THE VILAS COUNTY NEWS. EAGLE RIVER. WIS.

MAJ. GEN. OMAR BUNDY COUNTESS OF LISBURNE

HEAVV BLOWS BY GENERAL MARCH TO ... RAILWAY MEN ARE FOGH'S ARMY WINS GERMANS FAIL TO COMM ARMY WARNEOJY M’ADOO 2 MILES, 5 TOWNS, New Regulations Planned for U. Best Work and No Strikes Ex- DENULUES’ LINE fFWP“ I S. Forces. pected by Nation. 33,400JWS to Allies Pound Foe on Gains Retained as Foe Seeks INSIGNIA OF UNITS CHANGED LABOR UNTIL WAR IS OVER Ten-Mile Break Grip. Front in Thrust. Do All of Uncle Sam’s Forces Will Here- JF All Employees Called Upon to I the HI Their Utmost, and to Expose Slack- U. S. TROOPS I Be as FIERCE DUEL after Designated Solely DRIVE BIG GUNS IN ers—Must Earn Wages Al- AHEAD “Army of the United \ States.” I lowed by Government. Yanks Americans Clear Woods Prussian Guard No Match for ' ' -iimi'y Southeast of Crack I ssF WWf V Washington, Aug. I.—Railway em- Fere-En-Tardenois, Despite in Open Fighting—Kaiser’s Washington, July 31. —The war de- Heavy ployees were told by Director General Hun Fire—Allied Troops Division Ic Decimated in At- partment will drop all insignia and all Dem- McAdoo, in announcing details of the inate Crown Prince’s tack on Americans. regulations which up to the present Lines. wage increase for more than 500,000 time have led to the consideration of Paris, Aug. I—A dispatch from shopmen, that the nation expected new the American army as being composed Paris, Aug. 2.-In an says from an J energy the workers in return for advance of Berne that it is learned from of regulars, Army men and about two miles on the that National 1-2*Tne countess of Lisburne is in ac- improvements in Aisne-Marne authentic Roumanian Gen- any increases source National Guard units. In the future and front the allied troops eral von Mackensen, in replying to the tive service with the British army, as conditions and that strikes and other reached Ora all forces will be designated solely as British women raoiselle and Cramille, on the German general staff’s request as to Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy, who has are thousands of other labor disturbances must be eliminated. south numerical units of “the army of the of high and low’ degree. She is noted western part of the salient, how many divisions from Russia and been in the thick of the -fighting in “In reaching the conclusions upon 600 prisoners, capturing .” among the younger peeresses of Great according to the war of- Roumania it would be possible to send as commander of a division of which this order is based,” said Mr. fice The new plan, worked out by Secre- Britain for her great beauty, being of announcement. to the western front, said: Americans, has been selected to com- McAdoo, “Ihave been keenly conscious Cierges tary of War Baker and the general a striking Spanish type. The count- and Mauniere wood have “In view of the excited conditions mand the Fifth corps. not alone of the interests of the large also staff, will insure greater solidarity in ess before her marriage to the Carl been occupied and the village of among Roumanians, it w’ould not be of railway employees who are Romigny, the administration of the nation’s of Lisburne in 1914 was Regina Blt- number north of the possible, without extreme danger, to benefited thereby, but also of road, Dormans-Reims fighting forces. The only divisions tencourt. She is the daughter of Don greatly was taken. send a single unit stationed in Rou- BRITISH COMMONS VOTES my solemn duty to the American peo- From under the general definition of the Julie de Bittencourt, attache to the July 15 to July 31 the prison- mania.” that the trust they have DILLON IRISH PLAN DOWN army will be the expeditionary forces Chilean legation. ple to see to it ers captured by the allies The entire kingdom has been pro- discharged faith- numbered in France and the expeditionary forces committed to me is 33,400. claimed in a state of Officers siege. Statesman’s Solution Fails by 246 tc which may be in Italy and the fully with justice to them. Ten Mile par- formed Advance. have been stationed at the doors of “No right decision can be made London, of 106—Asquith Urges Settlement far East. PACIFIST ALLINSON IS Aug. 2.—The allies deliv- liament. More tian 200,000 are out which consioers only the demands and ered a of March in Command. new’ stroke over a ten mile work. Question. SENT TO U. S. PRISON interests of any class of men apart General March, as chief of staff, will front between Buzancy, about four from the paramount interest of the miles south of London, July 30.—The debate in the be in command of the army of the Given Life Term, Sentence Is Soissons, to Serfages, Paris, Aug. I.