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? 1 AMERICANS CAPTURE 4000 HUNS SINK YANKEE TROOPS IN RUSH PRISONERS IN OPERATIONS U.S.SMPIN CARRY ALL BEFORE THEM; TO WEST OF CAVALRY NOW IN ACTION WAR ZONE Counter Attack Between Rivers Airmen Use Machine Magnificent Troops Dash Forward Plateau Dominating Soissons on Southwest Occupied in Ad- Guns on Troops Below With and Marne, Complete Surprise for Boche; Great Fervor Dash Front of 28 Ger- 18. Thom-asso- n, American Westover. Along Miles, Which Penetrates Paris, July Colonel Steamer By Associated Press. vance Believed to Have Put End to Ger- a military writer, describ- : on to Eu- On The French front in man Lines to a of Six the air fighting,-says- Torpedoed Way , Depth Miles; Large ing 18. When the allies' attack man Offensive Against Rheims "It was on Monday and Tuesday, July Ten of Crew Number of Guns . when the Germans were forced to rope: Navy began afnoon today the Germans Captured were and offered abandon and muni- of surprised slight moving troops 92 Missing. resistance in advanced BULLETIN. the allied avia- the lines, ' tions by night, that ' 18. Stubborn German resistance at Cour did many immediately throwing up . By Associated Press. ( , Paris, July tors their most spectacular "kam-erad- Washington, July 18. The Ameri- their arms and ." ichamps, northwest of Chateau Thierry, has been broken by the work. A great flock of more than shouting Paris, July 18. More than 20 villages have been recap ' 200 the Ameri- can steamer Westover an army supply in French, says the Havas correspondent at the front. Eighteen wentout Monday, The fire the tured by the French and American troops the offensive be cans the the French ship manned by men, was tor barrage preceded irimf and nuhierous machines were by the French flying lowest, navy waves of infantry but one of the gun this morning, according to the war office announcement to captured next and the British the highest-Whe- and sunk in pedoed the war zone heaviest storms of this year night, which reports also the occupation ot the plateau domi- troops. they reached an 11 important while bound to Europe, the drowned the noise of the shells. ; July Soissons on the southwest. ' , highway the American commander was advised Most of the Germans had taken nating dived. American Navy department tonight By Associated Press. Every followed, Vice Admiral Sims. Ten officers shelter in the from the The statement says: then the French and then the by dugouts 18. French have the and men of the crew of 92 are missing. deluge and the entente allied "After having broken the German offensive on the Cham London, July troops gained British. were five-mi- They are: troops among them with and Rheims mountain fronts on the 16th and 17th, ravine at the River Crise, into Soissons, on a le machine its pagne 15th, running "Every emptied guns Assistant Robert Her- grenades and before at-- into miles of the Paymaster bayonets the French troops, in conjunction with American forces , front down to the east of Buzancy, which means a maximum ad wagons and fields bert Halstead, Mich. they had time to turn around. to which Germans scuttled. Lansing, tacked the German on the 18th between the Aisne vance this of five to news received in the Ensign Many prisoners are in. positions at point miles, according time Ameri- Ralph Dillingham Caldwell, coming "Time and again the Woodsford- - Me. The entente allied are and the Marne on a front of 45 kilometers (approximately 28 London tonight. cans returned for ammunition. troops Chief Machinist Mate Frank Wil-lar- d displaying the utmost fervor in The front Troesnes Americans in the west of Soissons, the Some of them made five in miles.) comprises , , operating region flights Hollo way, Washington, D. C. the attack, their desire being to and IjJouresches. . a day." Hart-wel- dispatches add, have taken 4,000 prisoners, 30 guns and much single Seamen: James Brown Estis, l, strike a strong blow in return for other material which has not yet been estimated. Ga. the recent German assault. Plateau Dominating Soissons Up till. 1 o'clock this afternoon French troops had captured Austin CJyde Wilson, Muncie, Ind. It is the first occasion this year and Region Reached. the on the extreme left and PATRIOTIC DUTY Fireman: Bryan Deal, London, Ind. that the entente allies have coun- "We have made an advance into the heights overlooking Fontenoy, had Harvey Harrison, Noblesvillc, Ind. ter attacked on such a big front. important enemy progressed to Mont de Paris, within a mile of the city of Sois- Edward Lewis Griffin, Baltimore. Their operation directly affects lines and have reached the plateau dominating Soissons on the ' ' sons.