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VOLUME XX.
Big German Drive Is Cracking Under
Terrific American Counter Attacks
HUNS CROSS MARNE AT THREE POINTS
ITALIAN ADVANCE IN
ALBANIA CONTINUES;
BRITISH MAKE CAINS
General Haig Announces Ad
vance on 2|ooo-Yard Front
and Capture of Prisoners in
the Flanders Sector
VIENNA. Sunday, July 14.—(Via
Ixjndon.)—Allied troops in Albania con
tinue to advance, says an official state
ment from Austro-Hungarian headquar
ters today. Increased activity is noted
on the Italian front. The statement
reads:
‘Between Lake Garda and the Adige
the reciprocal artillery fire was very ac
tivfc. On the Venetian mountain front
activity has increased. This morning
Italian battalions fruitlessly stacked
southwest of Asiago and north of Mont
di Vai Bella. An engagement on the
western slopes of the Brenta valley
also ended in our favor.
•‘ln Albania the enemy has been grad
ually pressing against our new lines of
resistance. In the Devoli valley a
French squadron has been repulsed."
Austrians Fall Back.
Burning as They Go
ROME. July 15.—Further advances by
‘ the Italians and French in southern Al
bania have seriously compromised the
enemy positions, and probably will ne
cessitate further retreat northward,
freeing the allied communications be
tween western Macedonia and the Ad
riatic. a dispatch from the Italian front
in Albania stated today.
Thf Austrians continue to fall back
tn disorder, burning depots and villages.
The village of Bulchar is in flames. Ital
ian troeps. co-operating with the
French, have reached Glunaka pass.
The French have completely cleared
the heights dominating the confluence
of the Devoli and Tomorica rivers. Brit-
• ish troops in Macedonia made success
ful raids against the Bulgarians west
of Lake Doiran.
' British Advance on
Wide Front in Flanders
LONDON. July 15. —British troops ad
vanced on a front of more than a mile
east of Dickebusche lake, in Flanders,
■•esterday morning, taking 294 prisoners.
Field Marshal Haig reported today.
."The local operation in the Dicke
busch lake sector yesterday morning
• was completely successful." the state
ment said.
“We advanced on a 2.000-yard front,
taking a ridge and wood, and attaining
all our objectives. We captured 296
prisoners, several machine guns and
much other material.
British Take 260 Prisoners
In Successful Local Attack
NEW YORK. July 15.—(Summary of
European Cables to Associated Press.) —
British troops on the front southwest of
Ypres have carried out a successful lo
cal attack. The Germans were pushed
back east of Dickebusch lake, the scene
of much heavy fighting during the re
pulse of German efforts to advance -com
Kemmel hill, and lost 260 prisoners.
Elsewhere on the western front only the
artillery has been active. The bad
weather, however, appears about over
and the return of fair conditions may
bring intense fighting.
Aerial activity is very marked, espe
cially on the part of the Germans, who
announce officially the bombing of large
cities and railway centers in northern
France. This is the first report of this
kind made by Berlin in several weeks
and may have been made to counteract
the effect of allied raids en Rhine cities.
Abbeville and the regions of St. Pol.
Doullens, Crepy-En-Valois and Villers-
Cottereta have been attacked by enemy
airmen.
All these cities are behind the allied
lines and between Ypres and Rheims,
hitherto the main fighting area.
Kuns Lose Sixteen Planes
Sixteen German machines have been
accounted for by British air fighters. On
railway lines, trains, camps and other
targets behind the enemy lines British
bombers have dropped twenty-three tons
of explosives.
Very heavy artillery firing was heard
tn Paris early Monday morning. The
eastern skies were lit tip. apparently by
s monster battie of the big guns on the
fighting front.
Artillery bombardments and patrol
engagements have increased in the
mountain zone of the Italian front.
There are no aigns of extensive infantry
fighting.
Allie.- A . ;tce in Albania
In Albania, the allied troops continue
to advance and Vienna declares they
are approaching the new Austrian "link
of resistance" which probably means the
Semeni river. On the west, the Italians
maintain their pressure against the en
emy. French troops in the east rapidly
are clearing up the Devoli and Tomor
ica valleys. Two towns and an impor
tant hill are included in their latest cap
tures. British troops show some signs
of activity near Doiran. Macedonia, but
there has been no fighting of moment.
