Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 15, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI EXT COIOJ SAVE "WHEAT WKATUEIi Maxiiinmi Yesterday, 87; Minimum Today, 57. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow; Unsettled Weather and Cooler Tuesday. edford Mail Tribune t irr m iwii FOOD AVUXWIN Forty-eighth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear, MEDFORD, ORKOOX, (MONDAY, .JULY 15, 1918 XO. 96 : HUNS STRIKE AMERICAN M 65 HIE FROM GERMANS CROSS Pit III SUPREME EFFORT TO !E ALLIED LINES Teutons Rene Offensive Upon Giya ntic Scale,... Striking From Chateau Thierry to Maison de Champagn e, a Distance of 65 Miles Feint Marie at Vaux Brings Successful Counter Attack By Americans Tremendous Bombardment Covers Region Far Back of Lines Imme diate German Objective Is to Detach Rheims and Force Evacuation of Verdun-St. Mihiel Sectors 220,000 Americans In Sectors At tacked, Fighting Gallantly to th e Finish Situation Well In Hand. An A F THAT FAILS Germans Attack American Marines West of Chateau Thierry and Are Met With Savage Counter Attack That Forces Huns Back 800 Yards, Yielding Prisoners Americans All Along Marne Front Fighting Sav agely and Dying Gamely. WHERE THE GERMANS ARE RENEWING THEIR GREAT OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE ALLIES ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN FRANCE, July 15. ( Hy Iho Associ ated Press, noon I. Some of the severest fighting of the war is taking pluce today on the front between Chateau Thierry and the Main De Mas siges, along a front of about fifty miles. The most violent engage ments are occurring in the neighborhood of Dormnns on the .Maine whore the Germans are attempting to cross the river. The latest Information shows the enemy demonstration on the east 'ern limits of the Champagne is being held by the French army under the command of one of the most brilliant of Frunre's soldiers, who made his reputation in the colonies and at the Dardanelles. The German infantrymen launched their attack about dawn. They j were accompanied to ine easi 01 unuuna u.v u iuirc uumum m ,a..n. These, however, were met by the admirable defenses of the French. The gigantic battle started at midnight with one of tho heaviest prep arations of artillery ever experienced Trom tho Germans. Tlio French, seeing Indications of tho attack coming, however, had begun their coun ter preparations an hour earlier. This grcutly disturbed the enemy. icrnuins Cross Miirno LONDON, Julv )". The Unmans have crossed the Mimic at several places in their offensive begun 1 1 1 ? morning, according to advices receiv ed here. The main attack, it is nilileil, soeii's to lie in tin1 Champagne. The advices to liiis effect cihih: fn the Central News. Itcgaii at Vauv LONDON, July M. The German nttack in the new offensive began in the region of Vanx' after lioniliai-,1-meiit with gas and high explosive shells according to the Kxchnnge Telegraph company's advices from I'll ris. The American nrlillcn re plied with barrage lire. There wa also a heavy lionibarilinciit in the re gion of Jaalgonne on the Manic, lie ports up to 1U::II o'clock this iimrn ing, the Kxehnnge's advices state, show the situation to lie held in liaml. To Detach Itlielm.s I.OX1 MIS, July 1.1. The imme diate objective of the Germans, it is considered here, probably is to de tach Hheiins v attacking oil aolh sides of it and cnpluring the lulls wvich would proti ' t '.heir I'i'.'hl flunk on a further advance southward. Advi vs j-iate t!i,t the a'incl. be ;.nn on :t Iront of 'Ul mil's between halea.i "! erry one l!li'i.y, nth "est of IV i ims. "'i- G-rr. rus also .t'tack.'o ' t of lil . -ir-. hctwcii 1 runny nni! Maison De Cli.-iiiipagnc, on n t'r ml of 'J.1 mile . WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY CiN THE MARNE, July 15. (Hy the Associated Press.) 1:40 p. m. Re ports from Vaux this afternoon Indi cate that the Americuns had advanc ed their line in this region in the face of Iho enemy attack. The advance extended a distance of approximately 700 yards hut the Americans subse quently withdrew to their original lino for strategic reasons. Twenty eight Germans were taken prisoner in this sector. I.OXHOX, July 1.1. A sharp in-j dictiiicnl of the ruler of Germany by Maxiuilian Harden is contained in a I current number of I lie Zukiinlt. The holders of high oi l ice, he is "noted as saving, when useful to themselves, profess to favor a new world order of democracy and a nutinhnl peace bat they really are only carrving on the tradition of the power of liic sword. ''No high pcrstfiiagc in the German empire," he says, "wishes to sec set up a league of nations. The con 'nuilce of endeavors I,, iiiiccn! this fact has I mill1 unnecessary since the Hrcst-l.itnVsk and Ihichnrcsl." l'rencli .Meet Shock I'AtMS, July 1.1.