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TODAY" 4,600 SUBSCRIBERS (23,000 EEADEES) DAILY Only Circulation is Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureaa I Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WTXXAMETTE V AL LEY KEW3 EEEVTOB " (THE WATJ?0 and Saturday generally eloudy gentle northwest erly winds. " 4 ': .in i I rff -..-v.-: FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 177. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND KEW1 BTAND8 FIVE CENT ALLIED ARTILLERY SWEEPS POCKET MAKING HUN'S POSIT i , . . SIJN GREAT BftTTLI ON CRITICAL CR 1YH0U IPECWD AT v-4 . IS LOil VIEWPOINT Believed That No Army Can Long Stand Concentrated Ar tillery fire From Three Sides Allied Pressure Strong But Advance Is Slow As Enemy Resists Desperately-Addition- al Prisoners Number Two Thousand-Franco-Americans Hammer At Southern End of Pocket II London, July 27. The crisis in the colossal battle ; now raging in the Soissons-Rheims pocket is expected hourly. Military experts believe a decision must be quickly reachedthat no army can long stand the hail of artillery fire and the constant hammering of French, American, British and Italian infantry to which the entire group of the German crown prince is being subjected. ' While the result of the allied pressure can be felt on all parts of the enemy front, gains are being recorded only on local sectors, owing to the desperate German re sistance. The most important of these are reported north of Chateau-Thierry, between the Marne. and Rheims and east of Rheims. The latest official statements add nearly 2,000 to the total of prisoners taken by the allies. Ey Webb Miller. i armies to the Ourco line or even to the ("United Tress Staff CorresiwndenO ' Vesle would have had a most -depress- Paris, July 27. (10:30 a. m.)-I'reneh nS ef,fcct n Gm&n morale but would , , . , , . j nave uvvn praenuaiiy ueviuu 01 si rait- and An.er.ean artillery subjecting resulta Fothor thfl shoving the 0110. eatiro Soissons Kluems salient , witum 1Uy farther from Paris. The deterniina- which 400,000 Germans are concentrated Hon of th? bodies to fight it out, how- to the most terrific bombardment of the ever, subjects tho flower of their south Tvar. em army to the danger of great disas- Hundreds of thousands of Shells of all ter wllic' becomes more and more men calibres are being hurled upon troop acing as tlii allies carve away at the concentrations, ammunition and supply and west sides of the salient, while depots, and lines of communication Franco-American drive northward from the battle front to the rearmost 0,1 l"e soutnern ena. areas. TO ACCEPT BLAME Hindechurg Said To Have Strongly Opposed Offen sive Plan That Failed London, July 27. Hindenburg making Ludendorff accept blame for failure of the last German offensive, according to a Rome dispatch today, quoting Zurich advices. It was report ed that Uindenbur? strongly disap proved the offensive plan and when it collapsed, ho insisted that Ludendoff sign the official communique on the Ge-man deifeat- lUspatchea from The Hague declar ed Karl Ro.-ner. the kaissr's favorite war correspondent, interviewed Hinden burg at .headquarters and obtained from a message to the German people which was printed in the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. 1 his message was: I hope those at home will mam- tain their confidence. Jn war nothing avenges itself dike over haste. Breath ing spaces between battles are neces sary. Rosner also quoted the kaiser as say ins to mm: 'Tho hardest work now lies before the Germans. Our adversary knows that tho decisive point has been reached and consequently U -straining every effort of defense and counter stroke' WORK OS FIGHT ORDER BATTLE DIES D01 AS FOCH HOLDS HIS YANKEEUN1TS BACK Von H'mdenburg,s New De fensive Tactics Are Now Being Developsd By J. W. T. Mason. (United Press War Expert.) New York, July 27. General FocU is' now holding back his American units in the Aisne Marne combats. Very little scope is.being given them fur strong ag gressive fighting and the battle, in tact, dying down tor the most part to artillery bombardments. General loch kuows the supreme val ue of the Americans lor bringing tne war to a successful ending. He is show ing lv? reckons them too highly to per mit them to be sacrificed in exchange for territorial gains that arc not. of large strategic importance. Tho time for America's pre-eminent part in the war has not yet come. The Klune can not be reached with the Aisnc-Marno sulieut as a starting point: and it is only by operations in the directions of the Bhine that decisive results can be expected from the Americans. The in tensity of the .German resistance ba tween