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TODAY 4,600 SUBSCRIBERS (23,000 HEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation in Saigas. Guar aoteed by the Audit Burets of Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAIr LET NEWS PES VICB WEA' i .A Oregon: Tonight and Friday fair; gentle southwest triy winds. t - - - in t ti " ' f j ) i nil' , , . x . r sx FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 223. i.! n ; SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1918 , PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS ITVE CENT3 J I'D LIKE TO I BE A RED ,, ' 5 1 TISH TAKE8,000 ill I .3. FIFTY GUI.JTAIO YESTERDAY GERMAN ATTACK IN REPULSED Hermans Make Terrific Counter Attacks But Are Thrown Back And Leave Battlefield Covered With Their Dead. Australians Smash Ahead And Pass Beyond The Old Hin denburg Line. Germans Send Six Divisions In Counter Attack, But These Are Mercilessly Beaten. By Lowell Mellett ' 1 (United Press Staff Correspondent) " With The British Armies In France, Sept. 19.The British and German armies swayed back and forth in a titanic struggle today for possession of the Hindenburg line between Cambrai and St. Quentin. Reports of the fighting indicate the British are dog gedly holding to their great gains, while the Germans' desperate efforts to beat back the elements of General Byng's army that are too near some are beyond the Hin dnburg line---are entirely unsuccessful. . - The enemy's counter efforts centered about Havrin court. The fighting here has been the fiercest of the whole battle. The Germans launched six divisions at one point, gaining a temporary success only to lose ground later. With the British Armies in Prance,' Hept. 19. (Noon) The British today withstood another heavy counter at tack, centering about Havrincourt (three miles north of Goiizeaueourt and the same distance west of Marco ing.) Prisoners taken in yesterday's fight- iuq totalled HUOO, while more than fif ' ty guns were captured. Suddenly dropping the ''peaceful penetration" methods by which they had been edging gradually nearer the Hindenburg line', the British, sweeping aside German opposition, have moved up-to the verge of the formidable trench system. (The outposts of the Hindenburg line have been occupied on a wide front between the Cambrai and St. Quentin regions while, in some places the main diffuses of the system itself have been conquered.) Hinging its movement on the French, forces at Savy wood, west of St. Quen tin, the Britikh line swung forward ir T'sistibly, keeping r, pace Sl by the. Australians in the middle. When I left thp Australians' head quarters their riflemen and bombers al ready were pouring into the Germans famous trench system and 274(1 of the defenders were in prison . cages, ' or nijwehing toward the cages. The pris oners include 114 officers, among them being a regimental commander and tnff and two oattalion eommandors and their staffs. Twenty seven guns were captured, together with their crews and horses. This may be regard ed as exceptional; most of. the guns are behind the main defenses. . The British aivance varied in depth from two and a half to four miles. No where did it fail to clean up the Hin denburg outpos, line. At some points the German fought fiercely, such & at LeVerguier, Tcni pleux and south of Fresno Le Petit, where many prisoners were taken. While the tanLs played an eminent srt in tho fighting, long legged Eng lish and Australian troops mostly over came the wire entanglements and ma chine gun s in their own individual man iter. They carried the Germans off their feet bv. the very dash of their attack. The -exnlnit war remarknhlp hMnnAf!hiiit 11 mil;,, nf t. . I among im aivisions, opposite tneir lesser number was one entirely fresh The iSath. Identified prisoners repre sent at least 22 battalions. Those seen in the cages are mud covered and weary but cheerful All are husky and well led. thirteen lieutenants in one group wbn questioned were surprised at the nsws of Austria a peace proposals They unanimously declared it won "a good idea" and gaid there surely should b some way of getting together. Eeminded of