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VOLUME XX.
FRENCH GAIN FURTHER PROTECTS COMPIEGNE
ENEMY COMMENTS
DN EFFECT OF 0. S.
OVERSEAS FORCES
Bakers Figures Published, but
General Ardenne Camou
flages Accuracy Quality,
Not Quantity Counts, He Says
AMSTERDAM. July 11.—(By the Az- ,
•octated Press.!—Newspapers in Ger
many have published the figures re
cently given out by Secretary of War ,
Baker as to the number o* Americans
•ent overseas, but heretofore they have
practically refrained from making com
ment on the subject apart from some
sarcastic cap tic n like "American bluff."
The only expert military voice heard
so far is that of Lieutenant jGeneral von
Ardenne, who. In a long article, on Tues
day in the Dusseldorf Nachrichten, com- '
forts his German readers with stale •
arguments to the effect that he does not j
believe the figures and that numbers do
not count anyway. He says;
"President Wilson recently announced
that X.OUO.Mi men were ’under arms.
Secretary of War Baker says only TOO.- j
000 now are on the continent, while a
French army commander figures that
only one-ninth of that number are at
the front.
“In fact only two or three divisions
so far have made their presence fell.
The rest has been occupied in building
railroads, factories and ammunition de
pots. It is, however, no matter of
quantity, but quality."
Continuing. General Von Ardenne
says:
“The formation of an American annv
operates under far less favorable con
ditions regarding the equipment ans
armament, proof of this being seen m
the drilling of recruits without rifles
and guns. The wholesale manufacture
of flying machines has produced very
small results.
"American troops have been mixed
with’French and English units, as was
shown by the repeated attacks near
Chateau Thierry. A million soldiers
need, according to Secretary Baker, four
million tons. That these are unavail
able is shown by the course of the
U-boat war and it is also proved that
flley ‘ cannot be provided by the build
ing Os new ships. America cannot send
a reallv imposing force inside of two
or three years. Whether they would
be morally valuable is doubtful.”
General Von Ardenne concludes his
article with some alleged statements by
American prisoners about the “artifi
ciality of American war enthusiasm.”
The Hamburger Nachrichten refers to
the large percentage of colored troops
in the .American army which, the news
paper says, gives a poor impression of
the rest of the force, because “race
<.onscious white Americans generally
refuse contact with negroes."
raN-GERNIWS’PLEIISEn
81 KUEHLMJNN’S fill
Stir Caused in Reichstag by
Socialists' Objection to
azjuiH uoa
LONDON. July 11—The fail of For
eign Secretary von Kuehlmann was ar
ranged by German army headquarters
rend is regarded in Germany as the in
troduction of an open par.-German
regime under the control of the m-«i- ■
tary leaders. special dispatches from
Holland say. It is described as the big
gest of a series of pan-Gennan victories
and the par.-German newspapers do not
d.sgulse their delight over it.
Reports of the appointment cf Ad
miral von Hintze as foreign secretary
are accepted as final by the pan-Germar.
papers, which contend that this in
volves no change of policy. This con
tention. however, as well as the as- j
surance that Von Hintze is not a pan--
Germar.. Is false, according to the cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph. Von
Hintze Is described by him as a swash
buckler and an intimate and creature of
Admiral von T:rp.t~ the pan-German
leader.
Much excitement was caused In the
corridors of the retchstag Tuesday by
a turner that Von Hintze had been ap
pointed foreign secretary. After the So- ,
clal.’sts hid Inform-*d the president they
were not prepared to vote the war
credit until they know what foreign
policy Von Hintze was go!:*; to pur- '
sue. it was agreed. as & way out of a
threatening situation which possibly
would result from the majority So
cialists joining the minority group, in
rejecting the war credit, that the full
sitting should be adjourned so that the
house could go into comrryttee for a
onndentia! discussion.
