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MEDFORD, OREGON", .THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1918
NO. 58
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FRENGH-RES
ALLIED III
BADLY BENT
IS UNBROKEN
Slight Progress Marie During Last
Day Farthest Advance Is 18
Miles French Evacuate Soissons
to Prevent Sacrifice of Life, but
Hold Environs and Command All
Roads British Still Hold Rheims
French Reserves Arriving.
PARIS, May 30 The entire
front is holding; firmly, accord-
ing to semi-official advices.
Although the allies still retain
lilieims, their position there may
hecome untenable if the enemy
pressure. further southward
should he accentuated, turning
the position of the defenders of
the city.
From Thillors, four miles
west of Iiheims, the front bends
northward and runs nlnng ulung
the Aisne canal, forming a semi-
eirelo a little more than a mile
before the city.
. I)Y ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 30.
Cloiioral Foch's reserves havo be
gun to come into action in the fight
against the powerful Gorman thrust
southward from the Aisne and the
enemy Is finding his progress Increas
ingly difficult.
Again the allied flanks are stand
ing firm and while Soissons has been
lost on the west, Rheims is still hold
ing out on the easterly edge of the
bultlc front.
The chief progress of the Germans
revealed in today's official reports
was In the center ot their advance,
where some throe miles additional
ground has been covered from Lou
polgno, 12 miles north of the Marno,
to Forc-Un-Turdcnols.
IH-.Milo Advance.
Tho lilunt edge of tho German
wedge is shown to run hero from
Fero-Un-Tardenols and about ten and
ono-hnir miles directly cast to Vo-
zill.v, 1314 miles southwest of Rheims.
Along this line the Germans arc
about IS miles south of the Chomin-Dcs-Dames,
giving them a penotra
tlon of approximately that distance
at the beginning of tho fifth day of
their offensive.
Desperate has been the resistance
'I of the French and British, especial!
the French on the loft, and tho heavy
losses suffered by the enemy, the Ger
man advanco has been halted greatly.
Tho allied troops have held together
remarkably well while contesting ev
ery foot of the way.
Soissons was ovacuated to prevent
useless slnughter after fierce fight
ing In tho streets of tho city for scv
' oral hours and the French were last
reported holding tenaciously to the
western suburbs.
Flunk Holds Steady
The steadiness of the allied flanks
under the heavy German pressure
Is one of the outstanding indications
In tho Paris official report. The
Germans for Instance, mado attempt
after attempt to debouch, from Sois
sons after gaining that town, but the
determined French held them back.
(Continued on Page Two.)
NEW GUN USED IN
PA If IS, May :I0. Kxniuinution of
the shells discharged by the Ger
mans in the long range bombardment
of Paris indicates that new (tuns lire
being used. larger shells arc being
employed than formerly, the caliber
of the guns being 24 centimeter (W' i
inches) instead of 21, hut the force
o Ihe explosion does "id win to
have increased,
RESERVES FROM
SOME REACH
BATTLE FRONT
Allies' Reserves Taking Up Positions
and Strengthening Defending
Forces Where They Are Weak
est, Placing Barrier to Further
Advance Heavy Fighting.
WITH -Till' FHKNCII AUMV IX
FUANCK, May 30. (Ily the Asso
ciated Press.) Allied reserves now
are Inking up positions in the battle
line. They are being thrown in to
strengthen the defending forces
where they are weakest, in prepnra
tion for the placing of a barrier to a
further German advance.
Fresh enemy divisions Iia,ve been
brought forward hastily to take the
places of those exhausted by the ail
vancc of the last three days and coil
fiuue the pressure on the allies.
The territory south of Ihe Vesli
river, which lite Germans have cross
ed al several points, is more difficult
for the attack.
Germans ItiLsli Fffort.
Now that the allied command has
reached the conclusion that the ene
my intends this rush to be his chief
attack, prompt measures arc beinj
taken to stay the movement.
The enemy is still pushing on with
every ntom of strength to obtain
possession of as much lerritory as
possible before the allied reserves
come up in full force and slay Ihe
advance.