the Russian treaty, they sore DWIillLED - it - - AT said that Russia is "different" and really Germanic, and anyhow, Ger many is acting in Russia's best inter ests. - The lieutenants were the first pris oners so far taken on this front who had heard the result of the St. Mihiel attack, though they know nothing of the details. They admitted the Ger mans underestimated the Americans, holding the opinion that the 'Yanks' are good patrol fighters, but had not yet learned to handle a big attack. The Germans threw in great masses about Havrincourt and as far south as iGaucho wood, southeast of Gouzcau court, in front of the Hindenburg line As a result, General Byng gathered in 32 officers and 1438 men to add to Gen eral Hawliuson's O50O prisoners.- He also took a complete battery of eleven German i7s, including crews and ! horses. The first counter attack came at Gauche wood. Grey masses came pour ing out of Villers-Guislain after an ar tillery tornado, gaining the wood and holding it for a brief time before they were driven back. They again essayed to attack and again were repulsed. la the meantime, southeast of Hav rincourt, six enemy divisions came from behind the Hindenburg line and at tempted to crush the British who had advanced there earlier in the day. For ty batteries participated in the ene my's preliminary bombardment- The attack was broken up with heavy loss jes. Northeast of Havrincourt, beyond the canal and the main defenses 'where the British had installed themselves a few days as;o, the Germans also attaek ed,gnining the well remembered sunk en road and the long trench known as "Clergy avenue," bit it was for only a brief period, as the British soon oust ed thtm and were holding safely at the last reports. Germans Smashed London, Sept 19. The British ad vance between Cambrai and St. Quen- onh Usmsr;Triese:rhneLy Ge8r man counter attacks, then swept for- ward again on a wide front, capturing Hindenburg line. The German counter attacks began about 5 p. m. on an eight mile front between Gouzeaucourt and Trescault, following a terrific bombardment. They smothered by the British fire. Field Marshal Haie reported todav. A few, elements entered the British trenches, but were annihilated by coun W attacks. The British drive was resumed short ly before midnight. Australian troops His report also shows a decrease in the D BRITISH ADVANCE - PitlSOiIRS Germacs In Switzerland Have Stopped Boasting Washington, Sept. 19. Germans ave ceased their boasting of victory in Switzerland, according to entente dip lomatic cables here today. At the opening of the Marcn of fen. sive, the Germans posted bulletin8 an nouncing their adavnees in Berne. Bu suddenly on July 18 they stopped put ting up nvws dispatches and since then have maintained discreet silence about affairs en the west front. French officials recently in Switzer land report that public opinion is be coming more and more favorable to ward the allies in even Gvrinan inhab ited sections. dashed forward afld occupied virtually the whole of the outposts of the Hin denburg line from Pontruet northward to Gouzeaucourt. German Attacks Repulsed. London, Sept. 19.J AGorman attack in great force on a front of more than eight miles west and southwest of Cam brai yesterday afternoon was complete ly repulsed with hvavk .enemy losses, Field Marshal Haig reported today. . "Yesterday afternoon a violent bom bardment, by a number of guns was opened by the enemy o.n the , northern portion of tho battk front between Gouzeaucourt and the Arras-Cambrai road (a front of about 11 miles,") the statement said. , , "Tolcphone communication with our division in the line was rapidly cut by the intensity of the hostile line. - j "At 5 p. in. Germany attacked in strength on a wide front from Brvs cault (threP ntilcg north of Gouzeau court) northward." At all points they wcro completely repulsed with great loss by tho Guards and the Third and Thir-' ty Seventh divisions. "Another strong attack shortly after wards north of Mocuvivs, was also driv en off with heavy Gorman losses. In certain localities bodies of theenemy succeeded in reaching and rnipi.i.s our trenches, whore th?y