The result of this gathering was that
the semi-official announcement of Von
Hintze’s appointment took a tentative
form, saying merely that he had beer,
“named” as Von Kuhlmann's successor.
Von Hintze Choice of
iiennan General Staff
PARIS. July 11.— (Havas Agency.!—:
D'xrfsion to accept the resignation of
Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann was
taken Monday at a conference at Ger
man genera! headquarters which was
attended by the emperor. Chancellor von
Hertling and Admiral von Hintze, says
a Zurich despatch to the Matin.
The reported appointment of Von
Hintze as foreign secretary is consid
ered by French papers to be the work ,
of the German general staff, a chat-’
lenge to the majority In the reii hstag
and a deliberate insult to southern Ger- ,
many. L‘Homme Libre says the mili
tary party is stronger in Germany than
the diplomats and in overthrowing Von
Kuehlmann the militarists show plainly '
that they want war to the end. "and .
we must not forget that.”
!420,000 GERMANS
OPPOSE REVOLT OF
; UKRAINE NATIVES
’ Peasants Have Small Armies i
! Armed With Artillery and,
Machine Guns and Are De-:
fend i ngV il lages and T renches
STOCKHOLM. July 11.—Ukraine is In
a state of country-wide revolution, ac
cording to dispatches received here to
day. The Germans are pouring in rein- ;
fordements which now have reached a
total of thirty-five divisions (420.000
men).
The peasants have several -small ar- |
mies of 15.000 to 20,000 each, armed I
with artillery and machine guns. These
are defending the villages and whole
. sections of trenches.
The fight Is not of a political charac
i ter, but is due chiefly to the surrender
of land by the Germans back to the
landlords. Homestead sections fifty ■
versts (83 miles) square, have been
wiped out completely.
This revolution in Ukraine, together \
with the increasing power of the Cxscho- '
Slovaks in the east, necessitating divi
’ sion of considerable German forces, may
• account in some measure for delay in
resumption of the west front offensive.
73,000 Finnish Workmen
Arrested, Deputy Says
AMSTERDAM. July xl—oince uie
Germans entered Finland. 73,000 work- ,
men there have been arrested and many 1
lof them have been executed, dr Jared
Hugo Haase, leader of the minority so
cialists, in a recent speech in the reichs
tag, according to a verbatim report pub- ;
lished by the Hetvolk. The deputy;
also criticized German rule in Livonia
and Esthonla.
I, After pointing out that those who pro- ;
voked civil war in Finland were re- j
' sponsible for the calling in of the Ger- ‘
mans. Deputy Haase said:
"The list of those sentenced to death
in Finland contains the names of a for- ;
mer premier and about fifty Socialist
1 members of parliament, some of whom
already have been shot. Owing to the
numerous daily executions the town of
Sveaborg has been renamed 'Golgotha.' ”
The speaker then referred to the sup
pression of vernacular newspapers in
the provinces of Livona and Esthonia
and added:
"Fifty persons recently were arrest-1
ed at florpat and German military dic
tatorship rules everywhere. A boy,
aged ten. was sentenced to a long im
prisonment for concealing arms, while (
a fifteen-year-old was sentenced to
death for pioking up a manifesto. For
a similar offense a woman named Julia
Datt was executed.”
Deputy Haase then read a letter from
a Bolshevik, now under arrest, which
said:
"Julia Datt is dead, but her last
words will live forever, as will the last |
maledictions she flung at the German ,
hangman and oppressors.”
White Guards Occupy
Town, Cut Communication
VOLOGDA. Russia, July 7.—(Sun-,
day.) —(By the Associated Press.) — '
White guards have occupied Yaroslav, a
torn 173 miles northeast of Moscow. ■
and have cut communications between ’
Moscow and Vologda. Russian Eolshe- |
viki forces have been sent in the di
rection of Yaroslav.
