CRACK ROCHE TROOPS
ARE ROLLED BACK ON
LINE NEAREST PARIS
. v - By FRED S. FERGUSON,
r" United Press Staff Correspondent.
With t’ne Americans on the Marne, June 7.—The American
marines, who swept the Germans back two miles on a five mile front
northwest of Chatcau-Thierry yesterday and last night, were holding
their gains this morning, in the face of determined German counter
attacks.
With the aid of French infantry, the American marines and
machine gunners were consolidating their positions all along the
lieiv front.
There was violent fighting all last
Slight, tho Americans occupying Bus
siares, Tcrcy, Bouresches, Neuilly
wood, part of Bclleau wood and tho
railway station and railway at Boure
jBches.
In less than four hours tho marines
had completely cleared Neuilly wood
of the enemy, taking more than a 100
prisoners and 10 machine guns.
French infantry, on the left, took 160
prisoners."—
Beat Crack Prussians.
Continuing their advance, the Ameri
cans fought their way through the
•crack Prussian troops opposing them,
pushing their way past Busslares and
occupying Torcy, part of Belleau wood,
the village of Bouresches, and the
railway station and railway in the lat
ier place*
The desperate defense by the enemy
erevented the Americans from attain
ing some of their objectives but the
ittaek was renewed late .today, with.
5reat violence.
i In regimental and brigade hcadquar
■ters, officeis who had not slept lor five
lays and nights sat at telephones dur
; !ng the attack receiving reports and
sending out orders.
Belleau wood was subjected to a
fierce artillery bombardment prior to
ihe attack but the infantry encoun
tered elaborate machine gun defenses,
which were still lnlaci.
In ilerce fighting there the marines
A finally took the northwest corner of
-iha wood, the borhes then retaking the
i' voed beyond in iierce counter attacks.
Huns Counter Attack.
I was at brigade headquarters when
lie report came of tho counter at
t 1 ticks.
”Ko!d on; hang on. Siboy! "We’re
coming out to he p you,” was the cheery
word a major phoned back, though lie
lirnself was near exhaustion from Jack
at sleep.
A few minutes later came reports
from various companies that they were
reaching their objectives and estab
tablishing communication with each
other.
In the meantime, trench mortars
were ordered up and blew up boehe
positions that were still holding out.
The flash of Artillery lighted the sky
ail night. The banging of guns was
constant.
At dawn I went to an advanced po
sition at the extreme right. The Ger
man artillery was becoming more ac
tive.
Practically all the fighting had been
carried on through wheat fields and
wocd3. The Americans would rush
ahead a little way, pause to resist a
•counter attack and then rush on again.
Take Important Railway.
The bcches clung to the railway sta
tion at Bouresches for several hours.
Finally, Ihe American rush could not
bo denied and our boys swept into the
village, fighting their way through the
streets, storming the station and win
ning a control of the railway.
Bouresches, which has been fought
over several times in the new Marne
battle, is about four miles due west of
■Chateau-Thierry. Belleau is about two
miles north and slightly west of
Boursohes. Belleau wood lies between
the two villages. Torcy is about half
a mile northwest of Betleau. Bussiares
Is a mile west of Torcy. Neuilly wood
lies south of the village. Tho raiway
-captured by tho Americans runs north
westward from Chateau-Thierry,
through Bouresches, Bclleau, Torcy,
Bussiares, Neullly and Vaux, crossing
the Ourcq and Neut'ehelles.
In the region of Lucy (five miles
west of Chateau-Thierry} an Ameri
can position was being badly harassed
by a German machine gun. An Ameri
can patrol leaped from tho linesv at
tacked the enemy position, killed »tho
entire crew and captured tiie gun.
Part of the advance yesterday was
made across a wheat field, tiie marines
alternately dropping in the wheat,
then raising up and half crawling, half
walking, into the face of the machine
gun fire.
Positions Are Improvod.
Tiie advance greatly improved tho
marines’ position, opening tiie way
through a wood on a hill which had
given tho enetny the dominating po
sition. Now tiie Germans are pushed
completely off the hill. The marines
took up positions on the farther side,
having full sweep wltii their machine
gun across r.n open field.
Most of the prisoners who were
Prussians said they thought the Brit
ish were opposite them. They said
they were to have attacked again to
day. They had not had any rations
for five days. Other German prisoners
said tho Prussians got what little food
there was.
