♦ WEATHER FORECASTS ♦ WHERE TO GO TO-NIGHT PV*r 36 hour* ending S p. m. Thursday: Royal Victoria—Mary Flckfordb Victoria and vicinity—Light to moder­ Vantages—Vaudeville. ate winds, continued flue and hot. Dominion—"A Modern Lorelei.” • Lower Mainland—Continued fine and Variety—Wallace Reid. Romano— Mrs. Vernon Castle. Columbia—Mary Anderson. VOL. 53. NO. 14 VICTORIA, B. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1918 FOURTEEN PAGES ENEMY THRUST INTO SERIES OF LOCAL ACTIONS German Bridges on GERMAN LOSSES ARE ESTIMATED the Marne Are Under ALLIES ARE CONTINUING TO HOLD AT 100,000, ROT ALLIES HAVE Fire of French Guns GERMANS IN CHECK, ALLOWING BUT London, July 17.-—French counter­ attacks have breught the German bridges over the Marne under the fire KEPT OWN LOSSES AT LOW LEVEL ef French artillery of medium calibre. SMALL CHANGES IN BATTLELINE Enemy Has Found Offensive in France Extremely General Pershing Is REBELS IN GERMAN ARMY Third Day of Offensive in France Finds German Plans Costly Affair; French Forces, Though Fighting With­ Made G. C. B.; Bliss 44 Upset; Enemy's Efforts Seem to Be Directed To­ out Interruption, Have Lost No Guns, It Is Reported Is Made a G.C. M. G. BURNED DOWN IN ward Turning Rheims Salient; French Report London, July 17.—General Pershing, London, July 17.—The casualties suffered by the German army A NEW GERMAN AERODROME Commander-in-Chief ef the American in the offensive in France up to the present are estimated to numbel1 Army in France, has been awarded the Ob the French Front in France, Jnly 17.—A period of forty, Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 100,000, according to news received in London to-day from the front, and General Tasker H. Bliss, the eight hours has sufficed for the holding of the German masse, launch­ London, July 17.—The dint ruction by fire of e new German American representative on the Su ed in the Crown Prince’s great offensive on Monday. The enemy aerodrome and twenty-two airplane* near Nivelles, seventeen miles promo War Council, ha# been given units which were turned back from the direction of Paris are endeav­ London, July 17.—(Via Reuter's Ottawa Agency).—A semi­ south of Brussels, i* attributed to the work of revolutionisis in the the Grand Cross of the Order of St. official report from Paris reads: German army, saya an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam Michael and 8L George. This was of oring to ascend the Marne and are being held in check by the French “While the enemy losses were frightful, ours were quite light, to-day. fleislly announced to-day. forces. especially east of Rheims. If we were allowed to state the figure it Ten Belgian* and two German non-commissioned officers have The poeition of the German columns which gained a footing on would be most reassuring. Whereas during the previous offensive we been arrested. the south bank of the Marne has become perilous, while to the east of had to send for reinforcements from other parts of the front, this The day liefore the fire, adiU the dispatch, a aecret meeting waa Rheims the German efforts to advance have each time been foiled. time those on the spot sufficed to sustain the shock. This is partly held in a canteen at Nivelles, where the scheme for the destruction of Comparatively slight progress has been made by the enemy west due to the constant arrival of American troops, which is reducing the the aerodrome waa discussed. AIRMAN. IS KILLED of Rheims, and his hope of effecting a breach in the line has not been uneven proportions of the forces.” realised. The Allied method of defence has proved wonderfully ef- London. July 17.—The position of With Heavy Losses. ficacions, everywhere resulting in maintaining the armjeS intact. the Allies at the present stage of the l.ondon. July 17 —General von Ein- Ship With Spanish Theodore Roosevelt's Young­ German offensive In France is said to em's army, which now has been defi­ Ite distinctly satisfactory, in advices nitely engaged on the German left est Son Dies in France for London^ July 17.—The German of­ received to-day The French losses wing In the Champagne, yesterday de­ Miiister to Greece 100 Drafted Men in * fensive In France is In it* third day, are slated to have been very small. livered five attacks between Hulppes Allies1 Cause and according to Entente observers, It They have lost no guns, the reports and Maasiges. All the attacks were Torpedoed by U Boat has no longer the character of a gen­ repulsed with heavy losses. Ontario Are Asking eral attack. Already, they declare. It HID TD BE CALLED has worked itself into a series of com­ paratively local operations. The suc­ Athene, July 17.