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i-'1nf'( I1 ' - " - ' 'xK ggrrrrrru' ' 0 1 DAILY EYEtilHO EDItET DAILY EVENING EDITION Number oopiies printed of yesterday IUly Edition. 2,804 Xfala paper la a member ot and audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. ) VOL. 30 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918. NO. 9517. COUNTY OFFICIALPAPEr" COUNTY OFFICIAI, PAPER r BRITISH ATTACK ON ENTIRE AIRE-SOrilE FRONT AT 4:45 A. II i OF BETWEEN TWO AND THREE ALLIES HAVF HAIG ANNOUNCES CAPTUR ESTABLISHED RUSS COUNCIL THOUSAND HUN PRISONERS LONDON, Aug. 22. (Re ceived 2 o'clock) Achiet-le-Grande, marking the farth erest British advance north of the Ancre, has changed hands several times today but the British now hold it firmly. IiO.MH)X, Aug. 22. llalc announc ed that tin' lirllb.li attacked IIiIh mor ning on the whole front between the Aiurc and fconiwe rivers. "At 4:4.1 thi. mnriiiiur our troops attacked the enemy's positions be tween the homjnc and Ancre. (IxVWEMj 5IKI.I.1TT) WITH TIIK llltlTINII AK.MIKS IX1 FHAXCK, Aug. 22. A llrlttsti attack on hitch ground between Albert and Hray thin mornuur is rcMrtcd 'wwliiit Hood.' righting conditions today are I cm favorable- There It a hot sun. The Germans are oiiMstng ;cncral Itviut's noriiliur. rndi hostile counter-Ht-tucks arc reortcd ooslle )l trail moot und Ii-le. ' . llctween 2,M0 and a.MK) fr(Mucr. and a few guns wero cuntured by u OHtcrday. ' . Similar Organization Plan ned for Vladivostok; Mili tary, Economic Aid. WORK OF AID IS DAILY INCREASED Distribution Carried on Through Red Cross, Com manding Respect. 100,000 PRISONERS A CAPTURED IN ALLIED iDRIVE P.VIMS, AutfL 22. The Kclio "dc ; mm prisoners wince the start of the PaiiH wiys the ufllic liavc taken UH,- cffciiKlve .fills' IS. WASHINGTON-, Aug- 21. Ues huve completed an council" at Archangel, with ftador Francis as p resident. The al "entenlt Ambu A siml- CYCLONE SWEEPS MINNESOTA TOWN! 31 BODIES FOUND Business Section Wrecked; Aid Rushed From St. Paul. FI-ORKNCE, Minn., Aug. 22. Thir ty one bodies have- been recovered j from the ruins of cyclone swept Tyler, small town In western Minnesota. advance north of the Ancre with tit- AH business buildings are wrecked. not rici04rntloii. The JirHbd. lire The cyclone struck at 10 o'clock last only six miles from the Ilindenbiira; . night cutting a wide swath. It is be- lar council is planned for Vladivos tok. These will control military and economic aid for Kunnia. J Diplomats and ltutwian command ers will constitute the Archanged council. At Vladivostok General Graves will represent the United States, Charles Eliott will reprenent England. M- MatHurida will represent Japan and M. Ilca-nalL former French ambassador to Japan, will represent France. Military commanders of the allies, Ku-sia and , Csecho-Slovaks will hold seats. These agencies will co-ordinate and direct the work ox aid which is daily increasing In mag nitude. The distribution wll be car ried on through the Red Cross be cause that body commands the re spect of the populace. Additional troops are being sent to Vladivostok and a- French cruiser has arrived. line at nne point. The enemy Is bring. I no many frcwli tnxijrji forward. MX DIVISIONS IIKVriFIKI. Altogether six ilitlKlmis (72.om men) were Identified yesterday. The Germans tiMcd their heavier gun nil through the night. K Idrntly llyng sudden pujh hart considerably clitiirh ed the high command following con stantly developing l-Yrneh nuree fur ther south. FvMently Ijodendorff I doea not Intend to iw-rnilt further ad- I vino touardH the famous line witJi- , out determined reMam. Tin Ar- raft-Albert- railroad Is rcfmrted the ! soenc of fhtwst flglitliig, the llrltish j. being reulred to clean out dugout along the whole rttoii reached in, their attack. Many dead (icrmaim are ; refmrted. The toehia are undoubted- j Jy able to make siifT resistance auaiitwt an effort to reach liupume. Itovcd the death list will run higher. KT. PAUU Aug. 22. W. H. Stork, secretary of the Florence commercial club today asked Governor Kurnqulst for aid for Tyler. Tho adjutant gen eral ordered home guard companies to proceed to TIer Immediately with supplies. Local relief bodies and tho chamber of commerce will send supplies. 