were overwhelmed by counter attacks. In all such locali ties our line was re-established intact. Many prisoners jffeiy taken. Great num bers of German dead are- lying before our positions on th whole front of hot enemy's attacks." "At Gauche wood repeated attacks were made yesterday afternoon and ev ening. In each case they were repulsed. "A BUCPv-ssful local operation carried out yesterday afternoon improved our positions south and east of Ploeg steert." "South of Gouzeaucourt the opera tions of tho. fourth British army con tinued successfully yesterday evening and last night. English troops pro gressed north of Pontruet (four miks north and west of St. Quentin) reaching tlm outposts of the Hindenburg line in this sector. "To tho left of the Fourth army an Australian division renewed Its it. ..no; at 11 p. m. and carried the outpost po sitions of the Hindenburg line after heavy fighting. Many prisoners and a number of inacliin0 guns were taken. "In tho successful operation this di vision and the First Australion division now hold the outposts positions of the Hindenburg line on the whole of their respective fronts." "There was severe fighting en?, of Ronssoy (three and a half miles west of Le Catelet) and Epehy (two miles northeast of Ronossy). We aredn pos session of Penipii-. (adjoining Ronossoy on the northeast.) "We have beaten off determined counter attacks in the Villers-Guislain sector mile and a half southeast of Gouzeaucourt.) The Seventeenth divi sion, which in yesterday 's advance took several, hundred prisoners, recaptured Gauche, wood (just west of Villers Guhlain) which tho enemy had re gained by a eountr attack. Later in the afternoon a strong counter attack from Villers-Guislain was Hcpulsed with heavy loss." Took 6,000 Prisoners. London, Sept. 19. The Franco-Brit-, ish attack between Gouzeaucourt and Essigny-Le-Grand threatens to smother the hole Hinde.burg line Jr0H1 the reg - vl -""""" " f"'"- "c" sumn 6'-Quentin. mi i t it . mo great uerman aerensive system is alreadv in allied bauds from the vi-i . . . ,. cii.ity of Lens to north of Havrincourt, er,can mam force are now Prallelln8 while yesterday's ntlack pierced it at, tho Hindenburg line on the whole Of Villcivt and near Gouzeaucourt. Tho this front, while one patrol penetrated British and French are now within less 1 300 yards beyond Pagny-Sur-Mosclle thau ttv0 miles of the Hindenburg line'on the west bank of the Moselle, just on .the whole front, from whcre the 'across the river from German tcrri- ua-iai lu ISOTrt crosses it north of Hav- ri.ieourtr to Lai ere, except on a small sector west of Marcoing and another v.vst of Moy, where two sharp salients (Continued on page seven) ANSWER TO AUSTRIA : AROUSES MR OF THE GERMAN PRESS Say Austria's Offer Has Moulded Germany's En emies fcto Solid Block Amsterdam, Sept. 19. The German press is bitter in its denunciation of the entente's reply to Austria's efforts toward peace. "Balfour settles the entente's posi tion regarding Austria's proposal", de clared the Cologrw Volks Zeitung. "He alks as if . British troops were before Berlin. Our troops will teach him that he ha3 a lot to learn." The Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung official organ of Kruppg says: "The entente answer is eatrastropal. Wherever we turn we find the same reply. 'Force, force to the last. No peace before Germany is tvaten. ' The Aus trian offer killed all possible differ ences between our enemies and moulded them -again into one solid block." The Vorwaerts says: "Continuance of the Finnish venturo is a serious hin drance to Austria's peace efforts." The Tageblatt, commenting on the of fer of peaee to Belgium states: "If the offer was made, it must have been made by some uninfluential person." The Deutsch Zoitung declares: ' Bal four's peace would make Germany a third rate power. Therefore, we are ready to slod our last drop of blood .to, avert this catastrophe." It Is "Annihilating." The Hague, Sept. 19. "This eold and cutting scorn, this cool rejection has a more overwhelming and annihilating ef- feet than all the official phrases which th III an in tho Wll t Hnin m,l am. , ploy," the Rh-oinische Westfalische Zoi tung declares, in commenting on Pres ident Wilson's reply to Austria. "The eontentfl of Wilson's reply eon firm the views we have already express ed, that Wilson will not depart from the conditions of war alims hitherto pro- I claimed, and the policy of annihilation can nd absolutetSpros8ion in him. Moreover, he does not give the Austrian proposal any positive expectation and ,f.. ,,, ij.i. gestions of peaco, especially the ifca of a conference " f Waiting For Replies Amsterdam. Sent. 19. The Gnrmnn government will take no further poli- 11.