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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER Maximum Yestdrd-iv, 97; Minimum Tufluv, W. FORECAST Tonidit mid Tomorrow: Fair and Cooler. " Medford Mail Tribune rorty-elghth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2G, 1918 NO. 132 BRITISH EXTEND DRIVE NORTH OF AR RAS HUNS LOSE . POINTS HELD 10 YEARS British Extend Picardy Battlefront to North, Launching Successful At- tack in Scarpe Region Good Pro gress on Entire Line Bapaume Being Slowly Pocketed British Advance on Both Sides of Somme French Pressing Forward. LONDON, Aus. 2(i. (Ity the Asso einted l'ress, 7 p. 111.) Suzanne and Cuppy, towns north nnd south of the Somme respectively, were captured today hy Field Marshal lluige's t'orees according to reports received here 'tliis afternoon from the liritish hat-, tie front. The British also took Avcs nes I.es Bapaume. a suburb of the town of Bapaume. British troops also reached the western outskirts of Thriller, south of Buimume. An unconfirmed report states that Montauhan and the outskirts of I.on pueval also were reached by the Brit ish. British troops today also cap tured the town of St. Ledger. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aug. 2(i. Extending the Picardy bat tle line far north into the Artois sec tor, the liritish launched an attack this morning in the Scarpe region east of Arras. This attack may he con sidered as a new development of the terrific buttle east of the Ancrc river, which has been going on since last Wednesday. The British war office reports good progress being made ill the new at tack which was begun in nn area where the Germans hold strongly for tified lines and which have been held bv them for the last two years. South of the Co.jeul river the lirit ish have seemingly encountered n slight setback, for today's reports show they are fighting west of re gions of where the battle was said to be going yesterdav. napimmo llcing Pocketed Bapaume is seemingly being slowly pocketed by the British. Gavrenil, a mile and a half to the northeast, has been taken by the British, who have passed beyond the village, while far ther north llorey has been taken. Progress on each side of the Somme river is officially reported from London and it is said that the British are advancing toward Mari eourt, four miles northeast of Bray. There has been great artillery ac tivity from Boye to the Aisnc river, According to the trench official re port ,bnt there is no mention of new infantry attacks in this vital sector. German surorie attacks on the French lines in the osges sector huvo been repulsed. Near Old Mno As the battle stands today the British annear to he quite near the old llindenbiii'g line south of Arras, while they are making an attack di rectly against it along the Scarpe river. If the attack launched this morning is successful, it mil" have a determining effect on the course of the battle farther south, for a German retreat over a wide section might be forced. It also will affect the Plun der sector to the north, from which the Germans are said to he retiring. (Continued on Page Four.) OVER STRANGE FLAG NEW YORK. Aug. 2G. A white flag bearing in Its center a red tri angle raised In an uptown street by Jewish Bed Cross workers resulted In several shots being fired and the banner destroyed In a bonfire. Soldiers, sailors and civilians took part In the fight when the military men mistook the ting for the emblem of the Bolshcvlki. No one was in Jured. FRENCH REPEL GERMAN BLOW ARMY TRAINING NEAR SOUS FOLLOWING WAR Enemy Flung Back From Counter Attack With Losses British Cap ture Monchy, and Other Towns Advancing in a Few Hours Over Two Miles on a Four Mile Front. WITH THE FRENCH ARMY OX THE OISE FRONT. Aug. 20. (By the Associated I're.-s. Noon.) Vio lent counter attacks launched by the Germans this morning between the liiver Ailette and Mont Saint Mard and Jnvigny, north of Soissons, were completely smashed by the French. General Mangiu's army is still men acing the German communications betM(eeii the river Aisne and the Sois sons and I.aon region. French troops are still stoutly hold ing the positions they have won in this sector and further gains on the plateau to the eastward in the direc tion of the Cheinin-des-Dames would put the enemy in another dangerous pocket. PARIS, Aug. 26. The Germans attempted a counter offensive today, on a large scale against the right wing of General Mangin's army in the region between Vailly and Sois sons. The attack utterly failed. 'General Mangin's army repulsed Ilia German onslaughts everywhere and in some instances gained ground. The French flung back the attacking troops even beyond their starting points. WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN FRANCE, Aug. '-'(!. ( By the Asso ciated Press.) British troops in theii new drive on the A'rns front tins morning are reported to have entered the town of XLonchv-I.e-1'rcnx and to have captured Orange Hi1!