The German crown prince, who
previously has met wilh invariable
defeat, may claim a primary success
on Ibis occasion. However, no
breach has been made in the allies'
line which has merely been pressed
back by irresistible masses of troops,
and has maintained complete cohe
sion. Capture of Soissons.
Although the Germans entered
Soissons yesterday it was only after
some of Ihe most severe infnnlry
lighting in the present battle. The
allied reserves aru gradually reaching
Ihe scene of Ihe struggle below I hi'
Aisne, and Ihe resistance opposed to
Ihe German push is becoming more
obstinate niinule by niinnle.
Yesterday's si niggle for Soissons
began early in Hie morning when
large numbers of German t roups ob
tained a fooling in Ihe eastern sub
urbs of the town. Shortly afterward
they were p.jpeted, and the allied
troops bung on in the outskirts fur
some time, coul'ronliug wilh cold steel
the desperate enemy efforts to drive
in. The valor of the defenders, how
ever, was greater than their strength,
and when fresh German troops
launched a new assault the line of
combat receded into the town and
there was lighting in the streets from
house to house. The small body of
French troops holding Ihe place fi
nally gave way hut only after dozens
of individual duels wilh bayonets, re
volvers and rifle bulls.
WASHINGTON, May no. The sec
ond section of General Pershing's
communique for May 29 announces
the failudo of tho enemy to break
through tho American lines. A raid
ing party of about fifty men, it says
were repulsed with a Iocs of ton dead
and four wounded, American cas
ualties wero light.
On May 27, the communique said,
Lieutenant Fisher, Curtis, Hnlford
and .Mcl.ennhan, on patrol duty In
the St. Mlhlol region, encountered
enemy machines at 4 000 meters.
One of thes was downed.
Iiefeat of an .enemy airplane re
ported In the communique for May
28 Is credited to Lieutenant Rlsken-
bacher' and Lieutenant Hamhleton,
and not to Lieutenant Klskenbacker
and Lieutenant Campbell, as pre
vlouely reported.
AIRSHIPS
AD HAS
AMERICANS
Germans Air Attack Mad" With Ut
most Deliberation, Umbrella Flares
Being Used to Enable Aviators to
Pick Out Hospitals as Targets and
Bomb Sick and Dying.
WITH Till'. AMI'lilCAN FOUt'KS
ON Till' FUKNCH FliONT, Wednes
day, May I'll. (lty the Associated
Press.) The German air altiick on
Tuesday nighl on American hospitals
in a town ninny miles behind Ihe front
was carried out with the utmost ap
parent deliberation. The German
airmen used umbrella flares to aid
them in picking out their targets.
Their bombs also started a fire in a
garage which lighted up the neigh
borhood in which is located one of
the four finest cathedrals in France,
built in the twelfth century. Tho air
men also lurned their machine guns
on the airmen engaged in fighting the
I'lnincs, mid upon ambulance drivers.
Hcsides the killing of one French
nurse and the probable mortal injury
of another, while flying glass slightly
injured a number of Americans, the
paiients in one American ward were
in some eases hurled out of their beds
by the shock of a bomb explosion.
In some of the hospitals it was ncees,
sur" to remove the "litients, including
some Americans, to the cellars for
safely.
Nearly every window in one of Ihe
largest hospitals was shuttered, its
were the windows in the historic
church, adjoining, now also used as
a hospital. Scores of American pn
licnls and hundreds of sick and
wounded French soldiers were ill Ihe
various hospitals attacked.
FLAGS AT FRONT
AT HALF MAST
WITH TNI" A.MKItlCAN All.MY IN
FRAI.NCI", May 30.. (lly the Asso
ciated Press.) From Flanders to
Switzerland and from tho battlo lino
to tho sea the American .expedition
ary forces today are paying homage,
to their doad. Wherever Amorlcan
flags are flying today they are nt half
mast and before the day is over the
Star Spangled Uannor and .flowers
will he placed on virtually every
American grave.
At some points the ceremony took
place early in the morning while oth
er exercises were held at various
times thruout the day. Daylight saw
some graves decorated.
