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VOLUME XX.
Prench ThrotO Back Germans Crossing the Oise
ANOTHER SCHOONER
SUNK By I U-BOAT
BN JWIC COAST
Captain and Six of Crew of
Edwin R. Baird. Jr., Picked
Up by Destroyer Off Cape
Charles
AN ATLANTIC PORT. June 6—The
captain and six members of the crew of
the schooner Edward K. Baird, Jr.,
which was sunk by a German subma
rine off Cape Charles Tuesday morning,
were landed here today by an American
destroyer which picked them up short
ly after the vessel was sent to the bot
tom of the Atlantic.
Captain R. R. Couldman, master of
the Batrd. said on arriving here:
“We were proceeding about 100 miles
off Hog Island in a smooth sea Tues
day morning when the man at
wheel sighted an object off our star
board quarter, which he took to be a
submarine chaser. 1 was at breakfast
in the cabin at the time, but came on
deck. The helmsman reported to me
that the object he had seen was acting
in a queer manner.
"As soon as 1 saw the object I knew
it was a submarine. Almost immedi
ately the submarine sent a shot crash
ing through our forsaii and signaled
for us to heave to. I brought the
schooner up in the wind and <he sub
marine, moving q»'«er to us, brought out
the German flag, and two officers and four
members of the crew, the officers only
being armed, boarded us.
Given 15 Minutes
“One of the officers, a man about 45
years old. speaking perfect English, de
manded the ship’s manifest and papers
and announced that we would be given
fifteen minutes in which to take to the
schooner's one boat. One of the offi
cers accompanied me to the cabin where
I turned over the ship's papers to him.
The boarding party had little to say.
The officer with me did not say how long
he had been in American waters or how
many submarines Germany now had on
this side of the Atlantic. He told me
to get all of the crew in the boat and
place therein what provisions we had.
“As soon as we cleared the schooner.
Captain Couidman continued, the Ger- 1
mans placed bombs at the ends of ropes
and swung them over the aides of the
vessel, to ph«ci»-time fuses were at
tached and their ends laid out on the
deck of the ship. The Germans then
left the ship and as we pulled away a
terrific explosion took place and I no
ticed two gaping holes in the side of my
ship. Being loaded with lumber, how
ever. the schooner did not sink and is
now probably drifting about.
"The submarine was about 175 feet
long and carried two guns, one fort
and one aft and disappeared almost im
mediately after igniting the fuses to the
bombs placed on the schooner.
"We saved all of our personal belong
ings, and two pet dogs we had aboard
ship. We had been drifting about for
aoout an hour when an American de
stroyer picked us up. After taking us
on board the destroyer sighted the sub
marine. but she submerged before we
had a chanee to fire on her.”
Capta.n Couidinan said he left Jack
sonville. Fla., for New York on May 27.
Navy Redoubles Its
Search for U-Boats
WASHING! MN, June S. —The na/y
redoubled its search efforts on the
trait of coastal U-boat raiders today.
Astonished by the fact that the sub
marines are still operating off shore,
but now apparently southward off the
Virginia capes, navy officials wers
nevertheless not dismayed.
They said the patrol is doing its best
and that while it is difficult to make
predictions, there is- still a chance of
smothering one or more of these raid
ers before they scurry off home or to
a hidden base.
Strong attempts to locate a base wer®
under way.
Sinking of the Norwegian steamer
Eidsvo! 1, Tuesday afternoon and rescue
of her crew yesterday afternoon was
the latest success of the U-boats reg
stered by the navy cables up to early
today.
This was the second trans-Atlantic
steamer involved, though in the first
case, that of a French steamer, an
American destroyer interrupted before
the U-boat could act.
Though still discussing the chance of
landing cr.e or more of the raiders, navy
officials pointed out that the task is
difficult. The very fact that many de
stroyers were sent abroad has admit
tedly weakened the American coast tl
patrol. There are sufficient boats to
maintain ordinary vigil, but to dog a
U-boat on a wide search curve is a
large problem. The navy is doing its
utmost with available material and of
ficers declare it is possible to accom
plish the purposes desired with the ma
terial at hand.