-. North of Bapaume thr. Germans have been driven fartl er back. Ac cording to a repoil from the frort lilies t lie British have i cached the Bapaume-Beuunatie road aid :ie established themselves there. The British succeeded this ni'irning in pushing back the Gcraii n line soluheast of Arras considerably re lieving the position of Mint city. The Germans are making great ef forts to hold Bapaume hut the town is gradually being surrounded. Itopld Progress LODON, Aug. 2(i, 1 p. m. This morning's attack was launched be tween the Scarpe river at Fampfla.; and the heights northeast of Neuvill.' Vilasse. Monchy-I.e-Preux, Gue mnppc and Wunccourt, a little less than five miles southeast of Arras, have been taken in today's attack. Farther south the British have taken Mory nnd made progress to the southeast of the vilnge. In n few hours tin? British made an advance of two miles on u front oi four miles, according to n dispatch received here from the battlefront. In the battle area south of the Somme, General Hchenncy's French army has captured Fresnoy-I.es-Royc, about three miles north of Hove, according to today's dis patches. General uMngin's army also has maiie a slight advance between the Ailette and the Ai-nc. Four hun dred prisoners were tuken by this army yesterduy. Adds Four MJIes The (owns of Monchy-I.e-Preiix, Guetnappe and Wancourt were oil the (Continued on Page Four.) FRENCH! Fi Paris, Aug. 2ti. ( llavas.) The executive committee of the radical party nt n meeting yesterday adopt ed a resolution in favor "f n society of nations ns outlined by President Wilson. The party will urge its mem hers in the French parliament to u-ork for the realization of such n plan. TEDDY SEEKS Colonel Roosevelt Advocates Compul sory Military Service Between Ayes of 18 and 21 as Prevention for Fu ture Wars Urges Speeding Up of War Preparations. SPRINGFIELD, Ills.. Aag. 20. Speed up the war, prepare to defend ourselves afterward and make ready to solve the industrial and social problems which will come with peace. were the demands of Theodore Roos evelt expressed in an address here today. Colonel Roosevelt spoke at the centennial celebration of the admis sion of Illinois to statehood. "The two great needs of the mo ment," he said, "are to Insist upon thorough going and absolute Amer icanism turnout this land, and to speed up the war; and secondarily to make ready to prepare for the tasks that are to come after the war, the task of preparing so that never again shall war find us helpless, and the task of preparing for the social and industrial problems which this earth-shaking conflict of giants will leave in Its ruinous wake. Denounces Pacifists 'For the moment the pacifists and Internationalists and pro-Cermaiitt dare not be noisy. But let our people beware of them as soon as the peace negotiations begin and from that time onward. They have worked to gether In the past and they will work together in the future. 'The pacifists are the enemies of righteousness. The internationalists are the enemies of nationalism and Americanism. "When peace comes let us accept any reasonable proposal, whether calling for a league of nations or for any other machinery which we can in good faith act upon, and which does really offer some chance of lessening the number of future wars and dim inishing their area. But let us never forget that any promise that Biich a league or other piece of machinery will definitely do away with war is either sheer nonsense or rank hypoc risy." Vnlversiil Service The speaker advocated universal obligatory training of boys between IS and 21. Referring to Hie effort to end the war as early as possible, be said, "By next spring we should have thousands of our own field guns and scores of thousands of our own airplanes at the front, and an enormous ship tonnage in which to ferrv across so many troops that by April we may hnvc 4,000,000 trained fighting men at the front, not counting non-coinhatants and reserves." SUNK BY U-BOAT REPLACED BY U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2(1. Fishing craft destroyed by German submar ines off the .Now Englund coast will be replaced hy the Emergency Fleet corporation nt the request of the food administration with deep sea modern trawlers. Construction will he begun imme diately on seventy-five vessels, to be in operation on the Atlantic and Pa ciflc coasts and in the gulf of Mexico early In 1919. The food admlnlstra tlon asked for the boats in order to increase the production of salt water fish. Heavy Increases In the annual pro duction of Haddock, small cod, flat fish and other salt water varieties are expected to result from operation of the new trawlers and enable car loads to enter all the Interior mar kets of the country every week In the year, stabilizing prices at low levels. WITH HIS "T ,. -' V General J. J. Pershing snnpiied helmet. This is the latest photograph ut the front. i IN 10-DAY DRIVE PLACED 23,500 LONDON', AuK. 2i The ' P.rilUli (turd iiu1 I'd n till tU'iiiii'H :,ul fi.'ivil en H.iilii's estimated at nliont 'iM be tween Auirust l." nnd August 12.0, ac or.'in to ndvicesM'ruin I lie imut. During this same jieriod the