German news dispatches report that
British troops in northern Russia have
occupied the White sea port of Kem.
west of Archangel and southeast* of
Kola. German and Finnish forces have
been reported approaching Kem. which
is also a railway junction and the most
likely place for the Germans and Finns
to attempt to cut the railway running
north to Mola and the Murman coast.
Kem probably has been held by Russians
friendly to the allies.
Full Associated Press Service
U. S. AND BRITISH
TROOPS UWE TAKEN
ALL MURMAN COAST
■'
• Czecho-Slovak Troops Capture
City of Kazan Following Vio-;
i, lent Resistance by Forces of
the Bolsheviki
LONDON. July 15.-—American and
British troops have occupied the whole|
of the Murman coast, in northern Rus-;
sia. says a dispatch from Moscow to the
Central News Agency byway of Amster
dam.
After capturing Kem. a railroad sta
tion on the White seacoast, the dis
patches add, the American and British
forces advanced toward Toroki, the Rus
sian Bolsheviki authorities having with-:
drawn to Nlrok. *
The commander of the entente allied
forces have issued an appeal to the pop-1
ulation on the Murman coast requesting |
help against Germany and Finland. It j
is declared that the Murman coast is I
Russian territory under the protection
of the entente powers.
* LONDON, July 15 —Czecho-Slovak
troops have captured the city of Kazan,
! 430 miles east of Moscow, an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen
says it is reported from Moscow. The
city was taken over after the Bolsheviki ;
had put up violent resistance.
Kazan is on the Kazanka river, near 1
where it joins the Volga. It is a manu- •
facturing and commercial center, and j
s the entreport of the commerce be
tween Siberia and Europeah "Russia. Ka
zan is about 100 miles north of Sim
b’rsk. where the Bolshevik government
troops were reported to have defeated I
the Czechs last week.
Evacuation of British
Demanded by Bolsheviki
LONDON, July 15.—M. Tchitcherin,
the Russian foreign minister, has ad-
A-essed a note to Great Britain demanding
that the British detachments now on the-
Murman coast be re-embarked without
delay, says a Central News message to
day from Amsterdam, relaying a MoS
, cow dispatch.
Alexieff Now Heads
Anti-Bolshevik Force
AMSTERDAM, July 15.—General
Alexieff, former Russian chief of staff,
Ihas been appointed commander-in-chief
of the anti-Bolshevik forces, according
to a Moscow dispatch today. He arrived
in Omsk with a large army and was ac
corded an enthusiastic reception.
Omsk is in Asiatic Russia, 1,300 miles
east of Moscow.
Ask Horvath to Withdraw
Dictator Proclamation
PEKING, Saturday. July 13.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —The British, French
and Japanese ministers to China have
stronkly protested to General Horvath,
the anti-Bolshevik military commander,
• who has formed a temporary war cabi
net for Siberia, asking him to withdraw
his dictatorship proclamation, on the I
ground that it is unwise and untimely.
The proclamation, the ministers say,
is calculated to cause a situation which
may impede the movement of the
Czecho-Slovaks, which movement at the
present time is all important. General
Horvath is requested to reply to the
diplomatic protest.
Tobacco Ration in U. S.
May Be Next Move
WASHINGTON, July” 15 —The sol- '
dieFs demand for his cigarette may lead
to the rationing of tobacco among civil
ians, the war industries board announc
ed. Investigations are now under way
to determine the amount of tobacco that
must be conserved in this "country to
supply the needs of the soldiers.
Comparisons have been made of the j
rations issued by Great Britain, France, I
Italy and Belgium. The estimate of the
amount available for 1918 in the United !
States from the 1917 crop is 850,000,000
pounds.
20 More Transports
For American Troops
WASHINGTON, July 15. —To main- j
tain the high transportation speed of j
American troops to France twenty ad-I
ditional transports are to be built Imme- i
diately. Contracts for these were let'
by the shipping board today to the
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FIFTH OFFENSIVE 15 ON
LEAST IMPORTANT FRONT
Htndenburg Again Attempts to
Draw Out General Foch’s
Reserve Forces
■Y J. W. T. MASON.
NEW YORK, July 15.—Von Hinden
burg has launched his fifth offensive
along the least important part of the
western front.
His primary purpose apparently Is to
try to entice General Focn into rushing
a large part of the allies' reserves to
defend the sector northeast of Jaul
gonne. If this objective were accom
plished Von Hindenburg would snitt his
main attack westward and would at
tempt to break through to Paris or the
channel ports.