Tiie general morrle of the Germans
in tilist region is the lowest. Prisoners
said that three divisions (30,000 men,)
had been used up trying to rush back
the marines. They included tiie Jae
gers, who- are crack riflemen.
French soldiir.s holding a position
overlooking' the fight reported terrible
execution by the marines' machine
guns, as well as by artillery fire. Tho
boche dead were thick on the field.
Newsio Likes the Game.
Charles Ginsberg, formerly a news
boy at the coiner of 116th street and
Lexington avenue, New York, marched
into headquarters with his bayonet
fixed on a boche prisoner, who was
walking ahead of him. Ginsberg said
"it was a tough, hot fight," but that
he was anxious to get rid of his pris
oner and get back into it.
A hospital corps man from Wilming
ton. Del., who dressed several wounds
and men under fire, said they were "the
gamest bunches ever." He told of Cor
poral Kapher, who was caught in the
boche lines Tuesday and played dead,
and then took a day and night to crawl
back into the American lines. The
| battling around Chateau-Thierry con
sists almost entirely of machine gun
duelling, the Americans getting far the
best of it.
The marines say they hear that
every third boche lias a machine gun,
and from tiie fire they believe it. But it
doesn't stop them.
On Historic Ground.
Fighting is now over ground marked
by tiie graves of French soldiers who
fell in the first baule of the Marne.
It is ihe farthest thing from what you
would expect a battle field to look like.
I stood today waist deep In the green
grain beside a light battery which was
hurling shells into the counter attack
ing bodies. Tiny ducklings were swim
ming in a pond neaiby, already accus
tomed to tiie strange sounds, which
they first learned in the last few days.
A marine courier wore a rose
plucked from a wall nearby. Just be
yond, the historic Marne lay like a
blue ribbon shot from a bolt to wind
at will in tiie midst of the green valley,
now bathed in the blood of nations.
American Marines Like Tigers;
Refuse to Stop at Objectives
By Associated Press.
With the American Forces on the
Marne Juno 8.—The American marines
who began a second attack on the
German lines late yesterday captured
the village of Torcy and drove their
way into Bouresches, northwest of
Chateau-Thierry. This morning they
were holding Torcy in the face of re
peated counter attacks and were push
ing back the Germans through the
streets of Bouresches. Virtually all
their objectives in this attack were
attained.
Tho American plan did not include
the taking of Torcy, but the marines
swept into It and drove out the Ger
mans.
The one point -where the objective
was not reached was on t'ne right of
tho attack !n the Belleau wood. Tho
fiercest fighting Is continuing here.
The fight started at J:4u o'clock this
morning and tho Americans had at
tained all their objectives by 7:15
o'clock.
The Americans have been pressing
the Germans so hard that the enemy
> ” has been forced to throw threa new di
visions of his best troops in tho line
■during the last three days.
Tight Like Tigers.
The Americans are 11 ka tigers, riieir
commanders have all they can dr> to
hold the men back. Even tire wounded
are enthusiastic and eager to fight.
They are proud of their wounds. A
general who visited a field dressing
station said he was elated by the sight.
The Americans sang and whistled
“Yankee Doodle” and cheered as they
went over the top They made their
way swiftly through tho German dead
that lay strewn in No Mar.'s Land.
In addition to prisoners, the Ameri
cans captured 10 machine guns. Ger
man prisoners said they had not been
fed for four days-owing to tiro deadly
fire from the French arid American
gunj which prevented tho bringing up
of supplies. These Germans were with
out helmets. They were tired of the
war. They had been told that (lie
British opposed them as. their com
manders were afraid to let them know
it wag the Americans.
The Germans ware cleared out of
Veuilly wood also by tho Americans
and pressed or. to Torcy. two and a
half mi’es en3t of Veuilly.
The French attack was to straighten
out the American lino and it was a
brilliant perfoimance. In this they
were assisted l>y the American forces.
American infantry cleaned out enn
group of S3 Uhlan.;, who were mount
ed.
Capture One; Kill Eight.
“Don’t let one oucape,” ohoutsd a tig
American. All but one was killed; he
was captured.
The Americans advanced In a solid
phalanx, their strong determined faces
and great physique an inspiration to
tlielr gallant French comrades, who
now regard thorn with brotherly af
fection.
