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Newspaper Page TextWW WEATHER Maximum Yesterdav, 86; Minimum Todav, 501,. FORECAST Touiglil and Tomorrow: Gencrallv . Cloudy . Medford Mail Tribune EXT COICST FOOD "WILL "WIN SAVE WHEAT Forty-1ghth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGOX, FRIDAY, JULY 2(i, 1918 NO. 10(i ALLIES CAPTURE STRATEGICAL ALLIES PUSH LINES AHEAD ON ALL SIS Germans Making Desperate Resist ance But Are Being Driven Grad ually Back All Along Americans Near Fere-En-Tardenois Pens South and French Pens West En tire Pocket Now Under Allied Guns Big American Guns In Action. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OX THE AISN'E MAHXE FRONT, July 2 p. m. (Hy I he Associated Press.) The Franco - American troops on Iho front nnrtlienst of Chn teau Thierry moved thpir lines for ward today. The allies alons; the front to the east likewise made pro gress at places, the Amerieans at one point attaining an objective a kilo meter distant. Clinging desperately to the hills and woods, the Germans are usinjr their machine (tuns, their artillery and their air forces and rpiantities of gas in an effort to hamper the ad vance. The Germans are using high ex plosive, mixed with (,'as shells. Ameri cans estimato that 40 per cent of the German shells which fell on Thurs day night and today contained gas. The German machine pun nests are numerous in the forest hut (he allies are grudually tearing them to pieces wffh heavy shells. The bombardment of the German lines continues merci lessly. Little Chance Shown WITH Till'. AMERICAN ARMY ON TIIK AISXK MARXK FRONT, Julv 2. (Hy the Associated I'ress.) There is little ehanjrc in the opera tions on the southern arc of the sal ient south of Sossons. To the west, Oulchy-I.e-t'hateaii has been taken. Farther south the Germans have been driven out of the positions they had taken on the north bank of the Marne. The French ami American troops are advancing farther in La Fere for est. The Germans keep up u heavy fire, especially from their heavy films, ngninst the French and Ameri can lines, but their efforts are inef fectual. Progress Is Sternly LONDON, Julv 20. On all sides of the German salient the allies are- reported today to be continuing to make progrcs, except on the heights behind Soissons. The German re sistance to the French pressure has been very determined in this latter sector. The advances reported else where are for the most part slight. On the other side of the salient just to the west of Rheims the allies lost the town of Mcry and Hill 2(14 to n German counter attack but retained Vrigny nnd the greater part of the lino thereabouts looking toward Pin nies. The allies in this sector hold Mar fatiT, Honilly, St. Etiphruise and Cnurton wood. lictwecn the Ourcq and Chateau Thierry the Franco-American line now shows an advance beyond the line of n week ago of from six to eight miles, Xcnr Kero En Tardenois WITH TIIK Ffi F.NCI I ARMY IX (Continued on Page Six.) AMSTERDAM, July 2(1. A.is . i social democrats have introduce I . n interpellation in the Austrian lower house asking the government to ne gotiate with Germanv to jointly f: wur ninis and peace terms, according to a Vienna dispatch to the Ni" i:vt Rutterilamsclic C'ournnt. They as sert that the government does not act sharply enough against the military uiiy of Germany. AUSTRIANS DEMAND FIXING OF WAR ARMIES YANKEES WIN BY ANN H LAT NG HUNS AT EP EDS Tired of Counter Attacks, Americans Outflank Germans, Concentrate Artillery Fire Upon Them and Completely Obliterate Enemy and Town None Left to Capture. LONDON, July 2fi. American troops met and conquereu the enemy tn a tremendous combat in the region of Kpieds and Trugny, says Reuter's correspondent with the American troops In France. The Germans fought well and checked the American advance for some thirty-six hours and three times wrested the village of Epieds from them. In the meantime the vil lage grew constantly smaller under the ceaseless bombardment and fin ally disappeared, not even a large pile of bricks being left behind. When the village disappeared the Germans were in possession. The Americans, tired of the ceaseless ebb and flow of the fighting there, had been taking the slopes on either flank, and forced the