The wedge which Von Hindenburg
drove into the French front when he
thrust his Aisne front southward to the
Marne now serves to separate the scene
of the present offensive from the area
defending Paris and the channel. East
ward of this wedge, Hindenburg is now
resuming his ruthless slaughter of
German manpower. Westward of the
wedge are General Foch’s principal re
serves. Because he is on the outside
of the wedge, General Foch cannot move
his reserves from east to west and
back again as quickly as can Hinden
burg.
The advantage of concentration, there
fore, rests with Von Hindenburg. On
the other hand, any moderate territo
rial gain Hindenburg may make east of
the Aisne-Marne wedge will be without
strategic importance to him. It will
still further deplete his <rin reserve
forces without bringing Paris or the
channel ports any nearer the kaiser’s
grasp. A heavy death toll exacted by
the allies in this hitherto quiescent sec
tor will further react against Von Hin
denburg’s leadership. Slight progress
by the Germans may be expected, un
less Von Hindenburg sees that General
Foch has not fallen into nls trap and
abruptly orders the offensive to cease.
The attack this morning against the
American positions at Vaux gains evi
dence of being for the moment at least,
subsidiary to the main offensive on the
eastern side of the Aisne-Marne wedge.
If, however, Von Hindenburg suddenly
swings his drive from east to west, the
Vaux attack may assume more impor
tance as the beginning of another ef
fort to reach Paris.
ATLANTA, tA TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1918.
40,000 AUSTRIANS
DESERT AND FLEE
TO INLAND POINTS
Army Following Piave
Disaster —3,000 Are Arrest
ed and Balance Are Said to
Be in Mountains
LONDON, July 15.—Forty thousand
| deserters from the Austrian army tied
I inland after the Piave disaster, the Zu
i rich correspondent of the Daily News
j has learned from neutral sources, he
1 declared in a dispatch today.
Some cf these are armed and are hld
i ing in the mountains.
Three thousand deserters were arrest-
1 ed in Budapest.
Austro-German relations are serlous
' ly strained as a result of the Piave de
feat, the correspondent said.
German Chancellor von Hertling’s re
cent statements were the result of Aus
trian pressure, designed to bolster up
the tottering dual monarchy by show
ing its oppressed people that the cen
tral empires “earnestly desire peace.”
Despite the rigid censorship, it is
learned that the Austrian losses on the
Piave. exclusive of slightly wounded,
were more than 200.000, of which 10,-
000 were drowned.
Austrian Premier von Seydler, Austro-
Hungarian Foreign Minister Burian and
I Count Czernin and Count Berchtoldt,
i former Austro-Hungarian foreign min
ister, are gding to German headquar-
I ters on an important mission.
New Jugo-Slav Revolts
4 In Austrian Army Reported
WASHINGTON, July 15.—New out
breaks among Jugo-Slav troops in the
Austrian armies, supposedly inspired by
; the Austro-German reverses in Albania,
i are reported through Swiss sources, in
cables to the Italian embassy today.
Details of the uprising were not given
■ but the reports stated that 170 Jugo
slav soldiers were executed as mutineers
on a single day.
The Italian view is that the Jugo-Slav
welcome the allied redemption of Alba-
I nia and Montenegro and that the ad
! vance of the Italians and their allies
’ on the Albanian front has served as an
encouragement to the dissatisfied Slavs.
It Is declared that the Jugo-Slav will
gladly welcome the allied troops, if they
i are able to hurl the Austrians from the
i Balkans and penertate Austria-Hungary
i from the south.
THREE GEORGIA BOYS IN
LATEST MLH LISTS
Dial, of Atlanta, Killed; Brooks,'
Newton, Wounded; Wil
liams, Cataula, Dies
WASHINGTON, July 15.—The army
casualty list today shows:
Killed In action, 14.
Died of wounds, 7.
Died of disease, 7. ’
Died of accident and other causes, 1.
W’ounded severely, 28.
Missing 3.
Total, 60.
The list includes the following from
southern states:
Killed in action: Privates Henry K.
Burtner, 344 McAdoo avenue, Greens
boro, N. C.; Harry St. Clair, 503 Tenth
avenue, Roanoke, Va. •
Died of disease: Privates Grover K.
Spratt, Belmont, N. C.; Joe Williams,
Cataula, Ga.
Severely wounded: Privates Harold
Coward, Jacksonville. Fla.; Arthur Dil
beck, Clairfield, Tenn.
