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ft**' MEHUI6 TUE m HUS WwnWTWFMIlHUS nvi itui FIGHT Severe French Inflict tng r Troops and Americans Take 270 Prisoners and Ten Machine Guns —German Soldiers Did Not Know That Americans Were Fighting ' • .* I' • Before Them. ^ Although the latest German offl- cclal communication announces that the situation on the battle front is unchanged here has been a change on one of the most important sec tors in Picardy. American marines vwere responsible for it. -« Attaching on a front of about 2 1-2 miles in a fight that began Thursday the marines in 4-hour - drove back the enemy over a distance of virtually 2 1-4 miles and occupied all the important ' high ground northwest of Clia- , teau-Thlerry, which village la a fight the Amerlraa nut- had turned lato a by the accuracy of their of war Baker transmuted to tho house a re quest. for 121.140,000 to build avia tion stations for coaat defense. The stations, aach equipped with bomb ing and scouting planes, wlir cover tho two coasts, the Panama Canal tone and Hawaii, acting aa an aerial patrol afatnst any future surprises. A separate request was made for 1492,000 to fortify the Panama Can al. N The seaplanes will be capable of meeting any aircraft that may be sent from any enemy submarine, and rt the same time will be able to ef fectively guard tho stretch of jvater between the shore line and the ra dius > of the destroyer fleet. * Work on the construction of han gars and quarters for the men will Ye commenced immediately after the appropriation is made available and U'f stations will be ready for serv ice very soon thereafter. Work is to be rushed with ail possible speed plans for the construction having been already completed by the de partment. / .The plan of coast defense adopted by Secretary Baker in his recom mendation for $28,000,000 is as fol lows Sixteen permanent coast defense stations. $1$,000,00; twenty perma nent balloon coastal stations, $2.- 500,000; four permanent stations in Panama Canal tone. $5,420,000; After • breathing epell la Thar#- gbraa* !»■««* atalloas la Hawaii 4ar‘e battle, the Am. -• ai.« late la __ . . , the afteraooa relaraed to the fear „ J ' h,n renueeled for end at toe, aeroeau bard fUbCg. 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All hat oa# waa kill ed aad ha waa caetered The Americans advance In a solid pklanx, their strong detarmined faces and great physiques an Inspir ation to their gallant French com rades. who now regard them with brotherly affection. On Tuesday the Americans faced a Saxon division; on Wednesday a Guard division Thursday a crack Prussian division and also a battal ion of famous Jaegar sharp shooters. The Americans caught one shooting party of eight sharp shooters and killed them all. The International' News .Service says: French and American marines at daybreak Thursday morning at tacked the Germans'•northwest of Chateau-Thierry. The Americans, attacking in the center, drove back the enemy more than three kllome- 9 tres (nearly two miles) on a front of four kilometres (two and a half miles.) The marines captured German ma chine guns, turned them upon their late owners and advanced within a quarter of a mile of German battery positions where the field guns were firing upon them from the open. The Americans dashed on with wonderful elan and Inflicted partlculnrly san- DUCK* TE ACTION TO STOP IIINS > GERMAN ADVANCE GROWS >• RoluhevIflU Are Reported to Be CPU- S' y yf * ■Idering the Repudiation 1 of Uie Brent-Lltovsk Treaty With Ger- , t D many and Trowing Their Deatlny With the Alllea—Would Have to Secure Much Help. New plans for Intervention In Si beria have been submitted to Pres ident Wilson in accord with the out line of the new state of affairs cre ated in Russia, and told of by the Idternatlonal News Service in the dispatch below, It can be definitely stated. With the presentation of a full- fledged plan for the movement the president may be said to have the matter for the first time completely in hand. He has isolated himself on this question as he did before, an nouncing great crlaee of the world war. No one. even men very close to Mr. Wilson, will predict wkat kls answer this time will be. All of them predict that It will be ^nade 1 9AM Bad of ^ • American troop# la training At home are being especially schooled now in preparation for the forward morement of tho allied armlet ex pected to follow the ultimata crush ing of Germany'! offensive power. It was learned that orders have bean Issued to division oommanders to lay greater stress upon training for open warfare, and reduce tha time devot ed to teaching trench specialties. ^ r The men are being hardened to long marchs, given target practice without end and thoroughly trained to take care df themselves In opeuv combat. Military observers say this change in the midst of the greatest effort of the German general staff of the en tire war speaks significantly of the ' Spirit of confidence that pervades the councils and armies of America and the allies. When many of the men now nl training here reach France, long. marches and swift maneuver ing against a retreating toe may well be the order of the day. Influential officers returning from the front have been Insisting recent ly upon greater attention to general element of warfare and Test to the . fine details of position fighting In fixed trench Knee. These officers •ay the American soldiers take nat urally to trailing of this sort end that he shoeld he developed as high ly as poMlhle In all lag. leovtug tho details warfare edoratleu to ho added by A brief p*»«i gredooto ">ur*e when he reedy sympathy hero for M to led the old a the frwAt I tat I ha «*l*ae fern m ad a •we Thu psushlsas le od wMB dku^HHH ehsthet AMMBB M end mom M dsmMd man ho sued omosp i M m Adapdsad thus mm •mmefeem omhoms %•«*•• <w« «e* pm* fHHMNhpw $0 • seam • p* • m Shoo *»umee e w w M*m< Aeaaoom • va* •owomet gewm mmmemp mm eAimi mod mms MoMBB pmm mm im* « *e« em mi a <i—moo ewO* — ' 7K m mSflMUMUM ted with bottle. Our lory end chlae after the I by grtft- druve the em- Tho eseerh mao esuood e* mensem■ eitud e *osmart peotfsidseu susu the r rooem AeooemoU ISuoa. oud the seam muas mmmm gho pea a* • u'vtmrh us «hu a«h* _ %• JR e •orprtau ufututlua. urttBory wtth Ow* tug to tho eomporuiteo ssuwttp mi ortlllory. and also owtmg to the fun (hot uoithor side hue Its Hues, there wove rouerete truurhoe tu haech oat with high osploalvoo Both eldoo moro|y dug la and arat- tered aloeg tho battle sent whore are little hollowo and shell hole# serving aa mlnatero trenches. Tho Americans concentrated In a ravlao and got ready for the attack. The Germans sent over a considerable number of gas shells, but the bom bardment was fruitless, since the Americans wore masks. Just after dawn the attack broke and the Americans sprang forward, encountering no barbed wire or de fensive positions except machine gunners. The terrain of the battle comprised waving wheat, fields, of corn and small woods. Our marines encountered in 'the woods a whole company of Germans wearing French uniform. Our com manders had perviously warned them to look out fofr Germans dis guised as American and French sol- diers. The marines knowing that there were no French troops in that vicinity, poured volleys of machine gun and rifle fire into the masquer aders killing or capturing every one of them. The International News Service corespondent saw two of theae dis guised Germans lying mortally wounded after the battle. One had 22 wounds. 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Northwee- tern and Southwestern, more than doubled their allotments. The In sular and foreign division quadru pled Ita quota. Every State attain ed Its goal, five more than tripled It and IS others and the District of Columbia more than doubled theirs. "The supreme feature of this achievement." said Mr. Davison's statement, "is to be found not In the amount of money subscribed, but tn that it came from every part of the United States, from Hs 'cities, its owns, its farms, is facorles, from he rich and the poor, regardless ot sect, color or political creed. ~ No American wants thanks because his country has so richly fulfilled her obligation, but I do congratulate ev ery American who has contribiit either time, or money towards thli ^greateM wark of mercy, pity an love in the history of mankind." > . 