Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 262, 14 September 1918 — Page 1

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FRENCH LAUNCH NEW DRIVE AGAINST ST. GOBAIN WHILE U. S. FORCE SMASHES AHEAD Intensity of Action on American Front Lessened After Closing of St. Mihiel Salient Germans Reported to be Readjusting Lines French Troops Rush Two Miles Into Enemy Lines Capture Important Height and Two Towns British Beat Off Renewed Attack on Newly Won Ground.

THE YANKS TAKE 20,000 PRISONERS IN DRIVE

(By Associated Press) The scope of the victory won by the Americans' first army in Lorraine in its initial offensive efforts continues to grow. The number of prisoners taken is now said to be 20,000 which is virtually the equivalent of two enemy divisions. General Pershing's forces in two days drove into a maximum depth of 13 miles, which is approximately the distance from the tip of the salient below St. Mihiel to Hattonville, a mile and a half north of Vitneulles, through which the American line was last reported as running. The Germans are reported readjusting their lines on the edges of the former salient, the probabilities being, however, that they are not being allowed to do this in peace by the American forces or the French on the flank.

Developments Awaited. What further developments the offensive may have is uncertain at present, the official communication and even the news dispatches today throwing little light on the prospect. Whatever the immediate future may hold, the ultimate effect of the drive which completely wiped out the St. Mihiel salient, with a rapidity almost unexampled for such a large operation, is bound to be important. If the offensive were undertaken for the purpose of opening up the way for a subunnant rirlvA nralnfit MptT And TIOSsibly the important Briev iron fields. now In German hands, it has already achieved a large purpose. Meanwhile, as the intensity of the fighting on this front seems to have lessened. Marshal Foch has launched I an offensive movement which seems mainly to be aimed at the St. Gobaln roassis defendingthe Germans' citadel of Laon. The French this morning attacked on both sides of the river Aillette and In the region of the Alsne to the eouth and southwest. Take 1,800 Germans. General Petaln's troops started with a great rush which took them Into the German lines at points for a distance of one to two miles. Prisoners began coming back rapidly, 1,800 having been taken in one division of the front alone at an early hour. The French pressure seemed to be n..ttnlirlir affective Knnth nf Aillette where they captured the important ! height on Mont Des Singe and the -towns of Allemont and Sancy. Their advance here threatens the right flank of the Chemln Des Dames. This movement also represents a further closing in on the St. Gobaln massts which Is accentuated by progress north of the Aillette, where the French are working into the upper forests of Coucy beyond the former German line. British Beat Off Enemy. On the Aisne front the French progress likewise was reported as satisfactory. On the British front Field Marshal Ilalg's forces appear to have been mainly occupied last night in beating off renewed German attack on the important ground recently won from the enemy. All these attempts, which were particularly presistent at Goucacourt and Havrincourt. were unsuccessful. The British have made progress, however, northwest of St. Quentin where their lines are now running east of Jeancourt. In Flanders British forces have oc cupied the town of Auchy-Les-ianas-see. only a little more than a mile from the town of LaBassee. Continue Advance. The Americans after eliminating the St. Mihiel pallent are continuing their advance. From Pagny across the Moselle river from German territory, the rew front extends in almost a straight line to the vicinity of Hattonville. where It advances slightly toward the northwest of Fresnes. This reduction of the front line from some forty to to twenty miles places at the disposal of the allied commanders an enormous force of men for future operations In this sector or on other fronts. Having accomplished the task or wiping out the salient the offensive movement continues to push forward and the further straightening of the line is probable. The Americans at this stage of the drive command positions favorable for a direct Invasion of German territory, if such a course should be decided upon. Although the important fortress of Metz is in no immediate danger, Its outlying fortifications are within range of American heavy guns at Pagny. lletz itself furnishes an excellent target for allied airmen, who already hwe taken advantage of the opportunity and have dropped many bombs on railway sta-

tlons and military stores In the city and vicinity. With Its strong outer protection of fortifications a frontal attack on Metz could hardly be expected but an outflanking movement by the Americans on the west or by the French and Americans from the south would force the Germans to evacuate both the fortress and the territory surrounding it. Left Railway Intact. In their haste' to get out of the salient with as little loss of men and military supplies as possible the Germans left the railroad from Verdun to Commercy, Toul and Nancy virtually intact. The capture of this line of railway adds greatly to the facility of troop movements towards erdun which has been a great handicap to the allies in the past. In the first few hours of their operation as a distinct unit the Americans have driven tifce enemy out of some thirty villages, many strongly fortified positions prepared during the four years of their occupation of the salient and captured more than 20,000 prisoners and large quantities of guns and other military material. Prisoners are still coming to the rear and no attempt has yet been made to estimate the quantity of enemy supplies captured.- - . . On other fronts the allies continue their pressure against the German lines. Cambrai and St. Quentin are In danger of being outflanked by the British and French. West of St. Quen