On Tuesday the Americans fared a
Saxon division; on Wednesday a guard
division: Thursday a crack Prussian
division, and also a battalion of famous
Jaeger sharpshooters. The Americans
caught one scouting party of eight
sharpshooters and killed them all.
Soon after the attack yesterday
morning the Americans carried Hill 142
(about two-thirds of a mile south of
Torcy) the highest point in this vi
cinity and swept on and stopped at ttie
foot in a wheat field on the other side,
from where they raked the Germans
wttli machine guns. One entire enemy
machine gun company was almost an
nihilated.
Wore French Uniforms.
Tho Germans had donned French
uniforms but tho Americans, fore
warned, poured volleys of fire into
them. One German soldier had 32
wounds. Among ttiose captured were
two officers
The wounded Germans were hur ■
ried to hospitals and given quick
treatment. Some of the Germans said
they had been told that the Americans
were not trained, but that they had
found the Americana could shoot.
By Associated Press.
With tho American Forceo on the
Marne, Thursday, June G.—A notable
development was the low morale of
the prisoners, all Prussians. They ex
pressed themselves as tired arid glad
to got. eat of the fighting. This was
despite the fact that they say that
they arc furnished with food, although
the Saxonsf, the Wiiortcmburg troops
and others may go without.
It must not be imagined, however,
that they did not put up a fight this
morning, for their officers were among
them, urging them on. hut the marines
dashed into them, yelling like Indians
and plying bayonet and rifle. One
marine who was taking back a pris
oner ran into two German officers
and JO men. JJo tackled them sing!*
handed with his rifle and bayonet,
killed both the officers and wounded
sever, of the men
Another sergeant was about to take
a prisoner when the German threw
himself on the ground and discharged
his revolver at tho American after
■allies him “comrade.” That settled
SHIP OUTPUT IN MAY'
TOTALS 343,450 TONS
Launchings Numbered 39 Steel
and 32 Wooden Vessels
Last Month.
Washington, P. C., Juno 8.—Exceed
ing the ship production of April by
122,000 tons, the emergency floet cor
poration turned out R43.450 dead
weight tons in May, the United States
shipping board announced today. There
were launched during the month 39
steel ships of a dead weight tonnage
i of 228,750 and 32 wooden ships total
| ing 115,700 tons.
the German, for the sergeant shot him.
as he dkl four others who also had
surrendered, but refused to put up
their hands.
It appears that the marines in going
in forestalled an attack thp Germans
had planned. It was to have been car
ried out by the Prussians, who had
1 been put into the line for that purpose,
! and was to have taken place either
| today or tomorrow. These men had
! relieved the Prussian guard division^
i which was badly chewed up in the
; fighting of the last day or two. They
in turn relieved the Saxons just after
the marines took over the sector, so
; the marines are proud of the fact that
j they have used" up three German di
visions in less than a week and aro
still very much alive themselves.
The morale of the men is wonderful.
They are willing to attempt anything
.and are talking with pride of the heavy'
losses they inflicted upon Germans in
i their attack this morning, while all the
early reports Indicated that the after
| noon had been even more costly to the
: enemy.
This latter attack was undertaken
[largely because of the solendid show
[ ing the marines made in the morning,
| coupled with tile discovery that the
! morale of the Germans in opposite
j positions was low, which made the
i going easier for the fiery soldiers of the
j marine corps. The advance was car
i ried by the same men who attacked in
j the morning and who had had no rest.
■ They asked nothing, however, but
| plenty of ammunition and hardly ate
; the food that was brought up to them,
iso absorbed were, they in the task of
! chasing the enemy as far as possible.
No one who saw the marines in ac
| tion today did not thoroughly agree
with the exclamation of their com
mander. when ho said:
I "I just wish I had an army corps
[ of ’em here.”
_
ONE KILLED IN PARIS.
Paris, June 8.—One person was
killed and several were injured in last
night's air raid over Paris, it was of
ficially announced today. Only one
! enemy machine succeeded in penetrat
ing the aerial barrage.
FRENCH RECORD GAINS.
Paris, June 8.—American troops
fighting on the main battle front have
gained ground on the line of Torcy
Belleuu and Bouresches, west of Cha
teau Thierry, the war office announced
I in today’s statement.