- - , Mess Attendant John Cole. Bret- - the position of the German west- southwest and the region of Chaudun. . ; Md. ern flank and EMPHASIZED BY wood, probably will cause "Between Villers-Helo- n and Noroy-Sur-Ourc- q, violent en Americans Continue Advance Se-re- Water Tender Wilfred Joseph y, the German crown prince to hurry have been in South of the our Beyond Town of Vierrzy. Ashland, Ky. some of his reserves to the scene gagements progress. Ourcq, line of Saint Gen- - An American with French t2 Survivors Rescued. of the fighting from the Marne troops have gone beyond the general Marizy division, the troops " r V ' COL. ROOSEVELT and Champagne where evieve, Hautevsnes and Belleau. v . : in their counter attack have the town of No details were given Tn the yeerday today, captured Navy and today everything was quiet. the admir- six miles of and have advanced department's announcement and the "More than 20 villages have been retaken hy Vierrzy, about south Soissons, Franco-Americ- the advices said. s circumstances under which 82 off- able dash of the an troops, , in. which several three miles beyond the town, Former Given Most res--cu- President icers and men of the crew, were thousand, prisoners, and Infportant warmaterials were .taken.!',. i. South of on the north of the River ,1 Vierrzy, heights Ourcq Enthusiastic: are not" known. Nor was there valley the Germans hastily counter, attacked and the situation Reception by any announcement as to whether the GOMD'SMIY Americans Push ForwarcLRapidlyj ' - ' ' vu - at that point still is obscure. ". ' , ; New York G. 0. P. submarine was sighted and fired upon Cavalry .Brought Into Action, f rx V rl by, the squad of armed guards on the A j - The French are on the outskirts of Chouy and Neuilly-S- t. BLOCKS With the mericah Army in France July .18, The Ameri- Convention. steamer. ENEMY'S late Front and from there to Belleau Wood. The average depth The Westover was of 4,270 net can troops had carried all before them by in, the afternoon of the advance is about three miles. tonnage and was last reported at an and had proceeded so fast that cavalry was thrown into the " BULLETIN. - ; Atlantic on May 27. It came American staffs1 were East of Rheims the allies have captured Prunay. 18. port 'STEAM ROLLER' action. All the headquarters., tonight Saratoga Springs, July The from the Pacific coast, having sailed held The great counter attack in which the French and Ameri- movement to about the nom- well inside the territory which the Germans this morning. bring from Tacoma and Seattle 12. It Cour-cham- Colonel April reached the line of ps, can troops are participating between the Aisne and the Marne ination of Roosevelt for was 410 feet long and 54 feet broad. The allies have roughly, Belleau, 28-mi- of New York re- Villers-Helo- n, domi- on a le front has succeeded governor by the French General Tells Chouy, Chaudun and the heights extremely well, according took definite form late Seamen Murdered. (How ' publicans Soissons.' ' ' : j to the latest advices received here tonight and the situation after of the state London, July 18. A French steam-e- e nating. , j tonight the session Poilus and American Dough- Soissons-Chatea- u ioxr many reasons is considered extremely promising. convention when Attorney Gen. has been attacked and sunk by a French cavalry has crossed beyond, the; E. chief to Reuter's. The Course of the Franco-America- n forces. Action Surprise to Germans; Merton Lewis, rival of according boys Changed Thierry road to openings made by Governor Whitman, issued a state- crew succeeded in getting away from The made to latest was about Enemy Reaction Weak. with- the in two boats of German Offensive. ; greatest progress up reportsv Artlilery ment announcing he would ship but both ; 10 kilometers, or a little over six miles. . ; , ;Owing to the fact that there was no artillery preparation draw if the colonel would become them were rammed by the under wa- ter craft. There was one sur- Wilbur Forrest. .;v...w the action was a for the Boche, arid the a candidate. only By Americans Fight With Fury; ':ri:r f'; complete surprise enemy a robin was vivor of the who was in the 1918, Tne Tribune ,A(M'n.) - Coincidently round disaster, (Copyrlcht, b;' Can Them. , anti-Whitm- Nothing Stop v artillery reaction was very weak. On the other hand, the French circulated the an water for fourteen hours. 