(11 ii-in icgdiuifig lav Jfcui.inuu "eucu note until the allied replies are official ly received, a semi-official dispatch from Berlin stated today. Cut Woman's Throat . As She Knelt In Prayer Witn the Americans On Tho Mctz Front, Sept. 19, While a French mother in Hattonvihv (a mile north of Vignculles) knelt if by tho bed of her sick child praying for an allied victory, while tho Americans were ap- proaching, a Hun slasher her $ throat, according to stories told by th0 villagers to American of- ficurs. Lieutenant Raymond Ponnoyer 4c entered Hattonville with a tank and found the woman's body in sk a pool of blood beside the bed. Her throat was cut. Villagers told how she was killed. Gorman officers lived in the woman's housw during their oc- cupation of the village, forcing her to cook for them. When tho bombardment started tho bodies begun preparing to leave. Tho- woman dropped to her knees, praying aloud for victory. Her life was tlm forfeit for her pat- V riot ism. OTJB BOYS HEALTH GOOD Washington, Sept. 19. "American troops, both here and overseas, con tinue to establish good health records" according to Surgeon General Gorgas. iiiiis.iimiiiiiiiititiHiiiiuiiiti.iiitiiimiuiiiifiiimiiiiiiiiiiiitmiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiituiiiiii i War Summary of United Press I iiimiiimiuiiiiiiMitiiiiiiiiiiii.iiHiiimiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiuiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii I is 1508th Day of the War; 64th Day of Counter Offensive iiiiiiiuiiiiiitMHiiiiiuiiniitniiiumiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Metz front Shells from American 1 long -I- are now dropping in i,iue center ui mc., ur mimvn 'port. Hits have been scorca on tne lor- .,.. , K; -,.. n. Am. tory. Picardy front A scries of heavy German attacks on a front of about cijjht miles west end southwest of Cam brai were repulsed by the British with 8,000,000,000 TO BE LIMIT OF TAX LEVIED IIS YEAR Secretary McAdoo Tells Con gress This Will Do For Fiscal Year FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN MAY BE $7,000,000,000 Four Loans May Be Needed Next Year Unless Ger many Is Crushed. Washington, Sept. 19. A saving of approximately $36,000,000 in operation! of ilroads in the vastern region forj lUC UTS Vtol OX uyciuiucui cvimui a ostimated' in a report to the director general today. Tn -rpsiinia nt conditions of eastern roads. A. H. Smith, regional director, shows a saving of $8,500,000 in the op eration of passengvr service. ...His report also shows a decrease In the cost of handling freight of $3,400,000. The principal saving has soon brought about by the movement of heavy traf fic of several kinds in solid trains. They have been w.ut across the country en express thain schedule, thus releasing lmotivo Powc.r ,nd rolliP stoc!t forother aemCe 10 a 8horter tlme' tho ' rcPort 'Zoning of traffic from west to east' and designating direct mutes for niy meuts has eliminated congestion about 60 per cent, Smith said. Tho report explains also that this plan reduces the amount of traffic handled through busy gateways and allows for a hastened movement of freight from north to south. By co-ordinating all Hues, a givat saving has been had in the transporta- tion or ranway materials, aimin assorts. In tl,U' tho rc!P01'1 shows V ) nect'ln8 which have boon established at various points have played an important part. ,. . . The last phase of government opera- tion touched on by the report" and yby (Continued on page three) ABE MARTIN T'euiin' Purvis, fc; nwny yours tl. ' cashier o' th' People's