Two Georgians in Sunday’s I>ists ■
•The marine corps casualty l:st Sun
day contained fifty-two names, divide!
as follows:
Killed in action, 10: died of wounds,
4; wounded severely, 33; missing in ac
tion, 4.
Included in the list are:
Killed in action: Privates Harvey G.
Dial, No. 25 Flora avenue. Atlanta;
Frank A. Kerrigan, No. 1100 South Mar
ket street, Nashville; John B. McDon
ald, Martinsville, Ky.
Died of wounds: Private Foy Boyd,
Abbott, Texas.
Wounded severely: Sergeant Herbert
H. Jonte, Dallas, Texas; Corporals E.
McCollan, Wentworth, N. C.; Allison M.
Page. Aberdeen, N. C.; Privates Herbert
Brooks, Newton, Ga.; T. Altl
zer, Sweetwater, Texas: Leroy Barbee,
Hico, Texas; Albert M. Ball, Hunts
ville. Texas; Joseph Clark, Jr., Kenton,
N. C.: Otis Cook. Vardaman, Miss.;
Robert G. Harpold, Dallas, Texas; I«eon
ard L. Kitsinger, Gulfport, Miss.; Henry
E. Trusler, Little Rock.
Missing in action: Private Raymond
(Oonttnued on Page 3, Column 6.)
MISER LAUNCHES MAJOR
OFFENSIVE ALONG MARNE
ON FRONT OF SO MILES
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE MARNE, July 15. —(By
the Associated Press.) —The Germans at daylight today launched a vio
lent attack against the American positions west of Chateau Thierry, es
pecially near Vaux. The attack was then extended on a front of thirty
miles, between Chateau Thiery and Bligny, southwest of Rheims. The
Germans also attacked east ,of Rheims, between Prunay and Maison fle
Champagne, on a front of ‘twenty-five miles. Later the Germans attack
on a fifteen-milc front from Chateau Thierry northwest to La Fere Milon,
making the offensive over a front totaling sixty-five miles, the widest
front attacked this year.
The American forces delivered a counter attack upon the Germans
in the Vaux region this morning and drove off the enemy.
Reports from Vaux this afternoon indicated that the Americans had
advanced their line in this region in the face of the determined enemy
attack. The advance extended a of approximately 700 yards,
but the Americans subsequently withdrew to their original line for
stragetic reasons.* Twenty-eight Germans were taken prisoners in thft
sector
It is clear that the German attack in the Vaux region completely
broke down under the American counter attack. Further sharp fighting
is likely to develop in this area at any time, however.
FIVE PHASES OF
HUN OFFENSIVE
' '"PICARDY DRIVE: Started March
21 on a 50-mile front between Arras
and the Oise. Stopped in just one
week, after the Germans had ad
vanced 40 miles to within striking
distance of Amiens.
FLANDERS DRIVE: Started April
9 on a 25-mile front, between the
Ypres-Comines canal and La Bassee.
Stopped in ten days after the Ger
mans had penetrated 15 miles to
within striking distance of Haze
brouck.
MARNE DRIVE: Started May 27
on a 40-mile front between Coucy le
Chateau and Rheims. Stopped in a
week after the Germans had pene
trated 30 miles to Chateau Thierry.
OISE DRIVE: Started June 9 on a
35-mile front between Montdidier and
Coucy le Chateau. Stopped in three
days after the Germans had advanced
six miles. They were later pushed
back nearly half this distance.
CHAMPAGNE DRIVE: Started
July 15 on a 50-mile front between
Chateau Thierry and Main de Mas
siges. Still continuing with initial
German gains reported.
GERMANY’S LAST
MAJOR DRIVE IS
NOW UNDER WAY
Allied Superiority, Both in Men
and Material, Will Be Felt in
Fall —Enemy .on Defensive
Then
WASHINGTON, July 15— Germany’s
fifth drive today was viewed by many
military men as probably Germany’s
last major offensive action.
Its location indicated that Germany
has elected to try for Paris anew or to
strike so heavily as to draw strength
from the north.
Their apparent intention appeared to
be the former. If, however, the Ger
man is seeking to divert strength from
farther north, then he eventually hopes
to strike the channel ports.
Military men agree that difficult days
are again ahead.
But, they say. the French and Ameri
cans are in better shape to withstand
the blow than were the allies when the
first great drive started March 21.