the Aisne and the Marne is pro viding a unique opportunity for study ing the new characteristics of Voa Uindeubuig's defensive strategy. There can bo no doubt that tho Ger man general staff has drawn up a high ly intricate strategic plan for the defen se of German territory against Ameri ca's forthcoming major offensive. An inkling as to the nature of these plans is obtainable from the character of tho present fighting. It is theerfore, a hiehlv ess-ntial part of the work of General Folch's staff to make a careful study of the -methods Von Hindenburg is now sing south of the Aisne. There is no doubt that soma of the German defensive tactics are new ar.d are worth very careful analy sis, SIMONS Conditions Of Roads and Ter rain !s Equally Bad For Both Armies . GERMANS REY MAIEY ON MACHINE GUN DEFENSE Italians Report Repulse Of Strong Enemy Attacks on Albanian Positions AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON ITALIAN FRONT , GEN. MARCH REPOR TS Chief Of Staff Gives Out Official Information Today-Reviews Operations Along Marne And Tells of Disposition Of American Forces In FranceGermans Now Forty-Nine Miles From Paris At Nearest Pont, Allies Having Driven Them Back Eleven Miles. Washington, July 27. The American begun to arrive in Italy but the numbers .ngiiting lorces, trained m .t rance, have: and assignments have not been cabled. By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press staff correspondent) With tha American Armies in France July 27. (9:37 p. m.) Ileavj rains in the entire Marne region have slowed p operations, but have rendered the Germans' position increasingly diffi cult. N The enemy at present depends large ly upon his ebility to nianouver. The restriction of movement within the narrowing salient Tendered more dif ficult by the allies' ceaseless artillery fire and aiiiplanc bombing is thus add ed to by the action of the elements. Tho allies, too, are hampered by rains, but their coinmunk'ation lines have not been cut up so badly as have those of tho enemy. The numbor of prisoners and captur ed maJchine guns is steadily mounting. It develops that a signal corps cam ion holds the honor of finally captur ing Epieds. Following tho terrific Am erican shelling, attcr the Uormaus The continual advance of the Franco-" kist occupation of tho village, a patrol This deluge of fire and steel is being directed particularly at Fere Eu-Tarde-siois, the most important Gennaii eri eentration center, whien is now almost within grasp of the Franco-American troops. GAIN 18 ANNOUNCED. By John De Gandt. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Paris, July'27. 4 p. m.) Fiaiico-Am- Munitions Workers Weaken When Confronted With Official Alternative London, July 27. Munition strikers began returning to work today. The backilioiie of the strike seems broken the result of the government s threat to enforce conscription and put the idlo into the army,'1 unless all were back at their jobs by Monday. In. Birmingham, especially, many re turned to work and the government es timated that there were about 200,000 still out in England this morning and this number was steadily dwindling. Tho government claimed that earlier figures as to the number striking were exaggerations. In Coventry the situation was un changed by Premier Lloyd-George's ul timatum. Strikers jeered at the threat of enforced army service. Twenty thou sand wero-still idle there today. Morning newspapers' general emiovse the ultimatum. "The strike is bald de fiance of the govern nient," declared Missy Sur-Aisne, five miles east of eiican Iroons are driving at the annt'nni-n missohs, also is under heavy bombard- extremity of the Soissons-Bhieins salient ji em, renuermg piaericany useless rue, between Vernuil and Chatillon-Sur- nig Aisne river briuge there, which the Marae. They have tightened this tip Germans have been using for north and of the pocket until it is onlv eight kilo- noutii traftie. meters (less than five miles) in width, the Times. "The ultimatum will have mil ci own prince s oruer, eommana- French and American aviators, bomb ing his armies to stand and fight, which ing the main highway south ,of Fismcs, was reported Wednesday by the United blocked all traffic for eleven hours. Press has changed the Soissons-Rhiems' battle from a Gorman retreat into one , .:e most bitterlv contested p. T1" Germans, after their retneinent - " Americans toward Fere-Eii'Tardenois is threatening to Von Hitidenburg's plans but how he is meeting this danger is a matter for close examination by the al lies. Between the Lorraine border and the Rhine are a number of German sup ply stations similar in importance to Kere-En-Tardenois. These stations will have to Ml to the Americans before the Rhine is reached. If they are captured quickly once the American offensive starts, it will be partly due to the reve lation of Von Hindeubuig's new defense strategy now being drawn from hiin at Fere-En-Tardenois. large majority of the menls of the war and one with more nortn of t,le Marne, clung to the no.th inr reaching possibilities than coulo. bank between Jaulgonne and Oeuilly foi ed thai have existed under an enemy retire-lsnme tin,,. tl.nU rt;iw. -ml ,.'