Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 236, 15 August 1918 — Page 1

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FOUR MILLION U. S. SOLDIERS CAN WIN ON WEST FRONT

New American War Program Calls for 3,000,000 Men Overseas by June, 1919, Chamberlain Tells Senate. U. S. MUST FORCE ISSUE 'By Associated Prnss.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 In reporting the administration man power bill, extending draft ages, today Chairman Chamberlain disclosed to the senate that General March had told the military committee it was up to the United States to put enough men in France to win the war on the west front and had expressed the belief that 4.000,000 Americans under one commander could go through the German line wherever they pleased. The report also revealed that the new American war program called for 80 divisions or something over 3 million men in France by June 30 next year, with 18 more divisions in training at home then. All of the men sailing for active rervlee under the proposed new draft ages 18 to 45 General March told the committee would be in France by next June according to the program. Must Win in West. Secretary Raker informed the committee the report that the president' policy called ' for concentration of American forces from the western front, including Italy and that "the theory of the fighting in the future is that we must fore the issue and win on the western front." Immediate extension of the draft ages was declared by the army representatives to be imperative in order that the United States may throw its fujl strength in the struggle and win. If the draft aues are fixed at from IS to 45, General March said the system of volunteer enlistment in the Uniter States army automatically disappears. QUORUM FAIL TO APPEAR. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Plans for beginning consideration in the senate next Monday of the new man power bill extending the draft ages were blocked today by failure of a quorum 1o appear when Chairman Chamberlain of the military committee summitted the measure with a favorable report. Senate leaders had telegraphed members to return from vacations so that the agreement for three day recesses until August 24 might be satisfied, and thus clear parliamentary obstacles to taking up the bill immediately upon convening Monday. Only forty-three senators answered to their names when the roll was called, six less than a quorum. There were twenty-two Republicans and twenty-one Democrats. The senate adjourned until Monday and the plan now is to begin consideration of the biil next Thursday if I osslble. Senator Chamberlain still hopes to pass the measure by Saturday of next week. He said a quorum seemed assured for Monday and he then will renew his request to set. aside the vacation program and proceed Thursday with the bill. He expressed confidence of its passage within three davs before the national war time prohibition proposal comes before the senate as privileged business. Continued on Page Eight Retreat Specialist" Is Appointed to German Command on Somme 'I?y Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 15 (1 lavas Agency) General Hans von Boehn. the German "retreat specialist," has been appointed to (he supreme German command on the Somme front. The newspapers believe that this change in the German commond is highly significant. The German withdrawal north of Albert is looked upon as the first application of his tactics. General Von Boehn and his former conminnnd. the Gorman Kichth Army, ttood the brunt of the allied pressure in the Marne salient previously to the withdrawal to the north of the Vcsle. 1 he German troops engaged In the fighting east and southeast of Amiens have been under the command of Generals Von Der Marwitz and Von 11 utier, and In the aim ygroup of Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria

"Star Spangled Banner"

The enthusiasm with which London celebrated the Fourth of July is described in a letter received by Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Fishback. 210 Northwest Fifth street, from their son. Lieutenant L. K. Fishback. with the IT. S. Aviation service In London. "You would have thought that a favorite son was going to speak before a home-town audience," the soldier writes, "but a favorite son had Fpoken that morning, for President Wilson's announcement that a million American soldiers were in France had nppt ared that morning in the London papers." The description of the celebration follows: "Several days have now passed since that great and most memorable of all Independence Day celebrations. To sav that it was n great meeting and

GIRLS WANTED. Wayne county must contribute twenty girls for Red Cross work. This appeal is urgent. Indiana is asked to supply 1,500 girls, who have at least a grammar school education or a business education. Leaders of the movement today were deploring the failure of Wayne county girls to respond to the call of the Red Cross. They were wondering if the girls lack the quality of patriotism that, sent their brothers and relatives into the training camps. Red Cross headquarters in the Masonic building will supply information to applicants.