This operation, they predict, will be
halted. Some ground will be given, but
none believes the German will succeed
in a strategical victory.
If he fails, as expected, it is probable
he cannot undertake another major op
eration this year.
Then, with American strength con
stantly and rapidly growing, the mah
power balance will against him.
That means he will be on the defensive
and that in time he will be defeated.
I>ast Big Effort
Germany's offensive will be her last
major drive, in the opinion of many mil
itary men here today.
While they are far from thinking that
it will close the war or bring the vic
tory Germany has planned, they do
think that thereafter Germany will be
on the defensive.
American manhood is the chief
answer.
Early in the fall the United States
troop shipments will have reached the
point where the slight superiority Ger
many had March 21 will not onfy have
been wiped out, but the allies will act
ually be preponderant. What is true
of man power will also be true of ma
terial. •
Today’s far-reaching bombardment of
the Americans on the Marne is quite
conceivably the forerunner of the big
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.)
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NUMBER 84.
• Shortly after 11 o’clock one of the
. American infantry regiments launched
a counter attack in the region of Conde.
(The town of Conde, mentioned, is
probably Conde-En-Brie, which lies
about 3 3-4 miles south of the Marne
and eight miles southeast of Chateau
Thierry.)
Reports redelved here shortly after
11 a. m. on the fighting to the east of
Rheims said that the enemy up to about;
an hour previously had made no prog
ress whatever there.
In the Conde region, however, before
the American counter-attack, the Ger
man advance appeared to have eliminat
ed the river salient.
In their attack on the Marne front
the Germans threw many bridges across
the river. Over these the Germans are
passing under a withering fire from the '
artillery. The German progress is be
ing stayed by the machine gunners.
The Germans succeeded in crossing
the river at three places—at Mezy, at
Jaulgonne and at La Bretonnere farm
north of Fossoy. (Fossoy is four miles
east of Chateau Thierry; Mezy is two
miles northeast of Jaulgonne
is the same distance northeast of Mezy.)
The Americans and their French com
rades have resisted the enemy to the
utmost and are continuing this charac
ter of resistance.
Word received here shows that . the .
enemy also launched an attack east of (
Rheims, but on the sectors on that front
on which French and Americans are
• fighting side by side, the positions are
reported intact.
The American machine gunners here
let the enemy come close to their posi
tions and then opened a deadly fire into
the advancing close formations of Ger- , j
r mans.
The operation at Vaux appeared to be
a feint, for soon after it began the G*r>
mans attacked all along the Marne,
where they were gallantly opposed by
I more of the American troops and the
French.
I The first crossing was made at the
. peak of the big river bend. The Amer
i ican machine gunners and infantrymen
fought and died where they stood here
Others of the American troops with
drew strategically as the enemy attack
. ed from east of Chateau Thierry to
along the Marne, east of Dormans, mak
ing additional crossings.
At 11:20 o’clock this morning the
long range bombardment was becoming
more intense.
, The day opened sunny, but low clouds
’ are now scurrying over the battlefield,
threatening rain.
The German offensive come after a
most violent bombardment of high ex
plosives and gas shells throughout the
night. The American troops sought shel
ter wherever it was available. When the
enemy infantry appeared, the Americans
swarmed out and met the attackers with
a rain of machine gun bullets.
The Americans wore their gas masks
as they fought the attacking Germans.
An enemy bombardment of towns in
the rear of the line began shortly after
6 o’clock a. m.
The latest reports shy the Ame»*lcans
are holding their own in the fighting,
mainta’ning the : r positions. i
Heavy shells from German naval
guns are falling in regions far behind
the actual battle area, many of these
projectiles having fallen in the city of
Meaux, 25 miles from Chateau Thierry.
In many of these towns the German
shell fire is constant, the projectiles be
ing from ten and twelve-inch naval
i guns.
Reports from American advance posi
tions said that the American troops
were “handling the enemy well” in the
desperate fighting which is continuing.
At this hour it had not been determined
how the battle in the vicinity of Vaux
was progressing. The whole line in
both directions from that town was . f
dense w’th smoke and gas fumes. The
roar of The canor.ade was punctuated in
the few intermissions with a terrific din
of machine gun and rifle fire, which
seemed of the hottest character in Vaux
itself.
Official reports relative to the grand
offensive begun this morning against
the allied positions shows that it is
the most ambitiou’s stroke since March
21, when the Germans launched Jheir as-
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