Bolsheviki Hurry Measures ;
To Combat Allied Forces
STOCKHOLM. July 11.—The Bolshe
|vik war commissariat of the northern |
region of Russia, following the landing I
iof allied troops on the Murman coast, I
i ordered hurried war preparations, it was !
; learned here today.
Military units have been ordered •
i formed and the workmen and peasants |
of the classes of 1896-97 have been call- j
ed into service for at least six months. ;
Three hundred Serbian and Italian of
ficers have been arrested at Archangel
upon the order of Premier Lenine, it is
reported.
American Consul Pool and British
Consul Lockardt visited Foreign Minis
ter Tchitcherin at Moscow and denied
• they had published a secret statement
vrgin? allied intervention.
Alleged Slacker and
Two Officers Wounded
In a Pitched Battle
i GREENVILLE, Ala.. July 11.—John
; Morgan was probably fatally wounded, j
United States Deputy Marshal Robbins I
was severely wounded and U. S. Depu- I
, ty Marshal J. A. Wall slightly wouni
jm! late yesterday when the deputies
had a battle with Morgan and his two
Tom and Will. The three men
were arrested. charged with being
slacken:. They are alleged to have re
; fused to respond to a call from their
local board t» report for army duty.
A squad of soldiers was brought from
Montgomery to assist in the capture,
after the three men had beaten off the
United States deputies. John Morgan J
was shot in the battle with the depu- 1
ties. The men surrendered upon the '
arrival of troops.
Submarines Are Now
Controlled, Declares
Admiralty First Lord
LONDON, July 11. —“The submarines -
are now controlled,” Sir Eric Geddes, i
first lord of the admiralty, declared to- j
day. in opening the official exhibition of .
naval photographs.
“Fewer are operating now than for j
some time past. The depth charge has ,
changed the hunters into the hunted.” '
Livestock Ass’n. Formed
COLUMBUS. Ga., July 11.—To pro
mote and encourage the raising of bet
ter live stock, poultry and farm prod
ucts. and to perfect a good system of
• marketing in this section, the Georgia-
Alabama Live Stock association was
formed here a few days ago and tem
porary officers named. It is announced I
that permanent organization is to be ■
effected at a big mass meeting of farm- ;
; ers and live estock men at the Muscogee j
i county courthouse Saturday morning at
I 10 o'clock.
Full Associated Press Service
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BRITISH MASTERY
IN AIR CANNOT BE
QUESTIONED NOW
English Bombing Squadrons ln- ;
creasingly Effective Anti- 1
Aircraft Guns Brought to
High Degree of Perfection:
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, July 10.—(By the Associated
Press).—Superiority in the air. clean
cut and unquestionable, rests with the
British flying men today. There have
been periods in times past when it
seemed that a very slight addition of
strength to either one side or the other
might tip the balance temporarily, but
no such period exists now. British air
men are supreme
Not only have the king’s flyers been
maintaining a decided upper hand in
the intense fighting in the air. but the
work of British bombing squadrons has
far exceeded that of the enemy in vigor
and results. In the more spectacular
field of operations, aerial fighting, the
British lave hounded hostile pilots un
til the greater part of their battles
have occurred east of the German lines,
and in numerous engagements, staged
every day when the weather permitted,
great numbers of hostile machines have I
been destroyed. One British aviator:
alone has sent 25 crashing to the earth
in the last few months and others ot |
his comrades are not far behind in their
total.
The work of bombing squadrons has
been growing steadily and the British
have been reaching further and further
into German back areas in search of
military objectives. There has been no
let-up. Day and night, squadrons of
British planes have kept up an almost
rndless bombardment of important po- ‘
sitions and their accuracy in bomb
dropping is testified to in scores of:
photographs of destructive hits.
Not only have railways, airdromes and
other vital objectives been effectually
bombed, but the loss of life among i
German troops in concentration camps
has been exceedingly heavy. Captured
documents bear testimony to this and !
prisoners admit it.