18. by With the French Armies. July set for. of counter battery Work was exceedingly effective. Enemy avia- faction of the party headed by (Special Cable to the N. Y. Tribune After passing the third objective the operations tors entered into the action and attempted to impede the ad- William Barnes, urging the colonel Crosses Awarded and Omaha Bee.) I have been with the morning, the Americans in .with the French vance, using their machine guna at a low altitude. to enter the primaries. In a short General Gourand's marvelous army south of Soissons,1 launched a second powerful' attack at noon; time it had received several hun- which, stretched across the plains of ' American Results Expeced To Be Valuable. Fismes are under direct observation dred By for Showing the effect of splendid training, the signatures. Pershing Champagne east of Rheims met the with Notwithstanding this, the counter and fire from the new French posi- tremendous shock of some 25 troops went forward swiftly and fought fury. Nojthing enemy Soissons attack was noteworhy for the reason tions on the Crise ravine. These two By Associated Press. Deeds of Bravery divisions and stopped the Germans seemed to stop them, especially in the region of and French a N. Y., 18. almost in their tracks with tremend- and were moved that the accomplished great are he only lines by which the Ger- Saratoga Springs, July to the south of that city. Light heavy pieces ideal more than was achieved by the Theodore Roosevelt delivered a stir- With the American in Lor ous losses. I was at the city of soon each mans in this salient between Soissons Army Marne the up as the troops advancedand aftef barrage ended, German , drive on both siJes of Chalons on the st same ring patriotic address before the re raine, July 18. General Pershing has shells from the American were the enemy's rear Rheims. The length of the front and Rheims can be supplied. It is awarded the .Service hour the German "steam roller" had guns deluging Germans state convention here today. Distinguished his those in ever which an advance was made was possible, however, that the publican Crpss to Lieut Walter R. planned to enter the city, but the only areas, playing havoc with forces, whether retreat, have succeeded Flannery Germans I saw were The practically the same, and the French may in connecting He did not. however, either publicly of Pittsburgh, who swam the Marne prisoners. or reserves endeavoring to come up. ad- lines i n "steam roller" had failed to and and Americans working together up their another way. or privately discuss state politics. under heavy fire on the night of roll, It was open warfare with all the attending excitement vanced in six hours virtually double The French counter is regarded Although he was given a most en- June 3 and back wounded on a 35 kilometer front to the north of most brilliant was brought moment the and the made by heavy guns and infantry,' the the distance covered by the Germans her? as one the thusiastic reception, no attempt soldiers who had escaped from their at that gruesome piles through gaps of in the and it is made the convention into ef dead told another down those in their Ter- In three days. pieces work war, to stampede German captors, but who were un- enemy story. French cavalry dashed, beating path. So far as is known at present the believed that the results will prove nominating him for" governor. able to get across the river. For "We had a fine day" were General rific losses were inflicted at all points on the enemy." The 1 as the French Gourand's first words to the New unction line between Soissons and extremely valuable, Ihe tact that the colonel haa de this rescue Lieutenant Flannery-recentl- y - tanks did all that was expected of them. The great lumbering )ulchy Le Chateau and also the have chained fost important strat-- , clined to talk on state issues be- received the French war cross. York Tribune correspondent after an ' in front of the the Ger- junction line between Soissons and eglc positions. (Continned on Fac Five, Column One.) Distinguished Service Crosses have introduction. Then, in simple phrases engines rolled along infantry, driving also been awarded General Persh- the man to whom the credit goes mans before them with streams of bullets and clearing away by for entire course of ing to Lieut. Joseph T. Brown. Seret. changing the obstructions that had the artillery. . , , the of the many escaped James Hyde and Corp. Henry Wil- - present stage enemy's Huns Reinforcements. Life great final 'drive told how wonderfully Bring Y lara tor gallant conduct in Uelleau The to bring u. EDWARD A. RUMEL wood and Charles the Poilus, between Fort De La Kaiserin Breaks Down enemy early began to Sergt. Cunning reinforcements. Fresh troops Story ham tor off an enemv raid Pompelle and Maine De Massiges, strong ' driving have at various points and . in Alsace after be had been wounded. aided in one small portion of the line Visit Crowded appeared of