tin French troops have occupied the yj"80' JLa.!Z L"H5' J1 ?! town the British have gained ground after, local fighting with the enemy In which prisoners were taken. The British also have made progress southwest of LaBassee and are pressing forward on Auchy-Lez-La Bassee. Further north German attacks on new British positions at Havrincourt were repulsed with heavy loss. ADVANCE ON AISNE WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE AISNE FRONT, Thursday. Sept. 12. American infantrymen operating on this front advanced their line slightly at. several olnts southeast of Villers-en-Prayeres, to the northwest of Revlllon today. An American raiding party was sent out against the enemy to the east of Villers-en-Prayeres before daylight today. The party brought back a few prisoners. There was the usual amount of artillery firing during the day. RESERVES ARE DEPLETED BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 14. The Germans are being steadily driven from all ground where rear guards might prolong resistance in old defensive works. The first guards reserve division much depleted, has been identified in the Moeuvres sector and Austrian artillery has been in action astride the HavrincourtFlesquiers road. Three battalions of one regiment of the 87th division now consists of one company each with an average of barely a hundred men. Prisoners admit dissatisfaction and lack of discipline are growing at an alarming rate in the German army and desertions are on the increase. A battalion of the 46th infantry regiment which has gained the name "lions of Cambrai," broke during our advance recently across Santerre and fled to Nesle, where they indulged in looting after which the remnants straggled away. A captured may shows that an attack against our first army front was being organized when Marshal Foch's stroke upset the enemy's scheme. It is dated the 10th of July. . On the Cambrai front we are maintaining all gains. Further north we captured Fosse eight, which figures In the early fighting around LaBassee. We are pushing through Aucby-En-La-Bassee, near which we took the railway triangle three days ago.

IWomen of St. Mihiel Pay Homage

to Americans AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, Friday. Sept. 13. The civilian population of St. Mihiel almost wholly feminine because of the forcible removal of practically erery male of Military age, welcomed Newton D. Baker, the American' secretary of war and Generals Pershingand Petain when they visited the village a few hours after it was captured. The village was their offic ial host but in reality they were the guests of the women and the children. Aged women and girls crowded about Secretary Baker and the two generals accompanying him to express their thanks and pay homage to their deliverers. It was not merely curiosity; it was an emotional outburst following almost three years of the conqueror's suppression. The word was passed about that the small ctvilian was the American Secretary of War whose armies had accomplished their relief and from half destroyed houses and from poinls far removed from the center of tlipr village in habitants hurried to get a glmpse of the visitors. A military band was brought up from the rear; the Marsellaise . was WOUNDED EXPRESS JOY NEWS FROM THE ST. MIHIEL FIGHT (By Associated Press) PARIS, Sept. 14. The first groups of wounded who arrived at an evacua tion hospital behind the battle front today from the St. Mihiel fighting forgot their sufferings in their Joy over the beating the Germans had been given, says the correspondent of La Liberte, behind the fighting line. A captured German officer when interrogated declared the Americans were "terrible adversaries," the correspondent reports. ; The wounded men in talking of the engagement described the fighting as of the severest cort, especially In the series of dense woods scattered about the salient and also along the railroad line. Scarcely two hours after the attack was launched the Germans started a counter attack with three divisions which tJiOwevet.wjer.ei JJBAW to stop the American advance, i . - "The American troops," adds the correspondent, "showed magnificent bravery and disregard of danger, while someof the French regiments went into the battle wilh their colors flying and the men singing the Marseillaise." HUNS OVER BORDER IN GREAT ALARM OVER WAR ASPECT WASHINGTON,, Sept. .14. The American offensive at their very door and stories of a long range gun about to be turned loose on their towns is giving the war a new aspect to th.e Germans. An official statemnt from France today says there are evidences of excitement everywhere across the German border and quotes the following from the Mulhausen Tageblatt: "The American offensive in upper Alsace and the long range gun sup posed to -be intended to reduce to ash es the towns of this country is madly alarming the inhabitants. Even peo ple of a high rank tremble at the news like little children listening to ghost stories. Of course the evacuation of the Mulhausen and the whole of Alsace is again in question and it is said that all measures for the actual evacuation of the German duchy from Baden to Freiburg has already been taken." The German papers remind the public that severe punishment may be incurred on those who spread such rumors and say there is not the slightest reason for enxiety, but at the same time, however, the papers continue to publish the rport. Baker Returns to Paris From American Front PARIS, Sept. 14. Newton D. Baker, American secretary of war, who has been on the American front since Thursday morning watching the offensive will return to Paris tonight It is announced that he expects to depart shortly for England where he will remain for a short time. The Weather For Indiana by the United States Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Probably local showers,, slightly warmer tonight in south portion. - ; Today's Temperature. Noon 70 Yesterday. Maximum 64 Minimum 41 For Wayne County by W. E. Moore Increasing cloudiness followed by showers tonight or Sunday. Probably cooler; Sunday night or Monday morning. :- , . General Conditions Weather ' is now generally fair east of the 90th meridian except in the far northeast. Storm now central over the middle Mississippi valley will cause unsettled weather during the next twenty-four hours. Warm wave over western Canada has broken up. Heavy rains at San Francisco and Boston.