—Following fearfully First public and the supreme necessity of north of al- house of commons on the Irish ques- United States. Under military regu- Years’ Fere-en-Tardenois. The re- costly counter-attacks against the Reduced to Fifteen winning this war. sult a tion ended in the defeat of the Irish lations he is chief of staff to the sec- was considerable advance and lies at many points on the Soissons- imprisonment. Must Wages. adherents. The motion of John Dillon, retary of war or to the president of Earn Higher the wiping out of the elbow in the line Reims front, in a frantic effort to “Now’ that the decision has been Oulchy-le-Chateau, nationalist leader, condemning the gov- the United States. Under the present at according to ad- loosen the grip of General Foch’s Rockford, 111., July 30. —Brent Dow made, the American people, whose ser- vices to the ernment’s Irish was rejected by policy of president he is acting un- Evening Standard. forces, the Germans, so far as infantry policy, the Allinson left for pris- expect every der the of war. The presi- vants we all are, rail- For the first time since the opening is concerned, were quiescent a vote of 245 to 106. secretary sentence. He fighting of the on to serve a 15-year road employee to devote himself with of this year’s campaign March 21 the of the day. Mr. Dillon’s suggestion that the dent is commonder in chief most was found guilty by a court-martial new’ energy to his work, and by faith- fresh reserves question of Ireland be referred to and navy. at the disposal of the The French, British and American at Camp Grant of resisting the United service to the General Pershing, as commander of ful and efficient justify allies considerably outnumber the troops, after forging ahead for several President Wilson was well received by army draft. He was originally forces in France, is ranked by States large increases of pay and the improve- fresh reserves at the disposal of the days, likewise made no great efforts to the house, but as former Premier As- th* This sentence, how- in- sentenced for life. ment in working conditions hereby enemy, notwithstanding the fact that advance, according to the war office quith pointed out, it could not be ex- General MareA, but under present years. Col. ever, w’as commuted to 15 granted. The American people have the enemy still holds a substantial nu- pected that the president of the Unit- terpretations ranks General Bliss, Hun- statement. Charles R. Howland of the Three right expect this and they will be superiority ed States would undertake such an America’s representative in the council a to merical on the whole of Heavy Guns in Duel. dred and Forty-third infantry presided with nothing less. the front, according the task time, the of Versailles. With the announcement content to view in Meantime both sides, having got for- arduous at this and as president of the court-martial. of the modified regulations it is under- “Itis of the utmost importance that military circles here. ward their heavy guns, are indulging matter was obviously one which the Allinson, pacifist, will be inaugurated The sentencing of the output of railroad shops shall be Throw in New Army. in an artillery duel that hardly before British people would have to settle stood that changes theorist, “advanced thinker” and ego- in the insignia worn by all men in the greatly increased. Unless this is done London, Aug. 2.—A new German has been equaled. themselves. tist, came as the conclusion to some army of the United States. the fighting power of our armies in army under General von Eben has American troops seem now to six of dubious publicity given The France and of our navies on the seas been thrown into the Soissons-Reims be firmly at Nesles. After Will Aid Men Abroad. the His case attracted at- positioned BANDIT ROBS EXPRESS CAR collegian. will be seriously impaired. pocket, it was learned. their remarkable advance, in which Up to the present time men of the tention , first because of his in “I am proud of the loyal service the Use Forty-Five Divisions. they terrific but vain shocks regular army have worn the simple Mr. and Mrs. T. Allinson, sustained Binds and Gags Messenger in parents, W. great body of railroad men have ren- Paris. Aug. 2.—ln the fighting on from the flower of the German em- “U. S.” on the collars of their tunics. head of the Henry Booth Settlement and Empties the Safe of dered to their government since the the Soissons-Reims front July 15 to 31 peror’s army, these overseas men are Other members have had the letter House. His eccentricities were re- All Valuables. railroads have come under federal con- the Germans used 45 divisions, accord- improving their lines. “N. G.” or “N. A.” superimposed upon garded originally as the theoretical va- trol. But there are instances where ing to the Echo de Paris. Many of Oulchy. the larger letters “U. S.” In the fu- porings of a youth. Allin- Beaten Near Charlottesville, Va., July 31.