Germans to make their final massed attack. Meanwhile the allied guns had been brought up and as soon as the Germans took possession of the vil lage they concentrated a terrific fire upon it until the place smoked with Its own red dust as though afire. When the guns ceased firing there were no Germans left to capture or even to bury. At the edge of the wood beyond Trugny, the correspondent adds, the German machine guns stationed ten yards apart held up the advance a little longer. Making a feint frontal attack, however, the Americans crept Indian fashion, around the flanks and captured all the guns. After ward the pare of the advance quick ened. Alt' the high ground north or Kpieds was taken and the line carried beyoifa Courpoil. DEATH RATE OF AaSIIIXGTON, July 2C Satis factory progress Is being made by the American troops assisting the French and British In pushing the Germans' lines on the Soissons Ithelms salient, members of the house military committee wore told today by Secretary Daker and General March, chief of staff. The telephone facilities of the ex peditionary army are fully meeting the strain placed upon them In keep ing the moving troops supplied and in bringing up heavy guns and am munition, the representatives were told. While without Information as to casualties In the present battle, Sec retary Baker said the percentage of men killed in previous fighting had been remarkably low. Figures fur nished the committee members show ed that the death rate in battle has been eight per thousand while there was exactly the same proportion of deaths from diseases among the ex peditionary forces. The officials said this undoubtedly was the lowest death rate among troops at war in the history of the world. General March said that the Amer ican forces were too busy pressing their offenslvo to oven attempt to estimate the German dead. WASHINGTON", July 2fi. In creases averaging approximately four dollars a thoii-and lo t lor New F.ng laud spruce lumber wen? authorized by (he price fixing committee of the war indu-trics board tor the period from July 111 to November 1, l'.MH. The prices rani;e from -filS to id a thousand feet, according to size. length niul finish. BATHE RAGES F E Franco-American Push North of Chateau Thierry Becomes Struggle to Oust Germans From Stretches of Forests Heavy Guns Throw Shells Across Pocketed Area. WITH TIIK AMKHICAX KORCKS OX TIIK AlXSK-MAliXK FLiOXT. July lid (Hy the Associated Press, 8 a. m.) The Franco-American puh north of Chateau Thierry has resolv ed itself into n battle for the wood which abound in this reiriou. The Germans are fighting a renr uard action will) their artillery and ma chine iuiih, retiring arudualiv be fore the allied forces. The German in inn try is not in evidence. The indications early today were that the enemy was making prepara tions for a further withdrawal. He has been endcavorinir to hold the northern half of the forest of Fere and of the forest of His, but (lie al lies are making headway in the work of ousting him from the remainder of the woods. Vo Heaviest Guns The allies moved up their heaviest Jims early in the day ami were throw ing shells into t tic German lines an far its Saponav miles northeast of Oiilchy-lie-ChateaiO nnd beyond I'Vre-Kii-Tardcuois, (2 miles south east of Siiponay.) The districts to the south were also being peppered by allied shells. The Germans have heenising much "sneeze" gas, bill ineffectively. The topjir and oak forests of Fere and Itis are filled with underbrush and the allied forces are having a stiff job to get through them but are continuing to push nitiht and day. The German machine gunners and artil lery are desperately contending for every inch of ground. This morning the battle in the woods was still in progress. CZECHS TO FIGHT ASSERTS DELEGATE AMSTERDAM, July 26. "The Czechs declare they will hate and fight Austria forever and, Clod will ing, they will In the end destroy her completely because Austria em bodies a century old crime against the liberty of mankind, said Deputy Stransky, Czecho socialist, In moving in the Austrian lower house an In dictment of (he mlnlslers for their decree ordering the partition of Bo hemia. "The highest national duly of the Czechs Is to harm Austria wherever and whenever