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The Oskaloosa Herald. VOL. 61 6 NO. OSKALOOSA, IOWA, THURSDAY. AUOLST as lOIS ESTAB. 1850 FIFTY MILES CUT GENERAL TRAUB AND HIS STAFF IN FRANCE ' OFF OF HUN LINES MANK TOWNS ARE RECENT HAVE SHORT- TAKEN! VICTORIES ENED WESTERN FRONT. Both 32 AMERICAN DIVISIONS NOW the British and French Ready Are Fully Equipped Flitting and For Ac- Forces the tion in France—Big Task Yet Be- fore the U. S. in Putting 4,000,000 Across by June. Hun Hard Today Washington,, Aug. 21. Thirty-two complete organized American divis- ions, around one million four hundred thousand men, are now in France, Chief of Staff General March an- French Troops nounced today. ¦March pointed out that to accom- FRENCH FORCES Within Miles BRITISH IN NEW Brig. (ten. 1.. Trnub 2 plish this remarkable task it took Peter ami staff, U. S. Infantry, la France. A French liaison officer Is seated at the,right. many ships, and in the meantime to keep up the present progress and ef- of Noyon Today ficiency in the project of four million CAPTURE CUTS DRIVE TAKE SIX men as is now planned by next June MRS. J. P. WALTON IS LEADER In The Wake THREE IOWA DEATHS TODAY the number of ships already on hands (By John De Gandt) will have to be than doubled. Oskaloosa Lady Chosen Chairman of One Killed in Action, One Died of more 5:30 p. troops Y. W. C. A. War Work Cam- Of The War Wounds and One CARLEPONT Paris, m.—French Succumbs AND Hun Are TOWNS IN 4 HOURS Lines Shortened. paign for Sixth District. To Disease. outflanked the Ourscamps Forest The emergency fleet corporation is doing of war; MANY OTHER VILLAGES ALSO and have reached a point- near ATTACK “splendidly” to catch up, March Des Moines, la., Aug. 21.—Setting in 1479 day the 35th day Washington, Aug. 21.—General Per- STARTED IN FOG AT 4:45 said, but there is a need of ships motion the machinery which is to send of the counter ocensive. shing’s overseas casualty lists as is- FALL INTO Pontoise, less than four thousand which THEIR HANDS. O’CLOCK THIS MORNING. must cause a great increasing the story of Y. W. C. A. war work to sued by tlie department today carried production Picardy front: General Byng's yards or slightly more than two effort. every corner of lowa, leaders have tnree hundred and thirty-seven names. The pofrited the signifi- Third army opened a surprise at- miles southeast of Pres- chief out been appointed in the 15th federal dis- The list included killed in action 56, Noyon. cance of the fact that the general ef- tricts of the state. With the exceptions tack on a ten mile front between missing in action 144, wounded se- sure is now being methodically ex- fectiveness of the blows recently dealt PINCERS ARE AGAIN IN USE 6EN. of districts 1,3, and 5 (headquarters Albert and Arras at 4:45 o’clock verely 94, died of wounds 14, died from BYNG IS LEADIN6 FORGES out to the was for the pur- Moines erted towards Lassigny and Noy- G 4 flans at Burlington, Creston and Des this morning. The assault accident and other causes 2, wounded pose of shortening the German lines was respectively), all districts are announc degree undetermined died on. The latter place is now not from the North Sea to Rheims which made under a heavy mist with 20, of dis- American Forces Are Camping On ing their leaders today. New Action Covert a Ten Mile Front as it now is less than two ease 7. only threatened from the south- stan/ds Headquarters for this informative tanks, cavalry and infantry pre- the Trail of the Retreating Huns hundred miles, thus being a reduction lowans in the list were: and Is Proceeding Satisfactorily campaign will be with Miss Esther ceeding. and Are Making Every Step east but also from the southwest. of fifty miles during the past week’s Killed in Action. Says Haig's Official Report. Erickson, state director for Y. W. C. Miserable For Th m. operations. By nine o'clock the British Counter Attacks Repulsed. A. war work, who is established in the Private Ernest R. Wilcox, Union- forces had advanced Young Men in Separate Class. Des Moines Y. W. C. A. She will work two miles ville. Paris, Aug. 21, 12:30 p. m.—The SOUNDS LIKE A FIGHT AT SEA (By Lowell Mellett) Washington, Aug. house through tne district leaders, who in and were then only about that Died of Wounds. French forces continue to progress on 21.—The With military through important the front the British Armies in,France, committee today ordered turn will work the leaders of distance from the city Lieutenant Laurence C. Shull, Sioux whole between the Oise and | Heavy Firing Was Reported Today night captured August army Chairman Dent to report the new man the counties which their districts of Bapaume. City. the Aisne last and About Eighty-Five Miles Off the 21.