Who New York the American the On to a a heavy counter attack jvill probably Man Bought the Mail for Kaiser by doughboys, stopped to be withstood'. " Omahan Boche. have "(Copyright, 1311, V. 1. and Canada, tha W. T. Herald Oa. All righta reserved.)" Recognizes Nephew Allies Outnumbered. Hospital in Strassburg On the line south of Soissons the American carried all their ob-- ' A aerica of article ' aketchlnc the scholastic and manual education fit Very in the of the In- In Naval Picture in The Bee officer illustrated on a troops early history Ataff greaft jectives in the second attacks with . carter of Dr. Edward A. Eumely, who them the fundamentals terlaken school marked differences of numbers Switzerland, 18. baa been arrested on a charge of hav-in- g to understand George Coleman of Omaha recog- map graphically, showing Geneva, July the same energy as the first, everi New- - while at opinion and of view developed of allied bought the York Evening Mail of industry and agriculture point nized his nephew in a naval sporting and positions and enemy The German empress, accompanied proceeding further than had been . with money furnished by the German the time for entrance between Dr. and Mr. Riordan, of ; same preparing Rumely in Bee of No divisions at the beginning the been visit-in- g ; government and of having used It for s picture Thursday. Prince Joachim, has expected. . the m the latter where it to see by '. German propaganda.) to university. resulting eventually names were given in the picture en- battle, on was easy The enemy was routed and for the t withdrawal-an- d of the hospitals In the Rhine Aimed at Landed Aristocracy. the establishment titled "Boxing Match Aboard one of that the allies again were overwhelm- most fled, before the American a school of his own in New York "since a dis- part J By FRANK STOCKBRIDGE "These the who will be the Battleships in Foreign Waters", ingly outnumbered. More than 25 towns Sunday, says advance, abandoning even light guns are boys state. With Mr. Riordan's line- of '(Former Managing Editor of the Evening America in the next departure not even the name of the battleship German divisions was the Boche patch from Strassburg by way and ammunition. Only here and " the. rulers of Rumely-ftm- , ' Dr. nd no further Basel. The are said to be V . MaU.) the first oppose was given. Mr. Coleman up. hospitals there the line was re- - generation," he said to me, tiotv to execution of immediately along strong fu- the the education, recognized his "Observers were ordered to watch crowded with wounded, mostly sistance offered and these Young Rumely had not been back time I visited his school. "The al ideas and he had Henry Laurer, nephew, from the zone of at points methods brought in the forground of the picture, whose the enemy and flash back his move- 'Prussian soldiers the Germans were attacked with rifle n America more than a, few months ture welfare of America depends upon from and those which he German offensive the their rule and direct the Germany home is at 3526 North 27th street. ment," said the officer. "At 11 o'clock, the along and bayonet, before which. they re- before he set on foot his first venture fitness to had developed. Marne. Bavarian and Saxon wound- Young Laurer enlisted in the navy a full hour beforeffle German artillery treated steadily. . in the introduction of German kultur destinies of the nation." ed are sent into the interior. The school was started in 1907 at Great attention was paid to the from Omaha two years ago. He is commenced firing, our big guns being So far has the attack progressed into his native land. This was the The empress is reported to have vicini- La Porte. An able young educator, physical development of the boys. The now at sea on the Melville. He was opened on troops concentrating that tonight the enemy in the Establishment of a school for boys lake broken down and wept st seeing con- Patrick H. was employed as furnished an ideal swimming pool popular in Omaha and identified with on Face Five, Column Five.) ty of the Chateau Thierry is which had for , . Riordan, its principle apd and the and the boys were and en- local events. so many wounded at Strassburg. sidered to be in a somewhat danger- - ' avowed the of rich Dr. Rumley's chief assistant taught sporting new advices purpose, training couraged to swim, to row and fish, Large wings, the say, ous one twhere he will have ; sons become institution grew and flourished. Many Roosevelt Assured position men's to masters of. men as and in winter to skate. I sat on the are being added to the hospitals at to act quickly. i and lords of the land. wealthy men enrolled their sons Daniels Plans Up and Mannheim. In the liked the school bank of the lake one summer after- Speeding Cologne Americans Receive Thanks. . , In N he hid seen students and the boys His Son meantime Wolff the Germany and noon, with Dr.