SUB CHASERS ON HUNT OF U-BOAT OFF U COAST American Schooner Sunk by Shell Fire From German Sub Off Cape May. t (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The American schooner, Dorothy Barrett, was sunk by shell fire from a German submarine esterday near Cape May, N. J. Seaplanes and submarine chasers sent to the scene dropped depth bombs on the spot where the submarine was believed to have submerged. One of the planes flying low dropped a depth charge where bubbles presumably from the wake of the submarine were observed. The chasers then closed in and let go several bombs. There was no evidence of wreckage, but the submarine did not reappear. KELLOGG STILL AFLOAT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. The American tank steamer, Frederick R. Kellogg, torpedoed Tuesday evening by a German submarine, is still afloat 16 miles off Barnegat, N. J., the navy department was advised today, and there is a chance that she may be brought into port. Seven men of the crew still are j missing, but the navy has no con-! firmation of reports that five men ! were killed by the explosion of the torpedo. SURVIVORS ARE LANDED. BOSTON, Aug. 15. Twenty-five survivors of the British" steamer Penistone, .sunk, by a .German., submarine off the Massachusetts . coast Sunday, landed at Cape Cod ports today and reported that another boat containing) members of the crew had been lost. Four of the survivors were badly i burned and injured, which indicated that the vessel had ben attacked before the crew had a chance to escape. Rectuce Interest Rate on Loans to Farmer (Rv Associated Prc.s". WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. To aid further in financing crop movement the war finance corporation today reduced from f to 5 per cent the annual interest rates on short term advances to cover loans made to farmers or merchants for marketing wheat and other crops. The Weather For Indiana by United States Weather Bureau Generally fair tonight and Friday. Today's Temperature. Noon 79 Yesterday. Maximum 89 Minimum 70 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Possibly a local thundershower. Warm wave Friday. General Conditions The British Columbia storm which has been moving slowly eastward and caused the rain of last evening is now moving out into the Atlantic ocean. Another storm over the Rocky Mountains is increasing in size and also moving eastward. P.etween the two storms the weather is generally fair. An area of high barometric pressure from Minnesota caused a break in the hot wave generally throughout the central states. But another hot wave is moving eastward freni the plain states. Maximum Temperatures at Cantonments: Chicago Cloudy 92 Louisville Cloudy St. Louis Rain 90 San Antonio Cloudy 94 attended by men representing world powers does not do it justice in any sense of the word any more than you couid portray the beauty and grandeur of Westminster by describing only its outer structure. Back of all the flagwaving, the muic and the speeches was something that created within emotions that words and language cannot describe. This great Anglo-Saxon fellowship meeting was held in Central Hall directly across Victoria street from Westminster Abbey. The doors were opened at 10 o'clock and thosands of people who had been standing in the hot sun for hours crowded their way past the special guards into the main auditorium of Central Hall. The building was decorated inside and out with the Allied flags but chiefly to be seen was the Stars and Stripes. I tell you