.i,i., Wted. the support of people. The Graphic eaid the government's action would cause immense relief throughout the nation. Denouncing men who "want only to hold up munitions to our aoldiers," the Chronicle declar ed that sternest measures must be ex- jnent. Voluntary retirement of the German (Continued on page three) The Telegraph suggested that Me inu nitions workers stomach their griev ances. "If .the men- in the trenches Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiiiirii iimiMMiimmmmnnimi-m.im.i i...mImjSk "SZw !&c.e paper demanded. The Daily News, called Lloyd-Georges di-eision the gravest in the history of English industrial strife and said that whether for good or evil, it must be tie-opted for the present. Mrs, Stegler Sues For Divorce From Husband Atlanta, Ga. July 27. Declaring that her husband had been connected with Count Von Bernstorff, Van Pap en and Hoy-ed in German spy plots against the United States and that he was now interned as a German spy at Fort Oglethorpe. Mrs. Anna ' Ktcgler today tiled a suit for divorce against Richard Peter Btegler, formerly of New V"rk. Mrs. Strgler alleges in her petitions that at the time of her husband's ar rest as a German spy he tried to use her' as a shield to gain his liberty by saying he had married an American girl, a native of Georgia. Hhe also de clares that through Htogler's alleged spy activities her name was brought into public print and her picture pub lished, Unit fhq was forced to register at the police -station as an alien en emy, and that all her property had been confiscated by the United Htates government. wa preparing to enter the place, to de tenmne too strength i tne-boeue -survivors when a camion rumbled up. The driver announced he had just been thru Epicds and h:idii't si en a single boche. The Americans' then swept through the town and beyond. Machine guns continue to constitute the Germans' chief method of resist ance. Tuc gunners are under orders to remain at their posts until they are killed or captured. After the Americans had passed one line of niaehin-e guns yesterday even ing, s nine bodies who were bo well hid den they couldn't distinguish what was going on about them, emerged in search of rations. I hey stepped right out in to the midst of a platoon of doughboys Corjioral Lynch joined tho Tanks of American heroes yesterday. Sent out to do liaison work, ho picked up seven bodies beyond the front line. While he was returning he captured another. Austrians Rcpulajd reached Italy, Chief of Staff March an uouncod today. At the same time he announced tho formation of two new army corps in France thi fourth and fifth, and stat ed that the allied lines in offensive hav 6i miles. Gain Eleven Miles. The Germans, formerly 38 miles from Paris, are now 49 miles away ac the nearest point. The fourth army corps, under Gener al Heed, just formed, consists of the 83rd, 87th, 29th, 90th and 92nd divis ions, (The last a colored division.) Tho Fifth corps consists of tho 6tU. 30th, Tilth, Both and 91st divisions. Americans Iu France, American forces in Franco now mini ber 1,253,000 men, members of tho s.n- ato military committee were told b March previous to his talk with tho cor respondents. .. This shows that 53,000 men were sont across in tho last week, a falling olf of nearly 40,000 mon in tho previous we.uk ly shipments, due to sending ovef need ed supplies and equipment. Tho 32nd division (Michigan and Wis consin, wns noted as now located in tho Vosges, in a quiet sector.) American divisions in the Franco- American offensive remain the same as last week. ' Officers In Command. Temporary commanding officers for tho first five corps are as follows:.... First, Liggett: second, Bullard; third, Wright; fourth, Heed; fifth, Bundy. V Tho division commanders are: 83rd, Glenn; 89th, Winn; 37th, Fams- worth; 29th, Morton; 90th, Allen; 92nd, Ballon; 6th, Erwinj 3lith, W. It. bnutli; 70th, Hodges; 79th, Kulm; 33th, Ken nedy; 91st, Foltz. March said that during the last few davs American combatant forces have 1 War Summary of United Press 1 liMiiiiiiHiiiiiuiiniiiiii.