The British have consistently con- :
ducted their raids from an exceedingly
low height, sometimes coming down to
within fifty feet of the ground to loose (
bombs. The Germans, on the other
hand, seldc-n venture below 10,000 feet
because of their fear of the British 1
ar.ti-a'rcraf t def-mres which have .reach-i
ed a state of perfection never before
achieved. The difference in the accu
racy of the two services in bomb drop
ping thus has an obvious explanation
The straight shooting of British bomb
ers is exemplified by the work of one
pilot who attacked two German trains
near Hermies the other day. He oh-.
tained a direct hit on the first train i
and then blew up the track in front of I
it. Diving on another train nearby, ■
he knocked two trucks off the track with
explosives. Having stalled these trains,
ho proceeded to rake them viciously
with his machine gun. Incidentally, he
opened fire with his machine gun nn
seven other trains shortly afterwards
with good results.
There have been few infantry battles
of late on the British front
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918.
SCHOOL TAX BILL IS
POSTPONED BY HOUSE
■ Members Are Absent Arrang
ing for the Funeral of
Senator Weaver
On account of the absence of several
members of the house, due to their ap
pointment on the committee to arrange
for the funeral of the late Senator W.
H. Weaver, consideration of the Elder
local school tax bill was postponed un
til Friday morning by a vote of the
house on Thursday.
It was recommended that the meas
ure be brought up for consideration
when the members of this committee
are in attendance as they are vitally
interested in the bill.
A house conference committee com
prising Representatives Culpepper, of
Meriwether, and Bale, of Floyd, was ap
pointed by the speaker to meet with the
senate conference committee to consid
er the age of consent bill passed in the
senate on Wednesday.
Lacking three votes of a constitu
tional majority a bill introduced by the
Meriwether delegation setting aside the
I first Friday in December to be observed
| as Temperance day in the schools of the
i state failed of passage. The vote was
! 92 to 27.
The budget bill, introduced by Mr.
Pace, of Sumter, providing for the es
tablishment of the budget system in
financing the state departments, -will
probably be made a special order for
Thursday of next week. A request to
this effect was filed Thursday morning
with the rules committee.
By vote of the house on a motion by
I Mr. Jones, of Coweta, all speeches on
the floor of the house during the re
mainder of the present session will be
limited to thirty minutes each.
John H. Mock, of Albany, was sworn
in Thursday morning by Justice Marcus
: W. Beck, of the state supreme court to
serve as representative from Dougherty
I county, succeeding W. H. Burt, now in
the military service.
A feature of Thursday morning’s ses
sion was the introduction by Represen
tative John Y. Smith, of Fulton, of three
i bills intended to impose greater re
strictions on parties litigating in-the di
: vorce court. These measures were
drawn along lines suggested by Judge
W. D. Ellis, of the Fulton superior court.
The Fulton delegation also introduced
a bill removing the limitations on coun
cilmen and aidermen of the city of At
lanta, so that these officials may be
elected to succeed themselves as often
as the voters desire.
By a vote of 119 to 0 the house passed
I a bill by Mr. McCall, of Brooks, to pay
i pensions of SIOO per year to Confeder
i ate veterans wounded in service or who
. contracted disease during the war. Ef
forts were made to eliminate veterans
owning more than SIO,OOO worth of
property, but this attempt was inef
fectual.
Action on the measure introduced by
Mr. Ayers, of Jackson, to provide for
the election of superior court judges by
the voters of their respective circuits
SENATE WETS TRY
TO DEFER ACTION
ON PROHIBITION
, Try to Call Up Wire Resolu
tion Following Defeat of
Ruling That Amendment
Was Out of Order
WASHINGTON, July 11.—In a final
desperate effort to stave off war-time
prohibition, senate wets today planned
to call up the wire control resolution.
By keeping this before the senate con
tinually until disposed of. they hope to
persuade senate leaders to recess for
the summer, leaving prohibition undis
posed of.