SOVIET TROOPS ARE FORCED TO IE AYE MOSCOW

Loss of City Serious Blow Czecho-Slovak Troops in Force Along Volga. (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 15. Soviet troops have begun to evacuate Moscow. The gold reserves which had been in the basement of the Kremlin already have been removed to an unknown place. Dispatches received in London on Monday reporting that Premier Lenine. and War Minister Trotzky had fled to the naval base at Kronstadt, added that all the government departments also would be removed there. The flight of Lenine and Trotzky was said to be due to threats by the social revolutionists of the Left that they were about to begin a reign of terror there. Whether the Soviet, troops were forced to depart from Moscow is not clear, but the loss of the city to the Soviet government undoubtedly would be a serious blow to their cause. Moscow, the ancient capitol of Russia, was made the Soviet capital in March. The Lenine government fled there from Petrograd, toward which the German troops were marching. It has been reported within the past few days that the Germans had renewed their march toward Petrograd. Czechoslovak troops have been reported in force along the Volga, about 500 miles east of Moscow. REPUBLIC IN DANGER LONDON, Aug. 15. The Soviet government has issued a proclamation declaring that the Russian republic is in danger, according to telegrams from Helsingfors received in Stockholm and quoted by the correspondent of the Times. The Petrograd Soviet has removed to Krcnstadt owing to the insecurity of the city. Bands of armed peasants are reported marching on Petrograd from surrounding districts. They declare they are srarving and that the Red Guards have stolen all- their food. Dissatisfaction with the Soviets is said to prevail everywhere in Russia. LONDON, Augl 15 ro,,Tn,.e, ura .cul-i.- miltheir way to join the Czecho-Slovak troops on-the Useuri front were received by the Czechs with the great - est enthusiasm at Nicolak and elsewhere. The Ussuri river joins the Amur near Khabarovsk, north of Vladivostok. The Czechs have been engaged with the Bolsheviki in this region for several weeks.- " ' P.OS1TION 'ENDANGERED LONDON, Aug. 15. The Czechoslovaks in Siberia are in a dangerous position and are liable to be cut off altogether, says the correspondent of the Times at Vladivostok. Only a fraction of those between the Volga and Lake Baikal are armed and all are deficient in every sort of equipment. They are cut off from the far east and it is impossible to learn what is happening to them. The correspondent says there is much apprehension concerning them in Vladivostok, and adds: "The Czechs here are pathetically anxious to push west and assist their brothers. They are contemplating desperate measures in order to reach Continued on Page Ten. FOUR WEEKS BRING GREAT GRANGE IN WAR OPERATIONS (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 15 Just four weeks ago today, the residents of Paris were awakened by the sound of such a cannonade as they had never heard before. It was General Mangin's "counter prepaiation" against the great German attack which the enemy was be lieved was to bring him to the gates J of Paris. j In phrases tempered with joy, the morning newspapers outline the great' change that one short month has brought. The enemy, who was at the . c a : T 1. .-, ; , ,1 r1 . Arties oi .Aiint'ii:, uutrnus auu -uui- ( peigne nas rjeen sounu. oeaien anu outgeneralled at every point and ini-: tiative has been wrung from him by the military genius of Marshal Foch. The German command, it is said, has transferred the direction of operations to General Von Boehn, a specialist in retreats.

Ainoa iroops, among wnom Tne,al Fivimr rcros. was killed when the

Americans have borne a creditable j engine of his plane died and the mapart, have captured 73,000 prisoners j chine crashed to the ground just west and more than 1700 guns. This is a of Cincinnati. Captain Fitzmori is was greater number than the allies have one cf a party enroute to Cincinnati taken in four weeks since the begin- from Indianapolis to give an exhibining of the war. . tion.

Cheered by Dad, it does a red-blooded Yank a world of good to see his flag floating from the top of the government buildings here in London. "The back of the huge platform was swamped with American flags and before the program started several English officers passed out small American flags eo everyone in that vast audience. And the grabbing for these flags had any rummage sale that I have ever seen beat a thousand ways. From the amount of yelling and flag waving that was going on you would have thought that a favorite son was about to speak before a down-town audience. But a favorite son had spoken that morning, for President Wilson's announcement that we had one million troops in France, had appeared in all of the London papers.

FRENCH TOWNS, NEAR RECAPTURE BY ALLIES DEVASTATED BY REPEATED ARTILLERY FIRE

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iohcb mure iaint'U on inese same lowns, I ... ..... drive these same cities and villagese, or j deadly -fire of the allied artillerymen. ,,C1IL" nc'c muc! V1 j flames' set alre b the retreating Huns 5

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goes now. This French official photo shows an American ofticer, no name given, at left; Lord Balfcur. with his back turned and General Haig and Gen-:

eral Wilson (at extreme righty discussing the latest reports from the front.

j BRITISH AVIATOR KILLED j CINCINNATI, Aug. 15. Captain ' James Fitzmorris, of the British Roy-