—An ex- misguided agitations and disturbances have been these divisions were used several in the day the German high ture, it is said unofficially, all men in son’s persistence, however, in “defy- Early press car on a west-bound Chesapeake extremely hurtful to the country. times, brought back into the the army will wear the simple letters the theories of the war soon being command again launched powerful and passenger train passing ing” “The loyal and employees rest of only one or two “U. S.” It is said that the change will placed serious light on it. patriotic fight after a countering assaults on the western through here was robbed by an un- a more powerful to their greatly aid officers and men abroad, can render service days. part of the .Soissons-Reims battle identified white man, who bound and country any who may be- who have felt that members of the old by exposing Praise for Scots. front. East of Oulchy le Chateau the Express Messenger Marshall IN gagged were often inclined to DRAFT AGREEMENT EFFECT come slackers in their work, by co- With the French Army in France, enemy four times swept forward in an Washington. The safe was emptied regular array of of the operating in the enforcement of dis- Aug. 2.—Gallant work was done by the effort to break the pressure which is When the train distrust the ability army’s new- United States and of all valuables. Treaties Between cipline and by increasing to the utmost Scottish division which participated pounding him back toward the Vesle. the express messen- er men. Britain and Canada reached Staunton Great limit the output of locomotives and with the French and the Americans in As many times the burst of French and told of the rob- Have Been Ratified. ger was untied cars so essential to the success of our the attack on the western pivot of the fire sent the oncoming waves back re- He said the bandit entered the bery. 2 MILLION AN HOUR ON WAR armies in the field. I count on the German line below Soissons. This di- coiling, after which the Germans, hav- car soon after the train left Char- Washington, July 31.—The British patriotism of every true American en- vision, composed of famous Highland ing suffered heavily to no advantage, lottesville and held him up at the Are Running States draft agree- United States’ Expenses Canadian-United gaged in the railway service.” and Lowland regiments, entered the did not make another attempt. of a pistol. Day, has now become effective, offi- point About $50,000,000 a ment Would Crowd Trains. line to relieve an American division. It Further to the east, and northeast state department an- Says Report. cials at the One cent fare for all soldiers on place the front after three of Fere-en-Tardenois, the valorous took its on SAILORS “OVER THERE” nounced. leave will probably not be established, days and nights of incessant traveling American troops faced and shattered u. s. Washington, I.—America’s war The treaty, arranging for the put- Aug. railroad administration officials said. in lorries and a march of ten miies similar blows. expenses now are running about 50 per ting into effect of the draft agreement More Than 250 American Warships It is believed this would result in with full packs. The Scots immedi- Infantry Get Rest. Brit- whereby each nation can call its na- Based in European Waters cent higher than those of Great crowding trains in camp districts be- launched an attack and drove of Reims there has Now by comparison of in the others’ territory, became ately In the direction —More to Go. ain, it was shown tionals yond the limits of ability of passenger back the Germans on their front. infantry fighting in the last treasury reports a newly issued on the exchange of the rati- been little and effective resources. The conduct of the division has 24 hours, the combat here being con- financial Owing to fications between Ambassador Page the London, July 30.—Sir Eric Geddes, British statement. A rate of 1 cent a mile is now’ given called forth high praise from fined to artillery work. the shorter time the United States has and the British foreign office in Lon- first lord of the admiralty, speaking at soldiers on furlough with special certi- French general. While all eyes are turned on the been in the war, however, the national don. the American Luncheon club, said: ficates from commanding officer. Near- Americans Drive Ahead. main battle panorama, both sides are war debt is only one-third as large as “There are more than 250 American ly 3,000,000 application blanks for this With the American Army on the indulging in numerous small strokes of Great Britain and the indi- warships now based on this side and that HUNS LOSE 4,760,000 MEN rate have been issued, and military au- Alsne, Aug. 2.