Baik. linn re signed t' become 4 carpenter's helper wiicro ue ,l have a clur.ci to handle iiioi-j money. Wc ' bei'C t' lets of state fairs but we'w never seen any ln.i y as ugly a mry J'oots. terrific enemy losses yesterday after noon and evening. Flanders front British troops inv proved their positions yesterday af ternoon south and southeast of i'loeg streert. Balkan front Tho Bulgarians are completely defeated and are being pursued night and day by French, Grcekl and Serbian forces, the Serbian war office reports. The allied advance has now reached a depth of more than twelve miles. The Bulgarians arc burn ins villages and supplies, but their re treat is so precipitate that great quan tities of materials and large numbers of prisoners are continually falling in to the hands of their pursuers. LI It , m GERMANS HAY HAVE SCATTERED GERNS OF SPANiSHJNaUENZA Officials Say Prisoners From Torpedoed Ships May Have Been Inoculated Washington, Svpt. 19, Widespread appearance of Spanish influenza along' the Atlantic coast recalls warning of I naval officers some weeks ago that Ger man fitmf. mnv Via rpannnaihlA Lieutenant Colonel P. S. Doane, head of the health section of the shipping board today reiterated the warning. He declared: " ' " "It is quite possible the'epidemic was Btartcd by . Huns sent ashore by boche submarine commanders. We know that m have been sent ashore from German submarines and it woultd be unite easy for these agents to turn loose by. day and night, by the victorious al the gorm, in theatres and other places lied troop9, the Serbian war office de wheie large numbors of people are as- clared in a statement received here to sombled." j day. When the original warning went out,i tcven additional towns have been it followed the capture and retention by captured and the allied advance ha U-boat commandors of crews and pas- reached a total depth of 124' sengors from torpedoed ships and their uiiles. Bulgarian reinforcements brought ultimate release. It wa s feared that llP f"m neighboring sectors to stem these prisoner, might have bevn inoc- the Frauco-Serbian dvancc, have ak ulated with the germs and then releas- bcP" b(,aten 81,(1 re tiring, ed to sproad them. - Th enemy is burning villages and The fact that the disease has appeared SUPP'": t the allied advance is so in cities where them are army or navy ""P'd that uncountable quantities of training eamp, adds strength to the 01 1 1Z? haVe tf. . n - . u . n ? i- "We have captured KouteJikovamen, heory that German, may have dJin-!poUchleftei Bec'hichto. Melenitza, Vol inated the germs It has been pointed toUdlt Bainb M'd Toppoteta,-" out that tho malady made its appear-the 8ta'tement ,aid. "Overcoming the ancc in Spam after the appearance In diHicutiM afforded by the high monn ports of that country of Gvrman XT-. tains, we are pursuing the enemy day .J r, ' . .land night. . ' "The Germans have started ppidoi-.i-j The enemy, completely beaten, i ivb m Europe aua mere is no reason woy mey snoum rje particularly gontie t() America," said Colonel Doane, Quarrarjtine Effective ru. :.,, iq tj. k of mild easos has prevented a spread "bf Spanish irfluenza at the Great Lakes naval training station, -officers said to. day. About' 1,000 sailors, , are isolated. Chicago health officors showed little fear that the Siberian malady would at i n.iM ..... h.. . o.i v tack the city. Strike Situation Is Now Clearing Very Rapidly Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 18, Return- :. i i 'i '' i . .' . wT t u..cuuy today in roinstatements at but one plant, the Liberty Ordnance company, union officials reported. Company offi. cials explained -this by the announce- mvnt that a number of returning tool - makers and machinists wr0 to be used on the night shift instead of days. This action, they said, is necessitated by withdrawal of contracts because of the strike. Forerunner to the End The situation, which assumed a Chicago, Sept. 19. A successful threatening turn yesterday, has 1een thrust along the Balkan line will be a greatly cleared following the receipt of forerunner of the war's end, according I'residont Wilson's letter to the maim- to