Britons as England Celebrates U. S. Independence

"The vast audience was happy and like cur own "Topsy" it "growed" on them and when 'The Star Spangled Banner' was played, the tears roiled down the furrowed cheeks of many a staunch old Englishman and the little crumpled up white handkerchief hushed away many a tear from the eyes of countless mothers whose sons had already fallen on the field of honor. "In a few minutes every seat was occupied, as well as the available standing room. I had been unable the day before to get a reserved seat and so I took my chances at the door. As a result I found myself in the last row in the balcony with an Australian on one side and an American sailor on my other side. The best of feeling exists over here between the Anzacs and the Yanks and I surely enjoyed my Australian friend that morning.

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.. the spots where thsy once stood, are The ruins are bein? pulverized into on. Tney are nearm r rerenne anu i 1 ' c 1,1 t.t or by the allies artillery. URUGUAY MISSION IN CUBA The United SANTIAGO, Cuta, Aug. 15. Uruguayan mission to the

States, headed ty Dr. Balthazar Brun, ; the city with manufacturers Thursday, the foreign minister, arrived here to No statennrt regarding the conferday. The members were welcomed by ; ences was forthcoming, as Feick is a representative of President Meno-i gathering data on the w hole problem

cal and a committee cf prominent Cubans. i ne mission win go to Havana later in the week. He had just come over from France a few days before and he was strong in his praise for the American "doughboy" as they are called. "If the G. O. P. had a band like the Coldstream Guards and could send it to Texas for campaign purposes they might have hopes of carrying that state. His Majesty's Coldstream Guards' Band is as fine a military band ,if not the finest that I have ever heard and for three-quarters of an hour preceding the speeches that immense audience sat in wonderment and listened to that wonderful music. And then after a piece had been finished the great crowd below suddenly and as if by magic, turned into a great sea of American flags, and then the yelling started all over again. Then just about this time an old bald-headed gentleman in front of rae turned

below. And now in the allies' great being shaken again, this time by the oust. Recent dispatches stated that the ouiuies. rcrouue nas ueca reporiea in 12,000 CALLED ITO SERVICE C3v Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 Provost Marshal General Crowder today called upon 34 states to furnish a total of 12,000 white draft registrants qualified for limited military service for entrainment Aug. 30 and 31. The men called will be sent to three camps, 3,000 to go to Camp Upton, Yaphank, N. Y.; 4,000 to Camp Dodge, Des Moines, la.; and 5,fo to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. The quotas of the various states follow: AlaLama, 150. Camp Greene, Charj lotte, N. C; Arkansas, 100, Camp (Dodge, Des Moines, la.; Connecticut, ,' 250, Camp Upton, Yaphank, N. Y.; Florida, 100, Camp Greene; Georgia, 150, Camp Greene; Illinois, S0O. Camp Dodge; Indiana, 350. Camp Dodge; Iowa, 250, Camp Dodge: Kentucky, 250, Camp Greene; Louisiana, 200, Camp Greene: Maine, 100. Camp Upton; Maryland, 75, Camp Greene; Massachusetts, 1,000, Camp Upton: Michigan, 600, Camp Dodge; Minnesota, 350, Camp Dodge. 'Only Regret I Cannot Fight Beside My Sons, Says Colonel Roosevelt PARIS, Anr. IS. Ilavas Agencv. j Col. Roosevelt's answer to condolj ences extended by President Poincare, on the death of Lieut. Quentin Rooseivelt. is published by the newspapers. "My only regret" the colonel wrote. mv sons." x J f -JLrtMakes Probe Here ! F. L. Foick, commissioner of the ' United States depaitment cf labor. discussed the industrial condition of ; and will be enable to announce a de cision until he has obtained a;l the facts. around and wondered if I knew of any beys over as yet. from "back in Ohio." "Before I had time to answer everyone in that vast audience was on their feet to cheer and to welcome the speakers who were entering the platform from a side door. While still standing the Bishop of London offered up a short prayer and in a few sentencesthose two great nations, one on each side of the Atlantic, one divided now became joined. Cheer News cf Americans. The real address of the morning was made by the Hon. Winston S. Churchill, one of England's greatest men and at present Minister cf Munitions. No doubt the papers at home have long ago told all about this big meeting, eo I won't go into detail as regards, the speeches, but thf.re were three times