possible," continued Stransky. ' This we owe to the Czech people and to our loyalty to the Bo hemian crown whirh loyalty can only be put In practice by betraying Aus tria. Therefore, we are detormlncd to betray her whenever we can." ALLIED NAVAL BASE OJEKXS'l'nS-. Wednesday, July 21. Alter an in-pecth.n of the allied de-t rover base with Sir Erie Geddes. fir-t lord of the admiralty, r'rnnUin 1). HiHisevelt, iismnIiiiiI -eeretary of the American navy department stated to (lie Asoscinted I'ress corrc-pond-cnt lluil he had been grcnllv impress, ed Willi (he putting together of (lie Itriti-h and American naval unity into one cflicicnt anti-submarine op era tinu' force without either losin any feature of its identity. OR POSSESSION MARN WOODS HAPPY .MAWGN General Matigln is tho happiest j man in the world. I'rcmler Clemen-! oeau mid so after visiting him at the! front. Why shouldn't he tie? He's lending the French army Unit is flinging hack the Huns between the Aisne and the Marne. (ipiicrul Im guetto is helping him. iT E NKW YORK, July 2(1. The West ern Tnion Telegraph' company was indicted by a federal grand .jury here today on charges of having transmit ted mesKiigcK by mail. Two bills were liled against the Western Tnion. One licenses the company f having violated the fed eral law which forbids the establish ment of private express for the car riage of letters between points to which the government, operates mail service. Kight counts in this indict ment cover routes taking in New York and ltoslon, New York ami Philadelphia. New York and Wash ington and New York am) Italtimore. The second indictment charges vio lation of the federal code which for bids transmission of letters hy such private express routes. The bill in volves the company's alleged system of sending night letters by private messengers instead of by wire. The indictments are against (lie company only, the officials nol being named. The company is expected to enter a plea on Monday. Federal attorneys alleged that .'Ml!, -117 messages were carried by messengers between August 'J, I1M7 and June 1 ". l!H7, The maximum penalty that could follow conviction would be fines aggregating 1 r'JO, 8,'l. LONItOX, July 2((.- Comimrimr lhe work of (he French an I American troops in the battle now going on, Kcutei's correspondent at American headquarter-., writes; Thc Freii'-h have had four years of hard -tndv anil the lc-nn mo-t hud to heart i- the value to France of live Frenchmen and dead Oermans. When sacrifices are required we are quite ready to make them, but the oh. jed - to kill and pay little lor killing. They admire tac reeklc-- valor of the American bat llieir own method- are somewhat "low cr ami more sabt le. Faeh gets lo hw objective, but lhe French leave fewer men behind." SEA CAPTAIN THINKS HE SAW HUN U-BOAT SUNDAY iKlS'I'dN, July '20. The captain of n coal steamer now at this port be lieves he -iirhli-d a In rue (icrman Mihmarine oil tyre I -land, N. Y., last Sunday at noon, lie was confident she was a Herman, he said, as her siipeM met are was different from that of American undersea boats. She was lying on lhe Kiirl'ace a mile dis tant, lie estimated the length of the submarine at between 'MH and lH feet. CREDIT PEIAIN 1H ANN NG ALL ED SMASH Idea of Meeting German Offensive By Abandoning Advance Posts, and Holding Principal Line With Small Forces and Then Smashing Flank of Enemy With Counter Attack. WITH T1IF FKF.SOII AliMIKS IN FKANt K. July Jo (By the Asso ciated I'rc-s.) A relro-iM'ctivc glance at the entire battle since the Gcnuaiis tried to cross the Marne in their great effort to break up the French armies shows that the crown prince, thinking the French exhaust ed by the terriffie defensive battles they had fought during March, April, May and June, had decided to launch a fresh ot tensive, lie was so confi dent of success that he did not en deavor to hide his preparations. When Oenerals Yon Kinem, Yon Lloelm and Yon Kb en started t lie at tack on tho night of July 11 they ix peeled to overcome all resistance and easily capture Moiitmirail, l', pen nay and Chalons. General I'etain, how ever, had prepared another plan which was presented to General Foch on July 12, and which was approved the following day. Strike Counter Mow The