—It io announced Paris. July 17. — Lieut. Quentin Habeas Corpus Now cess of at least one of these operations, from ■ Spanish source that the Span­ Roosevelt, youngest son of Colonel however, would amount to a consider­ ish steamship an which Senor Lopez de able achievement for the Germans, how­ Only* Those Which Were on Theodore Roosevelt, former President of Toronto, July 17.—When Gor ever much It might fall short of their LINE PLANNING ENEMY HAS FED. Vega, 4pie Spanish Minister te Greece, the United States. has been killed-in an original designs. Waldron appears before Mr. Justice wee returning te Spain, wee torpedoed Line Attacked Have air fight.- the semi-official Havae News Sutherland here to-day he will have Turning Movement. German submarine though she The offensive now appears largely Been Used Agency announces. His machine fell ready to present 100 petitions for writs the Minister's flog. The to take on the aspect of a turning in the enemy lines. of habeas carpus, on behalf of i BREAK WITH JULIES ipleiget end hie family were rescued. movement against the Khefms salient. SHY FRENCH EXPERTS Philip Roosevelt. Quentin's cousin, drafted under the Military Service Act. The Germans during the night mads The German Government hod been Faria, July 17—-No French treaps witnessed the air battle in the vicin­ Mr# Waldron is ef the opinien that progress in two sectors. South of the n®l'f**d of the Minister’s departure a ity of Chateau Thierry in which Quen­ Marne they attacked the positions on from ether perte ef the Western front these cases cannot rightly be referred the heights commanding the river week in advance. tin was engaged, and saw the machine German Report Says Landing Paris Critics Are in Agreement have been sent te the present fighting fail, but did not know until later that te the Supreme Court ef Canada. crossings, retaken by French troops in line, saye • review issued by the Havae the (Aeroplane was that of his cousin. a counter-offensive on Tuesday. The of Allied Troops on Mur- German Thrust Has Fallen The Parle Journal says. French reached the Bourdonnerie and Agency. Only the troops in the line Closmil farms, north of 8t. Agnan and man Coast Cause Short and their reserves here and countered Not in Flames. Daily Cholera Tell Chapelle-Monthoden. but there they en­ the shack ef the German attack. All countered fresh enemy troops who ap­ DM SIYS HUES Paris, July 17. — Lieut. Quentin pear to have forced them back again. circumstances, it is added, paint te Roosevelt, of the American air service, in Petrograd Said The battle is continuing on the slopes Amsterdam, July 17.—Premier Lenin# Paris. July 17.—All the Parts mill favorable outcome of the battle. youngest won of Colonel Theodore and in the wood south of the height*. Roosevelt, is missing. His machine is about te break efF diplomatic re I a tary critics are "in agreement to-day In On the southern bank of the Marne Farther east the Germans seem to was aeen to fall within the German to Be 500 Persons have made little or no progress in their tione with Great Britain and any ottor the view that yesterday still further COULD ENO THE WAR the German position at present la dif lines. It was not In flames when It attempt to debouch from the Bouqulgny Entente Power connected with ine accentuated the failure of the German flcult. The French artillery and felL wood and through Nesle. lending of armed forces on the Murman offensive, the Havas Agency notes to­ aerial forces are working actively to Lieut. Roosevelt was returning from Ixmdon. July 17.—The dally cholera Were Ejected. a patrol fight when he was attacked death lull In Petrograd I» free persons, coast, according to news said to have day In a review of the trend Of Til* prevent the enemy from being rein­ Near the Marne the Germans appar ­ If They Would Accept Teutons by a German squadron. It was si according to an Exchange Telegraph ently took some ground southwest of boon received from Moscow by the comment. forced and to hamper his supply l!n< that Lieut. Roosevelt suddenly lost dispatch. At Saratov thousands of per­ Venteull near Monvolaln. but a coun­ Berlin newspapers. "It Is perhaps too early to speak of Conception of "Feelings The spirit of the French troops re­ control of his machine, probably hav­ ter-attack by French troops ejected sons are suffering from the disesae. victory." says The Echo de Parla, "but mains strong. ing received a mortal wound. them. A diapatch received in London Mon­ of Humanity" The malady also ha* spread to Finland, North of the M%rne the turning day from Moscow by- way of Amster­ we may »ay that the enemy has suf­ Ground Regained.