THE SUN, 'SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918. -- Intervening region, - . ; r- : : : RUTTF. DF. C.HALMONT whole rstpnillnp SIBERIAN POLICY-- IS KAISER ANNOUNCES" ronsldcnJily lo IIip west of Klsnies. Where Allies' Are Advancing: Along the Whole Line in. Marne Salient WON BY THE FRENCH In Hlmrt, Hie sltuiitloii ux rtjKnrilx Flumes could hnrill.v lio worse for AGREED UPON Americans in Centre Held Up WAR'BLL CONTINUE tho Oernuinx, wlio liuve been de- cidedly mitmiuwuvrpri ly Oen. t'ovh Until It Was Taken. n nd In IrMiUH'd. correspon- efect t. London, Aug. 2. Reuter'a Allied Tropps-Thouffh- Itcndy dent with the American Army on the Issucs'Proelamntion Thanking I'nMlbtr Turnlns Point of W'nr. Alsrie-'MHrl- y Czecho- front telegraphing Subjects for Sncrifiees of There Is good reason to believe that to Move to Aid of at 4 P. M. says: the Allies' counter stroke, which be-n- n ,','After a period of comparative Inac- Four Yenrs. July IS, may mark the turnlns slovaks. tion. In which there wan nothing but , point of this ear's operations and nrtlllery preparation to chronicle, a not- perhaps of tho entire war. ThenMs able advance' was mado yesterday on Mhe of salient. After the PUTS BLAME OX ALLIES no wny apparent In which the Oer-ma- JAPANESE TO COMMAND west'slde the nd-- gallant French action which cleared the could offset the tremendous f w!k of the long plateau known as the vantages which bav passed Into the position An- Butte de Chalmont. the there Harps on His Ciuisp'' hands of the Allies in the last fort- President Exjiccted to had been rather critical. , "Just It. time be- night nnd will be a Ions "The enemy had practically, .'rtnged and Affain Declnres God fore they will be In n position to nounce rinn to Thwnrt tho butte with a semicircle of fire, ex- launch another offenriye on the same tending from a queer Jumble of under Is With German?. ambitious scale as this. The Mnrne German Posigns. .features- pf terrain on the northwest be- pocket, the moat serious menace to low Pletsler Hulcu nnd along the big buttrcrs.es .of the hills above Grand Rozoy . Paris since Gen. yon Kluck'a drive Amsterdam, Aug. 2. In a proclamv for tho capital in 1914. has been so nnd Cramaille to the formidable prom- lion Issued to the German people. Em- much encroached upon that It hardly Archangel Frontier Is ontory eastward of Saponay. pocket longer. "It was plain that while things re- peror William says: can be called a nnr Military they wera In sector encouraging fea- Closed, Came mained as Butte "Four years of haul struggle ha One of the most the American advance In the centre tures of the situation is that the Ger- passed, full of eternally m inorabl Aujr. 2. An could only be a provisional affair, since mans do not sfppcur to show the same AMSTERDAM. any deeds. An example has been g ion (or roccivod progress on Rerlnges would leave flghUns spirit that they exhibited official statement the left win In the air, all time of what a people can do that , ter-- even a few days ago. After the i here from Moscow says that tha. "The ndmlrable work of tho French stands In the field for a nmsS Just rifle punishment administered to the has been and British yesterday; however, had a 'Mine Archangel frontier and for 'the maintenance nf Its exlftomo . finest troops In the entire German eloped fourteen days', for most enlightening effect .on the situa- for "Gratefully ircverlng the l army, the famous Fourth Division of military reasons. tion." divine and tho Prussian Guard, by the Americans 'The allied left laid hold of the high which has been gracefully extended over ground Rozoy, at Scringes and Clergca, Just east of above Grand and there Germany, we may proudly say we were Washington, Aug. 2. Full agree- Is.now nothing Intervening between' that all the reel of the and ttie French force.,nt riot fotnd unworthy in the trememlou) German army seemed to lose heart. ment between Japan, the United States t programme Indeed, the two hills look at one an- task before which Providence placed ui. and the Entente Allies on n Solssons-Chkfen- They seemed to realize that their best other along the u "If In the struggle leaders were glen was not Rood enough. for joint military action. In Siberia vir- announce- Thierry road. From this point the to our capable of the highest Home of the correspondents , report tually has been reached and allied line declines slightly .from, .the nation ment of the plan by the President Is ex- achievements It has dally proved hv that the advance, particularly on the di- crest of .the hill paslng 'northward of pected soi.n. Tho smoothing over of, IlsugiMux, declining fidelity that It han deserved to have u American sectors, was made against opinion Gov- thence still further vergencies of between the along thV 'valley through Cramol-- , ltadets. How could tte army front nan very little resistance and that In many trtn-pll- v road ernments at Tohlo nnd Washlnston sells and Cramaille. performed Its tremendous deeds If i ;t case the Americans occupied the new has been concluded, according to entire labor Home bad not bo no "Such an acquisition is an admirable at ben ti positions without any opposition. diplomats, and there Is expected to work,-an- tled to the highest measure nf p .m,v day's the advance of more' IKan' rsonal luriner ueiay in puuiug 'inu two miles In the no wlse,,easy country In performance? actual operation. proof 'r. .1 ...... I .... .. ... t .. k.lKl..w tiacmnnv that the Germann In thla district CHAUDUN PLATEAU era no more than a stopping force Tliunka "Pillthfnl OfllclnU." of views were associated y with a .and that fjenPetaln can push them north- Thanks arc' due to all who, undr YIELDED BY ENEMY visu wnicn I'resiueni tvuson pain iu "whenever the and Navy building. ward ho , Is Inclined.. It Is difficult conditions, have coopeiated m State. War true the heights above the' captured the task set tha state and community The President conferred for half an villages are to galne'l, Had Been Disputed Field for hour with Acting Secretary of State still b but and especially to our faithful unnrarjlng whole' Ger- ,I , II. .. .1 . .. T, - with the western end of that line, of officials. Thanks are due likewise to lie Two Weeks. J5USHED back between two and three miles along almost the which overlook Fismes and the sole remaining railroad that the u I mill hicuf Dim f uanci, 1'l.vnn line from Soissons to Rheims, the Allies in complete command mans have are held by the Allies, who have occupied Ishll, the Japanese Ambassador, also hills In our possession and our power countrymen and townsmen nnd ol?i ti y rith to sweep them from, tho Dutto de Chal- women on In this w By the in- conierrca wun air. i'oik. whom. wartime. Astoclatttt Pret. of dominating positions from which their guns are sweeping all the the capture of which by the Germans in their recent drive was heralded mont we probably have ndt long" to much falls. Vnnacr, tervening by a vicinity strong With tiik French Armt i!f country from both sides of the salient, the Germans are in Berlin as great feat, and in the of Rheims they have pushed Motives Are' Unselfish. wait before the whole of this 'Tie war year which Is opening to Aug. 2. The Germans are In retreat on, precipitate retreat and it begins to look as if they had delayed too long so far westward that it is now probable that the Germans will not be tactical position In In our hands, and day will not spare the German peopl; features, Uio enter- all sides , of,, the salient between the for .their own good, as the narrowed mouth of the pocket is under the able to make a stand, or more than a very brief stand on the Vesle The basin of Joint then much easier fighting ground will further privations and trials. But. what prise In Siberia Is the .same as In the be reached." ever may come, we know the hardest lin Atsne and the Marne. On the wrt the Allies' fire. River, but will have to continue their flight north of the Aisne. This beginning of (he exchange of views be- French British troops, continuing en- oemnd us. and Soisscns, the western pivotal point of the Germanplan, has been would mean the loss by the Germans of all the results of their Marne tween the Governments concerned. It Is - -- push of Thursday, have has been attained in the at thelr reached tered by the French; the heights, to the east of the little Crise River drive, their most ambitious undertaking this year. said, which means that .the United by safeguarded by , tho valley of the Crise, a little river Allies our arms and peaif States, Japan "and 'the' Entente treaties la being completed tti Hif 4 which Joint tne .Aisne at Soissons. have only unrejfisli motives. In standing SEES ADMISSION OF what The Germans therefor have aban- peoples crit- west that gives us the firm crtalnn If It had machinery for keeping tbe behind the Russian at this strong and doned the whole, of the Chsudun Plateau, ical stage. phases of that Germany will Issue OFFICIAL WAR REPORTS. LIBERALS OBJECT world's peace successfully. The military the vigorous storm of the poopI between the Coeuvrea and CrUe Valley.