—General Byng's power carrying Carlepont bill an amendment of comprise. County eaders have not vet Died of Disease and Cuts, the French war Atlantic Coast. struck the Germans on a ten mile putting men of eighteen and nineteen Asine-Oise front: General Man- statement today. been named. office announced The Arras Albert a years age t Private Fred Repphum, Lamotte. front between and In of in a separate classifica- To get the war time activities of gin is advancing on the whole Germans failed to counter attack. An Atlantic Port. Aug. 21.—A re- tion and not them In Marine Corps. heavy fog this morning. calling until all the the Y .W. C. A. before the public, five twenty-five mile front between French troops are advancing to the port of heavy firing eighty-five miles older men been I had taken. The bill different methods will be employed. the Oise and the Aisne. North of The Marine Corps casualty list car- west of Lassigny in very sharp fight- < off the Atlantic coast taken to in- The attack began shortly before will be reported favorably just as Through the Bureau of Information of Sojssons the advance now reaches ried fifteen names and showed 5 killed ing. 1 dicate a battle was under way be- five o’clock and just four hours later soon as it can be printed which will a depth of five miles. in action, 1 died of wounds, 3 wounded tween a steamship and a submarine be which Mrs. H .C. Evans is the head, Important Positions Taken. the British forces had captured Moy- either late this evening or tomor- \ literature dealing with the subject will severely in action, 6 wounded degree were brought here today by captains row. Flanders front: The British undetermined. "Between the Oise and the Aisne ( ennviller, Bucquoy, Albainzeville, Cour be distributed. Mrs. Chas. Rawson is No lowans were in of fishing vessels forces attacked on a mile front there was no change in the situation in charge of the Bureau of Meetings, the Marine casualties. Captain George F. Perry of the cellies, Acheit-Le-Petit and Beaucourt GERMAN STUDY DISCARDED this morning on the J-awe river last night as the enemy failed to re- schooner which will have the subject presented i Goodspeed reports that he on the Ancre. and won all of the objectives and act,” the communique said. 1 was fired on by a submarine early before chautauquas, fairs, institutes of took a number of prisoners. yesterday morning.' The steamship Big Guns Cut Loose. French Will Supplant Hun Language the County Teachers Associations, dis- “The French continue to progress] BIG JOB FOR CLAUDE PORTER was running in the Public Schools. women’s clubs, Russia: American Red Cross on the whole front and have captured 1 at a good speed and the At five-twenty the big guns which trict meetings of flash Units arrived Vladivostok Carlepont and Cuts. To the west of of the guns could be plainly churches, socials and all other ready- have at President 1 had been concealed in readiness for Des Moines, Aug. 21.—Not a single Considering Him for Assist- Lassigny the French progressed in seen, according to Perry. made audiences. Mrs. H. S. Hollings- from Tokio. Some of them leave 1 several days let loose a great public school Attorney General very fire of in lowa will offer Ger- worth, through the Bureau of Recruit- immediately for the Czecko-Slo- ant for Ability sharp fighting. In the western S. O. S. Call is Heard. study year, sabro and the troops sprang into ac- man in its courses of this ing, will enlist the co-operation of vak front. Displayed in I. W. W. Trial. part of the front German raids were Washington, Aug. 21.—An S. O. S. tion. according to A. M. Deyoe, state super- prominent people everywhere. Speak- repulsed.” ( Spain: Official confirmation was call about one hundred and fifty miles intendent of public instruction. be through the Washington, D. C„ Aug. 21.—Claude By six several parts the ers will furnished received here today that Spain Battle Line Being Lengthened. i off the New England coast was receiv- o'clock of Schools generally will be opening Speakers' Institute Bureau, which was .It. Porter, United States attorney for ed here by the navy department to- has sent a note to the German By Web Miller, Paris, 10 a. m., Aug. | lines were passed. the first week in September and th,e managed by Mesdames Fred L. Wells the southern lowa district, who assist- day.