At one placo In the vicinity of
Luncvlllo the graves had been deco
rated in tho morning darkness when
tho enemy could not sco clearly, for
the soldiers performing this duty
might hnvo drawn tho German fire
ns did tho burial party. I lore both
tho American and French flags wer
placod on 'the mounds with bunches
of wild flowers great blood red pop.
pics and yellow and whlto daisies.
NARROW ESCAPE
-
PA IdS, May .10.-Premier Clemen-
cchu had Ibe narrowest possible es
cape from fa'ling into Gorman hands
yesterday, according to the I'clil
.Journal. He left a certain point on
the front only a lew minutes before
the arrival of a patrol of 40 Lilians,
Premier ( Icinenccau declared that
the morale of the French soldiers, as
they march sinning to Hie battle
front, is admirable mid mnttnificcnt,
During the trip the premier, with his
usual fearlessness, went near tin
front lines. Three minutes alter M.
Clemencenii had passed n certain
cro.-s roads, u gmerul was killed
there.
THE OLD BOYS.
lty ltlKTON
Time was TIIKV inarched "lib a swing and a lilt
With heads erect, and liats ntllt
In tho strength and glow of youth.
When oucli man shouldered Ills aiek and gun,
And fought tho. fight that has mado us one,
A nation in fact and truth.
Today their gait Is a trifle slow f "' "" '
And their ranks nre thin, hut their old eyes glow
Willi 'n light that Ls clear and bravo.
A they triulgo along on tlielr tired feet,
Or Jirt. their races again to greet v
The flag that Uiey hclcd (A save.
And now the. test of Ol'K souls has comu
As tho soldiers inareli to fifo and drum,
To join in Ibe thick of war.
And tiio young laiys fight as tho old 'toys fought
Willing to count their lives as naught
lu a cause worlli dying for.
And somehow we know that In war's red hell
These lads will battlo as nobly well
Ah tho grand old boys wo cheor.
'Who falter by to n nuu-tiul strain,
Or those who under the sod havo lain
For ninny a quiet year.
So wo life, onr eyes ti tho flag that flirty
With Its ml, and its whito and Hue.
And we cheer again for (lie kind of men
Who havo always seen us thru,
For the stalwart breed that meets our nocd,
For the )1I Hoys and the New!
ill ill
T
5! BY EX-MEMBER
3T
CHICAGO, May 30. A soldier of
fortune, Frank Wormkeo, appearing
as a government wltnoss today In the
trial of the 112 Industrial Workers
of tho World for seditious conspiracy.
tostifled that during tho summer of
1910 that organization virtually took
control In isolated districts of Kan
sas iby Intimidating authorities.
Appearing In tho uniform of an
American soldier, Wormkoe testified
to specific acts of violenco and told
how in one small Kansas town the
I. W. V. threw open jail doors to
roloase their members and then
locked the sheriff In tho Jail.
"They told me, too, that they
planned to place a sun bomb lu a hay
stack In tho public square at one Kan
sas town,,, tho witness testified, add
ing that the bomb explosion was in
tended to further Intimidate citizens
and authorities.
Wormkco testified that ho and
othor members of the I. V. W. prac
ticed sabotage In the grain fields ot
the Dakotas and Montana, destroying
machinery and causing other damage
to property of employers.
lie said that lutor ho became an
active worker In California where,
ho said, tho 1. W. VV. bocanie so strong
and so daring In somo district" hat
they commandeered freight grains.
YANKEES REPEL
WITH Till-: IIUITISII A II MY IN
I'KANCK. May :". (Ilv the Asso
ciated I'ress.) Another strong
1 ncm.v counter attack against the
American troops in the Ciintigny sec
tor, west of .Moiitdidicr, seems to
have met wilh n complete repulse, ac
cording to a brief report Iroui the
south. '
The American" evidently have been
scheduled to almost continuous at
tacks since they stormed their way
into t'antigry. In every ease the
enemy's waves have been broken
etrainst the stone wall resistance oi'
the Americans,
KISALHY.