Belief that more than two U-boats
are operating began to prevail today
But there was another theory—that the
Jersey raiders were working their wav
south and were responsible for the sink
ing of the Norse steamer.
That incident was significant from the
fact that the invaders operated in a
heavily traveled ocean lane. They will
scarcely dare operate farther inshore
at this point, though the waters around
the cape.- are well charted by the Teu
ton as a result cf his Deutschland ven
ture. When the commerce submersible
came over here two years ago it lay
submerged for a time in Hampton Roads
and though allied vessels stood guard
outside it ran the blockade at night
The case now is rather different. Thj
roads are well patrolled and there are
no hampering restrictions on the patrol
such as existed when the Deutschland
came over. There is no danger as navy
men Bee it that the U-boats will at
tempt to sneak into Washington or Bal
timore. Such an effort, it is said, would
be sure suicide.
There was no verification early to
day of Cape May reports indicating the
sinking of a U-boat near there. Navy
officials said they would be cautious >f
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Full Associated Press Service
Atlantians Bid Godspeed
To Old Fifth When Flags
■ Are Presented at Wheeler
More Than Nine Hundred En
listed Men o.f One Hundred
and Twenty-Second Infantry
Are Expected to Leave Soon
for France
BY WARD GREENE
(Journal Staff Correspondent)
CAMP WHEELER, Macon, Ga., June
6.— When the boys ot the old Fifth
Georgia regiment, now the One Hundred
and Twenty-second United States infan
try, board the troop trains for an east
ern port in a day or two, they will
face the great game over there with the
memory green in their hearts of how
: the hometoiks from the old home town
gave them Godspeed on their crusade
> to Berlin.
It may be months from now that the
memory will come sweeping back to
them. In a dugout in the front-line
i trenches, pernaps, with "whizz-bangs”
: zipping overhead and the cooties and
the trench rats playing prisoner’s base
I all over the shop. Bill will turn to his
buddy and remark.
"Say, bo. do you remember the day
down to old Camp Weeler, when the
folks from Atlanta gave us the colors?"
"Do I?" savs Bill’s bunkie. "Do you
think I’ll ever forget the fried chicken
and the sweet potatoes and the ‘vaniller’
i ice cream?”
' • "And the green peppers stuffed with
. potato sa’.ad and the string beans—”
“And the asparagus and the jelly and
; the lemon pie? Oh, boy!”
And then the thoughts of both of
them will go homing back three thou
sand miles across the sea to a hot sum
mer's day in June, to the cantonment
spread among the green fields of Bibb
county, to the blazing parade ground
and to a picture of Judge John S.
Candler, mounted on a platform in the
center of the scene, telling them to take
the twin flags to Berlin and not to
bring them back stained or soiled, while
beside him a little girl all in white
looked down at them and smiled and
dipped her bouquet of field flowers,
tied with the ribbons of red and white
and blue.
Judge Candler's Address
"I am not here to sympathize with
you, but to congratulate you,” he said.
"You have the world’s most wonderful
opportunity. It is an opportunity un
dreamed of, an opportunity that has
come to no other citizens of the United
States in the last one hundred and fifty
years, an opportunity, I dare say, that
will never come to a citizen of the
United States again.
"First, young men, you are going to
war to represent the greatest nation
under the sun, to represent principles
you may be proud to live for and prouder
still to die for. You are going over
there as the fighting men of the great
est and best government in the world—
a government of free men. It is the
greatest regret of my life that I have
but one son to go with you. I am
sorry, too. that I cannot go along and
see that he does what I know he is go
ing to do—his fully duty.