7 The quotas and subscriptions by divisions announced include the fol lowing; The State* tripling their quotas were; Alabama, Mhudsaippt. South Carolina, Wyoming and Arizona, and those more than doubling their alfotment were; Louisiana. Tennea ves. Texas. New Jersey. Connecticut. MMhigaA. MrtbaaahAr CrtlrtsuAu. Mexico New Hampshire. North De* tots Washington Idaho Delaware. Weet Virginia and Kaaene Alaska lamed la ware than Mr Mae Me •IS 444 tneSA by remittee wtih roafrelemiieas aad frteNA In riming (he argemani for tho Mbaaa Thomas Wlfhamem a statement attributed to Ambassador Gerard In whlcli the tat ter told of replying to the kaleer's threat that there were $#•.••• re servists in this coentry wlh this as sert loa: "Yes. and there are $01.- 00# lamp posts to hang them on." Hs declared that present* war situ ation had developed a new "enwvit- ten law" which had been Invoked by the men who hanged Prager because of his alleged disloyalty. POLES TO FHiHT Fifteen Thousand From This Hemf- sphere to Battle in France Word from France is that the Po lish legion of 15,000 men, recruited in the United States, together with some 2,000 Poles drawn from South America, will take Its place with al lied army next Tuesday. Though they serve with the French army a* a separate unit, the Poles will car ry their own flag and some of the companies from the pnited States will display the stars and stripes as well. These men were recruited largely in New York. Pennsylvania. Illlonis, Ohio, Wisconsin and New England. They are all - outalde of the draft ages or Ineligible aa "enemy aliens" for service !■ the American army. a day oaei. with samll alloqrsnres tor depend- •nta Recruiting, which to directed by g committee m this reentry hand le Being herself It to an 1 of Reseto or what want tt Is new a q< racy wtll he permitted tn A new enstem empire." Wnahlngton to yet without confir mation of any developments either In Toklo or Peking indicating Im mediate action In Blberln as hinted In n taudon dispatch. But the Siber ian situation la recelvug more at tention In the allied chancellories than any other problem except the Immediate one of holding the Ger mans on the western front. There has been a distinct change in Washington sentiment with re gard to Japan. Though the good faith of Japan iquofferlng to inter vene has always been officially and heartily accepted, there have been many Influential persons here who have not been able to clear their minds of suspicion of the Japanese motives. One of these persons said that the restrained way in which Japan had conducted herself for the last two months had now thoroughly con- vlnced him of the huiiesty of ittw Tokio disclaimers of any national ambitions In Russian territory. It has now come to be accepted that to counterbalance the German gain in man power on the west front through the release of Russian-held prisoners the Japanese and Chinese forces must be utilised. The test of the utllltv of Japaneso-Chlnese forces for Siberia Intervention la consider ed to tto In tho proffers made by the army of General Bemenoff. act ing from g Chinese base aad wtth Japanese set/iee Laat reports re ceived hr the state department ta- dtonted that this farce has hasp pro- vary waR pad Ms M ban O a** 17*1 tetne was toe far away ta eee h * The captain said the was to big that when bin sighted her six miles nwny ha ed her as an American destroyer picked up recruits aa It through Siberia. Hie ease with which Mm troops hare been swob led U through Russia to attributed to tha fact that they bring law and order In their train In the place of the present anarchy. They are reported to have confined looters and crim inals to Jail and to have set up dis cipline among the people wherever they have penetrated. Consequent ly they liave been welcomed by the vast majority of the Russian people with whom they have come in con tact, for Russians desire nothing so much now as tranquility. By their violation nf the ttrant- ILtovsk treaty, however, the Ger mans have admittedly stirred up the people with whoip they have not come In contact. It Is accordingly predicted by those who are urging intervention that the Intervening forces will be welcomed, juet as the German# were. It is further stated that the silled forces advancing through Siberia following g Joint disclaimer af aay latent sgminst Rueaia ac ted by visible of fiiepdly help fer the pla in Your Renewal to the. People NOW fZ