-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1455b Dav of the Wan 10th Dav of Counter Offensive f illlllllllllHI!lllllll!!I!IIIIHl!i:ill!llll!!llliUIIIIIIil!llllllllllllllllllli Soissons-Pkhoims front The determi nation of the German crown prince to fight it out In the Soiissons-Rheims pocket is expected to force a decision in the great battle very shortly. While infantry operations apparent ly are limited to comparatively local actions at present, the wall "of steel about the German armie fan be said to cxert a very obvious pressure at all 5oints and the 400.000 bodies within the pocket are being subjected to the heavdwt arSllery bombardment of the Var. The fall of Fere-En-Tardenoi is rielieved to bi a matter of hours. This city in addition to being a great con centration and transportation center is the strongest enemy defensive point on the southern end of the salient. Its capture, it is b?lieved, will necessitate a German retirement to the Fume line, along the Vesie river, about ten miles northward. from the Sonune northward to Lens. Gorman artillery was active between the Sonime and the Anere. Flanders front British anl German artillery engaged in a duel in the La bassce canal sector. England British casualties publish ed in offitial lists this week totaled 12,893. Italy American fighting have arrived from -Fiance. Fifty NavaJ Flying Boats Are Completed Picardy front British troops con ducted successful raids along the f-oat forces ; . Aus ria-Hungary Austrian socialists, demanded that the ministry take steps! toward immediate peace negotiations, alleging that "an early peace is ab-isje silntely ewpntial to the life of Austria-! $ Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. j Serious disorders have broken out injsje Prague as the result of famine condi- tic ns. . Turkey Turkish socialists are agi tating for the downfall of the Turkish n.iddie etasses and capitalists- Washington, July 27. The first order for fifty naval fly- ing boats placed with the new aircraft factory at Philadelphia lias been completed and tho greator part of the machines are now flying over British wa- ters. " This was revpaled today by a letter froni Sifretary of the Navy Daniels to Constructor Coburn, U. S. X., congratulat- ing him on the record made in building the -plant and getting it operating in less than a year. The reports of Cliief Construct or Taylor show that forms for the first boats were laid Octo- ber 12, though the plant was not completed until November 28. ' ABE MARTIN s(( 3fc sffi )jc ijfi )c "(c St )! ( )( Jc jjt YtA WTEO CLP JSFJE t 7 Vr - H 1 , ' jjji Home, July 27. Kepcated enemy at tacks on Italian positions in Albania were defeated yestonlay with heavy losses, the war office reported todny. 'On the Semem river, in Albania, near the Kuci bridge fighting contin ued yestedny," the statement said "The rcinlorcod enemy repeatedly at tacked but was always beaten, with vory heavy losses. We took 100 prison ers and some machine guns. "On the mountain front jn Ita-ly there were several local attacks in the Vallarsa region. Stormers entered our trenches on Monte C'orno but were im mediately driven out. On Monte Knber labak tho British hindered the enemy and finally .forced the retirement of thoir assailants who, caught under a barrage and a flank vonnter attack, hurkdly withdrew, leaving prisoners." All the forces went from France, sup plementing non-combatant units ahead there. ' Yankees Keep Epieds. illied lines in the promt M h ieds h8d boen takolJ e been reduced from ,1 to d fonf finay ing in American hands, with tho advan ce there only temporarily delayed. The line drawn around south of Soi ssons is still in the same position as when the general talked Wednesday.The German movement is on a lino perpen dicular to tho railroad going up from Fere-En-Tardenois. Mauv local attacks have been made bv the Teutons against th.9 Americans at Grissollos and Epieds. On the Marne precipitatious wooded country has made progress difficult. British Press Forward. " General March declared that the ene my 's left flank has been the see no of a very .dashing advance by the British, amounting to a depth of a mile and a half on a four mile front. This create a marked source of danger to' the enemy, making a pocket. ' Olficial advices mdicato the ironcn are already beginning to advauce there. The torritory occupied by the Ameri cans and tho allies is now greater thaa that won by the enemy in Flanders this spring. ' Americans Advance. The Americans' lines now reach wrth in thlK ojjfl oncj half miles of Fere rin 'Tardenois, which lias been continuously shelled. 