-A new offensive M Hie Germans was li.'un lu-t nigiil (Continued on Page Sli.) TURKS DEFEATED AMSTKIiDAM, Julv 1.1. - Maximil ian Harden, in mi article in Xtikuul'1, refers to the significance of Presi dent Wilson's speech al Mount cr oon. Frankly udmitliug the Irutli of the contention that America desires no territory, that her intervention means no material gain for hi r ami even is bound to l,c extrcinclv co-tlv f'r licr. Ilcrr Harden seeks t,,' impress nnon his readers the truth llial America entered the war from idealistic mo tives. To these motives, he sin's, inaiiv Germans arc blind, and accord ingly, most Germans decry them. Harden rccognix.es the reality of danger to America from a victorious Germany and say- .Vncrica'- decis ion was hound to tall where it did fall whether the pre-ideiit's name was Hughes, Taft, l!..-cvell or Wilson. LONDON, July 15. :Turksh troops on Saturday night attacked the llrltlsh positions in Palestine commanding the crossings of the Jor dan and on the ridges north of Jer icho. In the rldgo region, the war office annoilnced toduy, the British completely restored hy a counter attack the positions that had been penetrated. More than .100 Turks were taken prisoner, including 2ii" Germans. UPON WAR REVENUES WASHINGTON'. July Kiuiil billions of dollar- arc to be nuM-d un der the new reviiiue lull which (lie Iioum- vjiv niiil mean i-onnnittee he aim fiiniIoMiir in executive e-ion toWiy. Kiuhty iwr rent f I he new revenue- are to he irniueel I mm remi.iti-t-ntent ii! tlio exec-- profits ttu in eonie siirtuxes junl the renin iinh-r fmm pci-( t:ie-- on luxuries, noii eruti;iU Mini ornthil.-. W IT 1 1 T H 12 A M 12 Ii I C A N ARMY ON TUB MAKXU, July 15. (By the Associated PreHH), The Germans at, daylight today Innnchcd a violent at tack against tho American positions timul nf Pliulonii TIiIapm. ni,nanl,.llv near Vaux. The attack came as a most violent bombardment of high explosives and ttas shells turnout tho night. The J American troops soumlit shelter wherever it was available. When the enemy infantry appeared, the Amer icans swarmed out and met the at tackers with a rain of machine nun bullets. The Americans wore their gas masks as they fought the attacking Germans. An enemy bombardment of towns In the rear of the lines began shortly after G o'clock u. m. The latest reports say the Amer icans are holding their own fn the righting, maintaining their positions. lltNivy llomb;inlmcut Heuvy shells from German navnl guns are falling in regions far be hind the actual battle area, many of these projectiles having fallen in the oily of Meuux, miles from Chateau Thierry. In many of these towns the German shell fire is constant, the projectiles being from 10 and lH-ineh naval guns. At this hour it hud not been deter mined how the battle in the vicinity of Vaux was progressing. The whole line in both directions from that town was dense with smoke and gas fumes. The roar of tho cannonade was punc tuated in the few intermissions with a terrific din of machine gun and rifle fire which seemed of the hottest character In Vaux itself. At 11:L'0 o'clock this morning, the long range bombardment was becom ing more intense. . ' The day opened sunny but clouds are now scurrying over battlefield, threatening rain. ICnst of lEIielnis Also Word received here shows that the tf i' in u i til nSfccV' wy.v- lao-" 1 v. Wz, J , oX o If V v f ' X fT-iwv -J i I I Kaist -civile:-,' jjr' N""'sy , ' f mu t intact, ( i JJ HI' jim-iMJ; Mf1 ' 'illf 111 i y xt,f Saarbrui-.kcj PumL:r.. .fy-'SIv jseritny ,i-Ur!rn Coolrc&iirV ..o- h , . ft 2 .uriijn s- ' v , BiKhn,vk-r : X. C. S i iti S'-x "it- "-J I'pper map xIiowk lino from Mont d filler (n Ubehns. Lower map show n front held by AiuericaiiH from lthcims to Alsace. Present drive Is f mm west of "iuitenu Tli lorry oast nr oiiml IthelniH to (lie Meit.se river, n distance of !3 iiiiliv, held by French mid Ameriniti foires. Arrows on lower map k)iw American mimIoih. mEm WITHBRIflSH SEIZE KEffl Marmun Coast Occupied By British and American Forces to Prevent Possession By German and Finnish Forces Proclamation , Issued to People That Occupation Is for Russia Bolshevik! Orders Allied Forces From White Sea Region. IS 22ND NAIION POUT AU IMtlNCK, Haiti, July 15. The counsel of Hlute, according to and In accordance with tho legisla tive powerB given II under the new llaitien constitution, Iiuh unanimous ly volod the decliirallon of war upon llermiiny demanded hy the president of the republic. Haiti is the twenty-second nation to declare war on Germany. Seven other countries have broken diploinu- itlc relations. Germany severed dip lomatic relations with Haiti in .lime, 11117, ufter the West Indian republic had protested against Germany's un restricted submarine wnrfare and de manded compensation for losses to llaitien commerce und life. low the . I'AIMS, July 1.1.