A second move, counted on to be more
effective, is the sounding of a warning
that war-time prohibition, suddenly im
posed, will ruin banks holding liquor
obligations, and seriously interfere with
the raising of war revenues under the
new’ tax bill.
Senator Simmons, chairman of the fi
nance committee, is to present figures
showing that more than half a billion
would be required to get out of bond
the 170,000,000 gallons of whisky now
on hand. The tax on this is $3.20 a
I gallon.
Simmons will argue that it would be
I impossible to get the money necessary
j for withdrawal of this liquor. He will
point out that many banks are heavily
loaded with warehouse receipts and
notes, against which they have loaned
, large sums to distillers, wholesale gro
cers and druggists, to pay floor taxes.
Unless the banks are given time to re
i lieve themselves of this paper they will
fail, Simmons will warn.
He will submit figures showing how
prohibition will reduce the national
revenues at a time when the need is for
every dollar that can be raised, even at
the expense of people’s clothing.
Upon the showing thus made, Sim
mons is being urged to ask that the
senate allow the finance committee to
| work out a plan for gradual reduction
of the revenues, and for safeguard
banks. If this is agreed to, it would
mean postponement of prohibition for a
period considerably longer than the five
months provided for in the amendment
now pending.
If proponents o fthe telegraph resolu
tion are able to force consideration ot
that measure, Simmons will hold his
arguments and figures in reserve, for
t use when needed.
Drys claimed today that all doubt
1 that prohibition is certain, so far as the
senate is concerned, was removed by
the vote late yesterday on the ruling
of Senator Saulsbury that the prohibi
-1 tion amendment was out of order. Some
i known drys voted to sustain the chair,
' and even with these men arrayed
against them, the drys won by a vote
I of 36 to 33, and Saulsbury’s ruling was
overturned.
instead of by the state at large, as at
present, was postponed until Friday '
morning because of the impossibility of
securing a constitutional majority, al
though practically all the members pres
ent favored the bill.
MASKED BANDITS
SHOOT UP AND ROB
PASSENGER TRAIN
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: Posse of 200 Men Surrounds
Woods Near Kansas Town.
Three Persons on Train Are
I Wounded by Daring Robbers
PAOLA, Kan.. July 11.—A posse of
200 men today was patroling the banks
j of the Marais de Cygne river near here
! awaiting the signal to rush a large patch
' of timber in which it was believed were
hiding a dozen men who late last night
field up a southbound Missouri, Kansas
and Texas passenger train at Koch sid
ing, just south of Paola, shot three per
sons, looted the express and mail cars
! and made their escape.
I The posse is composed of members of
1 the county Anti-Horse associa
■ tion and home guards from. Osawatomie
j and is led by county and railroad of
! ficlals. The possemen were called to
i gether within an hour after news of
i the robbery became known and imme
! diately started in pursuit of the fleeing
| bandits who left the scene of the hold
!up in automobiles. A report reaching
I here early today was that the bandits,
! closely pursued by the possemen, aban-
I doned their cars and took refuge in the
timber which affords an excellent .hiding
place.
Details of the robbery, In which two
of the train crew and a woman passen
i gere were wounded by bullets from the
bandits’ guns, as related by railway
employes, seem to indicate the robbers
“shot up” the train to terrorize the pas
sengers and crew. No attempt was made
to rob the passengers.
The train was flagged as it was back
ing’from Koch siding, and the bandits
j swarmed about the engine, forcing the
; engineer fireman at the point of
revolvers back into the smoking car.
The doors of the smoking and day
coaches were locked and several of the
robbers ran up and down the aisles
shooting into the floor and through the
roof, stray bullets from their guns strik
ing Fireman R. E. Carter in the ankle
and C. T. Witcher, the train auditor, in
the thigh. Others of the bandits boarded
the mail and express cars, uncoupled
them from the rest of the train and
with their own men at the engine throt
tle ran out to the main line and backed
north. As they passed the standing
coaches they fired into the windows and
it was then that Mrs. L. D. Williams,
of AchilleJ Okla., was wounded.
