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WEATHER TODAr 4,609 SUBSCRIBERS (23,000 BEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Burets of Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS 6EKVICB r Oregon: Toni;,-!;t ) nd T h u r sday y"C--'i fair; gentle bji- V-' thewestcrlv winds FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 210. SALEM, ORE., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1918. PRICE TWO CENTS OX TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS 0 K 1 rtirtr km ViViV .Olt X W J V, VI V I t . Vjm French ecreauns Germans icross Canal To Northeast ofNoy on GeneraPMangin's Army Now Advancing North of Soissons Menaces Chemin-Des-Dames Germans Seem To Be Retiring From Famous Wytschaete . And Messines Ridges In Flanders, Despite Yast Sacrifices Made. Last Spring To Gain These Positions.-Everywhere Along Front Allied Forces Are Pressing Enemy Lines And Driving Rear Guards Before Them. Lens Not Captured As Reported Yesterday. By John De Gandt (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Sept. 4. Toward Guiscard, (five miles north by east of Noyon) French cavalry today is forcing the Germans back, according to reports received here this afternoon. The enemy is withdrawing from the right bank of the North Canal. . In the-region of Jumecourt (north "of Soissons) the Chauny-Laon railway has been passed. The French are making progress toward Ainsey-Le-Chateau, along the Ailette. ' ' . General Mangin is reported advancing along the Paris-Hirzcn and Soissons-Guignicourt railways. ... ' (Operations in the Jumecourt region and along the two railways named, which follow the general lines of the Vesle and the Aisne rivers are evidently part of the big flanking maneuver against the Germans holding the Vesle line and against the Chemin-Des-Dames positions). GERMANS RETIRE IN FLANDERS. By Lowell Melktt , (United Press Staff Correspondent) With The British Armies In France, Sept. 4. Evi dences are piling up that the Germans are retiring from Wytschaete and Messines ridges. (These ridges, in Flanders, between Ypres and Ar mentieres, were the scenes of most of the desperate fight ing in the German drive of last April). German machine guns are industriously indicating intention of the enemy to hold the canal line, temporarily at least, staving off the threat against Cambrai. In the meantime the British have taken in another '5,000 prisoners from several points., General Byng's patrol in Manancourt (southwest of Cambrai) encountered heavy shell fire. There ia a striking difference be- Enrlv todav 720 prisoners had been tween the present Herman retirement mltod. further advance southward and the enemy s retreat last year. Then 0f the Lvs, in Flanders, netted 160 thre was almost continuous contact prism.vrs,' six gun's and two howitzers, and today some of 1ho fast moving, , xrmii pursurers complained inar mey couldn't fight the enemy because the enemy wouldn't wait for them. Airmen who have rad a bird's eye view of the long battle front, reported tnat tnere are no Germans at any joints this side, of the Pnmil I)n Vnrd. i One air squadron flew at a height of 200 feet clear to the eanal before it was fired upon. Other airmen located T enemy tro.ops massing at Obigny-au- Bois and bombed them. Leichelle is held by the British. Ytrce .is reported to be likewise held, although the German machine gun line is just beyond, that town Tadpole copse, scene of most des- luroU f.nhi;,, I., fl, ! .!. ,i . "" '"- '"" battle is in British hands. Airplanes report two canal crossings I destroyed in the neighborhood of ln-1 V-hy-en-Artois (seven miles west of vaiumai.) rwur .rrumiiigs are sun in - tact there. Byng s army took 1940 prisoners and 2 fiebl guns m the 24 hours ending last night. When thc British occupied Rumaucourt they released forty civil- ians who hail been there all during the tire the German held the place. (Rumaucinirt is less than nine miles northeast of Cambrai.) North of Lens, the enemy attacked yesterday driving back the British. The British came right ahead with an other assault and soon re established their posts. -Many uertnan were Kinej norm otiof the scene of this latest victory, Etiancourt (between Peronne and Cam General Byng last fall sent an army of brai) when honles were seen retiring! tanks crashing their way through a from a ridg British batteries firvd ia ' tj