West of Noyon and north of Mont
■ dirtier, on the Picardy front, local oper
; ations by the French were successful
and prisoners were taken.
In fighting north of the Alsne the
French captured the village of Le
Port, west of Fontenoy.
On the Marne front northwest of
Chateau Thierry French troops cap
tured the vlUag- of Vinly.
The French also recaptured Hill 201
between the Marne and Rheims. Brit
ish troops regained a footing in the
village of Rligny, inflicting large losses
on the enemy.
i
BY HENRY WOOD.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
With the French Armies on the
Marne. June C. — (night).—Both yes
terday's and today’s fighting confirms
that the Germans are checked every
where.
Their present attacks which are
purely local are attaining no results,
while French counter attacks invari
ably result in both prisoners and ad
vangeous rectification of local posi
tions. The first and second divisions
of tlie Prussian guard, after trying
four days to advance along both sides
of the Ourcq to turn the forest of VII
lers-Cotterets, from the south, were
! completely thrown back by French
counter attacks, with heavy losses.
TRAPPEDy FIGHT OUT.
London, June 8.—German troops fled
before tho bayonets of the American
marines in the action at Veuilly and
Torcy Thursday according to tlie cor
i respondent of tlie Daily Mail with the
American forces in France.
| Wounded soldiers, he adds, tells how
one company of marines, fighting in a
I wheat field, became surrounded by su
; perior numbers, but they eventually
■ fought their way out in the face of se
vere German machine gun fire. In ad
j dition they captured several of the ma
| chine guns.
I Tlie American troops the correspond
j ent adds, showed considerable skill in
using cover and thereby reduced their
losses appreciably. Despite this cau
tion, however, they made tho pace too
hot for tho Germans. The full haul
of prisoners, it is added, may reach 300.
CLASS OF 1918 NOT
I ALLOWED TO ENLIST
Must Wait Till They Are Given
Their Serial Numbers
Crowder Says.
_
Washington, D. C„ June 8.—Provost
j Marshal General Crowder announced
| 'oday that the class of 1918 registrants
| will not be allowed to enlist in tho navy
or marine corps and that no voluntary
inductions will he granted until order
j and serial numbers have been assigned.
After numbers are assigned registrants
may enlist If they obtain certificates
from their local boards stating they are
not within the board's current quota.
TWO AMERICANS MAKE
RECORD WITH FRENCH
Paris, June 8. (Havas agency).—The
12th aerial victory of Second Lieut.
Frank Baylles, of New Bedford, Mass.,
and the sixth of Sergt. David E. Put
nam, of Brookline, Mass., as announced
j by the newspapers. Both Americans
j are attached to French flying squad
rons.
It is reported also that Lieutenant
; Madon has gained his 32nd victory.
Captain Pensard won his I9th and
j Second Lieutenant Boyau tile 1-1 LtL.
■f ♦
j Allies Are Pressing in Both ♦
t Flanks of Champagne Salient |
♦ By Associated Press. ^
♦ W^st of Soissons the French have taken the village of Report. ♦
♦ which is located on the north bank of the Aisne. ♦
♦ Father south crossing the Cllgnon river from Gandelu, the French ♦
♦ have recaptured the hamlet of Vinly, and swept eastward from Veuilly ♦
♦ la Poterle and driven the Germans out of a grove which they held there. ♦
On the front between the Marne and Rheints, the British have ♦
♦ gained a foothold in the town of Bllgny, which Is nine miles from ♦
♦ Rhetms, and In a sector which might become vital should the allies ♦
♦ attack there in force. German official statements have mentioned the ♦
♦ arrival of allied forces in this particular region, and the allied aggressive ♦
▼ there may be linked up with the activity on the western side of the ♦
♦ salient In consideration of what may be tho Initiation of a counter ♦
♦ offensive against the Germans. ♦
The blows being struck at the German positions will have a -*
e tendency to prevent the Germans from withdrawing their craWt troops ♦
T tor recuperation before launching an attack on another sector of the ♦
♦ front. ♦
♦ ♦
EIGHT BILLION TAX
• BILL IS REQUESTED
BY L. C. MARTIN.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
Washington, D. C„ Juno 8.—Suggest
ing a government fiscal policy for 1918
1919 of 33 1-3 per cent taxes to 66 2-3
per cent bonds and other loans, Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo today
shocked congress with a request for an
$8,000,000,000 tax bill.
