WEATHER 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.