"It is your opportunity to go out to
fight for this grand and great govern
ment against the most dastardly and
barbarous foe that has scourged the
earth since the days of Attila. The most
savage American Indian wa’s not a cir
cumstance to the German, his crimes
were child’s play beside the atrocities
committed by the Huns. When you
come home, boys, you will have the sat
isfaction in your heart of having crush
ed civilization's worst enemy.”
Colors Unfurled
Here Judge Candler turned, while out
from the grandstand came two men
with the colors. As they unfurled them,
the crowd cheered, for the flags were
beauties —the silken banner of the Star:/
and Stripes rippling forth in the sun
alongside the blue regimental flag with
its stars floating against a field of
clouds.
"I charge you to bring back these
flags unstained,” said Judge Candler.
"Plant them in the first rank and never
let them go back. Advance them until
they wave from the ramparts of the
Hohenzollern palace in the city of Ber
lin!”
With the last words, the band broke
into ’•Dixie,” the crowd yelled again and
the two colorbearers, with the two col
or guards, advanced and received the
flags from the hands of Judge Candler
and from little Jacqulin Moore.
Responding for the regiment, Colonel
Hall spoke briefly, concluding with the
declaration that "we will bring them
back unblemished and unconquered!”
The ceremony was followed by the
"escort to the colors” and by a regimen
tal review, wi’h Judge Candler. Mayor
Candler, General Harris and others in
the reviewing stand.
Those who could stayed over in Ma
con Wednesday night for a reception
for enlisted men and their friends at
Camp Wheeler and a dance for officers
and their friends in the city.
MSUALTI LIST OF M
INCLUDES TWO CEOBGIJNS
Green, of Homerville, Dies of
Disease; Reid, LaGrange,
of Accident
WASHINGTON. June 6. —The army
casualty list today contained thirty-four
names, divided as follows:
Killed in action, 7; died of wounds. 3;
died of accident, 3; died of disease, 4;
wounded severel, 12; wounded, degree un
determined. 1; wounded slightly, 3; miss
ing in action, 1.
Officers named were:
Lieutenant A. P. H. Sage, Memphis,
Tenn., died of wounds; Lieutenants Wil
lard D. Hill. Cleburne, Tex., and Bernard
C. Wolcott, Binghamton. N. Y.. wounded
severely.
The list includes the following from
southern states:
Died of disease: Private Walter
Green. R. F. D. 1, Homerville, Ga.
Died oF accident: Private Jewell
Reid. 114 Elm street, LaGrange. Ga.
UNDAUNTED AMERICAN
SPIRIT INSPIRED THE
FRENCH JT THIERRY
Initiative and Enterprise of
Pershing’s Men Thrill Allied
Commanders, Daily Mail
Correspondent Writes
LONDON. June 6.—The behavior of
the American troops at Chateau Thierry
has demonstrated more than anything
that has yet happened on the American
front the splendid initiative and enter
prise with which the American army
is endowed and nothing has aroused the
keener enthusiasm of commanders, says
the Daily Mail correspondent with the
American army in France. He quotes
an unnamed French general as saying
that the American spirit and enterprise
at a critical moment served to maintain
the morale of the French troops around
Chateau Thierry.
Among incidents of the engage
ment the correspondent mentioned is the
steadiness and persistence of the Amer
ican machine gunfire in the streets of
Chateau Thierry. Company after com
pany of the enemy, marching four
abreast, repeatedly tried to advance, but
recoiled, sorely shattered before the fire
of the American gunners. The streets
were strewn with German dead and
wounded and the American officers esti
mate they inflicted at least 1,000 cas
ualties.
When a bridge across the Marne was
blown up, the correspondent adds, the
Americans were left on the northern
bank with the enemy in front of them
and the river at their backs. Carrying
their guns, the Americans descended to
the lower banks of the river, and, un
der enemy machine gun and artillery
fire, succeeded in reaching the next
bridge.