McAdoo’s. action suggests that there
will be two more I-iberty bond cam
paigns before June 30, 1919—the first In
October, when it is expected to raise
$6,000,000,000, and the second six
months later, when another big loan
will be floated, the size to depend on
how great are the returns from war
savings and other loans.
Facing expenditures during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1919, of $24,000,
000,000, McAdoo argiied. In a letter to
Chairman Kltchtn, of the House ways
and means committee, that taxes must
bear their share to “prevent ultimate
disaster," which would follow financing
upon the quick sands of Inflation or un
healthy credit expansion."
To raise $8,000,009,000, in taxes, Mc
Adoo urges a heavy draft on war profits
—hinting his approval of Britain’s flat
80 per cent levy on- such; suggests
more than tripling the present state of
•1 per cent on unearned Incomes (de
rived from corporate stocks, bonds,
mortgages, etc), and a "heavy tax on
all luxuries."
Crowder Orders Re-Check
on All Draft Exemptions;
to Sift Deferred Classes
Washington, Df'C., June 8. —A gen
eral revision of classifications under
the selective service act was started
today by Provost Marshal General
Crowder when he telegraphed to the
governors of all states ordering In
vestigations to determine the reason
for the small number of registrants in
Class 1 in some localities.
The lists of some boards show an
average far below the national aver
age of 28.7 per cent registrants in
Class 1. Some boards even have fallen
as low as 10 per cent.
Thousands of men now in Class 4
should be put In Class 1 and 2, the
provost marshal said. The instruc
tions also ordered investigations to de
termine If any men have been errone
ously put in the upper classes when
they should have been placed in those
lower down.
Re-examination will be directed par
tlcularly at those who have tried to
enter the navy to evade the draft,
“sticker” ship yard workers and men
in other classes who have been granted
special privileges because they claimed
they were ehgaged in necessary war
work. , ...
Following are the states in which
some counties fell below even a 10 per
cent classification in Class 1_: Cali
fornia, New Mexico. Iowa. Ohio, Hen
tuc.ky, North Carolina, Missouri, New
York, Massachusetts.
Get 500,000 Mon.
It is expected that the re-arrangement
will bring into Class 1 more than 600.
000 men. Cases where registrants
were married after passage of the draft
act, will be carefully considered and if
evidence warrants, classification In
Class 1 boards will proceed to reclass
ify them. Married men whoso wives
have sustaining incomes probably will
be reclassified.
“This office has reached the conclus
ion, said the provost marshal general,
that corrective proceedure can be made
most effective by revision by the lo
cal boards with hearty and active as
sistance of government appeal agents
and members of leg:l advisory boards.
"You will therefore Issue instructions
that they shall Immediately proceed to
a careful examination of all the ques
tionnaires and records in the classes of
cases hereinafter indicated and make
such recommendations to the local
boards as they may deem necessary.
Local boards, government appeal
agents and members of legal advisory
boards should direct special attention
to the following classes of cases:
Class 2-A and R; Classes ii-A„ R. and
C and Class 4-A. Thousands of regis
trants now in Class 4 should bo in
Class 2 or Class 1. Tho government
appeal agents should be instructed to
appeal every case where the reclass
ification is not convincingly correct.
“The activities of local boards, ap
peal agents and members of legal ad
visory boards is not limited to the
classes of cases above Indicated but
the same corrective measures should
be applied to all other cases of de
ferred classification when the same ap
pears necessary.
Class One Nearly All Used.
"Local boards should set aside a
special week in June to be called ’Class
1 week’ to conduct examinations of
doubtful cases. Classifications should
be scientifically adjusted now so as to
avoid the necessity of proceeding to
the deferred classes. The remedy is
yours to apply.
"It is important also that corrective
procedure should be applied where
necessary in case of boards showing
unusually higli per centages of Class
1. Where there are no apparent ex
planations for such percentages you
should make Inquiry of the proper
board with a view to ascertaining
whether the boards have correctly ap
plied the regulations.
“Also instruct all local boards to re
examine under the new standards of
physical examination now being is
sued all doubtful cases which may
have fallen into Group B. Group C. of
Group D. with the particular purpose
of finding men physically fit for gener
al military service who may have been
placed In one of the above mentioned
groups and of removing to Group C..
as qualified for special and limited
military service such men as may
heretofore been totally rejected or
placed in the deferred remediable
group.”