3-3.000 I'ltlSONKUS AVfM'NCKI. IXXIMX. Aug. 22. ly nightfall ycHtcrdny our pairtdrf had progresMNl m the Amw riser's left hank soutli and southen.st of Ilcatiooiirt. of tlte Aimto rler our pnllon yoMtenlay hitp mulnuiincd ngulnMi Ntrotig iMtttle eoiiiiter-at4MckHt ien eral If nig tmlay antMiuneed. IfoMtile artllk'ry has leen ery ac tive throughout the night nud this FREEDOM'S HONOR ROLL All of us are talking about de mocracy. Tim srldiers whowe nautcN are rinled In this casualty lint have siirfered or died for It. ATTEMPTED RAID ON PARIS IS FRUSTRATED FRENCH CRm$AlLETTE, NOYOymUTFLANKE ADVANCE 9.tfltl5'5 DAIS FIGHT RAGES FROM LASSIGNY f. TO SOISSONS; HONS ON RETREAT ALONG ALLJSE-AISNE FROilT Stiffest Resistance Met Between Albert and Bray in Advance Toward Ba paume; Six German Divisions xldentU fied. . '" 0. M. P. GUARDS WAREHOUSES Lieutenant J. Hv., Kocker, of the: Oregon Militoryi J'olice. has complet- I company. Guards will not allow suspicious warehouses in this county and has sent special details to each of the post.s. He has prepared the following orders for the men, which will show under what rules they are: Sentinals posted at mills and ware houses -will follow the orders given. Guards will posted at 8 p. m. Guards will be relieved at daylight. Guards will walk their posts in a soldiery manner. Guards will keep a constant look out for fire, and see that no one loit ers around the warehouses, except those that have proper authority, and axe connected with the warehouse warehouses. Guards will be governed by army regulations at all times in regards to challenge after midnight. X. C. officers will visit all posts during the night reporting any mat ters in regard to the sentry that are rot up to the minute in regard to regulations. Men 'running at the command to halt Use every effort to stop them -without harm, but do not let them get away at any cost. You will take nothing for granted, exeppt what you see. You will protect the wheat at all costs. - THOUSANDS WILL HEAR PRESIDENT ON TELEPHONE ROUMANIANS TOLL IS OVER 800,000 CHICAGO. Aug. 22. President Wilson "will address the liiKKest autli- ! enco in his JiikV ".hen he lcaka at . PARIS. Aug. 22. Rumania's toll of deutiiH since her entrance info the war in August, 1916, has been more than 800,000 persons, or about 11 ier cent of the total population. The proba bility is a higher percentage of mor- ChicaKo on Labor Day, lor not oniyta!f(y than In any other country of will the thousands hear him who have 'like Bize. PARIS. Ane. 22. French airplanes nd ground cuns fustrattrt a German lr raid over Paris this morning. HAKKIt FAVOHS HASKUAI.U WAKIIIXtiTOX. Alls. 22- Scordarv Itakcr favors vlaylng bo world Iwsc hall wric. He told the corrcMKiml- Vnts ho wtMild bo clad lo wo it ar ranged, and lielievrw that oIIImt local hoards should grant lime extmstoiiH lo players on tlio work or I ilit order or possibly, he hhiiHolf do It. gathered about the speakers stand, but additional millions will listen to his address over the telephone. The president's voice will be carried into every Chicago home having a tele phone. The feat will be accomplish ed by riiegaphoncs attached to police boxes in the hall where tho big Liibor day meeting Is to be held. Huge megaphones will also magni fy the executive's yoico for the thou sands who will gather outsido meeting place. War, famine, disease and starvation claimed the largestnumber of vic tims. These facts have been brought to I'aris by Col. R. Itossettl of the Rumanian army, who has made a study of the subject. the CAPTIVE Tit WI.KS GETS 11IG TOM AT - A CAXAIHAX ATLANTIC I'OIIT, Aug. 22. The trawler Tri umph seized by a .rrnian submarine and converted Into a raider is known to have sunk at least six fishing scv scls on the hanks. ... TODAY'S CAKIWIrircK. Released for aftcrntion papers. Killed In action 11 Missing In action 71 North Wounded severely 8 niftied ' Died of wounds 6 Wounded, degree undetermined.. 25 Total Killed In action. Welser, Idaho. 