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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
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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.