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played and the civilians' restraint in the presence of the visitors broke down completely. Women crowded forward ostensibly to shake the secretary's hand but Instead they kissed his hands and wept and then they joined in a chorus of thankfulness. There were no speeches but many times Secretary responded briefly to expressions of gratitude of ten times half hysterically uttered by the women and children. YEARLY MEETING OPENS MONDAY Probably 400 mmbers will be present at the Indiana Yearly Meeting which will be held in the East Main street Friends' church beginning Monday of next week. The opening session, at 10:30 o'clock will be the business meeting for the committees on Ministry and Oversight, and 125 are expected, as the usual number to attend. Many Important questions will be discussed during the wek. Reconstruction work, reports of both foreign and home missionaries, young Friends' activities, and other topics. Indiana .Yearly Meeting is considered the largest in the world for the scope and population of its territory. London Yearly Meeting is its only rival, each having aproximately 20,000 members. Richmond Is. recognized as the center of Friends' activities in America at present. All the offices of the Friends' activities have been concentrated In this city, and an effort is being made to have, all the important board meetings and conferences held here in the future. , 600 HOME GUARDS POLICE CINCINNATI (By Associated Press.) . CINCINNATI, Sept. 14. A small batch of bluecoated policemen and a large batch of 4rab ejLUxed om gaafdVwatcaen the night and this ' city awoke - this morning to its second day of a policemen's strike. When a recapitulation was made by the police department after yesterday's exciting incidents, it was found that the department's full quota numbered 621 men. Of these 83 men have been called to the colors and not replaced; .39 -are sick or on vacations; 104 men have reported for duty, while the remaining 395 men are on strike and automatically stand suspended. Six hundred home guards reported promptly at 7 a. m. today and relieved the 600 that went on duty last night. This line of procedure will be followed out until the police force is reorganized." - Stars and Stripes Wave Unscorched, Above Flames CHICAGO, Sept. 14. Thousands of spectators at a fire In Wabash avenue, near Fourteenth street, late last night, cheered as they watched an American flag waving above the flames. witI the roof of the building ablaze and shafts of flame shooting up about the flagstaff, the firemen turned at tention towards saving the national emblem. When the fire was brought under control the flag was still flying unscorched. A hardware firm and a flag manufacturer suffered a loss estimated at $200,000. Thousands of flags ready for shipment were lost. SAILORS SUBSCRIBE TO LOAN WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. First subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty loan received from The Navy came today from the armed guard of the American steamtr J. L. Luckenback. Through Rear Admiral Cowie, who has been appointed navy Liberty loan nfflur the ten npn naked for $1,500 of the bonds, sale of which begins September 28.

Two English Airplanes Capture Entire German Field Battery

(By Associated Press.) I WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES ON BRITISH FRONT, Aug. 25 The capture of a German battery by two British airplanes was one of the unique incidents of the fighting in this area. The two airplanes, fighting scouts sent out to harry the German infantry in the course of an important "local action" undertaken by the British and American troops, had dispersed a battalion of German infantry marching up toward the tattle area, when they j sighted a quarter mile hehind the Ger-j man line, a suspicious group of .objects under some trees. Near the group of objects were forty or fifty horses which were evidently being harnessed to something. The secret was soon out. The Germans were trying to remove a battery of field guns before the British and American infantry appeared on the scene. Without horses this task would be Impossible so the airmen decided quickly that the horses must be either