The correspondent predicts that much
will be heard of the deeds of the Ameri
cans in the next few days, and adds:
•American troops, fresh from the Unit
ed States, continue to arrive with reg
ularity and in numbers more than suf
ficient to justify renewed confidence in
the ultimate triumph of the entente. The
Americans at this moment are distrib
uted over a very wide front indeed.
"In some sectors entire American di
visions form one unit, holding a certain
extent of line while elsewhere they are
brigaded with French and British regi
ments. In the Luneville and Toul sec
tors the Americans bold very difficult
ss.lients—in the Toul sector completely
dominated by the German artillery on
Montsec —by the enemy. The Germans
recently have been drenching these po
sition with gas. but the Americans stood
firm and won the ready appreciation of
all observers.”
French Officially Commend
Bravery of U. S. Soldiers
PARIS, June 6.—An official note de
scribing the share borne by American
troops in the fighting at Veuilly, Jau’-
gonne and Chateau Thierry says:
“Only a few units are involved at
present, particularly machine gunners,
but at the points where they have been
called upon to fight they have won the
admiration of the French troops with
whom they fought. Their help was
just what we expected from gallant
soldiers, full of enthusiasm and ardent
fighters. We may hope everything from
them.”
U. S. Officers and Privates
Suffer Hardships in Fight
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Wednesday, June s.—(By the
Associated Press.) —Many American of
ficers and privates showed great daring
and fortitude in withstanding the Ger
man attacks along the Marne at Cha
teau Thierry and Jaulgonne.
Captain John R. Mendenhall, of New
Rochelle, N. Y„ went without sleep for
three days and remained steadily at
the head of his company during that
time. Corporal Jules Mangold, of Mc-
Donald, Pa., was sent out to Investigate
German snipers under a heavy fire from
the American line. He found the snip
ers, pointed them out to his comrades
and the Germans fired no more. The
first American to receive the French
war cross for bravery in the present
battle was Lieutenant Walter R. Flan
nery, of Pittsburg, who swam across
the Marne and rescued a wounded
French soldier. Lieutenant John T.
Bissel, of Pittsburg, has been cited
for the French war cross for leading
his machine gun command to the nortu
side of the Marne in an attempt to
stop the German attack. Captain George
Wakerine, the French officer with the
America.! unit, stood by the Americans
in the thick of the fight encouraging
and cheering them The Americans he
said, showed most wonderful fighting
spirit and were jolly, even laughing and
joking v.hile a perfect hell raged around
them.
German Woman Tells
Os Hun War Losses
BERNE. Wednesday, June 5, —As
bearing upon the war losses of some
German families, a statement made to
day to the Associated Press correspond
ent by a German woman now in Berne
is Interesting
"Twenty-five of my relatives have
been killed; five are invalids, and only
two are left unharmed out of thirty
two engaged in the war,” said the wom
an. whose husband was killed on the
German front near Arras. "My uncle,"
she continued, "sent seven sons into
the war and six of them were killed
within two months.”
The losses of the Germans since the
March offensive began have been ter
rific. she added.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, f9tß..
A RAEMAEKERS CARTOON
Ixluis Raemaekers, the great Holland cartoonist, the wan who has done so much to portray the barbarities of Prussian autocracy that a
price was set upon b.s or alive, by the kaiser, has gone !o the western front in France, where be expects to do the greatest work
of his career. His new cartoons are appearing exclusively in The Atlanta Journal in this section. •
(Copyright, 1918, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.l •
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REGISTfMTNS MUST HAVE
USEFUL JOBS JULY 1
All Engaged in Nonproductive
Work Will Be Placed in
Army at Once
Amendments to the selective service
regulations received from Provost Mar
shal General Enoch H. Crowder Thurs
day by Major Joel B. Mallet, selective
service law officer for Georgia, announce
that able-bodied registrants engaged in
non-productive occupations will be given
until July 1 to get into essential em
ployments. After that date, regardless
of their classification, their order num
bers will be disregarded and they will be
held for immediate induction into mili
tary service.