ilea-. v.itU open sights. ) - (Continued on page three) Cavalry STRONG- POSITIONS MENACED By William Philip Slmmg (United Press staff correspondent ) Paris, Sept. 4. Cambrai. Douni and r'9 are today directly menaced bv the 0lvancing British. Ag this" is cabled, rh.e Canadians, English snd Scotch are witnirt nine miles of tambrai, and Doiiai. while the Drocourt-Oueant switch line and Himlenburg's line have been smashed and left far behind. Between Haig's advance guard and the .important cities of Cambrai and Duuai, little in the way of fortifica tions remain and if Von Below checks thA nlllPA hflnr.t that- rnnnli 1... nfn ... . . . K""-- or tne itwo towns, he must sacrifice a considerable number of his fast dwind- n reserves Lens is being more and more pinched by General Home's British fifth army and mav o ve wav at nnv ti.,,o fcvery yard that the British advance agtr;dp tne s,.arpe river now (M3 H to this bastion of German resistance, (Unofficial dispatches yesterdav re- nnTtPA LPn. pantnrert h rraiu'.'nffi. ported Lens captured, but Haia's offi cial only mentioned slight advance of P.ritish outposts in the city's western outskirts-) , Apparently, Hihdenburg and Luden dorff have been caught napping again They little dreamed that the allies would tackle the strongest defenses on the western front without lontr and Ilia.) lirar.Q.a(iiia Ancrt anullivBwl Are Driving LENS EVACUATED BY GERMANS BUI FULL OF POISON GAS British Have So Far Penetrat ed Only Outskirts, Am ericans Cross Yesle London, Opt. 4. Lens is so full of gas that the British have as yet only penetrated its out skirts. The Germans have wholly evacuated the city, it was learn ed here this afternoon. Americans Cress River . London. Sept. 4. Americans and , French in strong forces, comprising both artillery and infantry, have crossed the Vesle river at Fismes, it was learned today. Indications are that the Germans must retire very soon, if they are not already retir ing. London, Sept. 4- British troops have crossed the Canal Du Nord on a front of three miles, it was reported here from the battle front late today. They occupied Mouvres at noon, the advices said. ' . (Mouvres is just south of Inchy-En-Artois. already taken by the British, and is a little over seven mile direct ly west of Cambrai. It is along the line from Hermies to Keourt-St. Qucn tin that the Germons were reported to be making a strong stand. Hermies and Ecourt St. Qiientin are both in the bands of the British, and the fall of i Mouvres shows the beginning of a j bulge in the middlt of thc defense ,line). The Berlin Version. Berlin, Via London, Kept. 4. German ! withdrawal in Flanders and I'icardy was announced by the Berlin war of fice today. "Astride the Lys, " the statement said, ''in a continuous battle, the en emy worked forward as far as thc line of Wulverghem. Nieppe, Bac St. Mar. Richebourg and Lavcutie. "Between the Scarpe and the Somme the day was quiet. Monday night we Cqjitinued on page three) ABE MARTIN J A knocker alius starts in by sayin' "Oh course, I don't want t' knock" What's become o th' promoter that used t git up camp meetin's just t' sell pop corn balls RUSSIAN PATRIOTS STILL ADVANCING M LAKE BARKAL Nicholas Lenine, Leader Of PrtnGrman Faction Still In Critical Condition Harbin, Manchuria, Sept. 4. The vansuard of the Czecho slovak column, which captured Verksnudinsk has effect ed a junction with General Semenoff forces on the Onon river. , Vladivostok, Sept. 4. The - western body of the Czecho-SIjovaks marching east from Lake Baikal, has captuivd erKlieuiliusK, rormeriy me iivkuiiuui Ities of the Bed Guards.' The Czechs are S3 miles oast nf Petrovskv and theiv is an unconfirmed report that they have occupied Chita. They are moving in three columns. The main column is fol lowing the trans-Siberian railway, tlru second has ciossed the mountains and occupied Solniugsk, and the third occu pies Kiahkta. The message bringing these advises was sent by a Chinees wire from a point near Kiahkta, presaging the im mediate re-establishment of communica tion between all eastern Siberia and tie Cweh front along the Volga. Lenine Still in Danger. Amsterdam, Sept. 4 The condition of Nikolai Leuine, president of tho soviet of people's commissaries, who was shot by a g'rl several days ago, was again ivported critical in dispatches from Mos-. cow today. The bullet, which penetrat ed the upi-cr part