Hi'minn loses,!? in prisnerst alone hitve aienunterf to 20,000 men hi the battle cast of the Anere. TtPr. TSII IIKADQlTAIiTKRS IN FRANCK, An?. 2fi. (Heuter Lim ited.) liritish troops yesterday took another 1 ,")()() prisoners and made further collection of gum, treneli mortars and machine iiis. jVieM Marshal Ilaiir's forces swunir forward as far n-s l,om.rmYti in their advaii'-e north of the Soinme. PAKIS, Auir. lifi. The number or prisoners taken by the liritish since August 21, has reached 20,000. the Petit Journal declares. According to I,e Journal threo new German divisions have been identified opposite the liritish. Since Auj;u.4 8, nearly ;i0 German divisions Live been in the fighting against the Brit ish. ST. PIKRKK, Miuelon, Aug. 2G -News of the sinking of lour l'i-lnn schooners by u German sulmiuriue was brought hero today by 'lie cenv of the K. 11. WulterH of Limeburg, N. S,. one of the vessels destroyed. All f the erews probubly reached shore, ihe survivors huid. GLOUCKSTKH, Mass.. Aujj. 20. Sinking of the Gloucester liNlnuj; schooner J. J. Flaherty by u Gorman submarine was. reported in a m': siije received here todav by the own ers from Captain t'hurle.- T. Or ory, who with Ins crew have lu..did mtely at fc'l. Pierre. GO OUT ON SHE SKATTLK, Aug. 20. Following the breiikm oif of negotiations last nij:ht between representatives of the Pacific Count Klecl company here and employes of the company, enji.iejcd on contracts fur the emergency licet enr oration, a strike wan declared nt 7 o'clock todjiv. 'ihe employes declar ed that more than 1,000 worckers went out. riiey dcmniid pay and uttrkiui: conditions similar In thost in effect in the liipvnrd. IN HAT" ON for tlio first time vvmlllK n steel of our commander-in-chief, taken BOLSHEVIKI FLEE L OF JAP TROOPS v LONDON, Auk. 211. Oenerul Seni cnol't's opponent III the trans-lhiikal region have wilbdrnwu us 11 result of the nrrival of Jnpaiiese troops nt Miinchuriii, uecordintr to u Tien Tsin dispatch to the Kxchmure Telegraph company. ( ijily :i,0IH) of the llolsbe vik troops remain in that region. LONDON, Ail;. 2(1. Japanese troops are completing their concen tration on the I'suri front, ncenriliiiK to dispatches from Vladivostok. At Knu'cnuika, sailors supported by ar mored ears, attacked the KoWicviki troops in the face of heavy artillery fire and routed them. The strike at Vladivostok is ter minutiui; in n fiasco. At the iirseniil shops n serious clash between strikers and non-strikers occurred t allied patrols intervened. The iliSpntch says Ihe Bolshevik agitation anion); various elements of workmen is subsiding. k4.It is reported that Americans hnvc privately loaned the city of Vladivo stok :i,5lHI,miO rubles, taking the tnitmuivs as security. kLOSTWLUSON WASHINGTON, Auk'. 20. Loss ol a navul seaplane currying a crew of three, including KiisIkh Donald C. I'ero, In collision with another Bea pluno off 1'ire Island Huturday, wan unnounccd toduy hy the navy depart ment. Poro'a machine In believed to have sunk Immediately after fulling Into the water. .Mine sweepers scurcliod the vicinity but could discover no truce oil her of the crow or of the plane. KimlRn II. Stevens, piloting tho other plane, landed sulcly with his nieclmnic and assistant and uided in tho unsuccessful search. The acci dent occurred at about 7 o'clock In tho evuiilnx. Tho two men mlssliiK with Ensign Pero aro W. C, .laeael, chief machin ist male, and P. A. Newman, machin ist mule-. 31 FORD PLANTS ItKTROIT, Aug. 'JO.-The Ford Mnlor company has nf teren l-, il as. ctn!t'iiiK and -ervice plants through out the eoniilry to the yuvciium nt. One of the ens tern plants c'viady l a- been accepted ami is bcin' usi d in li e production of gas mu-ki. SENATE VOTING AMENDMENTS TO DRAFT BILL House Measure Taken Up 'and Given Clear Track Clothes for Officers at Cost Education for Boys Un der 21 at Government Expense When Drafted. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2(1. Hy un animous consent (he senate agreed tonight to vote not- later than 4 o clock tomorrow afternoon on the administration man power bill extend ing the draft ages to 18 and -h-! years. Debate will be limited after 1 o'clock. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2C. A clear track was given In the senate today to the man-power hill, passed Satur day by the house, broadening the army draft age limits to 18 and 45 years. When the senate convened under a long standing agreement to take up war time prohibition, Senator Shep pard of Texas, prohibition ndvocute, moved to temporarily lay that mea sure aside. It was agreed to and debate on amendments to the man power bill was resumed with passage late today or tomorrow expected. I so House Hill To. expedite and simplify proce dure, tho house bill was substituted for tho draft which has been pending in the somite. The senate military committee met before the senate con vened and reported tho house hill with minor amendments, nftcr add ing amendments Including tho "work or fight" proposal. The senate committee struck out the amendment