the north ers bank. - 7 They encountered no opposition what soever, finding only deserted' positions that had previously bristled with ma chine guns. . ,. . ' The word was quicklyi passed - back and a strong combat patrol, armed1 with light -machine guns, swarmed forward,: Tboy foundi Innumerable empty dugouts Land as they went on they met with oc casional Dursts ox . isou tea macnine gun fire from the plateau on which -Faars, Perles and Baal leux-les-Fismes rest, The Americans continued their prog ress northward of the Soissons road and Magneux, but Vrflen day brote . Krupp field gun opened up against the south ern slope of the plateau. - ..-. German, airplanes swooped downward. to reconnoiter. reported a thick smdke screen along the Alsne river, obscuring, j the territory. , . 'Despite this, American long range guns continued bombarding the German positions in that region, the artillerist . firing by targets registered on manev Thv cannonade t was followed by a " (CMsrisded es Pare Twelve. Colam Two P DRAFT WEN TO LEAVE INOCTOBER' the, sisndlfer company f'K sttusiiinn there is not as serious as -1 the steel yards, wnere men mnsi 1 looseoing . macoine-gun lire ana . pomos be secured or work wUl be' badly de- against tho American detachments. , Men Who Will. Register ,Nnt in m m eaa asa - - - a -k sss a a-'. ? - v weeK to Be tailed on to Mil : . October Quotas., Washington. Sept. f. I. K. av So-' , lecUve . service ; mem needed to fill up -" the October callserwlll. be rtaken , from ' the ranks of thoss who register under' -the provisions of the new manpower act next 'Thursday, Provost Marshal Gen- eral Crowder. announced this afternoon. J.' General Crowder. also, announced that . up to September 1. 2.006.442 selective " service men had been Indoeted Into the army.. "He stated -that while 4 the date for the national lottery had not been '--set it would be possible if the desired J speed was attained, to .hold ltjby Octe-