—American forces have along various parts of the long line of vidual burden of taxation in this coun- Mr. Roosevelt, American assistant sec- thorities have asked for more. smashed forward clear to the north- struggle, from the coast to Switzer- is only about one-half as much as retary of the navy, has assured us this try Paris Paper Says Kaiser Still Has 5,- the Mouniere wood. in an effort to take prisoners. ern fringe of land. number will increase faster in the fu- it is in England. 430,000 Soldiers in had pounded the of men about AUSTRALIANS TAKE MERRIS After artillery With the great concentration ture than in the past.” The United States is spending the Field. infantry- area, there nat- than $2,000,- wood throughout. American in the Soissons-Keims $50,000,000 a day, or more The wood was and debt is Anzac Troops Capture Important Ger- men swept through it. urally have been adjustments 000 an hour. The nation’s war Paris, Aug. 1.—German losses since gun men. of the line and it FLYER MEETS DEATH as man Position in a Few full of German machine shifts in other parts CADET now a little less than $12,500,000,000 the start of the war have reached 4.- Fere-enTar- what $36,- Minutes. Mouniere is southeast of is for the purpose of determining compared with Great Britain’s 760,000, according to estimates pub- have been that William Vann Weir Killed by Crash denois. these troop transfers 675,000,000. lished here in L’Homme Libre, Premier forces have to the Earth Near Fort With the British Armies in France, The Franco-American prisoners are sought in raids. newspaper. The Ger- two Worth, Tex. Clemenceau’s July 31. —Australian troops captured pushed beyond Sergy to within Through Deadly Barrage. mans now have 5,430,000 men, it is (hanary. FOR 5,308 SELECTIVES Merris by a surprise attack. After a kilometers (1.24 miles) of With the American Army on the CALL stated, of which 4.000,000 are engaged their Fort Worth. Tex., Aug. I.—Flying few minutes’ snappy work, the place The allied forces effected prog- Aisne-Marne Front. July 31. —Through on the west front. The paper esti- rest. Cadet William Vann Weir of Gadsden, General Crowder Also Asks for 278 was cleared of Germans and organized ress against stubborn German a barrage as deadly as any the Ger- mates that since March the German Ala., was killed at noon when his plane Men for Same Service, to meet counter-attacks. ance. mans have laid down on any sector Colored losses have been a million and a half, r crashed to earth at Carruthers Field. to Entrain August 15. The Anzacs took 169 prisoners, with American and French for months, the American soldiers, which a million, it is said, have Wednesday of many trench mortars and machine launched an attack as _ comprising men from the middle West been put out of action. on 500 Carpenters on Strike. Washington, Aug. I.—Provost Mar- guns. noon from Seringes to Cierges. and Eastern states, pushed their line front, for the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- shal General Crowder issued a call Merris, two miles from Meteren, was center of the Marne forward a little more and now it forms line l“‘ 111., Aug. I.—Five hundred car- for 5,308 white selective service men U. S. BUYS 510 LOCOMOTIVES the westernmost point of German pen- pose of straightening the ‘ the apex of the long allied front. tion, employed upon three canton- and 278 colored selective service men etration in Gen. Von Arnim’s Flanders molishing barbed wire entangle®i Their progress was considerable, penters. P in of to entrain August 15 for various tech- War Department Asks for Motive drive last April. which the Germans have nearly two miles, but tt is regarded as ments here anticipation practi- schools and colleges through the Power for Military Railroads in the hills, forest* an brilliant tn view of the cally doubling the capacity of the nical through a operation for two-months’ course of France. determined countering by the Ger- camp, walked out on strike. The country a $112,000,000 LENT TO ALLIES places, men, whose homes are in Chicago, de- schooling, after which they will take German Pocket Cleared. mans. Aug. forwar amounting approxi- places in the National army. Washington, I.—The war de- The doughboys drove , a Million Huns. mand carfare to their Loans Bring Total to $6,- Fight have until August 6 to volunteer. partment has ordered 510 locomotives Additional smoke mately sll monthly. Paschen Broth- They 492,040,000, Says Treasury De- hind an American-made Paris, July 31. —On the Aisne-Ourcq for military railroads in France from preceded by a se ers, contractors who are building the partment Statement. They were . battlefield American and French troops Baldwin a barrages. camps, refused to grant the Locomotive works, at I ¦ heavy, rolling with nearly a million Ger- Jackie these po are engaged MARINES KILL HAITI BANDITS total cost of about $25.000,000, it was The advance was made demands, hut offered an increase of Washington, July 31.