A mile north of the siding the mall
and express cars were stopped and the
robbers proceeded to rifle them, throw
ing the express safe from the car and
breaking It open. They are said to have
taken a quantity of registered mail. The
sum of money taken from the mail bags
could not be estimated. According to
the express messenger and mall clerks,
who also were forced into the smoking
car with the engine crew, there was not
a large amount of money in either car.
When the two cars had been stripped
of valuables the bandits fled in motor
cars, which had either been left near
by or brought up by confederates. Mem
bers of the train crew started for this
city and found the engine and two cars
deserted. They ran back to the coaches,
coupled up the train and proceeded with
the wounded to Parsons, Kan. The
bandits are described as young men, al
though all were masked. Their fa
miliarity with the train schedule and
their handling of the engine and detach
ed cars was the feature that attracted
the attention of railroad men, as it. was
taken to indicate at least some of them, j
had had railroad experience. One of the !
masked men was reported to have
warned a companion: "Don’t shoot that
man; that’s Jake Darkes.” Darkes was
a brakeman on the train
SHtlflT-LllOllLim
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Government Control of All
Such Roads Not in Public ;
♦ Interest
WASHINGTON, July 11. —The presl- .
dent today vetoed the short line railway i
bill which would put under government ‘
supervision and control all lines operat- ’
ing in the country. In his message sent *
to the senate, the president called atten- :
tion to the fact that there were more
than 1,700 such lines in t,he country, :
many of which were built and are con- i
trolled by various private business in- ,
terests.
Gen. Pershing .Awards
Fifteen More Crosses
WASHINGTON. July 11.—Fifteen ‘
officers and men cf the infantry were
cited by General Pershing in today's of
ficial communique for acts of gallant- .
ry and awarded distinguished service;
crosses. The citations were quoted in '
the communique and show the actions
tn which the men participated to have I
been fought April 10. 12 and 13.
Those awarded crosses were: Second i
Lieutenant Aller. K. Dexter, Sergeants ■
John J. Courtney and Lee P. T. Jacques,
and Privates William R. Davis, Joseph i
J. Cannon, Elmer L. Lane, Alfred P. |
Lee. Charles Marino, Kenneth B. Page, ,
Charlie M. Dodge. Walter J. McCann
and Glen Hill. Crosses awarded post !
humously were to Corporal Russell 11. 1
Hoyt and Privates Joseph R. Blair and :
Howard P. Fitzgerald.
Insurance Solicitors
In Nonessential Class
Ht’PON. S. D. July 11.—All able-bod- ,
ied men engaged in selling insurance
are placed in the class of non-essential
industries by the South Dakota Coun- |
cil of Defense in a supplemental order i
to its “work or fight” regulations is- i
sued yesterday.
NUMBER 83.
VILUGE. MILW
J STATION MID FM
GIVEN JIP BY HUNS
i Germans Heavily Bombard
British Lines East of Amiens.
Haig Improves Positions East
of Villers-Brettoneux
j
WASHINGTON, July 11.—An official
dispatch today reports the unchecked
advance of Italian troops in Albania,
with Berat as an objective. From the
| Voyusa, the . Italians have carried all
positions to the Semeni in an advance of •
approximately 15 miles over a flfty-mile
I front.
“The Italian left wing aided by cav
: airy units,” says the dispatch, “reach
ed Fieri protected by British monitors.
The Austrian aviation camp was occu
pied by our troops, which captured a
large quantity of war material.
“Meanwhile, our right wing, after vio
i lent fighting, conquered the Berat posi
tions rock by rock, climbing to the sum-
■ mit, 2,000 meters high.
"The actual advance ,was assured the
Italian command safe possession ’of 1
Malaoastra on the left and Tomprica. on
the right, standing 2,500 meters above
the sea and dominating Berat city prop
er and the Devoli valley.”