All registrants who are idle will lose
their order numbers. The term idleness
will cover gambfers of all descriptions
and employes of race tracks and bucket
shops, fortune tellers, clairvoyants,
palmists and the like. Servants; eleva
tor operators, domestic servants, theatri
cal attendants and others are classified
in non-productive occupations which are
listed as follows:
(a) —Persons engaged in the serv
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and
social clubs;
(b) —Pasenger - elevator operators
and atendants; and door men, foot
men, carriage openers and other at
tendants in clubs, hotels, stores,
apartment houses, office buildings,
and bath houses;
(c) —(Persons, including ushers
and other attendants, engaged and
occupied in and in connection with
games, sports, and amusements, ex
cepting actual performers in legiti
mate concerts, operas, or theatrical
performances;
(d) employed in domes
tic service;
(el—Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer
cantile establishments.
More Work for Women
Thus it will be seen that all who em
ploy male servants between the ages
of 21 and 31 will be deprived of their
services; that women will take the
places of young men in stores and on
elevators: that people will become their
own chauffeurs; that theaters will have
either young boys, middle-aged men or
girls for their ushers; that the same
condition will apply to soda jerkers and
that, according to the interpretation of
several authorities, baseball will be
shorn of its young players.
The above listed non-productive em
ployments is to be extended from time
to time as necessity may require to in
clude various other occupations. There
is no justification, the regulations set
forth, in postponing the call into mili
tary service of a registrant engaged in
a non-productive occupation, notwith
standing he may have been placed in
class two, three or four on the ground
of dependency.
' There is a great demand for labor
In all productive occupations and em
ployments,” the regulations say, "and
especially in agriculture and other nec
essary industries. Therefore. regis
trants who have been given deferred
classification and who can engage in
some productive occupation or employ
ment without substantial financial loss
or hardship to themselves or others
A BETTER GAME THAN BASEBALL.
VENETIAN PLAINS
MAY BE SCENE.OF
BIG OPEN BATTLE
J Italians Ready for Any Move;
by Austrians —Greeks Pre
paring to Strike at Bulga
rians, Perhaps at Sofia <
WASHINGTON, June 6. —Prospects of
a great open battle between Austrians
' and Italians on the Venetian plains were
! seen by Italian military men here today.
1 Aviators have reported large Austrian
1 | cavalry forces along the lower Piave. i
1 apparently in readiness for such action. '
1 | And, it is reported, German Uhlans have
: been forwarded to aid them. In adai- 1
' tion. Turk mounted forces may have a I
hand in the prospective struggle.
The Italian embassy’s advices said
! that the Teuton preparations for the of’-
1 fensive are complete. While these evi- j
1 dences may constitute a bluff, the Ital- !
ian troops are ready for any contangen- i
cy. Officers here say that the Italians j
will have every' chance of success if j
• the offensive develops.
Meantime, Greek activity is proceed- ;
' ing.
The Greeks’ objective, according to
Minister Russos today, is Sofia, Bul
garian capital.
Striking at the Bulgarians far from
the Salonika front the Greeks hope eith
er to weaken the Bulgar forces at Sa
lonika and in the Dobropolya-Monastlr
region or make a determined advance
toward the Sofia-Constantinople railway. ;
thereby menacing Germany’s right of j
way to Turkey.
Authoritative information indicates I
that Seres has been evacuated by the
Bulgars after the disastrous defeat suf- i
sered at the hands of the Greeks a few
days ago. A determined stand is ex
pected in the Struma valley, the path-
! way to the Bulgarian capital.
I Sofia is 110 miles from Seres. In 1913, j
I during the second Balkan wars, Greek
'troops covered the distance in about i
i twenty-eight days.
I ; ■ ..
I should be willing to seek some produc
tive occupation or employment or enter
the military service rather than remain >
in an occupation or employment into
which they are rendering no effective
assistance to the nation.”.