146TH FIELD ARTILLERY WAS IN BATTLE WITH HUNS; BATTALION GETS MEDAL FOR GOOD WORK The HSth Field Artillery. In which James St urn Is and James Howler ot this city are nervlnjr. the former ah a lieutenant, was cited recently by the French trenornl In command and a medal alven to Major Wey ranch. The battalion was In the thick of some fight Ins: and chased the Huns for five dHs before they could Ret close enough to pet their r:ne. Herat. Frank I. Hlfrler of Walla Walla has written his wife of the bat talion's record. The following ex tracts are from his letter: On our way to Iterlin, July 23 (1 think) "Its been quite a while since 1 wrote you last and I'm now Just tak ing" a rhanre. I started to three times and had to quit. Well, dnrllnjr. I am Just fine, only so awful Nrtlrty, but feel Just at home that way now. We should worry we sure have those dlrtv Huns on the run such as they never were before In this war. We have now tried to cntrh up with them for five days and have been unable to et within ranne until yesterday. wP have" had om thrill. na times the last few days. I'll tell the world. for the size of the place. And. Grace, I never hope to see such a sight aRsln. oh. God. It was awful. "Dead Just piled up. We were Just 30 hours after the battle. And th Huns left everything" they had and ran. This paper is German paper. "Oh. this Is a areat war, risht here. We sure are risht In the middle of h er.too. Things are dolnf all ths time, both day and night, one contin ual round of pleasure, so watch the papers for the end of the war soon. She Is the bcKlnninir of the end. They took prisoners of from 12 to 1(t year. Can you heat that? Kids, they Just cried like babies, they say. f saw dead turn with Imu (trey whickers "Well. Grace. I will try and send lhes few small thlnus in a letter. I'll name t hem a German newspaper, some papers, n doll's dress found In a house thwt wa looted by Hons nd a couple of postcards. Let ma read them. ' h. yes. since f wrote yott last we. that is our battalion. Hntterles p and I. hive received a medal to be kept by the nujor. We sure were cited by the French general and our "As you no doubt see by th papers Itnttallon whs the first hip artillery o the Americans are such naughty net up as dose as the French 71s. fighters they don't even let the llunsjxnw can you beat that? Yesterday top and eat. Just come rifiht on nnjthey shelled us but the shells lit over matter what's In the way. our left. They pot a French crew "Well. Grace, If I could just tell only .t'"r yard- away anff tried for us, you one-tenth of what I have seen the, but did not find us- It's great to hear Irfst ten days It would he a big; book. J them coming then try to figure out To start w ith I'll kinda mke it short . hr they are anlng- to hit. I guess we sure surprised the Huns' "We went to bed last night and by something awful. Oh, Hoy! I mm fc'the time we got to sleep a gas alarm glad we were In the worst of It. We ; was sounded and they kept us busy Just pulled into a place, a village and putting on our gas masks. They wood where the Americans drove the haven t got a Itck of sense, won't Huna out of their dugouts- It was'eveen let us sleep. one of the bloodiest battles that hasj "It's very unhandy to try and sleep taken placa during the whole war, t with a fas mak on. U T I "FEEL MY MUSCLE" - i " - ' Or i r. 4:": --y 1 ' ' , mm MX . . . .'' ,.'. ' I ! (John De Gandt) PARIS, Aug. 22. The French have crossed the Ail- ette river on a mile front be tween Champs and Cuny and are pushing towards Couchy, 11 miles north of boissons. A German divisi on in the Cougy region pre pared to attack but a light ning-like French thrust forc ed them to retreat in panic, throwing their rear divisi ons into confusion. Noyon is rapidly being enveloped. It is now outflanked from tne east. 1 he r rencn are ready to cross the Oise ca nal between Varesness and Marlancourt. The French hold the entire Divette river They are approaching Mani- c.imp, seven miles east of Noyon. PARIS. Auk- Si. Tlie French liave readied tlie Ailette river lu an ad vance between the Oise and A I hoc rivers, says Uslay's eonimuulque. This reircM'iitM a totul advance of nim mikv sim-e Saturday. l-iKlitliiff con tinued last niirlit ou tlie whole front from the iJLIuny region to friolssons. Ihe 1-Yciit eaiitured St. Ilaiil-Aux-lWiis. reaching tlio Ailette at 1a Qutttcy-lSagKe. THIS COUNH MAY -- BE CALLED UPON f FOR THREE MILLION I'matllla county majr be called ' upon to take $3,000,000 of fourtli ' liberty loan bonds. In that case It will mean aiMTOxiniatcty a mi 11 km each throuich the local banks and another million from over (ho county. . z The quota for the county ba not vet been announced