RESUME DEBATE IN HOUSE ON

REVENUE BILL Measure to Be Brought Up Monday for Discussion of Amendments. . , (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept 14. General debate on the war revenue bill which was delayed a day for passage of the administration measure designed to facilitate the sale of liberty onds, was resumed today in the house. A number of members planned to speak in support of the measure with criticism of certain sections. Present plans of leaders were to bring the general discussion to a close with adjournment today and to take the measure up Monday for discussion of amendments under the five minute debate rule. They confidently expected a final vote before the end of next week. ," The senate finance committee continued its hearings while snators still urged a three day recess plan for the senate until the committee is ready to report the measure. Chairman Simmons has said that the hearings would not extend beyond the time of passage of the bill by the house. REGISTRATION NOT SO GlGH AS WAS FIRST ESTIMATED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Returns from more populous sections of the country received by the provost marshal general's office today indicated that the man power registration Thursday had not run so far above the 13,000,000 estimate as appeared probable yesterday. New York on the base of partial and in complete returns will show only about 96 per cent of the advance estimate and Chicago and Detroit also are reporting fewer men of the 18 to 21 men and 32 to 45 fVear classes thairtfcjr ; were 'estimatecr iu uiive. - .... - DEBS GETS 30-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE (Tty Associated Press! CLEVELAND, Sept. 14. Eugene V. Debs, sharged with violation of the espionage act, was sentenced to ten years in the Moundsville, W. Va., penitentiary on each of three counts of the indictment by Federal Judge D. C. Westenhafer here today. The ' sentences to run concurrently. . Motion for a new trial was overruled and an exception on behalf of the defendant was allowed. A motion for arrest of sentence was also overruled. The court admitted Debs to $10,000 bail with permission to leave northern federal district of Ohio only to go to, and remain at his home. ENLISTMENTS ARE OPENED FOR NAVY (Bv Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 Volunteer enlistments or induction into the navy of men with special qualifications will be reopened under an agreement reached today between Secretary Daniels and Provost Marshal General Crowder, regarding the proceedure by which the navy will secure its personnel under the new draft law. CROWN INS HI ELD DIES. NAPLES. Friday, Sept. 13. Frederic Crownenshield of Boston, formerly director OI me American Acauemj in Rome, died today of pneumonia . at , i Capri. killed or stampeded. The airmen dived down until they were less than one hundred feet from the ground. Then they opened fire, aiming at the guns and the demoralized gunners, but seeking chleiiy to mgnten tne norses as much as possible. The horses re-, quired little encouragement In this direction, for their drivers deserted them in search of cover and soon the animals were galloping off in all directions. For nearly a mile the airmen followed them across the fields.. Then the airplanes were turned once more toward the battery. Here it was found surprisingly easy to drive off the re maining men of the battery and very soon the reason became obvious for only a short distance away, across the ridge, the British and American vanguards were advancing. The last cartridge in the . airplanes ' was gone and the two scouts landed in the field nearby, then walked up to the guns and in a few minutes calmly handed them over to the British commander.

Stern Is Fined $25 l in Circuit Court

Charles A. Stern, a member of the Richmond Herb Remedy Co., and not Frank A. Schuck and Jeannette Stern cf the Richmond Herb Remedy Co., as was published a few days ago, was fined $25 and costs in the circuit court on a charge of practicing medi cine without a license, on Friday, Sep tember 6. U. S. SHIP SINKS TWO ENEMY SUBS HAVANA, Sept. 14. Two enmy submarines were sunk by an American bark when she encountered them 200 miles out from her port of departure, according to a story published in the newspaper ElMundo, today. No de tails of the encounter are given. The bark with 129 passengers on board bound from an Atlantic port of the United States for Central America, took refuge in a Cuban port this week from a storm that was sweeping across her path. The Captain, according to EI Mundo, made a report In writing of the encounter with the submarines, which was signed by the pessengers. BOLSHEVIK ARMY TAKES SIMBIRSK (By Associated Press.) STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14 Bolshevik! forces, according to urgent telegrams received here today from Moscow, are reported to have captured Simbirsk on the river Volga, 105 miles southwest of Kazan and their cavalry is now pushing the counter revolutionary forces. . .ajfcjjfci LONDON, Friday, Sept. 13 The government is stil without news from Robert H. B. Lockhart, British consul general in Moscow, and the other British subjects held prisoner in Russia, but indirect negotiations for their release are continuing. The latest r information in official quarters confirms the reports of the desperate situation -in Russia, indicating the break-up of the Bolshevik regime. Premier Lenine and War Minister Trotzky. it is declared, made all preparations a month ago to escape to Switzerland. There is still no direct news of the fate of the former empress and her family. The Swedish Folkets Dagbladet, however, says that Foreign Minister Tchitcherin has denied the reported murders. U. 5. Women Urged to Take Place of Men Who Enter Country's Service (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Another urgent appeal to the women of the United States to take up the work f the men who are being called into the service of the country was issued today by the woman's committee, council of national defense. "England has at least a million women in her banks, factories, munition plants, railways and shipyards, who have never worked for wages before," said the statement. "What English women can do, American women can do. Victory 'over there' means work over here. Women who have never earned a dollar and will never need to, should heed the call of our country for workers at this time." LOAN MEETING AT ABINGTON SUNDAY The first Liberty Loan meeting fo be held in Wayne county this campaign will take place tomorrow afternoon at Abington at which the Rev. J. B. O'Connor, of Centerville and Will J. Robbins and Byram C. Robbins. of Richmond, will speak. Monday night there will be meetings at Boston and Greensfork. The Hon. W. D. Foulke and the Rev. W. J. Cronin, of Richmond, will speak af Greensfork, and Will W. Reller and Lawrence A. Handley at Boston. Tuesday night's meetings will be at Jacksonburg, Centerville and Whitewater. The Rev. Frank Wicks, Mrs. Charles Druitt and E. M. Campfield are scheduled to address the Centerville meeting, which promises to ',i one of the largest that will be held in the county. At the Whitewater meeting. Henry U. Johnson. Charles W. j joruan ana me itev. t ranK uressei will be the speakers. At Jacksonburg the Rev. R. B. Steward and Charles B. Beck will make addresses. Special music will be provided at all of these patriotic meetings which will continue throughout next wek.