of Lenine 's lung has been removed; The crisis is expected in thive days. All persons not bom in Petrograd or Moscow, have been ordered to leave the cities. More than iiOO persons weve ar rested in V'. trograd on the night of the assassination 'of Vritsky, bolsheviki minister of the interior of the Petro grad community. Among the prisoners i Bishop Makataiiu. Many women are ul so included. (Continued on page two LATE WARBULLETINS Iondon, Sept. 4. A British armored car is reported to have entered Marciu oin according to a dispatch from the British front today. Marqnoin Is on the main highway running from Arras to Cambrai, slightly more than half way between those two cities. London, Sept. 4. The British hold Romancourt (just south of Ecourt-St. Quentin, eight and a half miles east by north of Cambrai) it wag learned to day. Inchy-En-Artois has been captuteu and the British also hold Berincourt and Hermies. ' T- London, Sept. 4. The British hav crossed the Canal Du Nord at Haut-AV laines, more than two miles north of Peronne, it was learned authoriatlvoly today. The British have captured Oroix-Du Bac. It was also learned that the German have used 97 divisions since August. Iondon, Sept. 4. In an effort to cot er their retreat before the British the Germans have dammed the Scarpe river aiiri flooded the country over ft consul erable area, according to a dispatch from the British front to the Daily Malt ....Amsterdam. Sept. 4. General Von Hutier is preparing to make stand on the Olso river according to reports here today, crediting this statement to Ger man Chancellor Hertling. The Oise runs east and west, crorsintf the Hlndenburg line at LeFere, and be hind that line It turns at right anlS and runs north. Th Haeue. Serrt. 4. -The German from The Spa, Belgium, to Veriers, in Liege province, Belgium, acording to the Inew8paper Leg Nouvelles Washington, Sept 4. "Aside from successful patrol encounters along the Vesle and a hostile raid In Lorraine, which was repulsed, there is nothing to report," General Pershing's communi que of September 3, declared. w POUND- DEFENSE; ALLIES ADVANCE Only Patrol Activities Are Re ported From American Sector In Yosges. By Fred S. Ferguson. (I'nited Press Staff Correspondent.) With The American Armivs In France Sept. 4. American artillery continues to aid the French in pounding away to ward the Chemin-des-Dames. Guns have b.'en moved beyond Juvigny and are shelling vneniy positions in the Xcu ville region, with light pieces joining in the barrage fire. During the attacks of the past 24 hours, American guns have been laying jdowu smoke screens to cover tho move ments of .the French and American in fantry. Thc artillery work today we ived the highest commendation from the French commander. The enemy continues to show increased .signs of nervousness along the Vvsle ;as the French Tenth army continues to 'push on. His observation balloons have been pulled back and many other signs indicate preparations to withdraw rap idly when necessary. Quantities of bocho gas wero thrown into Fismes Monday night without ef fect. During the same night an Am erican patrol entered Bazoehes and had a shary encounter With the enemy. Oth erwise the Vesle front was quiet. PATROL ACTIVITIES. By Frank J. Taylor. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With Th0 American Armies In France Sept. 4. An American patrol in the Vos ges, after cutting through svven bauds of German wire, penetrated enemy trenches for a considerable distance during the night without vneounterinjr opposition. Shortly before this entorpriso a Gor man patrol nuuiberjng fifty attempted to penetrate the American wires in the san. vicinity, but was driven off with automatic rifles and grenades. About thirty Germans bombers at tacked another American position in the Vosges Monday night. A party o Am erican airmen after arriving off several German, patrols dropped bombs on Long" yon tlw same night. Iu both tho Vosges and Wocvre re gions artillerying by .both sides is in creasing. The Germans arc using quau titles of tear and sneeze gas. BY DRIZZLING RAIN IN CHICAGO TODAY First Clash Of Series Will Be Played Tomorrow If Rain Stops. ' Chicago, Sept. 4. A persistent driz zle that showed no signs of abating, cauvd the postponement today of the first world's series .garno between the Cubs and the Hod Sox. The schedulo was automatically shifted back