but the inipreSKion te out that the new loan mil be two or two and a half times as lurse-as the third lilx-rtjr loan. I'maiilla county's quota then was 1,0 1 (I .OOO. There la . chaiK this county tiuty be rated hiKh because of crop failures In some other counties of tbo state. The government baa discontin ued the sale of the four and a naif per cent short time ccrtirk'aica. Iircliminary to the next lihertr loon hut is now offering the four ' per cent income tax certificates. SERVICEMEN OF NATION TO BE THANKED FOK KKTKFATIXG. The lYcutii maintained iontact with the rrtroMtiiig: eiMiny throiigltout the iii;;l.t. The f"reioli Iie ikxti piccl lx riinMint. TlileHCVHirt, timieo tnin-ourt am! Hie, all MMitli of (lie IMvcttc rter. between lasiny a no (yon and liac rcaclicd the Ilctte rl or. jt if oon tlie Fit-mil border the from NuiHeny t llretigrny. Further they took IVMinc.ignon ami St. ln nl. Frtmi St. Iwid titer I p;wel out to the . northward Tlie WASHINGTON-, Aug. 20. A Joint resolution tendering- the thanks of th American Congress and people to the army and navy of the United States for the gallant part they have played thus far in the war was introduced in the senate this afternoon by Senator Jones of New Mexico. j Senator Jones gave notice that he would call the resolution up for ac tion Monday. "The thanks of the congress and the people of the United State ar- due, and are hereby tendered to tbo officers, soldiers and sailors of tha United States army and navy for their gallant and arduous service and splendid accomplishments in tho pres ent struggle," the resolution reads. "By their skill, enerwy and enthu- P. s Ailette was n-u lied at Ij guiiK' siasm they have sustained Ikia-se. traditions of American valcr and llctween the Ailette ami AImki rlv-1 acn ievements and have Inspired the ers tliere was no clianse. The I Yem-h w orl(1 witn confidence in the ultimate hold the MCMcrn borders ot Foni- jtriumph of those principles of right miers. and justice for the vindication of which we entered the war." Mrs. Kdward I.yday ami daUKhter The secretary or war and the sec Flcta and K.-licia and Miss Violet Pnnn i retary of the navy are directed to spent the week end in Cnion and Hot communicate copies of the resolution Lake visiting relatives and friends, lu all American fighting men. MRS. M'CAN BRINGING A MESSAGE DIRECT FROM WASHINGTON SPEAKS IN PENDLETON, MONDAY, SEPT. 2 .. J .'l-r'tf J ",- -- c y, " t'- V- r ? -r To bnn a ni'ssa,e straight from! Mrs. McOun went to Knlnnd In WashiiiKton. particularly to the wo- July, 1917. crowing the Atlantic in A nu n of this city. Mrs. Martha Wilson comoy carrMng tvn thousand soJdiots. Mct'an wilt be In Pendleton to speak She was in London on the ntaht of on tht evening of Monday. Scpteinht-r the first moonliKht eir rait I and dur- jthe 2ml. Mrs. XUi'an has Vvcn s'iit tug one hundred Motksuent raids. I out by the government committee on During her sta there she enlisted for j public InforniMtion anl lir ttinerarv work in the Liberty Hut, thereby gain- in bcins nrritiKed by th? arioim State ing kntm-lelm r the r.u.te.-n work In i ouncil.t of IHTenw. die ton in one Kngtnnd. 8h- noted, as a rniuber of of the eiKht cities in Oifiton In which the Voluntary Aid Ietchment, In th she has -e-n mheduled to talk. jhowpitaU for blind aoMlers and sail- Mr. Mcan is a ta forma woman ora. There nb lt-Hrn.d much of the of cmMtd-r)'bU dintinct n and d'iring ( wonderful reoiiMruction work tht the past t-ar has spent much of h r being don- lv the Hrttmh and tin.e in KiiKland. InveMiKMtinic the was sKked bv Sir Arthur I'eanmn n work of women and ftud mg the re- give this nirnm;ire to the Aiwenrsa con!(ruction work Mm one mmnifd people. Sh n turned to Washington !.o!dier. Iter talk here will be aton: the firit f ih year and rnierl war j hn of th-se invtit:ationa. jwoik an a 'IWd if-prejw-ntiivs of hm ( The Woman's OniMn of the Fa- ordnance L.i.ion of the Hr ! trtoiic service lacue will make ar-, part men t. riiw nientu for the Mfptimr here and I Her meara.w will apf( partu ula- jwill entertain Mrs. MiH'au during herjly to the women of the cutry sad .stay in the city. The place of vpeak- h wll! -ll them of the manr litis has not yet Utn definitely nettled. 'in ihu tbry can aid la the w Inula Jit will be announced in a few data. Jof the war. -