The regulations will apply strictly to
men coming under the classification
> i named unless it is shown that change in
employment would work very great I
hardship to dependents. Every man will j
i i be given full opportunity to present j
evidence as to why he . should retain
his deferred classification and appeals I
even may be taken to the president
■ unless the district boardl is unanimous- :
ly in favor of the withdrawal. The local I
ooard investigations will be thorough, ,
put every man will have full opportunity !
{ to justify his being in a non-productive
, occupation.
At oecomes the duty hereafter, say
I the regulations, not only of all persons
connected with the administration of
the selective service law and regula- 1
tlons. but of all citizens, to report to
1 tne nearest local board all facts which
may come to their knowledge concern
ing registrants who are idle or who are
engaged in non-productive employment.
1 As rapidly after July 1 as the local
i beards can list the registrants in non
productive occupations, the m.en will be
i called for physical examination nad re-
> classification.
Ill,m MORE MEN IN
JUNE WILL SE GALLED
Classes 3 and 4 to Be Combed
for Married Men With
Good Incomes
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Four hun
dred thousand Americans will enter
training camps this month to prepare
for the battle against the Boche. With
a call for 200,000 men today, covering
I the closing days of the month, the
total was brought up to 300,000, and
1 additional calls expected this month
will reach the 400,000 figure, it is estl-
| mated now.
j This unexpectedly large call is a di
rect result of the speeding up process
in sending troops overseas. Training
1 in this country is being ctu to a mini
' mum, so that Americans hereafter will
get scarcely longer periods of prelim-
! inary drilling than the British have.
This is necessitated by the urgent de
' mand for more man-power in the face
of Germany’s thrusts along the west
ern line.
And while this big call is occurring,
the war department is developing plans
for the first "combing out” within
classes three, and four. The proposal
is to weed out men there for class one
men whose claims to dependency ex-
I emption are net sound.
For instance, if a family has an in
come sufficient for support, the husband
I may be listed in class one, whereas
I previously, boards frequently allowed
dependency exemptions largely because
of the married relation without full in
vestigation as to the family's economic
status.
Incidentally, it became known today
: that President Wilson is carefully
I studying the compulsory labor laws of
, Maryland and New York. It is be
! lieved this is a forerunner of exten
sion of the "work or fight” order.
j While these things proceed. Ameri
can military men are now viewing with
more equanimity the situation on the
western front. The German, they feel,
is held tor the time. With the allies
making successful counter attacks .and
standing firmly, it is felt the Marne
smash has gone the way of all other
i offensives—a gain for a time and then
I a halt before solid resistance. How-
I ever, this is considered only one phase
I of the tremendous struggle in the west
' and a renewed smash in the Marne re
gion or farther north is anticipated.
Washington Ignores
Teuton Peace Feelers
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Some signs
of a renewal of Germany’s peace offen
; sive have reached the government re
| cently, it became known today. These
peace feelers fell on deaf ears. Wash
ington never was less interested in peace
talk than now.
Secretary of State Lansing's address
in New Y’orK yesterday pointing out
that the nation should give the Boche
war until he was heartily sick thereof,
is the keynote here now unmistakably.
•NUMBER 73.
LOCAL ATTACKS Hr.
HUNS REPULSED ON
WHOLE MULE LINE
Heavy Artillery Firing Reported
in Region of Neuilly, Where
American Troops Are Sta
tioned, According to French
i
NEW YORK, June 6.—(Summary of
European Cables to the Associated >
Press.)—Held up in their efforts to bat
ter their way through the American and
French lines near the Marne, the Ger- <
mans have again turned their attention
to the front further north, in a sector
which may be considered as the connect
ing link between the Somme and Marne
battlefields.
The French official report, in dealing,
with operations along the front, says:
that the French forces east of Sem
pigny have continued to drive back
bodies of German troops which had
crossed the Oise.