- Writ in- of the fieruuiii offensive licuiin today, the mililiirv crilie of the Tennis snesls the possibility of mi iuiiucdiate Aus trian iiltnck on the Ilalian frotil, as there arc iniliiiilions of such n hiii iicnine in the latest lliilinii conmiuiii ,,ue. "Alter ii naiisc o' some unusual lciii!lh," writes l.iculciiiinl Colonel Itoiissrl in Liberie, "Iho I'liciiiv has rc-uiui'd iielion. Me Ims chosen I lit niyht folliiwina the Kieiuh nalionul fclc, liopin- to calch us iiaiiin. Such ralciilalioii was ins but in I he true boclic mumicr. The ciicm- neith er suriiiscd nor caught us iiiiiiwarcs. The iittnck was beuiin where we hud reason to niiliciuite it." , ARCTIC FRONT WHERE tSHITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES HAVE OCCUPIED THE MAR MAN COAST ON THE WHITE SEA LONDON, July 1.1. American and llrilish troops have occupied tlio whole French ulurmiin const, in northern llussin, nays n dispatch from Moscow to the Central News Agency, by way of Amsterdam. Afler capturing Kern, a railroad station on tho White Sea coast, tho dispatch adds, the Ainericun and British forces advanced towurd To roki, I lie Husslun Bolshevik author ities having withdrawn to Nlrok. The . commanders of the entente allied forces have Inn Bed an appeal tp the population of the Mnrmnn coast requesting help aguinst Germany and Finland. It Is declared that tho Mur mun coast is Russian territory un dor the protection of the entonto powers. (Continued on 'age Six.) WASHINGTON. July 1.1..!. II. Kirby oT Hoiislun, Tex., today woh appointed lumber administrator of the Kmergenc.v Fleet corporation to administer nil activities of the ship building program connected with tho production and storage of lumber. Mr. Klrby will also assume control over all logging operations. T$r yLAPLArD ) YEa q FlWJARK AOVAMCIMt, nS ' C y Jw ? 4 r s&y F 'fit!) mm std frnz) rvt viaonas J ' yK""0tM y-J-ih KMtfJl WASHINGTON, July 1.1. Tho Germans have selected tho road to Paris for renewal oT their drive, offi cers hero believed today. Judging from early reports on the battle. Tho new buttle linn runs clear around Ithelms In its fitly mile sweep from Chateau Thierry, where the first and second American divisions nro known to he In lino. American troops in the Jnulgonno sector of the .Marne east of Chateau Thierry also are involved. The apex of the German advance on the Aisne front Is at Chateau Thierry whero the American first corps now'holds the left flank of the baltlo lino. Presumably the main ob jective is some place east of that point which llus on the direct rond to Paris. President Wil-on went to Iho war ilepin Itiicnl iluriie.' the iillcruoon and spent three ipiarlers of an hour with Secretary linker coing over the news from I lie front. Official rcpoits were far behind the press dispatches de scribing the figlitinr. Troop.s I'nkliown -WASHINGTON, July M. Ameris can pnrlicipalioii in the occupation of the Miirnian const of Hiissiu o fur ns known here is limited to murines mill bluejilekels. War department officiols xnid that I if other American Iroops had made i their appearance in the neighborhood I of Archangel and Kola they must j have been dispatched hy General Kneli, supreme commiindiug' general, ' from some of (he American troops in i Knglish concentration camps. Considerable Allied Forces I.ONIiON. July 1.1. Al the ro.iucst, of liusians isiderable allied foi s are now on the Mitrinan const which is on the Arctic ocean to the extreme north of liussin. On Ibis coasl Ihcro are several hurlmrs eoti iieelcd iiy rail willi I'elrograd. More forces are lieina sent and Ilic local population is co-operating with the troops. Meanwhile the (lerinaiis nre making a desperate alleinpt to .secure control of I In' Murium! coasl. They need the haHiors for submarine bases. The total German force in Russia, is :i'J German and 1.1 Austrian divis ions, composfd mainly of old and in ferior men. This force is spread from I'ctrograd lo Ilic lllack Sea. In l-'iiiland the Germans have more than a division, mainly in the south and not. easily within reach of tho Mtmnnn railway. llrilish public opinion welcomes the news of aid lo Ilic Russians and is wnlidiing eagerly the progress of af fairs on the Miirman coast. Itolslicvlltl Protest LONDON, July 1.1. -M. Tchitch- i erin, the Russian foreign minister. (Contlnuod on Pago 8lx.) HY ASSUCIATKH I'liKSS. July 1.1. In Albania Ilic allied ll is con- liii'te to advance. Vicuna declares j I hey are npiiroiM-liing llu new Aus trian "lini' iif re-istani'c." w hich proh ii 1,1 v iin-iiii't the Mcmciii ri"r. The ltnli,m. maintain tlicir prc--ure on Ilic wc-l. KreiK h troops in the east hue clearing the hetoli and Tomoricn valleys. Two tonus and Mi iinport iinl hill arc included in their lalcst captures, llrilish liimp, an, active near Iborall, .Macedonia, hut there lias U'cn no iuiporlaiit fighlitit;. JAPANESE TO BUILD WASHINGTON. July 11. Con tracts for thirty Kildltionnl nlcel car go ships have been lot by the ship ping board to Japanese yurds. Con tracts also have been lot for building twenty tran.Miorls to the llethlolicin ,hlibulldlng roiporallon at Alnmedu, Cal.