NEW YORK, July 11. —(Summary of ;
European Cables.) —The French contin
ued their jamming tactics last night
| on the westerly side of the Marne sa
> lient, southwest of Soissons, capturing
I the town and railway station of Corey
and the farm and Chateau of St. Paul,
: south of the town.
The gain of ground serves still fur
ther to protect the forse of Villers-Cot
terets (otherwise called the Retz), which
forms a bulwark o fthe defense of Com
piegne, the important French base and ’
railway junction, on the east of that* ‘
town.
On the British front south of the
Somme, Field Marshal Haig’s infantry
pushed still farther last night and won
an additional holding grotffid east of
Villers-Bretonneux, on the ridge which
stands as an important eastward de
fense of the allied base at Amiens.
Raiding operations comprised the ma
jor portion of the activities on the re
mainder of the allied front.
Anticipate Gorman Blow
The operation on the French front,
resulting in the capture of Corey, gains
in interest in that it represents a con
tinuation of a series of important local
attacks on this front between the Alsne
and the Marne, began by General Petain
on Sunday. •It is along the line that
the allies apparently count It quite prob
able that the Germans will resume their
offensive.
Sunday’s attack took the form of a
drive that carried the French line for
ward two-thirds of a mile on a two
mile front north of the Longpont region
in this area. The gain here was ex
tended on Tuesday, while during the
day of Wednesday the front of opera
tions was shifted farther south and the
outskirts of Longpont and Corey were
reached.
During last night, as today’s state
ment from Paris shows, the French
made good their occupation of Corey
and drove in still farther south on the
I line for a short distance.
New French Front
| The net result, together with an earl
| ler operation further north late in June
when a dangerous salient east of the
Laversine ravine which the Germans
j created in their June offensive was wip
ed out, is that the French front now
' runs In almost a straight line along
' a series of strong positions for a dis
tance of approximately twelve miles
from the Aisne southward to below
i Corey.
Between this and the American sector
to the south, northwest of Chateau
j Thierry, there is still a westward bulge
iin the line. The French pressure on
j the north and the American on the
south, however, seems likely to result
in the wiping out of this salient by the
continuation of the present entente tac
i tics of local plunges in this sector, if
the Germans hold off much longer in
launching their expected renewed offen-
■ sive.
Village of Corey
Captured by French
PARIS, July 11. —French troops en-
I larged their gains between the Aisne
! and the Marne, taking the village of
Corey, the war office announced today.
“On the borders of the Rettz for
est, the French enlarged their gains,
taking the village of Corey, the station
: tyid castle, and St. Paul farm,” the
• communique said.
“We captured 50 prisoners, including
one officer.
"Two raids in the region of Maison-
Champagne and Mont Sar.snom netted
j 10 prisoners.”
Austrians Driven Back
On the Asiago Plateau
ROME. July 11. —Italian advanced
, posts at Comone on the Asiago plateau
yesterday drove back Austro-Hungarian
: detachments, says tne Italian official
; statement today, reporting military op
j erations on the Italian mountain front.
I Artillery fire was lively in the Brenta
! valley. On the remainder of the front ‘
there were the usual reconnoitering and
I harassing actions.
British Positions are
Heavily Bombarded
LONDON, July 11.—The Germans
| again last night bombarded somewhat
I heavily the British positions east of
j Amiens on both sides of the Somme
river, the war office announced today.
In a local operation carried out last
i night south of the Somme, east of Vil-
I lers Bretonneux, the British positions
were impro’-ed. says today’s war office
announcement.
“We improved our positions slightly
during the night east of Villers-Breton
neux.” the statement said.
“Enemy artillery fire was directed at
our positions on both sides of the
' Somme.
“Our troops made successful raids
yesterday noon and during the night
near Merris and Festubert (in Flan
. tiers), capturing some prisoners and a
machine gun.”