a day, and the big seriv9 will opon here tumor i row. Other games will be played here I I'Videy and Saturday befor0 tho clubs move to Boston. Players of first division National league clubs have agrcvd to the recom mendation of the National commission that they donate 10 per cent of their sliarc of the world's scries money to war activities. It was predicted that the American league players will follow their bad. AMERICA GUNS There seemed hardly a chance that at tendance figures for tho world's svries scheduled to open today would reach the immense proportions of former years. It was certain the figures for the lvceipts would not be so greut. The high mark for attendance at a single game was set in 1910, when mote than 42,000 persons crowded into Brave,, field, Boston, to see th0 Kcd Sox and the Dodgvrs. Series attendance high fig uie was established in 1912, when the Giants and Kcd Sox played their memor able eight game scries. This scries also .ads in amount of receipts. It realiz ed 2o:!,8:;2. Labor Congress Now Makes Peace Demands . Derby, England, Sept, 4. Resolutions urging the British government to immediately es- tablish peace negotiations, pro- viding the Germans evacuate France and Belgium were adopt id by the labor congress in ses- sion here today. The congress demanded that labor have rep- lva.'Jitation in the peace confer- price.' FOUR THOUSAND MEN UNDER GEN. GRAVES OPERATING IN SIBERIA Chief of Staff March Identifies American Troops Fighting In Different Parts of War Zone In France-Tells Of Progress Made By Allied Offensive During Past Week. Canadians Near CamhraL-Flanders Salient Flattened Out By British Advance Of Fourteen Miles. By Carl D. Groat. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Sept. 4. Arrival of Ma jor General William Graves, American inmmandi-r of our troops in Siberia with officers and 1,088 men, Septem ber was announced todav by Chief of Staff March. At the sani, t.mc he identified ho Thirti-. th divi.si: :hc Americans vac distinguished themselves . in tlw "lan ders fighting du'n g the past week ai d as tho :i-iul d:v jion, the Americans w!.-j valiantly battled north of Soissons with tho French. Troop embarkation for all fronts pass ed 1.600,0oi August 31, hv said. General Graves will at once assume charge of the American units now to talling close to 4.000 in Siberia. The 30th division which assisted in the Mont Kemmel fighting, consists of Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina troops and was taken across under command of General Reed. The S2ud ' divisions consisting of Michigan and Wisconsin forces is com manded by Genual Ilaau. Combined with the French they progressed stoad ily north of Soissons, against tome of the best of the German divisions. General Mi' eh stated that the Cana dian troops, who pushed straight, for ward across the Drocourt-Queant switch lino, and niv now seven and a half miles from Cambrni, which is their objective. (Cabled press reports show these troops a now only five miles from Cambrai.) The British push, he pointed out, has rather well flattvned out the Flanders salient and the inaximiun prograss has been 14V& miles. - A week ago the battle was carried on by the French and British over a 60 mile front from tlw Scarpe to the Oise. Tlii, Britislf bore the brunt of the resis tance, March said, while before the Frenc(, the Germans mudp a forced re tirement due to British pressure to the north. This German retirement covered a five mile space on a twenty-five mile front in one day. The general pointed out that the Ca nal Du Novd has bivn crossed at several places end the line of the Somme cross ed on both sides of Peronne with the resultant fall of Peronne and other con siderable gains. Thv nearest point to tho Hiiidenburg lino attained by the French is only now three miies distant. In answer to specific questions, Gen eral March located the following: The 108th Infantry; lOdtli field ar tillery; 102nd tivnch. mortar liatfery and ,102nd engineers of tile ZVifi envis ion are still in Flanders with the Brit ish, but apparently not yet in action; the 3!)th division is in the process of landing; the '"'Mi landed; Missouri ua H......1 ...... ..f T.. 