Foe's Population Drops;

The Great War.1400th Day French made frequent successful counter attacks. Red Cross Ready The furthest point reached by the Foe's Population Cavalry Gets is Drops; enemy Troosnes, which is only Comment To forty milts from the Paris fortifi¬ Military Care for U. S. cations. A French counter attack Entente Holds Its Own Its Chance in threw him out of ibis town, and also By William L, McPherson Wounded Troops from FaverollcsT Corey and Lon¡r-, I^HE effect of Fcch's ently massed on that front. Some «voie German}^, in Another Year of Will Have Lost 1 0 Per waiting; pont, which at one time all in War, Marne Battle is to be¬ of the hardest fighting of the last his strategy beginning Three Thousand Beds Pro¬ possession. Cent of Her of Britain In¬ come apparent. The Allied few days has taken place between This counter attack was Numbers.People probably general-in-chief was not tempted Noyon and Soissons. Here, after vided in Paris a rear-guard action crease Battle Losses District; only covering Despite Slashing, Open Warfare into opposing a serious resistance to the first necessary retirements ta the retirement of the French troops the German drive south to the Vcsle the Crecy-Chavigny line, and then More Available Soon slightly to the north in the Marks Present Struggle operating and thence to the Marne. to the Kpagny-Blerancourt line, the " i June 2.- egion of Vierzy and Chaudun. LONDON, The drain of stress and anxiety of the war, am! Barnum's " power, the fall owinp to sickness and disease, which for Paris French have lost little ground. On June 2. Fat Man The Germans have every reason man, in the number of There was no imminent danger in PARIS, Major Robert P. births und the loss of the have been appravated by hardships Friday and early Saturday they Perkins, head of the American Red dropped into our 34th to the attack in this sector, population and food troubles, increased by one the German push straight ahead. It St push through sickness and are were pushed back a few miles north- Cross work in sat¬ store one in the underfeeding million over the normal. But this is made very rapid progress because it Europe, expressed day for a «specially neighborhood of felt more as west of Soissons as far as isfaction with Trunk severely by the Central perhaps to be regarded merely a Fontenoy. to-night the measures he Favcrolles as these Refugees Cheer had in front of it only thin cur- Strap; was directed to and Troesnes, Powers than by the people of the weeding and no preat biological loss. But yesterday afternoon's com¬ taken by the Red Cross to care for the our towns are tain of French troops. Foch clearly not only astride the rail¬ Entente. Whereas the annual of Food Supply Mismanaged Men from Paris the re¬ American wounded and Salesman, George Coffin, pain Entering Fight could not afford to mass reserves munique reported refugees. the way running along the Ourcq valley, population in in Austria and Much of the mortality anionp chil¬ of violent German at¬ Hospitals have been established where midget. Germany, dren and among the civilian popula¬ north of the Marne to meet the pulse many but outflank a formidable run¬ in has a point they were most needed and ridge Hungary given place to tion as a whole has been caused by tacks .Saturday evening in that re¬ supplies in west serious of the Gei-man wedge and bend it have beer, sent George, his usual ning, foughly, east and through loss, the peoples of the En¬ the way in which the food supply of Villages Hands gion north of Moulin-sous-Tou- forward to supplement affable the northern end of of tente have suffered a small Germany has been mismanaged in the Change back, if by so doing he would be the provision made the In manner, said: the Forest very interests of the landholders and of the vent, as well as further up, above by army. "Yes, sir; do diminution in compelled to weaken his line on the the Paris district three thousand want it a [Jomanial de Retz. comparison. farming class and to the detriment of Time After Time; Drive Bois de on the south hos- you for Dress Grçat Britain's total west side of the created Ger- the Carlepont, pital beds have been Trunk Strike for population har, the poor. The landholders and farmers newly tank of the Oise. If the Allies hold provided fot or a Steamer?" Railway so far remained at about the same have prospered, while the poor in the Slowing Down man salient, from Noyon to Soissons .American soldiers, and a thou and "Here's the towns have