—Loans * mans in the fiercest close-quarter fight- here. About 10,000 freight to the in the sector d cents an hour, to 82% cents an announced totaling $112,000,000 an allied attack ing since Foch’s counter-drive began, 2% U. S. Soldiers of the Sea Battle Out- service in allies were an- which hour, in pay. The carpenters reject- cars for France, costing east of the Americans, most savage combat in which laws—Three Americans Are will nounced by the treasury department. the and laid down their about $13,000,000 be ordered out a small German pocket. have been engaged in this ed this offer Wounded. France received $100,000,000, Belgium into the Americans within a few days. A deserter who came tools. $9,000,000 and Serbia $3,000,000. This be MJ war. declared that orders had side of the pocket the Washington, July 30. —Three encoun- brought the total of loans to the al- e Along each for a series of retrogrm making a determined Affects World’s Series. United States marines HIT IN RAINCOAT SCANDAL lies to $6,492,040,000. Vesle, ¦ Germans are ters between until Fismes, on the their whole right flank they Washington. Aug. 1.—If the base- and Haitian bandits in stand. On and Dominican v- planning stage Captain Vaughan and Two Others In- reached. „„„ a been launching terrific counter-at- ball magnates are to a Domingo were reported in dis- ne. >- have Santo dicted by a Federal Grand TAKE 14,500 SINCE MARCH 21 The Germans used a tacks. world series after September 1 they to the navy department. Cas- ¦ patches Jury. ing a white flame and smoke. few the line of are laying their players of draft age among the marines were one At a isolated points ualties British Secretary of War Office An- battle shifted somewhat in favor of open to instant induction into the and two privates slightly corporal New York, July 31.—Aubrey W. nounces Captures on the GRAFT the Germans, on the whole their army. Well-informed officials in the About twenty of the bandits BARES ARMY but wounded. a captain in the quarter- West Front. CAPTAIN have failed to dis- office of the provest marshal general killed, several wounded and oth- Vaughan, counter-thrusts were corps of the United and made this perfectly plain in answering master’s States Indicted in lodge the French Americans. ers captured. Felix Gouled, a London, Aug. 1.—Since March 21 Official y"’f” inquiries about the status of ball play- army; manufacturer, of Conspiracy Pleads Gu Americans Hold Heights. D. L. Podell, a lawyer, were in- this year the British have taken 14,- ers who participate in games after the and New York. With the American Armies in by grand jury prisoners on the western front. time set by Secretary Baker for put- FOE HAS NOT ASKED PEACE dicted a federal on a 500 France, July 31. —Following bitter of to the James lan MacPherson. ting into effect the “work-or-fight” rul- charge conspiring defraud parliamentary York, Aug. fighting, American troops are holding in connection with con- secretary of the war office, informed New ing applied to baseball. Arthur J. Balfour Says Enemy Gov- government in the all ® the i.eights beyond Seringes and Sergy as closures to mak« ernments Have Made No tracts for raincoats. the house of commons. ' * ers line army raincoat and have advanced their slightly Proposals. manti' ' rjDg inferior Ukrainia Makes Concession. large profits by ' at some points. Hun Alliance’s Charter Gone. May Exchange Prisoners. indicted Prisoners taken during the fighting Copenhagen. July 31. —It was report- goods to the governin' v ghan, * Aug. I.—Speaking in the Washington. Aug. 1.—President Wil- Amsterdam, Aug. I—The German aU stated the Fourth Guards division of ed from Berlin today that an agree- London. when Capt. Aubrey commons, Arthur J. Balfour, son signed the congressional resolution government, according to a Berlin '<¦ army, has been reached whereby house of dis- corps the German which was finally ment the of the has to the quartermaster < plea'll the British foreign secretary, said that revoking charter National patch, replied favorably t. e & driven .>ut of Sergy by the Americans Ukrainia has consented to cede the In connection with on]f a enemy government had approached German-American alliance, which was American government’s invitation to « after nine attacks and counter-attacks, Russian province of Bessarabia t- w guilty and agreed to * D allies regarding negotia- charged in senate committee hearings a conference regarding the exchange ded was decimated in that series of bat- Roumania in return far commerce he entente er al witness. H peace. with pro-German activities. of civil and military prisoners. tles. Some battalions were wiped out concessions ons for guilty when arraigned-