'i-.n. .i:. :u : . j iiwiiui h.ii in ,ii nil Minn ui imuii in in the Vosvs. I Onlv 74 sick or wounded men of the OLD HINDENBURG LINE TO COVER HUN RETREAT Battered And Broken It May Still Afford Armies Tem porary Shelter. By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the British Armies in Franc, Sept. 4. Everywhere on the front now being battered by tlw British, the Ger mltns ure seeking covvr behind the i i in deiiburg line. Notwithstanding the fact that tho line itself is seriously broken, the enemy high command is sacrificing thousands of its precious manpower unit in an effort to reach it. This bids fair to be a greater week than last, which has bven described as thc greatest of the war. Prisonors of Monday and Tuvsday bring the estimated total since July 18, when the counter offensive started, close to 123,000. Only the Germans' own figures on thvir dead and wouiuiect wul be able to tell the real story of their losses. The number of Germans killed is unquestionably enormous. What breaking through tho line means is shown by the fact that at noon Tuesday the British were only six miles from Cambrai, having advanced nearly five miles from the opening, which was blasted in tliv German de fenses. Into cages already containing foui 102nd (Cunnectciit) infantry have been returned to this country. The largest estimated total of troops landed in any single month in France j is 2S:j,000. Moiu than 2u0,000 is the es jtimated August total. I Brigadier General Estes, has been given temporary command of tho 18th I division, Olio of the new organizations ! formed in this country with a neucles of regulars. Complete unity of tho allied' forces and Germany's shortage of seasoned re serves are held by entente military I experts here as the leading factor in the Hrrtish Irnd t rench and American victories in Franco. Ludemlorff, they assert, is being beaten by sheer allied strongth and superior battle strategv. They attach i the greatest' significance to the latest British victory that was reported on the forty-sixth day of .the allied of-: tensive. Tho experts point out that this demonstrate that even when a ware of itheir danger, the Germans cannot avert it, and that forty six days were not sufficient for the Gorman staff to wholly restore the line. Tho entente military men deelaru that the present victory cannot be credited, to any particular army or style of fighting so much as to the intimate cooperation of the entire en tente force under Foch- They predict that the continued pressure of this powerful machine will make possible the attainment of great military goals. nE PASSJ OF REVENUE BILL Political Fortunes Of Mem bers Are Chief Factor Working For Delay Washington, Sept. 4. Political for tunes of congressmen today threatened to delay final enactment of tho new $8,000,000,000 revenue bill until just before or immediately after fall elec tions. Hoiiw Majority Leader Kitehin and his nicies plan to bring tho bill into the lower body Friday and push jt through bv September 14. While the house is debating tho bill, the senate finamv eonijnitre will con duct hearings. But meanwhile house leaders ar planning a vacutioii after the lower bt.ily pasted the mvasure on Tues day. The plan is to have the senate (Continued on page two) thousand German prisoners, 2200 mora were dumped Tuesday. This was only part of the previous night's gleanings, Thvy made a muddy and ragged collec,. thin, in very damp spirits. The bite arrivals did not welcome tho kidding they received from some whu had been captured carliv-r mid who had already spent considerable time in tha stockades. Standing outside the wire ctj. it r'renclunan gawd contemptuously at th huddled prisoners, then shrugged and exclaimed: "Supermen, bah" Certainly all the Germans' super- as- surance of the old days was gonv from one group of 02 officers whoso worried expressions betrayed that they realis- ' ed this is not onp of the constantly shifting tblvs of war, but something more significant. Among tho incidents reported fol lowing the Canadian attack on Dro- court Queant line was the capture of 4.1 men and one officer by a Canadian I chaplain. The chaplain was poking a- bout in captured positions with hi walking stick as his only weapon. Ho 1 poked it into a dugout, and was sur ! prised to seo a German crawl out, : j surrendering. The chaplain called some soldiers, and by tho time they arrived on the scene the dugout hail j yielded up 47 more boches. ' 1 talked with Americans who had .participated in the almost fightless ad Ivsnce in the region of Ypres. They 'did not like it.