AERIAL BATTLE '
T
NORTH OF TOUL
WITH TI1M A MICK IC AN AK MY IN
FUANCK, May 30. 9:.'t0 n. in.) (By
Iho Associated Press.) I' rom day
lire nk until this hour there has been
u continuous series of aerial battles
on the front, northwest of Tout. One
plane is repotted to have fallen in
Xo Mutt k Land, "hero ure uneoii
finned reports that Homo Herman
planes have been shot down bill nt
(he moment of filing (Inn djsput
nenrly all Ihe Ameriean aviators arc
either answering alarms or fighting
and neenritle details arc unavailable,
The Herman artillery threw linn
drcds of shells of all sizes and main
turned a destructive, and hurrassing
fire. All night the Ameriean puns
have been very busy nnd ure giving
the enemy as good as lie sends.
ft is not improbable that tho Her
mans have home plans in which they
may employ their infantry.
The situation hud hardly reached
the horizon on this cloudless, wind
less day, when large numbers of ene
my planes made their appearance,
The American n viators took the air
one nfler another ns (he Hermans
came info sight.
Within fil'tccn minufcK four bul
lies were fought over No Man's hind.
E
l.ONKO.V, May 30.-In their lull
ial onslaught on Monday, the Ger
mans aro believed to have used more
tanks than ever bnfore, snys Hauler's
correspondent with the Itrlllsh forces
on tho French front, writing Wednes
day. Tho fiftieth Ilrltlsh division near
Craonno withstood tho gas attack of
three hours and held tho Germans In
the attempt to reach tho Alsno until
"Iho men wero drowned under the
German combers." The same fate
overtook tho French division to the
right of the fiftieth.
After falling Ijack, tho fiftieth
mnde a gallant attempt to recapture
Craonno, hut was defeated by Ma
chine gunflro from the enemy tanks.
In the end tho fiftieth was obliged
to fall back toward the river.
ERMAN FLOOD
SOON DAMMED
STATE F
Enemy Fails to Pierce Line Though
Bending It Progress Slackened
as Reserves Came Into Acation
Purpose of Enemy Twofold to
Reach Mnrne and Approach Paris,
PAKIS, May HO. The (ionium
flood will soon be damned, says u
semi-official nolo issued today sum
lnarizinir the situation between
Kbeims and Soissons. The uoti
says:
4,The (iermans again pressed yes
terday, hut while on one hand they
failed to pierce our lines, on the oth
er it is comforting to observe that
their march was slackened consider
ably.
'The French commands retains mi
diminished confidence, based as it
is on the power of our reserves and
the incomparable valor of our sol
diers."
'As these come into play the bal
ance will gradually be restored and
soon the German 1'Ioud will be dam
med.
Kncmy's Purpose Plain,
As the battle proceeds the enemyH
purpose becomes plain. It is two
fold.
First of nil, eighteen miles south
of the Veslo flows the Jin rue which
forms, with the Oise, one of the urent
avenues of approach to Paris. A lotii;
its course runs the ( haloiis railroad
the main eastern artery. 4'o xaiu a
footing in the Maine valley or even to
approach within artillery run, ye of it
would he an appreciable result. Thut
iH sufficient to show why the Her
mans continue to push southward 80
vigorously. The advance (here
yesterday, however, amounted to only
three and one-half miles, as aumst
five and one-half on the first day of
the nttaek nnd seven in the second
This indicates the rowinjr force of
tho opposition which the enemy is en
countering, ParLs Second OlijiNilve,
The second objective, which the
German staff considers even more
important, judging by tho efforts
made at Soissons, is to broaden the
salient, to Ihe weslwaid. My enlarg
ing Ihe action llicre the German
crown prince intends. In approach
nearer to I'm is on the direct roule.
The French command is fully uwurr
of the impot'laiice of this movement.
Although Soissons was evacuated to
prevent necillos sacrifice of men, the
French hold all the roads leading out
of Ihe town.
Heavy fighting slill lies ahead for
Ihe allies but those most competent
to express an opinion are now salis
fied that the German drive will be
Mopped in Ihe near future.
WEDS RAY BAKER
WASHINGTON', May :ill. Mrs
Alfred Gwynn Yundcrhilt and liny T,
linker, director of the mini, will hi
married at Mrs. Vanderhiirs country
place nt Ij'iiox, Mass., early in .lime
Announcement was made today by
Mrs. Vamlerbilt's father, Captain
l-iiae K. Kuierson of Itnltiuiore.