idea was in abandon advanced posts and hold the principal line of resistance - with only the absolutely essential forces and in the meantime prepare a counter offensive on the German flank when the enemy troons were fully engaged in battle. Fast ward of Hheinis the execution of Gen eral IVtnin's plan was favored by strong positions but lo (he westward of that city the problem was compli cated because of the organization of the ground heid by lhe French had not been completed. When the battle opened, however, and opposing plans were put to t.'st, that of General I'etain proved itself superior. The French, Amerieans, Hritish and Italians co-operated and completely upset the crown prince's grandiose project. The result was the utter defeat and discomfiture or the German armies which were oblig ed to employ many divisions which had been reserved for Inter blows. Mow Well Prepared The allied count er offensive was remarkably well prepared and exe cuted. It struck at the right place and at the proHr time. The Ger mans arc now very anxious regard ing the positions of their great army between the Aisne and the Marne. It is for this reaMiu that they are fight ing willi desperation. The prcf-cnt moment for them is one of the most critical of the war, since the allies possess lhe intiative and the rapidly increasing Arneriaen army enables them to undertake op erations which would otherwise be impossible. The I'ighl ing continues severe, ns the ground which the Germans occupy i verv suitable turn defensive battle, but their resistance i costing them dearly. Their difficulties afe being augmented every day and it is proba ble thai they will be compelled to think hard helore starting any other ol ten-ive, even if its objective is only to relieve the situation. RECREATION FUNDS TO BE MERGED WASHINGTON, July 2ti. -Plan-. under which all organizations ccking by popular subscription funds for providing recreation and amusement for soldier- would uitc to carry on a combined campaign arc under con sideration Ir' I he war depa rl meiit. The object is to eliminate overhead expenses and competition among the six separate organizations carrying on work among the soldiers. The plan provides thai government recognized oi'gattial ions, t tooling their campaigns would receive Die same pi oport ion that t heir budges hear to the whole amount to be raised. AMERICANS MOB Sill AS ppfQQAUfun President Addresses Countrymen De nouncing Moh Action and Lynch Law Asks Americans While Fight ing for Democracy Ahroad to Pre serve It at Home. WASHINGTON, July 2ti. I'resi dciit Wilson today in n personal statement addressed his fellow coun trymen, denouncing moh spirit and mob action, called uHn the nation to show the world that while it fights for democracyon foreign fields it is not destroying democracy at home. The president denounced most em phatically mob action of all sorts, es pecially lynchings, and while he did not refer specifically to lynchings of negroes in the south, it is known that he included Iheui in his characteriza tion of moh spirit us "a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane jus tice. The president u Htatenieut in full follows : President's Statement "My fellow countrymen : "I take the liberty of addressing you upon a subject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity nf our institutions that I trust you will think me justified in spunking very plainly about it. "I allude to (he mob spirit which has recently here and there very fre quently shown its head amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynchings and every one of lliem has bene a blow at the heart of ordrcd law and humane justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cures for his family and honor and character or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the governments of the states and the nation are ready and able to do their duty. "We are at this very moment fight ing lawless passion. Germany .has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sa cred obligations of law ami has made lynchers of her armies. Lynch ers emulate tier disgraceful exam pic. I, for my part, am anxious to see every community in America rise above that level, with pride and n fixed resolution wKieh no man or set of