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ALLIED ARMY IN PICARDY German Troops Withdraw From Hebuterne Salient British Advance Line Northwest of Chaulnes. 33,000 HUN PRISONERS (By Associated Press) WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug 15, (Reuters) The Hebuterne salient has practically disappeared as a result of the German retirement in that sector of the front. The British have now pushed their posts far toward Bucquoy. General Ludendorff's recent order, that ground must be given if holding it would entail an undue expenditure f man power, is believed to be largely responsible for the German withdrawal. The wonderful success of the light British tanks has probably impressed the German high command with the desirability of getting behind the river Ancre wherever practicable. i The British line has advanced slightly west of Raincourt in the district northwest of Chaulnes on the Picardy battle front, the British war office announced today. French Hold Heights. Since August S when the allied attack in Picardy began, the Eritish and French have taken prisoners to the number of 33,344. British patrols were active throughout last night in the district between Albert and Ayette whre th German! began their retirement yesterday. The patrols have maintained close touch j with the enemy in this region. The British made further progress at several points along this front. ' The French have captured all the , high ground on the Lassigny macsi i ; and are working down the north p.nd eastern sides ko that a further retirement of the enemy in that sector is I probable according to advices receiv ed here this afternoon. The violent artillery duel between the Avre and the Oise continued during last night. A German raid in Champagne failed. Enemy Begins Retirement. Allied successes in Picardy apparently has compelled the Germans to reallign their positions between Albert and Arras. Enemy troops have begun a rtirement on a five mile front but comnlete details of the mnv? ' ment are lacking. Between the Ancre and the Oise. th fighting is still confined to local aotions at various points. The British i and French have improved their po sitions slightly north of the Somme, northwest of Roye, south of Lessigny and along the Oise. Enemy troops have shown no dispotion to counterj attack elsewhere and have confined their retaliatory efforts to artillery j bombardments. j The extent of the German with- ! drawal north of Albert is not yet i clearly refined and its effect upon the ; situation as a whole is problematical, j Field Marshal Haig announces the j enemy has left his forward positions j at Beaumong Hamel, Serre, Puisieuxj au-Mont and Busquoy. Thes? are in j the Hebuterne sector where the Gerj mans were stopped in their offensive j of March 21. Many vain efforts were made by the Germans to reach the I heights arcund Hebuterne as their positions in this sector were dominated by the British guns. Should the German lines be moved back any great depth the line south to Albert and thence to the Somme would be affected. Likewise, the line northward to the Scarpe might have to be readjusted. It is not unlikely the movement here is similar in purpose to the (Continued on Page Eight) KARL AND WILHELM HOLD CONFERENCE (Ry Av"ocialP) Press.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 13 Emperor Charles of Austria is at German main headquarters, according to a telegram to the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin from Karl Rorner. its war correspondent. Emperor Wi'liam and his advisors have been holding an important conference at headquarters, the correspondent, reports, and these deliberations, on political and military questions, are "reaching their highest point" with the coming of the Austrian emperor and his advisory siaff. J during Mr. Churchill's address that I j thought the people would surely go j crazy. The firs', time was when he j said, "There are one million American troops in trance. Lven this came after the people had been reaiing It in the papers all morning. From this one is led to believe that an Englishman's hearing is better than bis" seeing. But the people were happy that mcrning and timo and time again, old white-haired men. who probably have had the rheumatism for the last forty years, would jump up and yell and wave an American flag5 like some little ten-year-old newsboy at a yearly picnic. And when he said. "Germany must be beaten Germany must feel that she is beaten Germany must know that she Is beaten!" again th3 people jumped to their feet and it was (Continued on Page Nine.)