short of bread and here can afford to Moreover, possession of these and figure, pams balancing losses. The gone and from Soissons down to Château fast they still more soon wiil] be ready. trunk right here," said the potatoes. yield at the south. In the drive now on. sait of La Ferte, Milon and Marolles rate of increase in the United States On the other hand, because of the Thierry. * ground going Fat One, pointing to his own has bulletins recorded a Major Perkins, the members of tht would «pen the prospect of advanc¬ not boon affected at «1!. As Hie liberal separation allowances and the (By The Associated Press) Saturday's Red Cross were often in waist. the the WITH THE IN It a gre,¡t. danger ing behind the forest ridge and cut¬ war poos on this growing disparity in high wages, vital conditions of FRENCH ARMY became evident couple of sweeping German advance in the but only one had been wounded. Ai the losses of between the working classes in Great Britain have ¡FRANCE, June 2. All the elements of ago that the true direction of now worked in places of "Oh!" said ting the Soissons-Paris railway, only population been better since the war than when days Ourcq River region, between Sois- comparativt George, smil¬ Central Powers and the peoples tight- open warfare, resembling oldtime cam¬ the German offensive was safety. There had been no seriou some five miles away in the direc¬ them is to the war b* pan. not south, sons and Château Thierry. The loss of Even the ing, "I see," and inp likely increase. next the German paigns, are these in many supplies. wheelbar fishing out If the war on By year empire present days but southwest. Since drove west for a maximum rows stored in Soissons tion of Villers-Cotterets. A further goes into next year be lower in n Wednesday Germans had been uti a that the population of the German will 7,025.001» populat.il parts of the great battlefield, stretch- lized by refugees to carry their effects strap measured 115 continuance of ¿his movement would empire, than it would have been had the war the Germans have been fighting only of five miles. They captured In on which reliance was placed for th.' ing »long the Marne. Here a small col¬ gain Paris the Red Cross, at the re inches, he handed it to not taken'place. The vitality of the a holding battle on the or ran on of the also threaten to turn the important enlargement of Germany's prosperity umn of French and British infantry- east, Neuîlly-St. Front. Their line quest the authorities, '.iad now as and and for peoples of Austria and of Hungary has side of the salient. Had it sumed full for receiv customer'and asked, base of industry repairing the in¬ suffered even more. was men be seen back Rheims, Saturday south from Villers-Hélon responsibility "How's Compiegne. jury to trade and commerce after the This, perhaps, may slowly falling ing and feeding thousands of to be expected. or been as to them to take Priez and refugee this?" "That's Roughly. the Germans have war, will havo lost 10 per cent of its spreading out as a line of skirmish¬ important through Noroy-sur-Ourcq, who are arriving here, and dispatch just the advanced until their line runs, numbers and a still greater proportion Austria looses Heavily ers, with protecting parties of scouts Rheims as it was to take Soissons, Etrepilly to Montluers. ing them to their various destination- cheese," said the of its industrial «.-«-.- "Overly v strength. The (¡( r- watching to prevent a There they would have stormed the de- ith several bends, from Chateau man which The peoples of Austria will be 11 surprise. from a Plump." "Now, I'll tell empire, in June, 1919, be seen a Subsequently they pushed you to on which should have had will per cent, poorer in numbers next year may cavalry patrol, with ! fences of the ancient cathedral city Photos Show Thierry Xoyon. 72,000,000 people, if the war never taken a mile and a half to two miles fur¬ Wreckec what i want to have no more than than had piace. lances or carbines ready for use, de¬ four or live It is you do; cut town the line pivots. The Ger¬ 64,500,000. will be 8 per cent lower in num¬ days ago. prob- Flower of Nation Killed They parting for or from a ther west, reaching Longpont and at that off to 68 inches mans are pressing attacks at bers than they were in 1914. Hungary returning daring able that German designs on the Warships Zeebrugg« (which is Of those that have been killed the will be still worse off.

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