When the initial plunge along the
Aisne had gained expensive ground, but
the process had created a salient dan
gerous to the Germans to the west of
Soissons, they attacked along the Ailette
river, northwest of that city, to straight
en out their line and thus guard against
a flanking operation by the allied armies.
They gained considerable territory in
this maneuver, but were held after they
had progressed approximately five miles.
Since that time the French have held
their positions, with the Oise river
forming a first line of defense, and there
has been little fighting of a significant
nature in that sector.
Military experts have expected an at
tack on the allied line running east of ' 'I
Montdiddier, past Noyon and thence
along the Oise to the new lines forced
since the German offensive on the Aisne
began. It may be that the fighting re
ported in the French official statement
marks the initial stages of an attack
there.
Further south along the line running
from the western suburbs of Soissons to
Chateau Thierry the line is standing
firm before the German thrust. The
French have succeeded in improving,
their positions north and west of Haute
braye, a little village on the right bank,
of the Hoxien river, north of the Aisne.
On the rest of the front, especially at
Longpont, Veuilly-la-Poterie and west of
Rlielms, the artillery fire has been vio
lent.
Along the front held by the British
there have been raiding operations but
no fighting of a serious character.
The Berlin official statements on the
fighting grow shorter. Wednesday re
ported only a slight advance along the
Aisne Tuesday and local fighting near
the Ourcq. The situation is unchanged,
according to the Wednesday evening an
nouncement from German headquarters.
American troops around Veuilly,
northwest of Chateau Thierry, repulsed
Tuesday night and Wednesday strong
German efforts to advance. The Ameri
can machine gun fire broke up the
German attack in confusion. West of
Montdidier and east of Luneville,
American patrols have been active. An
American party’ of thirty men pene
trated the third German line east of
Luneville and outfought a party of 200
Germans. Heavy losses were suffered
by the Germans while the American,
casualties were slight.
Although artillery activity has in
creased along the entire Italian front
from Stelvio to the Adriatic there is no
indication that the Austrians are yer
ready to launch their offensive, for
which it is known they have made
preparations.
There has been an Increase in infan
try fighting on the Macedonian front.
Allied troops have withstood success
fully Bulgarian attacks against the
new Greek positions at Ska di Legen,
near Gradisnitza and between
Ochrida and I’resba. *
French Report Repulse
Os Germans at Sampigny
PARIS, June 6.—German forces last
night crossed the River Oise in the vi
cinity of Sampigny, but were driven
back by the French, the war office an
nounced today.
North of the Aisne the French Im
proved their positions in the neighbor
hood of Hautebraye.
There was heavy artillery fighting
in the neighborhood of Vduilly la Po
terie <where American troops have been
in action.)
The statement follows:
"East of Campiguy French troops late
yesterday drove back enemy roups which
had succeeded in crossing the Oise. The
French took 100 prisoners.
•’North of the Aisne the French im
proved appreciably their positions north
and west of Hautebraye. Fifty prison
ers remained in our hands.
"The artillery fighting was heavy, es
pecially in the regions of Longpont and
Neuilly-la-Poterie and west of Rheims."
French Believe Germans
Preparing Another Blow
PARIS, June 6.—The battle situation,
is frankly satisfactory, says a Havas
agency review today, and the enemy
temporarily, at least, is not likely to
make attacks ail along the front be
tween Rheims and the Oise. Local at
tempts seem to indicate that the Ger
m::«;c have renounced for the moment
their pur-pd-e to win a decision on the
battlefield picked out by their com
manders on May 27.
Nevertheless, the newspapers do not
believe that the German offensive is
ended. The Petit I’arisien thinks that
General Ludendor is preparing a blow
which he expects will have prodigious
results.
Germans Again Repulsed
By British Near Amiens
LONDON. June 6. —The Germans last
night repeated their attempts to raid
the British positions in the Morlancourt
region east of Amiens, but weer repuls
ed, the war office announced today.
The statement says:
"Last night the enemy again attenrpt-
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