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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 __ . . ,
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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
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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
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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. He was a big fellow
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vlelrtA ta the ouniry uveruuherrlhe.
hut uue. the Gulf, turuud la mure
thaa three tUuee the amouat of Its
quota, while five ethera. the Bouta
eva. Atlaattc. Mountain. 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
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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
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