1 v v ., March said tho policy of the war dc paitinent will be to organize new div isions at homo as in the eaoa of six re cently announced. Asked aB to location of the 34th di vision, the general eaid there was no re port on that. General Buckmon, former ly commander of the Northeastern do- (Continued from page one) YANKEE FLYER BRINGS DOWN GREAT HUN ACE Lieutenant Avery In First Aerial Battle Conquers Captain Mendkoff By Frank J. Taylor (United Press stuff correspondent) With tho Americans in France, July 26. (Night) Lieutenant Walter Av ery of Columbus, Ohio, in his first air General Pershing Bports six German aviators to wear the Crose of Merit. Another American airman, after hiaiinsr. of Avery's exploit, then went out hunting on his own hook this morning. Ho- ta kled a boche and forced him down and landed to complete tho cjip t'.ne. But ho discovered tluit he was behind the Ueiiuan lines and he him self was made a prisoner. American ba'tle p'anes are actively strafing the roads back of the German lines, watching enemy troop movements and driving off 'hostile planes attempt- Imtllp. Iirnuuht down the noted Ger man ace, Captain' Mendkopf, north of j ing to perform similar exploits over our Chateau-Thierry yesterday. i lines. The rival .aviators came together while patrolling alone. For twenty min Thirty One Planes Downed utes Mendkopf mode futile of forts to j London, July 27. British air men Looks like Umle Ram will have to give Riia ome tried and true reeipes for good government. Washington, July 27. Capture of" Le Channel by American forces Thursduy, was reported today by General Per shing. ' ' Vesterday between the Ourcq and the Mairne our Vtroojps Icapurcd Lc Channel." said the rommumquo under date of July 20- "In the region of Ver- ililly one of our aviators shot down a hostile machine" ! ' 'Further reports have been received of the fighting which took place from ! July 21 to 23. in the. region nonneast ; of Cli&tcau-Thierry," said section B. "American troops played an import ant part in the struggle which ended in our line b ing advanced to a point -about five miles from the town. The enemy fought rear guard action with great stubbornness, defending the ground foot by foot and using a large uurrtber of machine guns. He resisted but could not stop our advance. We captured Epieds and Trusjny. The next 'day strugglo become mere bitter, the tinrmani counter auacKPd wuii vio lence. Epieds changed hand four times n,l remained German; Trugny chang 'ed hands three times and remained ours One of our divisions, up to the evening 'of July 23, had captured three cannon, one trench mortar, 15 machine guns hn.1 teriro nuantitie of ammunition ' Mrs. Min Nugent has th same flat , and other materials. On the 21th our iron she broke up housckeepin' with, jtrocjn returned to the attack with A tent an' awnin' company is makin' , 'vigor and it orove tne enemy out ui a new uniform fer Constable Newt 'Epieds and back i-tto the forest Fere Plum. fuur mile beyond ,f . gain an advantage oy tru'iiy move ments. Then Avery got on the Germans '.ail and damaged the plane so that it was forced to land within the Ameri can lines. When Mendkopf learned this was Av Cry'g initial fight he was enraged, lie sulked aiid refused to talk. Mendkopf is credited with sixteen victims, inelud ing an American. Be iitwne of the only brought down 31 German airplanes' ana an observation , builloon July 25 while anti aircraft guns shot down another hostij'c (p'.alne, thV air hnjuistry an nounced today. Fifteen British ma chines were lost. Extensive bombing operations were carried out. "A certain amount of work in con (Continued on page tbfee) Ml of fmtor From "Over There" General Pershing's Official Report 'Washington, July 27. General Per shing today reported 108 casualties, dl- j vided as follows. , Killed in fttion 04; died of wounds ' 20; died of disease 5; died of airplane accident 1; wounded severely 00; i wounded, degree undetermined 14; (. wounded slightly 2; missing in action i The list follows: Killed in Action Lieutenant J. W. i,owan, Chicago Mergeants (1. A- Amole, Pottsdam, i'a. W; C. Arnold, Ilarrisburg, Pa W. B. Johnson, South Minneapolis, Minn. A. K. Nelson, Hopkins. Minn. C. D. Sweetser, Heranton, Pa. Corporals C. It- Farnsworth, Providence, R. I ft. A. Graves. Kerens, Texas J. W. Hcrdmau, Johnstown, Pa. P. H. Lund, Revere, Mass. I). L, Owens, Point, La. F. C. Kicheson, Dinuba, Cal- G. G. Winger, Hock Creek, Ohio B. Hpiker, ttcotts Bluff, Neb. H. Htroum, New York City H. Wholnhati, Bo'hwin, Pa. G. E. York, North Minneapolis, Minn Wagoners J. H. B.owe, Port Carbon, Pa. P. V. Mease, Lebanon, Pa- C. Howe- Witten, S. D. Bimlers K. W. Leonard, Warcham, Mass. ' E. B. Pennington, Mount Arbon, ' Cincinnati, Ohio ! Privates L. 8. Brown, Eauton, Fa. I I). K- Buck, Franiinahm, Mass. , ! (. Chalifoux, Lowell, Mass. . ' T, J rhestunir. Mobile. Ala. Coutiuutd ui