After the ceremony at llomewood
Mr. linker will lake his bride for a
trip lo California and Hie west, nnd
upon llieir relurii ill live in Wash
ington. Mr. Maker comes from Nevada
where lie was cnt'iit'cd in mining an.
business. About four years ago he
went lo Kiissin as secretary to the
American ambassador al I'ctrograd
end on bis return here a lillle more
than u year 111:0, was appointed di
rector of the mint by President Wil
son, i
Mr. linker's best inn n will be Sena
tor Key I'ittmnn of Nevada.
Auto tourists enrouto lo Portland
are Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lathrop and
son of San Diego, who nrn guests nt
tho Hotel Medford.
THREE RAIDS BY
HUNS, LUNEVILLE
MEET REPULSE
Purpose of German Attacks Was to
Capture Americans, But Latter
After Withstanding Gas Bombard
ment, Captured or Killed Attack
ersYankees Delighted.
WITH THE AMI'IMCAN ARMY IN
I'll ANt'K, May SI. (By the AssoT
eiated Press.) The purpose of. tho
German attack today against the
American positions near Hremenil,
east of J.pneville, was to capture
Americans. The determined Ameri
can resist anec, however, repulsed the
enemy wilh heavy losses nnd no '
Americans wero taken prisoner.
The Germans nttaiikcd lot three ;
points and at one place a croup of
14 got into the Amerionn trenches. It
never went Hack. Nino of the 14
Gormuns were killed; four ure pris
oners nnd ono is wounded.
Prisoners suid they were ordered '
to capture Americans at any cost, '
their superiors being anxious to de
termine whero American troops are '
stationed and their present fighting
strength. '
At a point west of Bremcnil, after
a heavy barrage, 50 German soldiers '
attempted to reach the American line.
They wero in three groups and tho
two larger ones wero held up nnd
n dispersed by the Amerieuji nm- .
ehino gun and rifle fire.
, The third group, consisting of 14
men, niuniiged by reason -of terrain
conditions, lo reach Iho Ameriean
trenches and jump into them.
Iiwl by l Farmer. -
Under the leadership of n lnnky
youth, who was n farmer until ho en
listed, n group of Americans gnvo
the Germans a hot reception. Bnyo
nets on tho end of Americnn rifles
flashed white and then red almost ax
quickly ns it takes to tell it nnd tho
enemy pnrty wns Roon overpowered.
During the engagement n big German
noii-eoinmisHioned officer, who di
rected Hie enemy purly, stood on a
pnrnpcl. He raised his arm to hurl
u grenade at un American soldier,
but ho never threw it. Another
American, who hud come through a
severe gns attack last Monday morn
ing reached the Gerninn with his bay
onel. The grenade fell from the dy
ing Gcrmun's hand mid . exploded
harmlessly on the parapet.
The gas bombardment that preced
ed the in I n nl rv iidvanco by the eno
ii v began at l'J:(l o'clock this morn
ing, 'fhe Germans had brought up
additional eight inch projectors to
replace those thnt hud been destroy
ed by the American guns Mundnv
night nnd mustard, phosgene nnd
chloride shells fell by (he hundreds
on Ihe American positions. In ono
small urea alone .'111(1 of these arrived.
Many of Hie AmcriennM, n.-i a result,
began (o show the effects of slight
gassing and were harboring n lurgo
lirudge iigniiisl Iho enemy on this ue-
COIIIll,
Satisfies Americans.
When the gns shells begun to full
I hern was hardly any wind, making
it ccrliiiu Hint Hie fumes would re
main in the loeulilies where the (ler
tiiiius planned llicm, nnd tho men in
the American trenches hoped the ene-
(Contln'icd on Page Two.)
WASHINGTON", "May 30. Short
ago of farm labor to harvost the woat
ern wheat crop will be mot by a mob
llo force of workers recruited for this
purposo, tho federal employment sor
vleo announced today, Tliese work
ers will stnrt early next month in
harvesting tho winter crop In Okla
homa, thon going Into Kansas and
afterwards moving Into the spring
wnoat section ot the northwost and
finally crossing the border and as
sisting Canadian farmers late In tho
fall.
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