NEVILLE ANNOUNCES
HE WILL RUN AGAIN
Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Governor
Neville announced this morning that he
would be a candidate for re-eeiection
but declined to make any formal state
ment.
NEBRASKAN KILLED
IN ACTION IN FRANCE
South Dakota and Iowa Men
Are Named In the
Casualty List.
Washington, June 7.—The army cas
ualty list today sontalned 48 names,
divided as follows:
Killed in action, 17; died of wounds,
12; died of accident, 6; died of disease,
7; wounded, 6.
Among the officers named were:
Killed in Action—Lieut. Grosvenor
P. Cather, Bladen, Neb.
Died of Disease—Brig. Gen. E. L.
Michie, Staunton. Va.
Died of Airplane Accident—Lieut.
Livingston L. Baker. San Francisco.
Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska
men listed are as follows:
Killed in Action—Grosvenor P. Cath
er, Bladen, Neb.
Died of Accident—George E. Finicle,
Huron, S. D.
Severely Wounded—Vester A. Ben
son, Creston, la., and Bernhardt Bot
tolfson, Hartington, Neb.
In the Canadian casualty list the
name of P. J. T. Foster, of Fontanelle,
la., appears as wounded.
JAPANESE TEUTONIC
PACT PLAN DENIED
Newspaper Organization De
clares Japan Will Stand
By England.
Tokio, fdelayed.) June G.—Japan has
never dreamed of an after the war pact
with Germany, declare resolutions
passed today by the Shunjukal, an or
ganization of representatives of news
papers and news agencies In Tokio.
Japan will “adhere to the sensible
Anglo-Japanese alliance," declare the
resolutions, and will cooperate with the
allies in the prosecution of the war
against a common enemy.
The resolution was brought about
by rumors that Japan might be look
ing forward to a post-bellum pact
with Germany.
AUSTRO-GERMANS IN
SIBERIA ARE ACTIVE
Kc.rbla, Manchuria. Sunday, June 2.—
General Semenoff leader of the antl
bolshevist forces In Siberia, reports
that bolshevist troops today crossed
the Onon river In Trans-Baikalia and
strongly pressed a number of attacks
which were checked. An Austro-Ger
man force composed of a cavalry bri
gade and four companies of infantry is
threatening General Semenoffs com
munications.
CANADA WILL RAISE
ANOTHER 100,000 MEN
Oitawa. Ont.. June 8.—Eighty-eight
thousand men have been called to duty
under the military service act and
73,900 have compiled, according to fig
ures available today. There has been
ft great Increase in the number of re
cruits in Quebec. It is now believed
that the 100,000 to be raised during
the act will be with the colors before
parliament convenes.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF
HUN HEIR EXAGGERATED
Washington. D. C„ June 8.—The ru
mor factory, busy yesterday and to
day. has produced the following: "The
crown prince and from 40,000 to 80,000
of his men have been captured."
But the war department today said
that unfortunately the story was un
t> ue. as far as the information here
goes. The crown prince, it was pointed
out, is taking no chances on hU im
perial hide, and is well in the rear of
the picture when battling la going on.
SHIPPING LOSS
iE-JLF LESS
Senator Swanson Reveals Ef
fect of Allied Counter Meas
ures—French Vessel
Is Attacked.
BRITISH CRAFT IS SUNK j
Navy Department Anticipates
Still Bolder Strokes on Part
of Huns—Air Raids §
Are Unlikely.
Washington. 1). C„ .Tuns 8.—Senator it
Swanson, acting chairman of the naval 22
committee, after a conference with 4
navy heads today, declared that the al
lied and American naval forces have
destroyed 60 per cent of all German '<
submarines constructed and that they
have cut shipping looses in half.
The German submarines operating
off the Atlantic coast, Senator Swan
son said, are believed ' to have been
driven from the coast and also from
the main American shipping routes. p
None of the American wareraft sta
tioned abroad, Senator Swanson said,
has been, or will be withdrawn to thl* !
side becauso of the German raid.
An Atlantic Port, Juno 8.—A French
armed merchant ship came into port
today and reported an encounter with
a German submarine off the Virginia (
capes. Details of tho battle are lack
ing, but it is said the fight occurred
a short distance outside the capes. Tha
extent of the damage to the merchant
man is unknown.