men can afford to despise. Champion of Democracy "We proudly claim to be the cham pions of democracy, Jf we really are, in deed and in truth, lei us see to it that, we do not discredit our own. 1 say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer and docs more to dis credit her by that single disloyalty to her sandanls of law and of right than the words of her statesmen or the sacrifices of her heroic bovs in lhe trenches can do to make suffering peoples believe her to be t heir saviors. How shall we commend democracy to the acceptance of other peoples if we disgrace our own by proving that it is at'trcr all, no protection to the (Continued on Page HIx.) AMSTKItDAM, July- 2fi. Antwnrp linn huin Niinri u million fnincH am! tho llurgonuiMttir liati b(!i?n deponed iy tho tierimius lieruiiHe of reient liuptR'nlnx In tho city, miys the H' l Kltl'ie iJUKldad. A number ot uctlvlHt prlnoiiniH of wnr from tlontttiiKen waie hulf killed hy IiiIihIiIIiiiiIh for currying on iintl-HelKlim prnpnxundn. loetorH r.'fimed to nttend the men whom they railed "trillion," mid were coiiKequently deported to tler-tiiun)'. ANTWERP FINED . " MILLION FRANCS Ull utn YIH 10 Villemontoire and Oiilcliy-le-Chateau Captured Ferc-en-Tardenois Un der Allied Guns Serious Loss Suf fered By Enemy Allied Guns Rake All Portions of Salient 70 German Divisions Engaged and Loss Is Es timated at 200,000. m THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 20. Villemontoire, a little more than five miles south of Soissonn, hits heen taken by tlie French nnd Ameri cans, while farther south tliey liavo captured Oulchy I.u Chateau anil swept on east of the town. lletween the Ourcq nnd the Marne the Americans ure pressing hard niiaiust the enemy's lines nnd hnvo taken tho southern half of La Fero forest, which brings them up to about four miles directly south of tlio vital town of Fere-en-Tnrdenois,' tho center of the roads leading hnck out of the Marne salient nnd through which the German forces ulonjotho southwestern sectors of the line must retreat. Itis forest, farther southenst to ward the Marne, is also bciii.cmpticd of the Germans, Tk)ss Kcrious IMow Villemontoire is on tho Soissons Chateau Thierry road. H is south west of Uuznncy, which has been re ported miol'licinly to have been tak en by the nllics. Its capture marks a new step in the process of closing the mouth of (he bng in which tho Germans are strniilinir. , The fall of Ouli'li-Le-Chnlenu takes from the Germans lhe pivot upon which their retirement further south has been switminc;. Its loss to Ihu enemy, who defended it stonily, is n serious blow. In their advance, eastward of this town the allies nro near Hill 1'itl which is the dominatlni; height in that ret;ion nnd which would i;ive the nllics mi observation point over Ioiik reaches of the Ourcq. There is nol hint: known ns to Brit ish progress on the line from Geux and Mery-I'remecy, west of Hheims. The rapid advance of the Itritish there indicates that their progress should continue. Allied fiuns Itako Salient The German retirement is quite evi dent on the western side of lhe Marne salient, but soulhwest of Hheinis, nothing has bene heard as to an ene my withdrawal. Allied (jiins now command every point ill the pocket. Seventy German divisions are de ported to have taken part in tho liijhtiii!; already and the enemy losses are estimated at 'IHI,(lllll. More than 'J.", 011(1 prisoners have been taken by the allies ns well as "i(IO Willis nnd thoiisan.N of machine guns. German attacks near eMIeren ill the I.ys salient, and near llebuterne, north of Albert, are reported from Loudon, itoth enemy onslaughts were repulsed. Merlin reports thai all allied efforts were frustrated Wednesday. Its brief report on Thursday's fic.htiiiT declares that were "vigorous local nc tions," between Soissous and Itheiins. FRISCO FAIR SHE m SAX FKANCKSt'O. July 20. No collations for tho transfer of 256 acres ot moimil, tho alio of tho Pun aum Pacific International exposition In 11(15, have beon opened botweon oftlclulH ot the llnlhlehem Hhlphulld Iiik corporation l.t.l. und the (llroc torn of tho exposlllon, It wna an nounced hero today. Plana proposed would embrace tho erection of a plant employing 15,00(1 men for the InilldliiK ot ships.