of Representative Treadway of Massachusetts adopted by the house, providing for appoint ment of spoclul examiners by the provost marshal general to reclassify men In existing deferred classes. This amendment, the committee agreed, would crlpplo authority of state draft boards and Is unnecessary because General Crowder already has power to make any reclassification deemed desirable. Amendments Passed An amendment by Senator Smith of Georgia providing for purchase from the government at cost by army, navy and marine corps officers of their uniforms and equipment was adopted. After attempts to modiry it had fulled, Ihe sonalo accepted without n record vote the committee amend ment providing that the wife of a soldier or sailor shall not he disquali fied for any position under the gov ernment because she Is married. Senator Shields of Tennessee pro posed a substitute, in effo.-t waiving the civil service laws insofar as they would affect such women which was rejected by a vote of til to 10, Kdiieulion (lutiso By a voto of C3 to 13 the senate nlso accepted the commltteo amend ment prosented by Senator Heed of Missouri, providing for the education alter the war at government expense of hoys under 21 years of age W'ho either enlist or aro drafted into the military or naval rervlco. Tho provlHion penults such boys as desire to attend approved education al I nut 1 1 ii l ion s for a period equivalent to Unit of (heir service providing It does not exceed two yoarB. Those (Continued on Pago Pour.) ii uikbivi i ii n if MEASURE DRAFTED WAMIIN(.TIS Aug. 2(1. -After nearly two months' work on the $8, rcw'iiuc bill, ho house ways ami menus commillcc planned (o complete the mcnurc today pre paratory to reporting it to the house I uursday. l'assaye h- the house before Sep tember l.'t is planned. Senate lead ers, houcver, do not aiilicipale dis posal of Ihe inea-iire in the upper bouse before Ihe I'id of November, PROHIBITION TO BE EFFECTIVE ON JULY 1ST, 1919 President Said to Favor Extension of Date When Dry Amendment Will Become Effective Compromise for July I Instead of January I Favored. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2(1. Presi dent Wilson, senate prohibition lead ers today declared, is not opposed to legislation (lending in the senate pro posing national prohibition during tho war, but has suggested that the pro posed time for its becoming effective January 1, next be extended. Ne gotiations to that end, it wns said, seemed to assure an agreement for the passage of the hill and nlso for some extension of time to liquor in terests. 1 ' . The prohibition bill was temporar ily sidetracked today in the senate in favor of the man power extension nnd also to give time for the negotiations between the opposing factions. Sen ator Shoppard of Texas, manager of the prohibition bill, stnted today fol lowing n recent conference at tho Whito House that the president did not object to notion by congress on the legislation, but discussed ex'ond ing the effective date of the restric tions. Sufficient time,' the president wrfs said to feel should he given tho interests involved in the liquor busi ness to close mi their affairs, includ ing hanks holding bonded wir-'huse certificates. July 1, 191!), was the new date suggested. That time also should be nffonled for pncial ad justment was said to havo been sug gested by the president. The new date, it was snid, would not interfere with government Ttv- ennc collections on liquor for tre fis cal year and thus avoid re-drafting the war revenue bill which is bused on estimated returns of nho it $1)00, 0(111,(100 from intoxicants. Senator Sheppnrd said the bill's passage is certain, but. "wit" nnd "dry" leaders disagreed over the ex tension of time today. The latter were said to be willing to postpone operation of the law for n few months nfter January 1, but opposed de mands from opponents of the bill for extension to July 1, or lorgcr. Later today, after much cloak room negotiation, leaders said tho prohibition supporters had agroed to fix July 1, 111 10, instead of January 1 of next year, as the date when pro hibition would become effective. Al- tiio some. of the bill's opponents were demanding a longer extension, repre sentatives of both factions suld it ap peared probable that July 1 finally would be agreed to. SAI.KM, Ore., Aug. 26. Blood hounds from tho Oregon penitentiary were tuken today to a point near .Mount Angel, Ore., to attempt to trail the Itev. Father Othmayer, an aged priest from Mount Angel college who heraino lost a weok ago when ho slur led to walk to Grassy Klat, sev eral miles away, to attend a celebra tion, it was feared that he hud wan dered Into the nearby mountains and bocomo exhausted. at tmiiA nisiif f- !LBM ST. 1,01'IS, Aug. 2(1. The Union Station bank, with deposits of Slid, 110(1 did not open for busines to day and it wns announced the bank was in the hands of the state bank commissioner. Hank examiners be gan in investigation a week ago. Poor collateral and slow security are at tributed to the bank's liuaiiciul condition.