Archbishop Meletois Metnxakis of facturers ordering them to re-employ the church of Greece, here on a patri all the formvr strikers without discrim otic, mission. ination. "Victory along that line would ba ' ' disastrous to the Turks and Bulgars-' Homo men would dic young if they he said, "but would have a profound were compelled to mnk a living. effect on tho Russian p-ople." AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF GERMAN ANCESTR Y ARE ASKED TO ASSIST KAISER Are Told They Will Find Great er Opportunities In the Fatherland. By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press Staff Correspondent) With Th-a Americans on the Motz Front. Sept. 19. American aviators to day reported shells from our heavy ar tillery dropping in tno center oi metz. A big factory liu, been struck and di rect lilts have been scored on tho for tifications. The Americans aiw steadily pushing their line forward following up the put rols and Hieir advanced positions are nnw Jirnetlv in front of the new Hin- denbutg line which the Germans estab lished in this region last rebruary. flu. tiutrnU Imvn rcennnniforerl this section of the Hindenburg line several times ana returned wnn reports con cerning conditions. The American main line now runs through Konvaux Man hucles, Pintheyillc, Ht. Hilaire, Doncourt Wca:1, Haumont. between Jaulny and Rembercourt, north of Vadieres and south of Chanipey to the old line. Patrol encounters are frequent and bombardment of the front linvs and rear area8 is heavy. The enemy is reported to be mining Haumont, apparently pre paring to evacuate the terrain in that vicinity iu a great retrograde move 1BULGARS BEATEN i ARE REIEA1G : AIJ1TI1I PIC Serbians And French Drive 12 Miles Through Their line. : MINFORCEMOTS ARE ' ' QUICKLY PUT TO RIGHT BuHimg VOIagCS And fellCS - f . . rr Mark line Of Bulgar Retreat. London, Sept. 19. The Bulgarian, completely beaten in the new Franco Serbian offensive, are bcinjr pursued retiring and burning stores, depots ana villages. New prisoners and booty cannot be counted, owing to the rapidity of our advance, which is now twenty kilo- meters deep. "evr Bulgarian regiments, brought up from neighboring sectors, have also been beacn and are retiring." . . .Cannot Aid Bulgaria . "Amsterdam, Sept. 19.-Bulgaria ask ed Germany and Austria to send roiui forccments into Macedonia to aid ia repulsing the present allied offensive a dispatch from Cologne stated today. Tho central powers replied they would consider the matter but feared they would be unable to comply at pres ent. They informed Bulgaria, however, that negotiations are going on for the dUl,atch of .everal Turkish army corpa Ma(,eJonia. The prop0ritz, semi-official organ of tle Bu,arian government, according . ,i:tf, ,., uuUv va: 1 , iiTk nrrt move lin with the en- tonte. Bulgaria ardently desires peace, I based on terms which will render wars impossible in the f utur. ' ' . ment to Mars La-Tour, and Chambtey. American Gunners' oGod Work. (Chambley is three and a half mile north of Rembrecourt. Mars La-Tour U the same distnnco north of t'hanibley, on the. railway running southward from Conflans and is one of the chief pil lars of tho Hindenburg line). American artillvry blew up a great ammunition dump behind the German lines, mudo a direct hit on a big gun at La Ctiansso (two mil,,s """"th o( IIn mont) and inflicted other damage. The advance of tho American line i resulting in straightening out several crooks which wvre formed in tho past Villnecs. woods, quarries and dugouts, which were passed over by the patrols, are oeing moppeu up uX the slower moving main body. Constant contact is maintained with the boche rear guards which have now been cK-arcd from the territory oeiow the Hindenburg line. The enemy has now taken np his main positions along the liiin on the whole front between th Mouse and Moselle. Division Took 90 Guns On American patrol was reported to dav to have penetrated 300 yuds be vo'nd Pngny-Sur-Moselle (two miles "north of Vandieres and just across tlia river from th0 German' frontier). A (crtain American division has novr established a record of capturing 89 (Continued on page thits