Washington, D. C„ June 8.—Belief
that the German submarines which
early In the week successfully attacked s
coasting schooners and steamers off
tho New Jersey coast arc now lying in
wait for larger prey in one of tho
trans-Atlantic travel routes off tho
Virginia capes was expressed in official
circles here today. This theory was
strengthened by the torpedoing on
Wednesday of tho British steamship
Harpathian, 100 miles off the Virginia
coast, news of which was announced in j
navy department dispatches published
today. , *
Having, as the Germans believe, j;
struck fear into the hearts of America
through depredations near the ports of
New York and Philadelphia, it is prob
able, officials said, that the U-boat
commanders have decided to make a
bolder effort and despite the multitude
of patrol craft engaged In the search of
them, make a supreme effort with a
transport large cargo or passenger car
rying vessel as the prize. The sinking
of the Harpathian brought the total
number of victims of the German raid
ers to 14c~slx steamers and eight
schooners.
_A_
TORPEDO BRITISH SHIP.
New York, June 8.—Real Prussian
frigliLfulness is coming into play in
the submarine raids on Atlantic coast
shipping, according to details of the
steamer Harpathian sinking, received
here today.
This British ship of 2,800 ton3 ttas
torpedoed without warning between 90
and 100 miles off the Virginia capes.
Captain Owen atra his crew of 41 had
barely time to get Into the boats.
Flying timbers from the explosion
broke one man's leg and injured the
head of another. The attack came at
5 a. m., when most of the crew were
asleep and some tumbled into the boats
scantily clad.
The German pirate popped up for a
minute and was seen to be a big craft,
bearing the number 102 or 112 on her
conning tower. For 26 hours the Har
pathian’s men were In their open boats
with insufficient food and water. As
they rowed for shore, they saw two
more German submarines.
Torpedoing of the Harpathian
brought the German sinking record to
14—six steamers and eight schooners.
The missing total 25—10 passengers
and 15 crew, of the Carolina.
Word came today of the safe arrival
at a West Indian port of a 10,000-ton
liner for which fear had been felt.
New Yo^’s lighting restrictions are
being made more drastic. Street light*
at some places are regulated. A false
air raid alarm, caused the blowing of
locomotive whistles, caused great ex
citement in uptown Manhattan, many
fleeing to cellars, while the police wera
deluged with telephone inquiries as to
which way the supposed air raiders
were heading.
ADMIRE U. S. NERVE.
London, June 8. —The manner in
which the American nation received th»
latest exhibition of German submarine
frightfulness represents another defeat
for Germany, says Archibald S. Hurd,
who is well known as a writer on naval
subjects. He characterizes as absurd
the notion that the Germans can carry
out air raids on American towns from
submarines.
"This side of the Atlantic,” the r.tate
ment says, "hasTtenrd of the attitude of
the American people toward the sub
marine raid and has accepted it as fur
ther evidence of their sanity and th*
correct appreciation they have formed
of the strategic necessities which th»
war imposes upon them. That repre
sents another defeat for the Germans.
“They had calculated upon weaken
ing the hands of the executive depart
ments and particularly the departments
directly connected with the navy and
army. In that respect the raid failed."
‘‘What the Germans really have don*
by tlie exhibition of frightfulness off
American shores Is to bring the entir®
American continent definitely within
the war arena. This is a great achieve
ment, the penalty of which the enemy
will suffer in due course. He will ob
tain little temporary compensations be
cause he cannot, owing to the difficul
ties involved, make an even limited
blockade of the American coast.
“Of course the suggestion that air
planes operating from submarines can
bomb American cities is an absurdity.
A bombing airplane is not a weapon to
be carried in a submersible over JOtXV
miles. Even if the difficulty of stowing
could be overcome how would the air
plane return to its base even if It Tver®
not shot down while over American
territory?”
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PORT IS REOPENED.
Philadelphia. Pa.- June 7.—'The port
of Philadelphia was reopened today fol
lowing the clearing of the mine Held
in Delaware bay.
MILL IS SHUT DOWN.
Washington, D. C„ June 7. -Becaue®
they sold wheat flour breed si as bar
ley flour, sold wheat substitutes ind
profiteered, the Elko Milling company.
Elko, Nev.. today was order»si
after June 15. for a period oi I her*
months.