SEPTEMBER 25, 26 and 27 The soldier overseas can fight better if he knows the people back home are doing all they can.

FIRST GREAT U. S. ATTACK WILL PRODUCE BIG RESULTS

Gives Allies Base for Future Opera t i o n s Americans Praised for Quck Action in Eliminating Sector. HOT STUFF SAYS MARCH WASHINGTON, Sept 14. Elimination of the St Mihiel salient by the first big American offensive and the consequent reduction wof that sector by 22 miles. General March 6aid today, is of extreme importance in that it give3 the allies a much better base "for future offensive operations. ' General March paid high tribute to the American forces which in less than two days wiped out this salient the narrowest and most angular on the entire western front The opera tions there he said, not only were a tribute to the work of the staff but to the individual soldier. "It's hot stuff," he added warmly. Accomplished by Sharp Blows. General March pointed out in connection with the German claim that the St. Mihiel had been abandoned voluntarily that no mention was made by the Germans of the big loss of prisoners. Capture of the salient was accomplished by quick sharp blows on both flanks. General March explained. The American troops advanced across a difficult terrain consisting of densely wooded hills Intersected by numerous ravines. ' No report has yet come from General Pershing identifying any individual unit which-participated in the advance. General March, however, announced the composition of the staff which, under General Pershing, had planned and executed the movement Determined to Fight On. This staff is entirely different from the general staff of the American Expeditionary forces which remained in its entirety at the expeditionary headquarters. General March laid particular emphasis on the determination of the United States to continue to exert its whole strength against the Geimans He referred to recent publications, which, he 6aid, Intimated that America was not going through with the war despote enlarged military program. This suggestion he declared, was "preposterous in Its falsity." It seems incredible the chief of staff said, that such propaganda could gain attention at a time when the war department had just secured increased age limits for the draft and was about to ask an additional seven billion dollars for the use of the military establishment during the present year. ' All reports from American forces at the front indicated high spirits and enthusiasm throughout the whole army. General March said the American soldier quickly became imbued with this spirit as soon as he landed if he did not possess it before. OPPOSED BY SEVEN DIVISIONS. WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. With the St. Mihiel salient wiped out by Gen. Pershing's army, interest of officials here was divided today between the next probable move by the American forces and the amount of booty that had fallen to them In the short time required for the accomplishment of the first task assigned them as an independent operating army. Latest reports from the front did not make it clear whether the Americans and the supporting French forces had halted on a new line running In the shape of a bow from Fresnes to the Moselle river at Pagny where the German border was in sight, or still were pursuing the enemy. From th knowledge of the nature of the terrain, most observers were inclined u the belief that any German defense position must have been closer to the border as it was there only that natural defense ground was located. The importance attached to this operation was emphasized not alone by the fact that General Pershing himself commanded the Americans, but that General Petain, the French commander in chief, also was on the ground. The speed with which the Ameri cans from the south and those advancing from the west made a Juncture some twelve miles northeast of St. Mihiel was surprising In view of the fact that np less than seven German divisions opposed them.