- - Rumely a Quentin May the bureau, The American including and its methods. It was watching Construction semi-offici- " troops, studied at first hand the most opt ln? of Destroyers German al news highly for the insti- group of his pupils swimming and agency, those returning, bandaged; are in socialized natron on. face of fore it became necessary 18. announce the Ger- the the running-alon- g Washington, Further Have continues to that Amerio.ns have tution to move into larger (fuartels diving and the shore, July Landed Unhurt high spirits. The globe. He had seen a country with tract of while the doctor commented on the speeding up of destroyer construction man losses have been insignificant. received warm expressions of thanks acre of tillable land under cul- and the doctor purchased a discussed every several hundred of farm and grace and beauty of their naked was today at a conference from the French commanders... a -' acres New York, 18. Quentin tivation; nation ruled by a govern- lit- bodies in sunshine. between Secretary Daniels and repre- July Neglect Charge Against The American to noon vood!and surrounding a beautiful glistering the Roosevelt, after an troops up ing class of landed proprietors whos" sentatives of the shipbuilding in n reported missing just south of Soissons had captured estates were tilled for them b tle lake near the village of Rolling Extolled German Physical Ideals. aerial engagement over the German Officers of River Boat yast a few miles east of La Porte. panies. Spokesmen of the Pacific and 3,300 prisoners. Fifty cannon had and tenant Prairie, "'One of the lines, probably landed unhurt and is 18. ma- - patient peasants toiling Here of school build- most hopeful things Atlantic coast plants were present.. Washington, July "Unskilled been counted and thousands of ; farmers. the construction now a prisoner in the hands of the ' ' ' America had no such class about Germany," . on a scale the boys h: said, "ivthe way navigation and neglect" are charged chine guns. "; f - There were schools in ings huge by the men of wealth fGcrmans, according to a cable mess junkers. themselves was undertaken. Trees young ;nd family against the captain and pilot of the Northwest of Chateau Thierry the Jplenry to teadh the trades and train are going in for physical development Bell in New York age received tonight by his father. steamer Columbia in a re- Americans numbers of ' were cut down in the forests sur- City Col. preliminary captured large poys into artisans, but there were nc They are not doing this as the Eng- Theodore Roosevelt. to Redfield the and an equally the lake and school ' port Secretary by prisoners ' important schools "take rounding great lish Hall Peals Colonel Roosevelt on his ar- - designed to the bov and other do, merely for the sake of sport, for Victory said, iccal inspectors on. the Illinois river quantity of munitions and stores. . 7 destined to inherit buildings, dormitories or to make New York. 18. bell in rival tonight from that he the control of big structures built fashion out themselves pleasing and July The Saratoga, disaster, which caused the loss of The captures south of Soissons in enter-terpris- es inrustic had received son-in-la- business and attractive to women, but in the the city hall tower was ordered just from his 100 . of stores were immense and manufacturing of the spirit nearly lives. , the way e rough logs. and teach him how to of the ancient Greeks, realizing that rung by mayor Hylan for 15 min- Surgeon Major Richard Derby, who Trial of the two men on ' the included some airplanes y which., the Names School "Interlaken." in a ruler of workmen. the rulers of the perfect state must be utes this afternoon in celebration is now Paris, a cablegram which charges before the district board enemy was unable to remove, so Dr. Rirme-l- y themselves ad- ; ' Rumely conceived a school that To the school .thus built Dr. perfectly developed." of the victprious American read: , automatically ,will follow. The maxi- swiftly did the storming troops sweep yrould take these boys from 8 years gave the German name of "Inter-la- " The boys at Interlaken did all of vance on the French front. "Companion aviator confident Quen- mum punishment is revocation of through. Many prisoners and many ' - on tin landed unhurt." ' remain , pit upward and by a combination of . (Continued fag Five, Column Xwo.) licenses. guns still to be. counted,..

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